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Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNETThose of you who like to refine the videos you shoot will soon be able to take advantage of two new AI-powered features in Microsoft’s Clipchamp video editor. In a blog post published on Thursday, the Microsoft Clipchamp team touted new noise suppression and image background removal tools as two helpful ways to improve your videos. Here’s how to implement them. Noise suppressionAny type of annoying background noise, from a soft hum to a loud sound, can ruin an otherwise great video. With Clipchamp’s new noise suppression feature, you can reduce those unwanted sounds without affecting any foreground audio, such as your own voice.Also: The best laptops for video editingTo try this, open your video in the Clipchamp video editor timeline, click the Audio icon in the right panel, and select “Noise suppression”. Turning this option on uses AI to automatically remove background sounds, emphasizing the recording of any voices or music.Image background removalA busy or confusing background can also distract your audience from the main action in your video. The image background removal tool lets you wipe it away. For this one, right-click on any image in your video and select the “Remove background” option. After deleting the current background, you can create a new one by layering a different video or image behind the foreground.Also: 5 ways to save your old PC in 2025 (most are free)However, accessing these two new features is tricky for now. The good news is that the new tools are available to both free and paid users of Clipchamp, which comes with Windows 10 and 11 and is available at the Microsoft Store.The not-so-good news is that in order to access the new AI features, you’ll need subscribe to Microsoft 365 and be a member of the Microsoft 365 Insiders club. How to join the clubJoining the Microsoft 365 Insiders club isn’t hard. Just open any application in the suite, such as Word, Excel, or PowerPoint. Select the File menu and click Account. From there, click the button for Microsoft 365 Insider, select the option to join Microsoft 365 Insider, and follow the steps to become a member. Since you’d be downloading an insider’s build of the suite, you may want to do this on a spare PC. More

If you’re shopping for an iPhone, you may be asking yourself a combination (or all) of the following questions: How much storage should I buy? Should I buy an older model for less money? Is the “Pro” model worth it? And should I wait for the iPhone 16? That’s because the iPhone lineup is more convoluted than ever, with Apple now offering a total of nine models, not counting the refurbished ones, on its website and in stores. Also: The best phones you can buyLuckily, I’ve had the fortune of testing every iPhone currently on sale and rounded up the best ones you should consider below.What is the best iPhone right now?ZDNET’s mobile experts carefully test every iPhone model at release, putting them through their paces to provide you with the best advice on which model to buy and the key features to look out for when you do. Currently, our pick for the best iPhone of 2024 overall is the iPhone 15 Pro Max More

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Jaque Silva/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Those of you who use ChatGPT for free can now ask the popular chatbot to generate anything from a business logo to a charcoal drawing to an abstract painting and more. On Thursday, OpenAI announced in an X post that image creation through DALL-E 3 has started rolling out […] More