How Midjourney v5.2’s zoom-out feature shapes AI video

Let’s take a look at another big advance in AI and what it means for video in the future.

Well, that’s it. Plus he lasted a week and another big AI innovation pushed this up-and-coming technology to a new level.very similar in many ways Generative Fill Tool in Adobe FireflyMidjourney has released a new v5.2 update that includes the Zoom Out prompt. This has left many creators again amazed at what this AI technology can produce.

Let’s take a look at this new Midjourney update, and specifically explore this new Zoom Out prompt, to get a bit of an idea of ​​how it works and what it can offer. And for those looking to the future of AI for video, let’s speculate on where these new technologies will ultimately land in video production and editing.

Mid Journey v5.2 Update

It is now the latest and most advanced version of Midjourney. Midjourney is a generative AI program and service created and hosted by the Midjourney, Inc. labs in San Francisco. This latest version, like other AI generators on the market, still uses prompts similar to DALL-E 2 or Stable Diffusion to generate images from natural language descriptions through the popular Discord server. doing.

Released in June 2023, this new model allows users to simply add the “v5.2 parameter” to the end of the prompt (or go to server settings and select the latest version) to get will be accessible by

In addition to the Zoom Out Prompt feature described below, this v5.2 update also improves color, contrast, and composition for a ton of sharper detailed results as Midjourney’s AI continues to learn and refine image generation. You should get it.

Find out more about the v5.2 update here. Midjourney home page.

Zoom out prompts mid-journey

The stylistic upgrade to Midjourney is certainly noticeable, but the biggest feature update is this new zoom-out prompt. As its name suggests, this zoom out tool allows users to “zoom out” an image they upload or create to her Midjourney AI to provide further AI-generated context. .

Midjourney has now added this zoom-out tool as a button below the generated image, giving users two options: “Zoom out 1.5x” or “Zoom out 2x”, allowing them to select the range to generate. You can decide how much to increase. Midjourney also includes a “Make Square” option that converts non-square images to squares using the same prompting technique, which may appeal to those who want their images to look Instagram-like.

You can see this zoom out prompt in action in part of the Twitter thread below.

video zoom out

However, while this is certainly impressive technology, as I mentioned earlier, it’s not that different from Adobe Firefly’s generative fill tool or any other tool you’ve already seen in this area. But Midjourney is one of the most popular platforms for people experimenting with generative AI, so some interesting aspects of this new development could lead to some theories about AI for video going forward. .

As you can see in the example above, adding more depth and context (which can be elaborated by zooming out multiple times on each image) can create a fairly large amount of information. With so much information and space to work with, even if it’s just a static image at the moment, you’ll be able to add camera movements and zooms to your 2D images for even more dynamic images.

This is a technique already seen in those Fake movie trailer made by AIa simple and effective way to turn your prompts into something more cinematic and video-like.

But the most fascinating, or worrying, aspect has to do with how quickly this technology came about. AI generating images based on prompts is another thing. I’ve seen some video versions of this using RunwayML (picked up here), but Midjourney is quickly adding more tools and features to the basic image generation prompt, so it wouldn’t be surprising to see a basic video prompt as the next release.

With Zoom Out and other tools on the horizon, these generated video prompts just keep getting smarter and better with each release.

What do you think about the future of this zoom out tool and AI for video? Let us know what you think in the comments below.