Code hidden in the Google Photos app gives away some details about how Video Boost will work on the Pixel 8 Pro.
One of the most anticipated features for the Pixel 8 Pro is the announced but not yet released Video Boost. While Pixel phones have always offered photography on the same level as the latest iPhone or Galaxy S Ultra model, when it comes to video the Pixel models are not close to delivering the same quality as the iPhone. But Google worked hard to raise the quality of video on the Pixel 8 Pro this year with a new feature called Video Boost which should arrive before the end of this year.
With Video Boost, videos look as though they have been professionally edited with more vivid colors and detail. Code discovered in the Android version of the Google Photos app (versions 6.61 and 6.63) by 9to5Google revealed strings of code that give us some idea of how this feature will work. Before we start passing along examples, we should point out that turning on the camera and switching to Video Boost creates two copies of a video when shot, one of which is sent to Google’s servers via the cloud and is processed via AI.
