Feature availability
- This feature requires an eligible Google Workspace subscription. Learn about Gemini features and plans.
- AI features in Vids, such as 'Help me create', read-along teleprompter and AI voiceover, are only available in English at this time. Learn more about Vids availability.
Google Vids is an AI-powered video creation app for work. Use Vids to create, write, produce, edit, collaborate and share your videos. Learn about Google Vids availability.
- Use 'help me create' with Gemini in Vids to create a video using a prompt.
- Use templates to help you get started.
- Add your own content, including images and video clips from Drive.
- Add videos, GIFs, images, stickers, music and sound effects from the Vids stock content library.
- Use a recording studio that lets you record audio, record yourself, record your screen or a combination.
- Collaborate in real time and share videos by downloading them as an MP4 or sharing them with a link for playback view on a computer.
In this article, learn how to:
Important:
- New features for Vids are rolling out gradually and may not be available to you yet.
- The Vids generative AI features, like 'help me create' and read-along teleprompter, are only available in English at this time.
- Videos created with Vids have a maximum duration of 10 minutes.
You can use Vids on your computer with the two most recent versions of these browsers:
- Chrome
- Firefox
- Windows only: Microsoft Edge
Other browsers may work, but you might not be able to use all of the features.
Tip: Currently, you can't edit or comment in Vids in Safari. You can use playback after a video has been processed.
The following types of media can be uploaded from your computer or from Google Drive.
| Media type | File type | Compatible upload file types |
|---|---|---|
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Audio |
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Ogg, FLAC, M4A, MP3, MP4, MPEG, MPEG3, Ogg, WAV, X-FLAC, audio/X-M4A, audio/X-WAV |
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Static images and GIFs |
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PNG, JPEG or GIF |
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Videos |
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MP4, Ogg, QuickTime, WebM |
Create a new video
You can create a new video or make a new version of a video already created in Vids by copying and editing a video that's already been made.
- On your computer, open Google Vids.
- Choose an option to create a new video:
- help me create
- Create a video with AI in Google Vids. Learn more about how to create a video with a prompt with Gemini in Vids.
- Select a template
- Build your video based on a template that you have selected. Learn more about building a video from a template.
- Start with a recording
- Build your video with a video, audio or screen recording. Learn more about adding video clips using the Vids recording studio.
- Upload media
- Build your video by recording yourself (audio narration or a full video recording), your computer screen or both. Learn more about uploading video clips, GIFs or images.
- help me create
Tip: To start a video from scratch, click Close to close the window and open your new video.
Copy a video
You can copy an existing video in Google Vids to build a new or updated version.
- On your computer, open Google Vids.
- Double-click to open the video that you want to copy.
- Click File
Make a copy
.
- Tips:
- To make a copy of a video from Drive, right-click to open the menu bar
- You can copy the full video or selected scenes.
- To make a copy of a video from Drive, right-click to open the menu bar
- Tips:
Make a copy Edit and format a video
You can add, edit or format text, images or videos in each scene, as well as customise transitions between scenes.
- Upload and insert images
- Add audio
- Add stock media
- Add and customise text, shapes and lines
- Control timing with object tracks
- Customise transitions between scenes
Share and collaborate with Vids
You can share your videos and select whether collaborators can view, edit or comment on them.
You can choose to share videos created in Vids as:
- Google Vids files
- MP4s in Google Drive
- MP4s downloaded to your device
Tip: To collaborate with others on your video, share as a Google Vids file and choose an access level:
- Commenters: Can add comments to the video but can't make changes to the video.
- Editors: Can add comments and make changes to the video.
- On your computer, open a video in Google Vids.
- In the top right-hand corner, click Share
.
- Add the people, groups or events that you want to share your file with.
- Click the drop-down that appears after you've added people to select the access level:
- Viewer
- Commenter
- Editor
- Click Send.
- On your computer, open a video in Google Vids.
- In the top right-hand corner next to Share
.
- To export as an MP4 to Drive, click Export to Drive
.
- To open the MP4 file in Drive, click Open now.
- To update access and find the link to your file:
- Open the MP4 file.
- In the top right-hand corner, click Share
- On your computer, open a video in Google Vids.
- In the menu, click File
- The file will download as an MP4 file that you can share with others to watch.
Watch a video shared with you
Anyone with a Google Account can view a video shared with Google Vids.
Tip: To access Google Vids on your mobile device, you can use a compatible web browser. You can watch processed videos on your mobile device, but you can't edit or add comments to videos.