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in recent months the new media app for
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chromebooks has rolled out and
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though it looks a lot nicer than what we
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used to have when you would go to
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doubleclick media from your files app
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it really didn't do anything different
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but that's all getting ready to change
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as we're starting to see some new
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features actually rolling into
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the media app in the developer channel
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of chrome os right now so we want to
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take a look at a few of them
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let's jump in and like we always say
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when we talk about features showing up
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in the developer channel
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you need to approach this with a bit of
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caution because there can be crashes
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and instability and all that kind of
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stuff in these developer channels and
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then when we start talking about adding
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additionally to that you could run into
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keep that in mind if none of those
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things scare you then you know
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give it a try if you want to but as far
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as the flags go if you head to your
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flags chrome colon forward slash forward
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you're going to see i've enabled media
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app annotation which is one of the
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things we're going to talk about
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and then we've also done media app pdf
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ink so those will make sense here in
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just a second but the
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bulk of all of these new features are
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just available already out of the box
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when you're in the developer channel
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89 at this point there's still no way to
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just as a standalone application i'm
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hoping that they just
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make this a thing where you can open it
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and because it has the ability to open
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files but to get there if you go to your
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i've downloaded a couple things here so
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i'm going to open up this once you
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an item it will open up this nice new
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media application and you can see
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we've got a photo here and there are
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some new options available if you're
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used to looking at this thing that
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you'll notice right off the bat
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but the first thing i want to cover is
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the fact that as soon as you get this
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you get down to experiments and there's
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down here that you can add and so one of
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are zoom tools the new color filter tool
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so i'm going to click that and enable it
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up up there additionally in experiments
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it's hard to read here but if you look
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enable auto fix tool so what that's
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telling me is that it's not there yet
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you can't select it yet but in a second
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i'm going to show you why it is we
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believe that that means you're getting
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an autofix similar to what you see in
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google photos very soon
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one other thing i want to note in this
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experiment is the fact that we have the
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xf data and display exif data
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for now it doesn't seem like that's
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working the way it should if you
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click on for instance in a file in the
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files application you hit the space bar
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you get all this nice exif data over
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location image info if that actual image
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has image info i grabbed this off the
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website so it didn't have it but
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if this was a photo that we had taken
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you would see the exif data from our
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camera on there telling you f-stop
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numbers and resolution and all that kind
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you see that in the files app but if i
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the new media app and i click this info
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button all you really see is the
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the size the resolution and the date it
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but clearly there's a space here where
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this exif data will live
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at some point in the future so you can
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expect exif data and you can expect an
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automatic filter similar again to what
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we see in google photos okay so let's
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talk about a couple of these
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other features that are basically fully
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baked and working right now so
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color filters is one of the ones that we
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turned on if we click into this
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you're going to see these and if you use
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you're going to notice the names of
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these look very very familiar and it's
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they're the exact same that you see in
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google photos it's why we think when it
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says auto fix we're going to get the
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same type of google photos auto fix but
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you can click on any of these
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and they'll filter some of this stuff
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doesn't move incredibly fast right now
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obviously this again is a developer
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these are things behind experimental
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you know take it easy as far as you know
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judging how fast all this stuff's going
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to work there's probably going to be
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in here as we move around but it's
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really cool to be able to see these
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to be able to do this right here locally
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on your chromebook without having to
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to google photos in order to do
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something with the with the file itself
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and you can see like that filter there
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looks a little weird and i've gone
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through a few filters now and it's
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and it came back so again realize that
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experimental at this point right now and
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so we're going to run into jankiness
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additionally we now have the ability if
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we click this little annotate button
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you can actually write and draw right on
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your photos and so you can change the
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thickness here you can go to a
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obviously change the highlighter
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thickness and you kind of see that that
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less opacity so you can actually
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physically highlight stuff without
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completely covering what's underneath of
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and the pen works obviously as you would
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so if i click there and then we go to
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we'll go to a thicker pen here let's go
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and once we click you can just draw
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again if you're using a pen or a stylus
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this is going to be a lot better but you
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get the idea you can make some scribbles
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uh onto a photo so if somebody sends you
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something you're like hey i like this
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but let me circle that and draw an arrow
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hey that part i circled is out of line
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or whatever the case may be
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again you can do all this now locally
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right in your files app you'll just
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double click the image
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annotate save and then send it back
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which is honestly a pretty cool and very
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new trick that this app will be able to
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do finally the app still maintains all
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the other things that you could do with
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it so you know pinch to zoom with your
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with your track pad you can zoom with
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these buttons up here
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you can share to other applications from
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you can crop with multiple presets or
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you can additionally resize the image
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with a locked aspect ratio or unlock
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that aspect ratio and skew the image if
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all that stuff's still there and all
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very beneficial honestly and
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we're getting to the point where when
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they start continuing to add these
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features that we're seeing in this app
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it's going to be a really
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full featured application and there's
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even hints in these experiments to the
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fact that we might have some basic video
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with the reduced motion here so we tried
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this this literally is doing nothing at
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this point in time but there's no reason
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there would be reduced motion for
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photos hopefully you'd be able to open
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up a video and add some video
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in here and maybe some other filters
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will come along as well and eventually
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this thing could become a full-fledged
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media editing application for
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chromebooks but guys that's about it for
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this right now again this is chrome os
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89 we're expecting 88 to roll out the
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another six weeks past that we're
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talking you know early spring kind of
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march time frame probably before we're
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and it's not even guaranteed at that
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point but what's cool to note
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is the fact that they're just adding
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more and more stuff to this media app
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and it's not just going to be a
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reskinned version of the old thing we
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but it's going to give users tons more
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tools built into the chromebook
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right from the files application i think
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it's going to be a beneficial upgrade
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when it all finally does land in the
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stable channel but that's it for this
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