Google Vids

Google Vids is an AI video editor in Google Workspace that turns prompts, documents and slides into work videos with avatars and voiceovers.

Google Vids is an online video editor in Google Workspace for making work videos with help from Gemini. It can draft a video from a prompt or a document, turn Google Slides into a narrated pitch with AI avatars or voiceovers, and generate clips, music, images and voices. A recording studio captures screen and camera for tutorials and team updates, and videos can be edited through their transcript. Teams collaborate on videos the same way as in Docs and Slides, with templates, stock media and files from Google Drive and Google Photos. Vids is included in many Google Workspace business plans, and videos can be shared in Drive or exported to YouTube.

Google Vids at a glance

Best for: Marketer, HR, Director, Sales
Runs on: Web
Pricing: Included in Google Workspace Business Standard and higher plans
Released: November 2024
Category: AI video tool
Website: workspace.google.com

Key features

Video drafts from a prompt or a Google Doc
Google Slides turned into narrated videos
AI avatars and voiceovers
Generated clips, music and images
Screen and camera recording studio
Editing through the transcript
Templates, stock media and Drive integration

Use it for

Turn a slide deck into a sales pitch video
Record a product tutorial for customers
Make onboarding videos for new hires

Companions

Tools that articles about Google Vids recommend using with it, each with its job.

Gemini — Built to work with Gemini.
Gemini Notebook — Answers cite only the uploaded sources, with podcast-style summaries
Google Workspace
Perplexity — Perplexity when an answer needs citations.
Claude Code — Claude Code for development work.

Alternatives to Google Vids

Captions — Phone-friendly AI editing for talking-head videos and ads
Veed — Fast browser editing with top-quality subtitles and dubbing
InVideo — AI editing agent on a real timeline, not just a prompt box
HeyGen — Most realistic AI avatars, with lip-synced translation in 175+ languages
Synthesia — Avatar training videos with no camera, used across the Fortune 100
Colossyan — Builds video courses from text with 300+ avatars and 100+ languages.

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