What’s Changing?
Earlier this year, we launched Google Vids, a new AI-powered video creation tool in Google Workspace, which helps teams create more compelling work stories through video.
Now Google Vids is generally available for select workspace editions. Here’s how you can use it:
- Customer service teams are using Vids to provide better customer support, supplementing help center articles and videos.
- Leaders are creating videos to share company-wide updates and announcements.
- Learning and development teams are using builds to deliver employee training and education at scale.
- Marketers are using videos within their organizations to share campaign and event recaps.
- Project management teams are building videos to share meeting recaps, business updates, and report share-outs.
With Vids, you can quickly create videos by using Gemini’s generative AI features to help you get to a first draft faster. The Help Me Create tool can build an editable storyboard from a prompt and a document in your Google Drive. Once you pick a style, Gemini puts together your video draft with suggested scenes, recommended stock media, text scripts for each scene, and even background music.
You can also start your own video with a range of templates designed for different needs. Then add motion with animations, transitions, and photo effects. You can customize your video using Vids, royalty-free stock content, or your own media from Google Drive or Google Photos.
With ‘Help me create,’ Gemini suggests scripts to help you get started, or you can write your own. Adding a voiceover is simple: choose from Gemini’s preset AI voices or record your own using a teleprompter with Gemini’s read-along and rolling features. You can also use the Vids recording studio to:
- Add a video recording of yourself.
- Add a screen recording with narration.
- Add a screen recording with a video recording.
- Add an audio-only recording.
Like Docs, Sheets, and Slides, Vids have a simple, easy-to-use interface. You can collaborate in real time and share projects securely, right from your browser.
In short, Vids helps you create engaging videos that spread your message, build connections, and stand out across your organization.
Who’s Impacted?
End users
Why You’d Use It
We understand that making and editing videos used to be hard because they often needed special skills or licenses. With Google Wiz, anyone can tell their story. Now, teams can create and share compelling stories at work, helping their message reach and engage coworkers more effectively.
Additional Details
Before this launch, only Gemini for G Suite customers could use Vids. Now Google Vids is available with select Workspace subscription plans.
Users will have full access to AI-powered features in Google Vids, such as “Help me create” and AI voiceovers, until at least December 31, 2025. Starting in 2026, usage limits for these features may apply. We’ll let you know before any changes happen.
Vids’ generative AI features include Help Me Create, Generate a Voiceover, Remove Image Backgrounds, Generate an Image, Recording Studio, and Read Along a Teleprompter.
To learn more about Waves features and capabilities for the Google Workspace environment for education customers, refer to this Workspace Updates blog.
Getting Started
- Admins: Vids will be on by default and can be disabled at the organizational level. Visit the Help Center to learn more about turning Waves on or off for users and new core services coming to the Google Workspace platform.
- End users: to get started, open Google Vids and choose how you want to create a new video. You can start from scratch or copy an existing video to edit. Visit the Help Center to learn more about using Google Vids.
- You can use Vids on your computer with the two most recent versions of Chrome, Firefox, or, on Windows devices only, Microsoft Edge. Other browsers may work, but some features might not function fully or be available.
You can find helpful resources in the Google Workspace platform Learning Center to learn more about what you can do with Google Wiz. However, the AI features are only available in English at this time.
Note: View and collaborate access is available to anyone with a Google Workspace platform account, while create and copy access is available for select editions of Google Workspace and Gemini for Google Workspace edition customers.
Rollout Pace
Rapid release and scheduled release domains: extended rollout (potentially longer than 15 days for feature visibility) starting on November 7, 2024
Availability
Available for Google Workspace:
- Business Standard and Plus
- Enterprise, Standard, and Plus
- Essentials, Enterprise Essentials, and Enterprise Essentials Plus
- Education Plus
- Customers with a Gemini Business, Enterprise, Education, or Education Premium add-on
