YouTube's Upcoming New AI Tool, Including Automatic Green Screen Functionality

YouTube is set to introduce new AI features for creators. The company announced some AI-driven features at this week's Made on YouTube event, including green screen functionality, inspiring insights, automatic dubbing to other languages, and audio track search.

Dream Screen offers AI-driven green screen functionality for YouTube Shorts creators, similar to a popular feature on TikTok. YouTube's tool automatically removes the background from your videos and replaces it with images or videos generated based on your prompts.

While the professional and realistic appearance of the generated content remains to be seen in practice, the idea behind Dream Screen is to make it easier to showcase fantasy scenes or simply make dull backgrounds more lively. YouTube says it will begin testing this tool with "some creators" later this year, with a broader rollout planned for 2024.

YouTube Studio is getting a new feature for brainstorming. Similar to seeking video ideas from ChatGPT, the "Insights Recommendations" feature allows creators to draft outlines and helps them conceptualize projects. Similarly, the auxiliary search in Creator Music will make it easier for you to find background music that suits your videos. "Just enter a description of your content, and AI will recommend suitable music based on price," wrote YouTube Vice President Toni Reid today. Insights and auxiliary music search will both be available to creators next year.

YouTube also showcased its AI dubbing feature, which it began testing earlier this year. Developed in Google's Area 120 incubator, this feature can generate text-based translations into the selected target language. The company says it gives you an opportunity to check the output for correctness before selecting different virtual narrators to read your content. This feature is currently being tested with select creators in English, Portuguese, and Spanish.

The company has also launched a YouTube Create app to help video creators produce content on mobile devices. It includes standard features such as editing, clipping, automatic subtitles, narration, filters, effects, and royalty-free music with rhythm matching. This free app is currently being tested for Android in select markets.