Instagram expands Edits app with bilingual captions and new AI tools

MUMBAI: Creating content just found a few more shortcuts to the spotlight. Instagram has rolled out a fresh update to Edits, its standalone video creation app, introducing bilingual captions, advanced editing controls and new Story features as it sharpens its focus on empowering creators with smarter AI-powered tools.

The latest release brings bilingual captions, allowing creators to automatically translate captions into a second language to reach broader audiences without the need for manual translation. The feature currently supports 15 languages including English, Hindi, Gujarati, Bengali, Kannada, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean and Thai.

The update also enhances creative flexibility with overlay support, enabling creators to stack multiple visual layers within a single project for richer, more polished videos. A new clip lock feature gives editors greater precision by preventing selected clips from shifting while fine-tuning transitions, effects and timing.

Adding a seasonal touch, Instagram has introduced a collection of summer-themed sound effects, giving creators fresh audio options for Reels and short-form videos.

The update builds on Instagram’s strategy of strengthening Edits as a dedicated companion to Reels, while supporting the platform’s wider creator ecosystem, including monetisation tools such as Series, which enables episodic and premium content.

Beyond the Edits app, Instagram is also expanding Story creation for users of Ray-Ban Meta, Oakley Meta and Meta Glasses, bringing wearable technology deeper into the content creation workflow.

Among the new additions is Spin View, an interactive Story format that lets viewers explore a creator’s perspective by rotating their smartphone to navigate a wider field of view. Another feature, Multi Cam, synchronises footage captured simultaneously on a smartphone and Meta AI glasses, making multi-angle storytelling easier without extensive editing.

Instagram has also added native Story editing tools that allow creators to reframe first-person footage, adjust playback speed and enhance audio directly within the app, reducing the need for external editing software.

The new features will be introduced gradually, as Instagram continues expanding its suite of creator tools aimed at making video production faster, smarter and more immersive across Reels, Stories and premium content formats.