Google Vids: What Is It And When Can You Get Access?
Google Vids is a new AI-powered video creation tool that will be available to Gemini for Google Workspace users. Announced in April during Google’s Cloud Next developer conference, the Google Vids app will “sit alongside"the word processing tool Google Docs, presentation tool Google Slides, andpopular spreadsheet tool Google Sheetsas a new Google Workspace app. The app isn’t aimed at professional creative teams, but instead meant to enable an amateur to become a “great storyteller through video.”
To that end, Google Vids will use Gemini AI, similar to how it’s currently built into Workspace apps like Gmail, Docs, and Sheets. After a prompt from the user regarding what type of storytelling video you want to create, Google Vids uses Gemini AI as a scriptwriting, production, and editing assistant to generate a storyboard that can be further customized. Google Vids will be available to Gemini for Google Workspace users, starting with Google Workspace Labs testers in June 2024, and is currently available to Google’s alpha test customers for feedback.
The launch of Google Vids takes on similar video creation tools, fromthe popular design website Canva, Peech, Descript, Loom, Vimeo, or ClickUp. That said, it’s one of the first AI-powered editing apps from the big productivity companies, including Microsoft, Apple, and Adobe.
What does Google Vids do?
We have a fair idea of how Google Vids will work based on theproduct demofrom Google Cloud Next 2024, as well as with the Google Vidsintroduction video. you may choose to use the graphic and text tools from scratch, or enter a prompt — with the option of attaching additional reference data via Google Workspace files — and then pressing “create.” You are then presented with a video outline, generating bullet points and key aspects based on your prompt, with narrative highlights that can be dragged to reorder, delete, or individually edit. You can also add new narrative highlights to the outline as well. If you don’t like what you see, press “Recreate” for a new video outline.
Pressing “next” takes you to the Google Vids templates page, where you’re able to choose a “style” for the video based on color schemes, graphic styles, and more fine touches. It then creates a first draft of the video, using “stock videos, images, and background music.” Then, you can take steps to edit the script, change the selected Gemini AI-powered voiceover options, or record your own voiceover, edit the video timeline, add a screen recording or a personal video message, and more. As with other Workspace apps, colleagues can collaborate on Google Vids-created videos.
