The December Feature Drop will give your videos a boost
Google introduced us to its latest Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro smartphones back at its Made By Google event in early October, and one of the standout features that 8 Pro users were told they’d have to wait for – Video Boost – finally arrives this month.
In a teardown of the latest Google Photos APK (Android Package Kit – the collection of files that make up an Android app) as spotted by Android Authority, there are signs suggesting Video Boost is just around the corner; it’s set to arrive later this month as part of the next Feature Drop for Google’s Pixel phones.
(Skip to 43:53 of the keynote video below to learn more about Video Boost)
During the launch, Google’s Director of Product Management, Shenaz Zack Mistry described Video Boost as a «new form of video processing» that relies not only on the Pixel 8 Pro’s native machine learning and image processing – powered by its Tensor G3 chipset – but also draws on Google’s cloud computing might too.
The way Video Boost is intended to work is that you switch the feature on before shooting video, then once your video is captured (at up to 4K resolution), you’ll immediately have access to a local version that’s processed on-device. Simultaneously, the same footage is also sent to Google’s servers, where the HDR Plus imaging pipeline that the phone typically only applies to photos, is applied to every frame of video, before the newly-processed clip is then sent back to your phone with a Video Boost label applied.
