Google launched on Tuesday, June 7, a free iOS app called Motion Stills. The application can convert iPhone's Live Photos into animated GIFs and be used to create looping video-photo hybrid images.
The new app released by Google can make Live Photos better and easier to share. With the help of Google Motion Stills users can transform moving pictures into movies or GIFs that they can use to impress others.
According to CNET, the Motion Stills app can also stabilize the camera movement of a Live Photo. With Google's app users can achieve less visible shakiness and a steadier shot. The app works without the need for internet once downloaded. The only thing needed is access to iPhone's photos.
The app can do much more than just stabilizing camera shake. It can also stabilize the background separately. This is made by processing the video frames in order to isolate the background from the foreground.
This feature is useful when creating a GIF that loops forever. With is option, Motion Stills can turn Live Photos into cinemagraph-like moving images.
In order to use Google's Motion Stills, users have to first use the native camera app and create a Live Photo. Then, they can use the Motion Stills app to convert the photo into a video clip or a steady GIF that can be shared via Slack, social media, text message and more.
According to MacWorld, one of the advantages of this app is that it allows users to share the Live Photo image as a GIF or MOV video clip to social networks or cloud storage. Once the standard iOS share sheet is launched, users can use AirDrop to post it to iMessage, Facebook, iCloud Photo Sharing or to send it to another device.
By stitching together video clips, the app also allows users to create short movies. In order to do this, they can just swipe right on an image and add it to a small film strip shown at the bottom of the screen. Once enough clips were collected, the cinematic feature is activated by pressing the "Play" button.
