Meta’s new AI video tool can put you in a desert (or at least try to)

This is seemingly what it would look similar if my parents’ dogs were digging a spread successful the desert. | Screenshot by Emma Roth / The Verge

Meta is launching caller video editing tools that volition fto you alteration videos utilizing AI. The tool, which is lone escaped for a “limited time,” gives you much than 50 preset prompts you tin usage to edit your video, allowing you to acceptable a theme, alteration the background, and tweak what you’re wearing.

The presets are presented likewise to however you would take a filter connected Instagram. You tin person Meta AI restyle your clip arsenic a video crippled oregon anime, marque it look arsenic if it was taken successful the desert, formal you successful an AI-generated tuxedo, and more. The instrumentality lone works for the archetypal 10 seconds of your video, though. It’s rolling retired present successful the US and “more than a dozen” countries successful the Meta AI app, the Meta.AI website, and the Edits app.

I tried the diagnostic retired for myself, and my results surely didn’t look arsenic bully arsenic the examples posted connected Meta’s website. I uploaded a video of my parents’ dogs digging a spread successful the backyard, and asked Meta AI to marque it look similar they were successful the desert. Meta AI turned the crushed orange, enactment immoderate (purple?) cacti successful the foreground and background, and for immoderate crushed gave my dogs a shimmery glow. Then, erstwhile I asked it to restyle a video of myself arsenic an anime character, Meta AI gave maine fluorescent pinkish eyes and lips.

You tin stock the edited videos straight to Facebook and Instagram, oregon enactment them successful the Discover provender successful the Meta AI app. Though you can’t usage customized prompts close now, Meta says “you’ll beryllium capable to edit videos alongside Meta AI with your ain substance prompts” aboriginal this year.