When Apple introduced Live Photos, everyone's reaction was positive, but when using it you always have the feeling that it could have been implemented a little better. Now Google has arrived with a new algorithm (presented in the form of Motion Stills) that substantially improves the final result, which is still paradoxical if we take into account the tensions that both companies have had in recent years.
How It Works
Using Motion Stills couldn't be easier. The application presents us in the form of a vertical timeline all the photographs that we have taken with Live Photos enabled, and processes them automatically to show them already with the Google algorithm applied without us having to perform any action.
The way in which Motion Stills is not known for sure since it is an algorithm owned by the Mountain View company, but we know that two separate processes of stabilization and rendering to give the photographs a much more fluid and logical movement than that applied by Apple by default. And in Cupertino they should take note.
Yes, I think a passive implementation It would also have been an interesting option to be considered by the developers, and therefore that the algorithm was applied at the user's request and not by default in all the photographs in the main view of the application, since this causes that sometimes the application does not go as fluid as it should.
Limited
Although the application perfectly fulfills its mission, it should be noted that it does not offer too many options and perhaps it is a little more limited than you might expect.
For example, when sharing Motion Stills we have the option to make it to a GIF file or to a video file, but we do not have options to send it directly to different social networks (not even those of Google). On the other hand, the only editing option presented to us is the possibility of deactivating the sound. An option to shorten the final duration would also be appreciated.
In short, it cannot be said that we are not facing a very interesting app, but we must trust that Google does not leave it abandoned and completes it with some other options that allow us to have a more advanced control of what happens in the application.
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