🖼️ YouTube releases “Dream Screen”

PLUS: Adobe releases Webflow plugin, Magnific releases “Mystic v2,” and more.

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🖼️ YouTube releases “Dream Screen”

YouTube is launching a suite of AI tools designed to streamline video creation for creators. The tools enhance content production from ideation to editing while preserving human creativity.

Here’s what was announced 👇️ 

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Veo, Google DeepMind’s AI video generation model, will be integrated into YouTube Shorts through the “Dream Screen” feature.

This will allow creators to generate visually compelling backgrounds for their videos.

This includes creating 6-second clips for Shorts, with AI-generated content watermarked for transparency.

Auto-Dubbing 🎙️

YouTube is enhancing its auto-dubbing capabilities to support more languages, including Spanish and French.

It is testing a feature that preserves a creator’s tone and ambient sounds in dubbed audio.

This aims to break down language barriers and help creators reach broader audiences without extensive translation work.

Inspiration Tab ✨ 

The new Inspiration Tab, accessible via the YouTube Studio app, serves as a “brainstorming buddy,” offering AI-generated video ideas, titles, thumbnails, and outlines tailored to a creator’s style.

In 2025, YouTube plans to enable quick access to this tool from locations like top comments and other videos for easier inspiration.

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WEB DESIGN
💻️ Adobe releases Webflow plugin

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Adobe has integrated Adobe Express into Webflow, simplifying the creation and editing of high-quality images directly within the platform.

With Adobe Express, Webflow users can now generate images from text prompts and edit existing visuals, including cropping and applying filters, all within the Webflow interface.

The integration also grants access to millions of royalty-free images from Adobe Stock, enabling users to enhance their projects with commercially safe visuals.

The Adobe Express App is now available in the Webflow Marketplace.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
🆕 Magnific releases “Mystic v2”

Magnific, popular for its advanced AI image upscaler, can now generate AI images and produce them in stunning 4K quality with its new “Mystic v2” image generator.

Here are some examples of images generated with Mystic v2 👇️

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  • Gamma now allows you to import PDFs and convert them into presentations, documents, or websites with just a few clicks.

  • OpusClip now allows you to select multiple clips and download them all simultaneously.

  • Figma is re-introducing “First Draft,” which was previously known as “Make Design.”

  • Blender released updates: Blender LTS 4.2 and Blender LTS 3.6.16.

  • Play is introducing “Prefabs” in Play 2.0, the fastest & easiest way to add powerful interactions to your product.

  • Suno released “Cropping,” allowing Pro and Premier users to adjust the start and end of their songs.

  • Figma released “Editable text in measurements” in Dev Mode.

  • Shots.so just added iPhone 16 mockups to its app.

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  • HeyGen released “Photo Avatar 3.0,” enabling you to turn static snapshots into animated portraits.

  • Rive released a new “Dashed Strokes” feature.

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  • Riverside now allows you to add comments to your recordings in the editor.

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  • Rive and Unreal Engine’s RHI technical preview is here, bringing a powerful new way to integrate Rive into Unreal’s rendering system.

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  • Udio released the “Udio Lyric Editor,” allowing you to generate random or prompt-based lyrics.

  • Rive added a new “Elastic Interpolation” feature for state machine transitions.

  • Gamma is releasing new AI models for image generation.

  • Leonardo.Ai released a new Element called “Dreamy Acrylics.”

  • Meta AI can now do selective image editing.

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