Google announced it is rolling out its Gemini AI-powered video presentation app that enables users to easily create video presentations. Vids is a productivity app featured in the company’s suite of Google Workspace products. The new app uses AI model Gemini to automatically insert royalty-free stock video footage, create storyboards and scripts, and generate music and voiceovers. It allows users to add documents, slides, visuals, audio and transitions to the presentation’s timeline. “Personalize your content with Vids recording studio to deliver employee training, share company-wide announcements, meeting updates, and more,” suggests Google.

“Vids will be available by default for Workspace organizations with access, but Google notes possible usage limits may apply to features like ‘Help me create’ and AI voiceovers starting in 2026,” reports The Verge. “The app supports multiple languages, but AI features such as ‘Help me create’ and the read-along teleprompter are only in English for now.”

When the AI video generator was first announced in April, Engadget described it as “more HR than Hollywood.”

“Vids is your video, writing, production and editing assistant, all in one,” explained Google Workspace GM & VP Aparna Pappu in a blog post at the time.

According to the Workspace information page for Google Vids, the focus is on creativity, ease-of-use and collaboration. For example, users can access stock media and music, work from templates, request that Gemini generate visuals, or personalize “videos by easily adding [their] own photos, videos and more, directly from Google Drive or Google Photos.”

“While previously only available to Gemini for Google Workspace customers, with this launch Google Vids is expanding to select Workspace subscription plans,” notes the Google announcement on the app’s general availability.

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Gemini Powering Google Vids Multimedia Presentation Builder, ETCentric, 7/18/24
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