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Google Assistant For Google Maps Videos

Many of you are probably aware of the great feature of Google Assistant inside Google Photos to create a video/ movie for you.
The moment you push the create button you end up with a neat video compilation/ edit with a soundtrack where the scene transitions are nicely edited on the beats of the music. Great!

BUT the assistant does not let you edit videos that fit the Google Maps 30-second video limit.

So my question/ idea is:

Google, please offer a Google Assistant solution, like the current one in Google Photos that edit our videos to 30 seconds.
Personally, I do not like pure slide-shows with photos on music, so I am sure you Googlers can create the solution in such a way that the end result is what you are after (e.g. only mix of video and photos, or video clips only and not photos only?).

9 Comments
Level 10

 Hi @JeroenM

Totally agree

Great idea that will help us to make great vedios.

Thanks.

 

Level 8

Very good idea!

Thanks, @JeroenM !!

 

Greetings, 

Jacky

Level 8

@JeroenM

 

I agree with you.

Best regards.

LuaPL
Level 8

Thank you all for your support.

I like to give @Boris some credit who taught me how to use Google Assistant and then use additional apps in post-production to deal with the  30-second limit.

It was thanks to the discussion I had with him, that the obvious solution would be for Google to repurpose the Google Photos Assistant for Maps.

Level 8

@JeroenM actually I never thought about that yes I think this is a probable course here , this is a good point 

@JeroenM, Very good idea.

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Former Google Contributor
Status changed to: Closed

Hello @JeroenM,

 

Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

 

As Google Assistant is not related to the program, I'm going to close your ide.

 

You can check out the Google Assistant Help Center

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Level 8

Please explain what the point is of this Idea Bank @Petra_M . Surely it should be about brainstorming and incubating solutions that improve Google Maps, make the life of Local Guides easier and support the Local Guides program?

I have followed multiple professional workshops over the years on creativity and nurturing ideas. This kind of attitude is what kills ideas to be further developed and potentially the jumping stone for the next alternative solution.

The focus of my idea is:
- Make it easier for Local Guides to create videos that are tailored for Google Maps
- Decide as Google how you can influence the type of videos (not just photo slideshows)
- Solving the limitations of available video wizards that create videos automatically that are longer than 30 seconds.

I mentioned Google Assistant and Google Photos as they are two important existing Google products that Local Guides use. My idea, as it was presented here, was not to suggest an improvement on Google Assistant. But purely from the Local Guides/ Google Maps advantage point. It saddens me that you did not pick up on that fact.

If it helps, I am happy to change my post above and ask for this feature of a video wizard inside Google Maps and delete the name of other Google solutions that seem to confuse the matter.

If you don't like the idea per se, that is fine. I just felt it necessary to give some feedback on the review and decision process of this potentially powerful resource of the LG program.

Former Google Contributor

Hi @JeroenM,

 

In addition to @Petra_M's words, I would like to inform you that I'm going to change the label of your idea to Other as it fits better to it.

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