GoPro's QuikStories feature generates your clips automatically

PanARMENIAN.Net - If you've spent more than five minutes on social media recently, you'll know that "stories" are the hot new currency. Sharing your day with your followers keeps you and your friends coming back for more. While stories have largely been the realm of apps like Instagram and Snapchat, GoPro recently decided it would toss its hat into the narrative-telling ring with "QuikStories", Engadget said.

The clue really is all in the name. GoPro's Quik app has been around for a while, and has always been about making short, shareable videos from your camera for uploading to social media. The difference with QuikStories is that it generates your clips automatically. GoPro's long been trying to punch through the barrier between videos languishing on your memory card and your social network, and this latest update seems to be the strongest blow yet.

Starting from Thursday, July 27, the latest version of the GoPro app comes with QuikStories baked right in. You just need to spend the day shooting clips with your GoPro, then connect to your phone at the end of the day, and pull down on the home screen. The app will then search your camera for new clips, and slice them up into something you might want to share, complete with edits and music.

If you want to get more hands on, you can. You'll still be able to tinker with the clips, move them around, change music and edits etc, but if all has gone well, you'll not have much, if any work to do.