I Converted My Photos Into Short Videos With AI on Honor's Latest Phones. It's Weird

As midrange phones designed to plug nan gap betwixt flagships, nan Honor 400 and 400 Pro mightiness not ordinarily pull overmuch attention. But these devices—unavailable successful nan US—are among nan first to characteristic Google’s image-to-video AI generator, based connected its Veo 2 exemplary (now disposable to Gemini subscribers). Built into Honor’s Gallery app, you tin prime a still photograph from your camera rotation to bring it to life arsenic a five-second video.

After overmuch experimentation pinch different photos, from landscapes to family and pets, I’m impressed and weirded out. Like immoderate AI tool, it has nan imaginable to beryllium bully aliases bad, depending connected really you wield it, and nan results veer from flawless to freaky. It’s a neat trick, and it’s coming to nan telephone successful your manus soon.

Fake Photography

Faking photography is thing new—the mean is ever evolving. Artificial intelligence has been smoothing wrinkles and enhancing skies for years. None of your photos are real, particularly those you changeable pinch your telephone and edited to station connected societal media. But we’re pushing beyond creating a clone bokeh inheritance blur aliases dialing up colors of nan sunset. Creating wholly clone videos from still images feels for illustration a caller precocious and a caller low.

The process is easy. Open nan Gallery app connected nan Honor 400 aliases 400 Pro, take nan Create tab, pat Image to video, and prime 1 of your photos. Choose a 9:16 aliases 16:9 facet ratio for image aliases landscape, past deed start. You request to beryllium connected to nan internet. Each five-second video took astir 30 seconds to create, but a pop-up connection warns maine they tin return up to 2 minutes. There’s nary room to participate a prompt, truthful you are near astatine nan mercy of immoderate nan AI decides to do.

I began pinch photos of my woman and kids. The first fewer videos person a awesome uncanny vale feel. In 1 photo, my woman is covering her mouth, and nan AI animates her moving her manus and talking, but nan rima it pastes successful is wholly wrong. Much to her horror, it gives my girl a bid of facial tics. The video of my selfie comes retired good and would surely fool anyone who doesn’t cognize me, but my woman says she tin show it’s not maine because I ne'er make facial expressions for illustration that.