Google Vids is the simple video editing tool you’ve been searching for! With Vids’ familiar and intuitive interface, you and your students will be creating videos in no time. This session will cover all the Vids options, from recording yourself or your screen to converting your slides into videos to starting with a beautifully designed template. Google Vids will have you and your students creating and remixing like master video editors!
Google Vids is available to all editions of Google Workspace! You will have different options depending on whether you are on a free (Fundamentals) account or a paid (Ed Plus, Teaching and Learning) edition.
If you have a Fundamentals account or are using Vids with your personal account you will be able to create Vids from templates, storyboards or uploads. You can record yourself, your screen or both. You can convert Slides to videos with AI generated voiceovers. And you can use Veo 3.1 to generate 8 second AI video clips by writing prompts (10 generations per month).
If you are using a 3rd party tool for screen recording, stop! Vids can do that and you can edit the video and export it to YouTube!
If you have an Ed Plus or T&L license, you can use all of Vids creation options including AI avatars and generating music with Lyria 3. Certain features (like generate original video clips, generate voiceover from a script, AI avatars) may only be available to these editions until May 31, 2026.
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You can now quickly record your screen by using the new Google Vids Screen Recorder extension!
These features that were once only available to paid editions of Google Workspace are now available for all editions!
The read-along teleprompter allows you to read from an on-screen script that automatically scrolls as you speak. Because the teleprompter is positioned directly below the webcam, you maintain eye contact with the camera and look more natural in front of the camera.
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Transcript trim provides an easy way to edit your video by deleting silences or filler words directly from the video's transcript. Deleting these filler words and silences from the transcript also edits the video.
Pro tip: If you delete every "um" and "ah" and stumble to make your video "perfect" are you also making your viewers think the video is AI generated? Leaving the filler words in a video keeps the "human" in the video!
Styled captions lets you choose from a variety of visual styles that puts captions directly on your video. Captions make your videos more accessible! Remember to choose captions that are easy to read to enhance accessiblity.