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AI-Powered Cinematic Shorts: Unlocking Business Value with NotebookLM’s Latest Feature
Google’s NotebookLM recently introduced a new vertical video feature—cinematic shorts—enabling organizations to quickly produce personalized, 60-second learning videos grounded in their own data. This episode of Everyday AI highlighted not just the mechanics of the tool, but brought forward concrete ways for companies to leverage short-form AI-generated content in real business workflows.
Below, discover exactly how these cinematic shorts work, the technology stack powering them, the latest access options—and the five strongest use cases and prompting techniques to maximize business ROI.
Cinematic Shorts in NotebookLM: Smart Vertical Video Grounded in Your Data
NotebookLM’s cinematic shorts operate directly in the web interface and mobile apps, with each video pulling visuals and narrative solely from data sources uploaded by the user (02:18). This isn’t yet another generic, algorithmic vertical video stream. Instead, content is hyper-relevant—anchored to internal reports, FAQ documents, or proprietary training materials. The structure ensures a low risk of hallucinated information and keeps messaging tailored (02:31).
Each cinematic short is narrated via AI voiceover, includes on-screen captions, and is intentionally designed for phone-based viewing—though it’s accessible on desktop, too (02:14). The focus is practicality: transforming static data assets into engaging microlearning and communication pieces.
Under the Hood: Google’s Image Model and Availability
NotebookLM’s engine combines multiple Google AI models. The latest addition is Nano Banana 2 Lite, a variant of the Gemini 3.1 Flash Light image model (14:24). Each image frame is generated in about four seconds and then stitched alongside dynamic captions and light motion graphics to create the short (14:38).
Access isn’t limited to premium users. Both free and paid accounts now generate cinematic shorts, with free plans offering three per day and pro users up to twenty daily (13:53). While truly cinematic, video-style outputs remain exclusive to paid users, core explainer shorts and most vertical video assets are broadly accessible (12:05).
Practical Applications: Key Use Cases for NotebookLM’s Shorts
The session identified five distinct, high-value use cases for deploying cinematic shorts in business:
Executive Briefings from Dense Reports
Typical executive updates often require distilling detailed analyst notes or 40-page industry reports. Cinematic shorts convert these dense documents into a focused series of 60-second, actionable video briefings (22:38), presenting what changed, why it matters, and clear next steps. This approach addresses information overload for senior leaders who need the core message quickly and in a format conducive to mobile consumption.
Customer Education from FAQs and Support Material
Instead of relying on lengthy FAQs or dry support docs, common customer questions can be transformed into visual explainers. These personalized, engaging shorts can be embedded directly on web properties, making complex support topics more accessible to end-users (23:47).
Social Content Generation from Webinars and Podcasts
Long-form assets like webinars and podcasts can be repurposed into digestible, shareable 60-second highlights. By uploading transcripts or links, teams can auto-generate summaries and preview reels, effectively multiplying the reach and impact of existing content (24:12).
On-Brand Marketing Assets with Integrated Guidelines
Branding guidelines, including color palettes, fonts, and tone, can be included as source material, letting companies produce compliant marketing videos at scale without repetitive manual input (25:06). These assets are immediately usable for campaigns or internal communications.
Internal Training from SOPs and Playbooks
For onboarding or internal upskilling, lengthy SOPs and playbooks become fast, interactive microlearning videos (26:10). Staff can digest key procedures in seconds, supplementing traditional documentation and boosting actual engagement.
Prompting Techniques: Maximizing Output Quality and Business Value
Several actionable prompting tips surfaced during the demonstration (19:39):
Start with Specific Questions: Instead of broad summaries, ask the tool to address very focused questions—e.g., “What is the one critical insight from this sales report?”
Define Audience Explicitly: Specify who the short is for, such as “busy executives,” “frontline managers,” or “new hires,” enabling the model to tailor tone and content for each segment (20:02).
Break Up Large Sources: Avoid overloading a short with lengthy documents; instead, break major assets into multiple focused shorts using the chat pane to generate targeted prompts (20:29).
Embed Clear Calls-to-Action: Direct action by including specific CTAs in prompts, increasing the actual impact of each generated video (21:08).
Iterate and Version Aggressively: Use the daily generation cap to produce multiple versions, compare outputs, and tweak prompts before rolling out final assets (21:47).
Adherence to these approaches consistently increased prompt fidelity—achieving up to 85-95% prompt-to-output match in the live demonstration (29:16).
Concise Workflow Integration for Business Leaders
NotebookLM shorts are accessible via a three-pane workflow: upload sources (PDF, text, Google Drive, YouTube, etc.), interact in a chat-like middle pane, then generate and customize assets in the right-hand studio area (06:05). While direct post-production editing of the videos isn’t possible, prompt-driven customization and rapid iteration make it viable to produce multiple solution-focused assets for testing or downstream use.
Download, share, regenerate, or incorporate best-generation outputs as templates for future campaigns or employee training (17:03). The process reduces typical 40-hour video production cycles to a matter of minutes per asset for informed users with optimized prompts (15:05).
Conclusion
The cinematic shorts in NotebookLM present a practical, prompt-driven method for creating personalized, high-context vertical video assets grounded in organizational knowledge. The technology stands out for its specificity, customizable output, and ease of integration into business operations, from executive comms and customer education to marketing and internal training initiatives.
Business decision-makers seeking competitive advantage with AI-powered content should audit their knowledge repositories for prime video fodder, experiment with prompt specificity, and bake video microlearning into communications and customer touchpoints using these new tools.
Topics Covered in This Episode:
- NotebookLM Cinematic Shorts Feature Overview
- How NotebookLM Vertical Videos Work
- Google Nano Banana 2 Lite Engine Details
- Free vs. Paid NotebookLM Video Limits
- Custom Prompting for Shorts Best Practices
- Explainer, Cinematic, and Short Video Types
- Step-by-Step Studio Workflow in NotebookLM
- Top 5 Use Cases for NotebookLM Shorts
- Five Expert Tips for Effective AI Shorts
- Quality, Rendering Times, and Editing Limits
Episode Transcript
Jordan Wilson [00:00:18]:
Most AI tools at work don't know anything about you. Every time, you're stuck reexplaining your projects, your team, what actually matters. Slack just fixed that. The all new Slack bot is a personal AI agent built into Slack, and it starts with your context, your messages, files, and channels, translation, and AI that already knows how you work. Check it out at slack.com. When you think of short vertical video, what do you think of? For me, I think of social media brain rots, And somehow, I've made it through my life without ever doom scrolling any vertical videos, but that might change with a new Google update to the powerful notebook l m suite. Why is that? Well, because now we have vertical video that's actually helping you learn new topics you care about, not just trying to rot your brain and get you addicted to an algorithm. So you might have missed this one, but notebook l m rolled out new cinematic shorts, which are sixty second vertical videos accessible in NotebookLM's web interface and mobile apps, all based on your data and directed by you.
Jordan Wilson [00:01:38]:
And while, yes, they're great for bite sized learning and personalized info, but I think that this new drop from Google and notebook LM unlocks a whole new way to grow your company and your career. That's kind of what we're all about here. Right? Well, let's get into it. Here is the big picture. Notebook l m adds vertical video. That's not brain routes. So they just launched this last week, and it's available now. And each short runs about sixty seconds.
Jordan Wilson [00:02:10]:
It is narrated, with an AI voice over. There's captions, and it's really built for just phone scrolling. Yes. You can watch these on your computer, but on the mobile app is where you can actually get some great utility out of these. And every short pulls its visuals and script only from the sources you upload. So that's the big, you know, big differentiator that notebook l m has had all along that it's grounded just in the information you upload. So you don't have to worry as much about hallucinations or, you know, sometimes this really generic info that sounds both helpful and made up. You don't have to worry about that.
Jordan Wilson [00:02:49]:
And this feature is being rolled out, the great part here, to free and paid users. So on today's show, stick with me. This one is actually gonna be a short one for the next twenty ish minutes, and you're gonna learn the brand new engine, for images from Google that's quietly rendering every frame behind this feature. You're gonna know what plans unlock, how many shorts, and the daily limits if you really wanna go crazy with these new vertical videos. And I'm gonna give you five real use cases and prompting tips for getting the sharpest results each time. Alright. If you're new here, welcome to Everyday AI. My name is Jordan Wilson, and, well, I do this for you.
Jordan Wilson [00:03:31]:
I work for you. It's a daily unscripted, unedited, lives, live stream podcast, and free daily newsletter helping business leaders like you and me keep up with the nonstop avalanche of these new AI updates. I tell you what matters, what doesn't, teach you how to use it, especially on Wednesdays. You take that information and voila. You're the smartest person in AI in your company. So starts here, but make sure to go to our website at youreverydayai.com. We're gonna be recapping the highlights from today's show as well as all of the other AI news you need to know. Yeah.
Jordan Wilson [00:04:02]:
A lot of stuff happening. Meta has a new muse, photo, muse, video. We're probably gonna get, you know, we got co work on the web from Claude, all that stuff. So make sure to go check out, the newsletter today. And if you do find this helpful, make sure you share today's episode on LinkedIn. So if you are listening on the podcast, we always put the link to the LinkedIn post in the show notes. So check that out. Go repost this show, and I'm gonna send you our shorts guide for busy leaders.
Jordan Wilson [00:04:32]:
It's a ton of extra resources, prompt examples. I think we have 10, 10 tips and tricks, and then 10 use cases. We're gonna go over five and five today. So if you want the rest and prompt examples, make sure to share today's show. So let's get into it. And, well, we're gonna start live because this is AI at work on Wednesdays. We do this on Wednesdays. We go hands on with some demos.
Jordan Wilson [00:04:54]:
So we're gonna start. I'm actually gonna start a prompt to show you around the, updated interface, and then we're gonna go through what's new and then check-in on it at the end. Because maybe this will work, maybe it'll be great, maybe it won't. Alright. So, live stream audience, if you could do me a favor, let me know if you can share my screen. So, for our podcast audience, don't worry. This one's not super visual, so I will do my best to explain it to you. So I am in notebook l m.
Jordan Wilson [00:05:23]:
If you don't know notebook l m, well, number one, your life's about to be changed. But number two, where have you been hiding? Alright. It has been my probably most used tool overall since it came out a couple of years ago. It's not my most used tool today. That's codex, and I actually have codex using notebook l m all the time to make me these kind of things. But if you are brand new to notebook l m, it's super simple. There's essentially three panes. Alright.
Jordan Wilson [00:05:50]:
On the left pane, that's where you add your sources that can be upload PDFs, things from your Google Drive, YouTube videos, copy and paste text, whatever it is. On the middle, that's kind of your chat pane. So you can chat like you would with chat g v t or Claude or Gemini. Right? So this is obviously powered, by Google Gemini's models. But the big key is it stays grounded only in the information that you upload. So in this case, in what I'm doing for this example, I just uploaded a bunch of information about everyday AI. Right. Just took some stuff from our website, some other places.
Jordan Wilson [00:06:23]:
So that's in the sources on the left hand side. And in the middle, you chat with your sources, and it stays grounded only in that information that you upload. So if I ask, you know, as an example, you you know, when did the Cubs win the World Series last? Alright. I know it was 2016, but in theory, chat should come back to me and say, well, I'm not sure. Alright. Interesting. So they did change this a little bit. It says the provided sources do not contain information about when the Chicago Cubs last won.
Jordan Wilson [00:06:55]:
However, using outside information outside of the sources, the Chicago Cubs won. So it does say, hey. This is or is not in your sources, but that's kind of new. So I didn't actually know that. Hey. It's fun part of doing these things live. I find out things just as you do. Alright.
Jordan Wilson [00:07:12]:
So then on the right hand side, that's where we're what we're really gonna be exploring a little bit more today. That is your studio. And we've done probably at least five to eight notebook l m episodes over the past two or three years. And we've gone over in great depth these different, kind of studio assets. So everything from, and most of these can be customized as well. So audio overviews, and that's how notebook l m kind of originally went quote unquote viral, with the AI generated podcast between the two hosts that riff on all your information. I listen to, honestly, at least 12 to 15 of those a week. It's ridiculous.
Jordan Wilson [00:07:50]:
So good. So audio overviews, slide decks, creating decks with nano banana, video overviews, mind maps, reports, flashcards, quizzes, infographics, and data tables. Alright. And then anything that you generate is gonna show up then on the right hand side. So, that's your three panes. So here's what's new. If you're looking for it, well, right now, there's a little explanatory banner promoting it, but that's gonna not gonna be there forever. So, actually, what you're gonna do, and I'm on the desktop here.
Jordan Wilson [00:08:20]:
You're gonna go to video overview. I'm gonna have to tell the team there's some animations that are different. Anyways, the video overview, just go ahead and click the right button. So there's a little carrot, and that helps you customize. So when you do that, you're gonna see this new, option pop up on the right hand side because there's technically three different types of videos that you can now create. We're gonna get to that later, but I'm gonna choose the new one which is short. The description is, this is a bite size overview to help you quickly grasp core ideas from your sources. And then, you can choose the sources.
Jordan Wilson [00:08:57]:
I only have one source uploaded, so that's what it's gonna pull from. And then it also gives you kind of based this is all dynamically generated based on the sources that you have uploaded. It's gonna give you quick ideas on what you could base this sixty second short on, but I'm going to really push it here. So I have a little prompt, that I tried. So I'm gonna go ahead, paste it in, and click generate. And let me just read out, for our audience exactly, what that prompt is. So I said, create a sixty second vertical promo for everyday AI. The ad angle, people who people don't need more AI tools.
Jordan Wilson [00:09:40]:
Oh, zoomed into my text there. People don't need more AI tools. They need to know what to do with them. Style, fast, bold, business focus. And then I gave it some of our brand guidelines, the colors, the fonts. And then I also gave it almost a little bit of a structure. So I said, you know, it and I gave it kind of how to open, you know, flash some tool logos, model names, prompts, etcetera. Then you get into the problem.
Jordan Wilson [00:10:04]:
You know, teams are overwhelmed buying too many tools in the middle. That's where everyday AI comes in. And then toward the end, showed transformation from noise to decisions, from prompts to workflows, and then at the very end, inserting my own call to action. So, normally, I don't think most people are putting in that detail of the prompts, but I really wanna push this to see how far we can get. And it might take a while. So I do have a similar video that's already done. Yeah. Unfortunately, and I I've tried just basic, you know, out of the box defaults, and those still will take somewhere from maybe seven to ten minutes.
Jordan Wilson [00:10:39]:
So even though these are only one minute, they can take a little bit of time to, to render or create. And in this customized version and a lot of the testing I've done, sometimes the more detail you are, like, my prompt, my custom prompt, for this was extremely detailed. So it might take, you know, ten or fifteen minutes. So hopefully, at the very end of this, as I go over all the other details, it will be done. If not, we already have one. Alright. So, let's go over a little bit more of the details, what's new, and how this all works. So like I said, there are now three distinct different video overview formats.
Jordan Wilson [00:11:15]:
So the first one that came out is your standard explainer videos. So, you know, also very cool. There's different styles that you can do. So I'm actually gonna, kind of walk through some of those. So in the explainer video, you know, you can do a custom style, classic whiteboard, anime, watercolor. So, you know, retro print. So they have some of these predefined styles. The same thing you can also do your custom, topic.
Jordan Wilson [00:11:43]:
Cinematic. So this is you do have to be on a paid plan, and the cinematic are much more limited because it's using, Google's VO image, or sorry, VO video generator, which is very compute intensive. So but they're really good. So those usually run about five plus minutes. The explainer videos, those are actually available in free plans. And those aren't, like, truly videos per se. They're just, you know, images with a little bit of, you know, text and animations over them. Cinematic is actual moving video.
Jordan Wilson [00:12:16]:
And then the short videos, as we'll see, it's kind of like a mixture between the two. So you do have some actual video animations, but for the most part, it is just more images, with some captions over it. The animated, voice, which is, you you know, really cool as well. So three distinct different video types included in NotebookLM. So, paid and pro users got shorts first, and I do think the free access has already mostly been rolled out. My kind of I do have a personal oh, no. That's a paid plan too. I I think I gotta check.
Jordan Wilson [00:12:53]:
Yeah. Actually, let me let me just do this, you know, live here. That's one of the the benefits maybe of this podcast. Right? It's not scripted. You don't get, an an AI version of me. You just get me figuring things out as we go along. Right? So okay. So good to know.
Jordan Wilson [00:13:11]:
I did go into one of my free plans because I have three different paid Google plans. Yeah. I pay a lot of money to test all this stuff out for you guys, so, hopefully, it's helpful. So there is a, video overview on a free plan, right, which is good to know, but you do not have cinematic. Cinematic is only on the paid plans. So even with these limits, though, on the shorts, you still have the ability to customize it, which is really nice. It's not like you just get the defaults, so you can still do a lot. But, I believe right now, free users only get three shorts daily, and that's actually not that bad.
Jordan Wilson [00:13:53]:
Right? Pro users get up to 20 a day. So for me, I have been generating these with codecs. I don't do it. Codecs goes in and does it. I love these shorts. I make them for a little bit of everything, and I'm gonna share some of my favorite use cases here at the end. So this is a new model under the hood, which is one of the reasons why they can make this free. So, yeah, if you missed this, Google did just release Nano Banana two lite.
Jordan Wilson [00:14:19]:
So Nano Banana two has been out for a while. We have Nano Banana Pro. So Nano Banana two lite is technically the Gemini 3.1 flash light image model. Alright. So, this is the new model that generates each image, and the images according to Google take about four seconds. So these are it is powered by a new, image model from Google, stitches them all together, some animations, captions to go over it, all that good stuff. And that's why Google can well, they are still I know it's complaining. Alright.
Jordan Wilson [00:14:53]:
Oh my gosh. This thing takes seven to ten minutes. I mean, when you look at the quality, it's really good. I used to edit videos for, like, kind of my career for, you know, good five to twelve years on and off. I never would have been able to make something like this. It's really good. And or it maybe would have taken me, you know, forty forty hours to create something. You know, I wasn't great at after effects.
Jordan Wilson [00:15:16]:
I probably would have to use, like, a a template. But, you know, overall, it's really good. It's a nice combination of, moving moving visuals, captions, audio over, an audio, voice over narrating it as well. So how does it work? Like I said, very simple. Upload your sources on the left hand side. And then on the studio right hand side, click the video and then go into the shorts and then customize it at will. Alright. But a couple of things to keep in mind.
Jordan Wilson [00:15:46]:
You can steer the topic on the front end like you saw me do. But once it's produced, it's produced. Alright. And that's a little bit different because one thing that I really like about notebook l m, specifically the slide decks, is you can actually go in and make annotations and edits and updates to the slide deck, which is really cool. So maybe one day we'll get that with these animated shorts, but right now you don't get that. And it seems like no matter what the length I don't know why. The length of these are always about a minute and four to a minute and five seconds. So even if you say make me something thirty seconds or make me something ninety seconds, for the most part, they're always gonna be about a minute and four seconds, and then there's the little, notebook l m, logo that pops up at the end.
Jordan Wilson [00:16:36]:
So keep that in mind. It can be edited, but if you are in a paid plan, you have plenty of generations to get something just right how you might wanna use it. Alright. So one thing's wrong, you're done for. So that is should tell you, you do need to get a little bit of practice on this if you want it to be part of your workflow. But then once you do get something that you like, you can then download it, share it, delete it, or just regenerate it by iterating on the prompt. Right? One thing you can do, especially if you get a template that you really, really like, here's a little, cheat code or find a great short template that you like online. Then use Google's AI studio.
Jordan Wilson [00:17:15]:
It's one of the only, models that can ingest and understand video, actually what's happening. And then tell Google's AI studio, hey. Go look at this short. Look at the format. And, you know, it really will only work for more explainer type videos, but say, hey. Write me an exact script that explains every visual, every transition, etcetera. So these are actually very steerable. So my best practice of using these, you know, for since they came out, I've I've made a few dozen, is always start just with a a template.
Jordan Wilson [00:17:45]:
Right? Don't even customize it. See what it creates with your sources out of the box. Then from there, you know, start with a simple prompt, then get more and more advanced. So this is something if you think of the, you know, back in the day working with the original chat g p t, the first clawed, etcetera, you did have to put a lot more prompting. Today, it's more about context steering. With these, you do have to really kind of get best practices of prompting. So I would start easy, then start to customize your prompts. Then once you find something you kind of like, you know, find a good example of a short you like, upload that into Google's AI Studio.
Jordan Wilson [00:18:19]:
Use, you you know, three three one Flash should be fine, and say, hey. Write me a template that I can use, for notebook l m's, vertical, cinematic overviews. It'll write you something. Go test that out. I can guarantee you it's gonna be really, really good. Alright. Now let's get to our five tips and shortcuts, but in just a minute, gotta take a quick break for a word from our partners. Here's what most AI tools still can't do, work outside their own little box.
Jordan Wilson [00:18:50]:
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Jordan Wilson [00:19:24]:
So, and then we will check-in our video is still generating, but hopefully it will be done here once we go over these use cases. So let's get it going. Alright. First, tip number one. Start with a specific question, not a broad topic. So especially if you have a lot of sources, don't ask notebook to just like, hey. Summarize this. Ask it to answer one specific question.
Jordan Wilson [00:19:51]:
Like, what's the one thing a sales leader needs to learn from this? Right? You know, customize it and personalize it for yourself. Alright. Tip number two, define the audience in the prompt. So tell notebook l m who the short is for. It's for, you know, busy executives, sales rep, customers, new hires. Right? A CFO version and a frontline manager version of the same, source should not sound the same, and notebook l m will be able to simplify and frame differently depending on who you tell it the viewer is. Tip three, turn one long source into several focus shorts, not one overloaded one. So if you do have a fat notebook or even a notebook that's one very long source, If you just click it and think you're gonna get something useful, not really.
Jordan Wilson [00:20:38]:
Alright. So turn it into a lot of separate ones. Even use the chat panel in the middle, say, hey. Based on all of this, here's who I am. Here's what I'm trying to learn. Give me six specific or 10 specific prompts that can help me learn six to 10 different individual pieces. That's gonna help you, get a lot more out of these shorts. Tip number four, bake the call to action into the prompt itself, especially if you are using this for, well, even internal or external stakeholders.
Jordan Wilson [00:21:08]:
I kind of read that at the end of my example that I did. But otherwise, it's just like you don't have a lot of control. So if you want this to be used for a purpose, make sure you bake that CTA in because, well, it will usually do it. So just write it directly. Right? Point viewers toward the full report or, you know, tell managers to share this with their team. Right? That's the that's kind of the line between this being a fun little demo and something that actually drives your business goals. Alright. And then number five, generate multiple versions before picking one.
Jordan Wilson [00:21:42]:
Trust me. Right. Use that. If if you're on a paid account, use those 20 a day. Right? Just get three, four, five of them going all at once. Check back in an hour later. See which ones are good. Make one round of iterations.
Jordan Wilson [00:21:55]:
Once you get that, then you have that kind of templates. Right? In the same way that you have maybe a PowerPoint template that's approved by your team, you're gonna have to go through a lot of iterations. Don't just sit there and watch. Just do five of them. Come back, like I said, in an hour. See what's worked, what doesn't, improve on those, or use, you know, Google AI studio or something else to do it. Come back, iterate, but you have to make multiple generations before picking one. Alright.
Jordan Wilson [00:22:20]:
Now let's quickly talk about the five best use case examples for notebook l m shorts because yes. I mean, the low hanging fruit, the obvious stuff. Right? If you're trying to learn a new topic, blah blah blah. If you're, you know, studying for a sales call, yeah, we get it. But let's get some creative ones I think that are good. Number one, executive briefings from long reports. These are huge. I don't know if you're like me.
Jordan Wilson [00:22:44]:
The combination of videos, audio, and reading something on screen is a big unlock for me. Right? I love notebook l m, But, you know, one thing if I'm being honest that I wish that they had in the audio overviews. Right? Because I use them on my phone a lot when I go out and touch grass. Yes. I do touch grass. People who say, hey, weird guy. You should stop working so much. You know, go see what the world's like.
Jordan Wilson [00:23:08]:
I go outside. And usually, I have notebook l m, and I'm listening to an audio overview, maybe going over my emails, my priorities, things I missed. Right? Whatever it is. But I would love if the audio overviews actually had words on the front. Right? So this is kinda like the best of both worlds. Unfortunately, it's only sixty seconds at a time, but you gotta take what you can. But, I mean, for an executive briefing, right, to be able to upload a dense, you know, analyst note or 40 page industry report and turn that into a series of, you know, fast sixty second briefings, what changed, why it matters, what to do next. I mean, that's a huge unlock, especially for busy executives.
Jordan Wilson [00:23:47]:
Number two, customer education from FAQ and support docs. Right? Who's actually reading those things? But if you make them fun and interactive, and personalized, now you can turn one of your most common support questions into an individual explainer short. Right? Even just embed that thing on your website. Right? Instead of having all these different q and a's, I don't know. Yeah. Just throw it on your website. Alright. Next.
Jordan Wilson [00:24:12]:
Repurposing webinars and podcasts into social content. Right? That's one thing I've been thinking about. Once I get a template, I really like for these. Maybe we'll start posting these things, I don't know, in our newsletter or in our inner circle community, right, to help people, you know, digest. Maybe it's just the newsletter. Right? Here's the newsletter in sixty seconds, and if you want more, go read the actual thing. But, you know, repurposing different longer forms of content into short social content. So even like a forty five minute, you know, webinar that maybe you have on YouTube, grab that YouTube link, throw in a notebook LM in the middle chat.
Jordan Wilson [00:24:46]:
Give me, hey. What are the 10 best takeaways, for, I I don't know, a busy sales leader from this forty five minute webinar, and then write me a specific prompt. Here's kind of our template that we need. Use this template, you know, with our brand colors, our brand voice, and then give me, you know, 10 prompts I could use. Take those and there you go. Alright. Number four, on brand marketing content built with your brand guidelines. So similar to what I just said, but you can upload your brand guidelines as a short, so you don't have to reference them all the time in that custom prompt.
Jordan Wilson [00:25:18]:
That's the thing. No book outline. People don't know this. It is very steerable, so you can have it use certain, you you know, content from your, from your sources. You can upload images and use those. So it is really steerable, but using your actual, branded content. But being able to put those, you know, like I said, on your website, on YouTube, being able to, make these branded assets that you use in your marketing and advertising, that's kinda like my example, which alright. It just finished.
Jordan Wilson [00:25:50]:
That's my example. Right? Something in theory I could use with a little bit of tweaking for an advertising or marketing campaign. Alright. And then last but not least, internal training from, you know, SOPs and playbooks. So you have those long dense guidelines. Right? Maybe they're stored in Google Doc. Maybe it's a PDF. Drop those in.
Jordan Wilson [00:26:10]:
Right? And say, okay. Well, you know, this week, we're, you know, onboarding, you know, new people in HR. Right? Upload all of those. Make them customizable for HR. If there's 10, you know, modules that are, you know, 10 pages each, well, make them a little bit more enjoyable with a personalized sixty second video, you know, either in the beginning or the end that helps those lessons stick a little bit better. Right. It's not a replacement for proper documentation, but it's the thing the new hire actually watches instead of just skimming the headlines in a, you know, 30 page PDF. Alright.
Jordan Wilson [00:26:43]:
So let's check back in live as we wrap up today's show. So, hopefully, we'll be able to hear this. Alright. So I am gonna have to, remove this and reshare my screen to make sure that we can get audio. Let's see. We're gonna do that. We're gonna do Chrome tab. Same thing.
Jordan Wilson [00:27:07]:
Audience, please let me know if you can see it here. So we are done, and here is our generation. So as a reminder, this was the, kind of a sixty second video on stop collecting tools. I gave it our brand guidelines, prompts, colors. Right? It should have, you know, a certain font, a dark navy, a lighter blue color. And then I also gave it, I essentially broke up that sixty seconds into six different periods, and I gave it very strict, kind of steering. So it should start with flashing some tool logos, model names, prompts, agent dashboards, and some text should come on that says another AI tool won't save you. Alright.
Jordan Wilson [00:27:48]:
So, for our livestream audience, we're technically taking another sixty second break as we see our finished product here before we wrap our show. So here Buying another AI subscription. See. Let's make this, full screen. So hopefully, we can see it. There we go. And let's take a listen.
Speaker C [00:28:09]:
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Speaker C [00:28:54]:
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Jordan Wilson [00:29:10]:
AI. Alright. So, overall, like, I'm I'm I'm looking at my prompt I gave it. I'd say it's about 85 to 95 adherence to the actual prompt. So there were some things that it didn't get exactly right, but a lot of it, it nailed. Right? So, it didn't get the exact opener where I said to open with another AI tool won't save you. Let's see what it actually said. Okay.
Jordan Wilson [00:29:40]:
I'm wrong. The background text actually had that. The voice over text didn't. So I could have clarified that, but it actually did a really good job. So, you know, yes, there's a lot of still images, but there was a lot of animation. You you know, the animation isn't something that you would, Until it's ready for work. Or expect out of a video model, but this is technically an image model adding in, some motion graphics, some animation. So overall, for, one shot, you you know, output, pretty okay.
Jordan Wilson [00:30:11]:
Would I use this, you know, in a marketing advertising campaign right now? No. Could I refine it a couple of times and get something to maybe test out, or even to hand over to a motion graphic designer and say, hey. Here's exactly what I want. Absolutely. So, that is a wrap for today's show. Now you know what's new inside NotebookLM's new cinematic shorts, how they work, five tips in five use cases. But if you want even more, make sure to go share and repost today's show on LinkedIn. So, look in the show notes if you are listening on the podcast.
Jordan Wilson [00:30:46]:
And in the show notes, we always put a link, to today's show on LinkedIn. If you want that shorts guide for busy leaders, it is good as always. We don't do these, assets a ton because I like to make them super valuable and make it worth that, you know, twenty seconds to go repost this on LinkedIn. So if you wanna support the work that we do, that's a great way to do it. So, that's a wrap. I hope today's AI at work on Wednesday was helpful. I mean, you guys voted for it, FYI. So, you know, if you see these things on Wednesdays, you know, like, these stink.
Jordan Wilson [00:31:19]:
Well, on Monday or Tuesday in our newsletter, we always put a poll saying, hey. What new, you know, tool do you want to go under the hood on Wednesday? So I work for you. I hope this is helpful. If you haven't already, please go to youreverydayai.com. Sign up for the free daily newsletter. Thanks for tuning in. We'll see you back tomorrow and everyday for more everyday AI. Thanks y'all.
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