The web-based video editing tool Clipchamp may not be a homegrown app from Microsoft, but the company is pouring resources into it to make it feel like a worthwhile Microsoft 365 tool.
While Clipchamp has been known for its templated video editing experience that helps social media content creators churn out video, a new “Create a Video with AI” selection has recently shown up that should boost that output by quite a bit.
Microsoft’s seeding of pre-generative artificial intelligence into most of its products has finally made its way to Clipchamp in the form of automated content creation.
New AI Creation flow
Instead of laboriously going over edits, organizing clips and creating visually effects, user can now simply dump their videos and still photos into the media bin and allow the Clipchamp AI to filter and organize content into a piece of media ready for distribution amongst various platforms.
Speech-to-text enhancements
Clipchamp also gains support for recording audio voiceovers for up to 30 minutes. The new feature should help in cutting down the time content creators have to dedicate to making captions for their videos while ultimately making their content more accessible for the hearing impaired.
Unfortunately, some of these won’t be able to tap into AI-improved text-to-speech feature to record in a multitude of languages, emote vocally, and pitch adjust, until early 2024.
Expanded Content Library
In addition to an AI content creating assistant, Clipchamp users should also make note of the expansive content library which got a bit of Spring cleaning that offers a more intuitive layout and organizational makeover with enhanced search and filtering options.
Soon after acquiring Clipchamp, Microsoft began baking the software into Windows 11 updates as a semi-replacement to its paltry in-box video editing experience buried in its Photos App. Over the past two years the company has quickly made Clipchamp feel more native of a Windows experience by setting it as the default video editing experience.
Microsoft hasn’t gotten around the cumbersome redirection it employs to get users to the app but will hopefully address that in 2024 so users will be as affiliated with the platform as they did with Windows Movie Maker back in the day.
