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Google Debuts 'Motion Stills' App for Creating GIFs and Movies from Live Photos
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The app is crap. The goal is interesting and sounded useful enough for me to install the app, but the UI is simply intractable. I can't figure it out, and that says a lot (if you don't mind me saying so). The app is now gone again from my phone.
Perhaps one day somebody who understands the iOS UI style makes a similar app, I shall gladly try that.
Perhaps one day somebody who understands the iOS UI style makes a similar app, I shall gladly try that.
Why not for the iPhone 6/6 Plus?
Ok, Apple need to push the new devices but Google, come on .. please do not tell me that this is a restriction due to hardware issue, because I cannot believe it.
Ok, Apple need to push the new devices but Google, come on .. please do not tell me that this is a restriction due to hardware issue, because I cannot believe it.
Google today announced the launch of a new app called Motion Stills, which is designed to create unique GIFs from Live Photo images captured with the iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s Plus, and iPhone SE.
It's an interesting app to be sure and potentially useful but looking at the images it produces hints at why Apple doesn't have this feature as yet. After taking a 1.9MB 12MP image and converting it to a GIF that's 4MB and only 360*480 (0.1MP) in size, there's two takeaways from this:
1/ When sending an image using this service you're not sending in it's original quality. This may or may not be important to you.
2/ That makes the images google produces, at least twice as large in terms of file size and an overall 240 times less efficient for storage and transmission.
This maybe isn't all that surprising, since GIF's have never been particularly efficient anyway.
1/ When sending an image using this service you're not sending in it's original quality. This may or may not be important to you.
2/ That makes the images google produces, at least twice as large in terms of file size and an overall 240 times less efficient for storage and transmission.
This maybe isn't all that surprising, since GIF's have never been particularly efficient anyway.
Apple Music user by chance ? I agree with you , but cannot stand the UI in Apple Music, and apple did that one
Well said that man. Totally spot on.
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Take no notice. They're all Ive disguised as a nearly normal person.
went to DC last weekend and used this to make a little 45 second movie. Very easy to use and perfect! Like others, it is pretty crazy it came from google and not apple.
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what is confusing about it...swipe to add a vide to the bottom and then you can rearrange them in the order you want. When done, press the share button and save the video, upload it, email, etc.
It took me less than 1 minute to make my first video.
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what is confusing about it...swipe to add a vide to the bottom and then you can rearrange them in the order you want. When done, press the share button and save the video, upload it, email, etc.
It took me less than 1 minute to make my first video.
You know it's getting bad when your rivals do your own software better than you......
Love how when it's not working it's a piece of crap etc, but when found out its icloud that's the root of the problem, it's quickly brushed under the carpet when you accept it's not a bad piece of work by Mr Google. Is every non Apple product a piece of crap on your world?
It's not iCloud that's the root of the problem, it's how Google's app is interrogating it. There are many App's that interrogate the library properly and don't have this problem.
You think they invented live photos.. that is soooooooo cute....
iCloud photos is a core feature in iOS and it works fine with every other app. Google didn't even test it. That's shoddy workmanship, full stop. It glitches and flickers like crazy, and loads a bunch of completely black UI views with no indication of what is going on, such as an error message. If I released an app like that at work, they'd have my head! Are you honestly going to defend that? I see you're fairly new to the site, so I'll give you a pass. Clearly you haven't researched my post history or seen me post very often. Otherwise you wouldn't assume that I just give Apple a pass and hate everything non-Apple. I'm a designer so I'm inherently critical. It's in my blood. It was hammered into me by my extremely harsh, mostly eastern European design professors. I may be deep into the Apple ecosystem, but I am very critical of Apple—especially their services division with iCloud and Siri. They are getting left behind. Oh, and my iPhone 6 Plus was a total piece of crap. I talked about that repeatedly all of last year. Think before you speak, fish.
I know they invented this implementation of it, even if they didn't invent the original concept and it's not something Google has, is it. But that's by the way; the point is, one can't give Google credit for this app and not give Apple any for the feature this app exploits, that would be an absurd position to take.
Sounds like someone has summat to hide.. ;-)
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U do realise that it's anonymous users data, I. E someone at I. P. Address xxx looked at gaps clothing site on a certain day, so you may get a gap advert the next time u browse, do.you think they r selling banking passwords.. talk about mislead paranoia...
What's hard to understand?
The app is for creating GIFs from Live Pictures.
The 6/6 Plus don't support Live Pictures.
Blame Apple for limiting Live Pictures to the 6S/6S Plus and SE, not Google.
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Swipe to add? Where did that come from? To be sure, it's not dragging an item form a displayed palette into a workspace.
Also, there are hardly any recognisable UI elements in this app, it's all made up stuff.
Functionally, I couldn't get the app to do anything but flash the screen back and white, but that could be their iCloud handling bug. I guess I'll never find out
This:
Swipe to add? Where did that come from? To be sure, it's not dragging an item form a displayed palette into a workspace.
Also, there are hardly any recognisable UI elements in this app, it's all made up stuff.
Functionally, I couldn't get the app to do anything but flash the screen back and white, but that could be their iCloud handling bug. I guess I'll never find out
I tried dragging a video to the bottom and it did not work, so I tried swiping the video and it did work. From there everything else was intuitive.
Long time in responding to this - seems I'm not the only one easily offended, judging by your response to my post. I've lurked here for years and only finally joined so I could comment. I used to love this site because it was a common place for Apple fans to share things they were excited about. This site is no longer such a place. Although you may not be one of the many "other brand" fans who seem to post here only to "offend" or annoy fans of Apple, I am just tired of what the site has become; a war of words between Apple haters and Apple enthusiasts.
This has quickly become my favorite app on my phone.
However, it's impossible to manage my entire photo library - the scroll system really only makes it convenient for recent photos. I'm a trigger happy photographer on my iPhone so it's a bit impossible to sift through everything!
Hoping for a desktop app and better library management.
However, it's impossible to manage my entire photo library - the scroll system really only makes it convenient for recent photos. I'm a trigger happy photographer on my iPhone so it's a bit impossible to sift through everything!
Hoping for a desktop app and better library management.
I agree. Google really has a lazy approach to large libraries. At over 70GB I really could only use this for recent photos as you've mentioned. I would like to see this motion still feature maybe come into the Google Photos interface on the web so I can use that instead.