Vids, Google’s AI video creation tool, is now available to test. Here’s how to try it out

A couple of months in the past, Google introduced Google Vids, its new AI video era instrument. Google says Vids is an all-in-one writing, manufacturing, and enhancing assistant that helps companies inform a narrative via video — like HR onboarding, coaching, new shopper pitches, product rollouts, and extra.

Google Vids is part of the Google Office suite and works at the side of Docs, Slides, and Sheets. You may strive Vids now in one in every of two methods: with or without AI.

To check Google Vids, you may have to first be part of Google Workspace Labs (anybody can enroll). When you’re in, head to the Google Vids web page on Docs. Click on the plus signal on the backside proper to start out creating.  

Start by selecting a template like class overview, product pitch, new worker introduction, or ask for assist. About 50 totally different starting templates can be found. After deciding on a template, you may go scene by scene, including related textual content, photographs, and music till you are proud of the mission.

Alternatively, you may click on “Assist Me Create” and describe your video via a textual content immediate (together with textual content, viewers, and size) to have the AI instrument construct a video step-by-step. You may connect any doc that is uploaded to Google Drive so as to add extra data.

Vids will generate an editable storyboard and offer you a number of kinds to select from. After that, Vids items collectively a primary draft with inventory video, photographs, and background music. The instrument may even deal with voiceovers via a preset selection like energetic, calm, or relaxed, or you may add your individual.

As Vids turns into broadly out there, Google is promising “a gentle drumbeat” of latest options. The corporate hasn’t set a timeline for public launch, solely saying it will “iterate and refine” the instrument via Workspace Labs earlier than making it out there to pick out Google Workspace plans.