Google Vids Tutorial for Beginners – How to Create Videos with AI

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Elizabeth walks through Google Vids, Google’s video creation tool, starting a project at vids.new or through Google Workspace. Choosing AI video, she prompts a clip of a green parrot dancing, then iterates: Recreate regenerates the video, while describing changes edits it, such as adding a sombrero to each parrot. Insert moves a clip to the timeline, where a new scene can be added with an automatic transition, or Extend creates a seamless follow-up. The Animate function turns an uploaded photo into motion. Up to three images can be added as ‘ingredients,’ each with instructions for how it should be used, giving visual context for scenes like an employee onboarding welcome. AI avatars can present a script so nobody needs to appear on camera: she picks the avatar Finley to present a laptop bag promo using an uploaded product image, and Leo to deliver an employee benefits update. A personal avatar can also be created from your own face and likeness by scanning a QR code and following prompts on a mobile phone. The editor adds stylistic captions (auto-generated captions already cover English speech), borders, and style changes, and clips can also be edited by prompt; music can be generated, optionally instrumental, and trimmed on the timeline. Videos can run up to 30 minutes. Existing Google Slides or PowerPoint decks convert automatically into storyboarded scenes with a drafted script, transcripts can be edited per scene, and avatars can be inserted and repositioned afterward. The basic editor is free with a regular Google account, US users can currently try AI avatars free, and advanced Gemini features depend on the Google plan with usage limits. Finished videos can be shared with viewer, commenter, or editor access, exported to Drive or YouTube, or downloaded as MP4 or GIF.

Key takeaways

• Start at vids.new, prompt an AI video, then iterate with Recreate or described edits; Insert places clips on a timeline where scenes can be added with transitions or extended seamlessly
• Up to three images can be supplied as ingredients with per-image instructions to give generated scenes visual context, and photos can be animated into motion
• AI avatars such as Finley and Leo can present scripts over uploaded product or scene imagery, and a personal avatar can be built from your own likeness via a mobile QR-code flow
• Slides and PowerPoint decks convert into storyboarded videos with drafted scripts, and per-scene transcript editing lets you fix exactly what is said
• The basic editor is free with a regular Google account, advanced Gemini generation depends on plan and limits, and exports include Drive, YouTube, MP4, and GIF

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