🖼️ YouTube releases “Dream Screen”

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TOP STORY
🖼️ 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 👇️ 

Dream Screen 📺

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

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 👇️

📰 Other news you might’ve missed:

• Notion released “Notion AI,” a new way to search, generate, analyze, and chat with your Notion and other connected apps.

• Figma announced that “UI3” will be available to everyone on October 10th.

• Descript v99 is out, and its new “Rooms” feature is live.

• 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.

• KREA launched “Flux Folders” and “Assets,” allowing you to organize your generations and search through your images.

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

• Rive released a new “Dashed Strokes” feature.

• Opus Clip’s web editor is now faster and more stable, with a 37% improvement in loading speed, 58% faster response time, and 40% less playback lag.

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

• Runway announced they’re bringing more control and the ability to generate vertical videos to Gen-3 Alpha Turbo.

• Stability AI added improvements to Stable Assistant tools, including a new aspect ratio selector, enhanced inpainting and erase tools, and a zoom-out feature.

• Gamma’s “Image Galleries” were redesigned, and now there are more options to customize the layout, size, and spacing of galleries.

• Adobe Project Neo now allows you to export video turntables directly in the app.

• Tella’s new “Auto Zoom” feature is now live.

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

• Runway is launching the “Hundred Film Fund,” which will provide resources to filmmakers and creatives with AI-augmented film projects that need funding.

• 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.