EP 602: Google Vids: The new AI updates to the platform you can’t afford to avoid

Topics Covered in This Episode:

1. Google Vids Overview and Workspace Integration
2. New Google Vids AI Feature Updates
3. Google Vids vs. Traditional Video Editors
4. AI Video Generation with Veo Integration
5. Using Gemini Prompts in Google Vids
6. AI Avatars and Automated Voiceovers
7. Importing Slides and Documents for Video
8. Automatic Transcript Editing in Google Vids
9. Practical Business Use Cases for Google Vids
10. Executive Communications and Video Training
11. Google Vids for HR Onboarding and FAQs
12. Platform Limitations and Future Improvements

Keywords:

Google Vids, AI video platform, AI-powered video creation, video editing software, Google Workspace, Veo, Veo 3, Gemini integration, AI avatars, video storytelling, business video communication, video templates, video script generation, slide to video conversion, PowerPoint import, Google Docs integration, video automation, automatic transcript trimming, AI narration, voiceover AI, video timeline editing, stock media, branded video templates, AI-powered avatars, video for training, video for onboarding, executive video updates, customer FAQ videos, video for marketing, ROI of video marketing, internal communications videos, remote team collaboration, screen recording, compliance training videos, video-based learning, video demo creation, AI agent, data-driven video creation, scalable video production, Google Drive integration, Google Photos integration, large language models, non-video creators, ease of video editing, Gen Z video consumption, personalized video onboarding, AI-powered storytelling, future of workplace communication, efficiency in video creation, corporate video messaging, multimedia content creation.

Podcast Transcript

Jordan Wilson [00:00:18]:
Google has quietly built a video creating powerhouse made for non video creators. And recently they've added some AI updates to their new Google vids platform that make it so useful. I don't think most of us can afford to avoid it. That's right. Creating videos with Google. I'm not talking about using, things like Adobe Premiere or Canva or these new AI powered platforms such as HeyGen. Now you can get it all in one spot. I think it is one of Google's more underrated, pieces of software in their workspace platform.

Jordan Wilson [00:01:10]:
So today, we're gonna be going over Google Vids and the new AI updates to the platform that you gotta be using. Alright. I'm excited for today's show. I hope you are too. If you're new here, welcome. What's going on? My name is Jordan Wilson, and welcome to Everyday AI. This is your daily livestream podcast and free daily newsletter helping everyday business leaders like you and me not just keep up with these endless AI updates, but how we can make sense of them and leverage them to grow our companies and our careers. So if that's what you're trying to do, it starts here with the unedited, unscripted livestream podcast.

Jordan Wilson [00:01:44]:
But if you wanna take it to the next level, go to youreverydayai.com. There, go sign up for our free daily newsletter. We're gonna be recapping the highlights from today's show as well as giving you all of the AI news and updates from today that you need to know to be the smartest person in AI at your company. So make sure you go read today's newsletter. But let's get straight into it. Let's talk about Google Vids, what's new, all of these AI updates. If I'm being honest, this is one of those ones I was even personally kind of trying to avoid. I saw Google Vids come out a couple months ago, and I'm like, I don't think we need to do a show on this yet on on everyday AI, and I kept putting it off.

Jordan Wilson [00:02:23]:
And then the recent updates that just came out less than a week ago, I'm like, we can't afford to not tell people about this because it is one of those tools you look at the utility and the usefulness, and you're like, yeah. People just have to know and they have to be using this. I think what Canva ultimately did for simplifying and democratizing graphic design, I think Google Vids could actually be what does that for video. I don't think there is, that one kind of video platform that brings, creative, video storytelling to the masses. Yes. Canva has it. Yes. You can use a tool like Adobe Premiere, which is definitely not easy.

Jordan Wilson [00:03:04]:
There's dozens of, you know, popular, you know, mobile apps that do this and web softwares, but Google Vids might be that first platform that's so easy and so powerful just about anyone can do it. So on today's show, I'm gonna go over what Google Vids is, how it works, and why that matters to you. I'm gonna go over these specific new AI updates that just came out a week ago, and their impact on your work. I'm gonna say who should be paying attention and start using this now. And we're gonna go over five practical use cases that you can implement this week. All right. I'm excited. Everyone else live stream audience.

Jordan Wilson [00:03:48]:
Good to see you. Bronson already said I tried vids a month or so ago and just couldn't figure it out. Don't worry. We're gonna be doing it live. Nothing like doing a, a live demo of new AI, software. Never goes wrong. Right? But, livestream audience, it's great to see if you listen on the podcast. FYI, this is literally a unedited, unscripted livestream.

Jordan Wilson [00:04:10]:
We do this live. So this is one of our first, not first, but our new segment called AI at work on Wednesdays. We've been doing it, for a couple of months now. One of the questions that I get most often, people are asking me about these different tools, about these different modes inside of large language models, asking me how I'm using these things. So, our new segment on Wednesdays is just called AI at work on Wednesdays, and I'm gonna show you ways that we are personally using it. So whether we're in the sandboxing and experimenting phase or showing you ways that we're using generative AI and large language models in the day to day production at everyday AI. So this is one of the ones that we are kinda more in the experimenting phase because it just came out, like, a week or so ago. But let me just quickly give you my take and a little bit quickly on my background.

Jordan Wilson [00:04:57]:
I've done a couple thousand hours of video producing and editing. Yeah. Let me repeat that. A couple thousand hours. Okay? So this is definitely in my wheelhouse. I understand the complexities, but also the power of having a, a creative team that can make compelling videos. Video storytelling is not going anywhere, right in the age of AI. I think if anything, it just heightens the need and increases the need for most companies, even non creative or non technical people to be able to produce video.

Jordan Wilson [00:05:33]:
But my take is Google Vids is one of Google's best kept secrets. Alright? And I think with continued updates and that's a big asterisk there, because I don't think the platform is, you know, ready to do what Canva did to graphic design yet for video, but it could get there. So I think with continued updates, this could disrupt the video industry and other players in different spaces because I think Google Vids is not just a video editor. It can do a lot of other things, including AI avatars. So I think it could, and also just makes editing videos extremely easy. So I think it could disrupt companies like Adobe AI, avatar, avatar companies like HeyGen and, some of the big kind of quote unquote online video editing, programs and repurposing. So things like, Opus clip, things like Descript, etcetera. And I think if you are a Google org ready? So if your organization if your company uses Google Workspace, for business.

Jordan Wilson [00:06:35]:
Right? So most companies, you either use, Microsoft Office or you use Google's products. So if you are a Google team, I think vids should become in a set an essential skill set for the future of communication. Right? So kinda like how ten, fifteen, twenty years ago, you know, on your skills for your resume, you'd put, oh, I know, Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel. I think this is gonna be one of those things. So if you are a Google organization, I think learning the basics of bids should be an essential skill set. Alright. So like I said, AI at work on Wednesdays. Let's get to work y'all and and live stream audience.

Jordan Wilson [00:07:18]:
If you do have questions or different ways that, you're using it or would like to, please drop a comment. Jackie saying looking forward to this video. Is it one of my strengths? Cecilia just saying, hey from Chicago. Love AI at work Wednesdays gets you over the hump. Alright. Glad to see that. Alright. So here's kind of the different ways that Google Vids works, and these are new.

Jordan Wilson [00:07:42]:
K? So this is, like I said, it is one of Google Google's, newest offerings inside of Google Workspace. And I'm gonna go over the differences between if you have a free or a non paid plan versus if you have a paid plan. But I would guess the majority of users, if you are a business user, you will have the paid plan. Okay. So the different ways that you can start. So when you go, to, Google Vids and there's different ways you can get there. Right? So even in, in Google, Drive, you can start a Google Vid there, or you can go to, I'm double checking the the URL here. Yeah.

Jordan Wilson [00:08:24]:
It's vids.google.com. So right away, if you go to, as an example, vids.google.com and you click on the big plus sign, you're gonna get a screen like what I'm showing our livestream audience right now. So there's, seven different ways. Well, technically, eight different ways that you can start making a video. Alright? And that's at first overwhelming, but let me just walk you through it. It's actually pretty simple. So first, you can create a video clip with with Veo and that is huge. Just, if you don't know Veo, it is by far the best AI video generating platform.

Jordan Wilson [00:08:59]:
So Google released, b o3 a couple of months ago, and it is insanely good. I'm talking about almost dangerously good, because even though they're only eight second clips right now, it is very hard to tell the difference as if if you get the basics, of VO, and if you start with images especially so you have a little bit more fine tune control, It is hard from and I'm saying this, I told you I've spent thousands of hours on video production. It is hard to tell. It is extremely realistic. So one, you can start with just by creating a clip with Vio and then creating a story from there inside of vids. Two, you can plan your video story essentially with a prompt editor like you're talking to Google Gemini. So, yes, this does have some Gemini capabilities sprinkled in there. So you can essentially start with a prompt, which is the one that we're gonna do live.

Jordan Wilson [00:09:54]:
Okay? You can narrate with an AI avatar. So if you have a script or if you need help from Gemini creating a script and you want to, one of those AI avatar type videos, this is a newer feature we're gonna talk about a little bit more, but that's another way that you can do it. Start a video, kick it off. You can record and share. So you can just start by recording your own video. Right? I think sometimes that can help get you over the hump. Right? Even just saying like, oh, I can just start by creating a video, or capture your screen or, a video of yourself and capturing your screen and then start from there and then use some of these other AI features, that's great because sometimes just staring at a blank canvas is daunting or a blank timeline. Next, you can upload and create.

Jordan Wilson [00:10:38]:
So you can create a video using media from your Google Drive, Google Photos, or on your computer. So you can jump start with files that you already have. You can start with a template. So Google Vids the templates let let let me say this. They're not fantastic yet, but they are serviceable and they're editable, and you can, very quickly update, kind of your company's, branding very easily. And then you can import slides. That's the other one that I really like. You can import slides, whether that's, Google's slides, or you can also do PowerPoint.

Jordan Wilson [00:11:16]:
So even, you know, for me, I use Canva to make my slides. I can export my slides out of Canva as a PowerPoint and then import them in Google Vids. It automatically breaks up, your slides into short video chunks and then you can kind of use different AI features, to make it a little bit more interactive. Okay. So those are the different ways, to start a video inside Google vids, but let's keep going. So here's the AI updates that you need to know. So these launched, just about a week ago. So at the August 2025, and I think that they're really gonna change video creation, and these are perfect for non technical users who need any type of video.

Jordan Wilson [00:12:01]:
Right? I just I'm I'm gonna go over some some use cases here in a couple of minutes, but you might be thinking, okay. Well, I don't need video or I don't use video. Let me ask you this. Have you ever created a one pager? Right? What's that one pager look like? Alright. It's some bullet points on a blank doc. Have you ever created a PowerPoint? Right? Presentation. If you answered yes to either of those two, I think video is probably the preferred medium of the future. Right? I'm gonna go, you know, old man Jordan on the porch shaking my fist at the kids.

Jordan Wilson [00:12:38]:
Right? But the next generation, they grew up with fruit loops in YouTube. Right? I didn't. I like a normal human, I read the back of the cereal box. But the next generation. Right? The, gen z, gen x, whatever these young kids are called. Right? Your future consumers, your future buyers, they've grown up on video. They want video. They don't wanna read your sales emails.

Jordan Wilson [00:13:05]:
They want short form video. They want impactful storytelling. So I think this is Google Vids is perfect for nontechnical users. And like I said, it works seamlessly, with your other Google docs as well as Google's other AI creative modes like Vo3. Yeah. I like this. Randy said, if a picture is worth a thousand words, a video is worth 10,000,000 words. Yeah.

Jordan Wilson [00:13:27]:
I guess it depends on how many frames, are in there. So here's what Google vids actually is. So it is a video creation tool that works like Google Slides with a browser interface. So, yeah, this is not an app. I don't believe that there's, a mobile app yet. Someone was asking about that in the comments. So there's no, app yet. And Google did say that they've already hit a million monthly users because it's designed for non video people.

Jordan Wilson [00:13:55]:
I do think, obviously, people who are in the creative spaces, people who are video editors are gonna look at this and be like, I don't I don't need this, and they probably don't. I do think this is made specifically for people who aren't editing videos right now because there's better tools for that from top to bottom. But those tools are generally one, they have a huge learning curve. If you wanna go use something like, you you know, after effects or final cut pro, you know, DaVinci. Right? There's all of these great video editing programs that the video professionals, they're not gonna use Google Vids. Google Vids is not for them. I think eventually, when and if Google continues to grow it, it might be, but I think it's for everyone else. And this can create videos by converting slide presentations, uploading clips, or recording yourself.

Jordan Wilson [00:14:43]:
And why video? Like I said, I think the next generation demands it. But here's some stats on why video is impactful for your marketing, your advertising, or even your own internal learning and development. So 87% of people have been convinced to buy a product or service by watching a video. 93% of marketers say video marketing has given them a good ROI. So if you're wondering, will I get a return? 93% chance. Yes. But also video content is expected to account for 82% of all Internet traffic by the end of this year. Think of that.

Jordan Wilson [00:15:18]:
Think of that. Think of how much time your company or organization and don't just think of, you you know, client facing or public facing content like something you would put on your website, social media, etcetera. But I even think so internally. Right? These companies that have, you you know, hundreds of employees, thousands, tens of thousands of employees, how are you training them? How are you getting your CEO update? Right? I think we're all about kind of bored of of of these Zoom meetings with 50 people and someone showing a a boring PowerPoint. Right? I think it's time to spice it up, and Google Bids can be one of those things. So, the basic features are free. So, you can go and create a video timeline editing, stock media, etcetera, templates, all free. But I think most people, if you are using, Google and or Google Gemini, if you have a Google, plan within your company, there's a good chance that you're probably already on a paid plan and you might not even know it.

Jordan Wilson [00:16:17]:
But a lot of these AI features that we're gonna be going over do require a Google workspace or, Google AI pro subscription. So if you, have the paid version of Gemini or like I said, if you are a Google organization, you're already paying a monthly fee for Google Workspace. And if so, you do have access to these AI features. And Google, I like this. They're not gonna pull the rug. They said these AI features are guaranteed until at least 05/31/2026. I actually like that Google said this because so many times whether it's an AI startup or a different mode. Right? So, like, as an example, OpenAI released GPT 4.5.

Jordan Wilson [00:16:55]:
People loved it, and then they got rid of it at least on the API, like, three or four months later. So Google did say that they're gonna continue to support these features until at least 05/31/2026. I'm guessing if it gets popular, they'll continue to support it well beyond that. So different ways that you can kind of reimagine your work. So like I already said, v o3 image to video, text to video, eight second clips, amazing results, minimal effort. Automatic here's one that I love. Automatic transcript, trimming inside Google Bids can get rid of those awkward pauses or umms, or just repetitive words you say all the time. You know, like I say, like and write all the time.

Jordan Wilson [00:17:37]:
You can just get rid of that with a click, and also the free consumer version as well if you get need to get your feet wet. Why do these matter? Why do these updates matter? Why am I spending time, trying to convince you to to use this product? This episode is not sponsored by Google, by the way. Alright? One of our partners. But I think it's that important that you need to be paying attention. I think so many times, great business ideas and initiatives whether they're internal trying to gain steam to get, steam get getting to production or great advertising and marketing campaign ideas are dead on arrival because they don't have budget. Or if you're using internal marketing video teams, they're already swamped. Right? So I think this helps bring more compelling messages for your company to the audience that you're looking to reach. Like I said, whether that's internal or external.

Jordan Wilson [00:18:35]:
Also, just creating consistent training guides without worrying about, you know, having to reshoot them. I know, a lot of companies, especially as, you know, many companies, transitioned from in office to hybrid or work from home, they're trying to have more video content. Right? To keep those relationships going and to keep, a little bit of interactivity going. This is another great way to do that. And like I said, video is becoming a fundamental tool for everyday communication. Some of the new AI updates. So you have your AI avatars. Yes.

Jordan Wilson [00:19:10]:
So if you've used, HeyGen, Synthesia, Hour One, there's a lot of different AI avatar companies that are pretty popular. So, you don't need to necessarily sit down and click the record button. There's some fairly lifelike avatars. I don't think yet that Google vids avatars are to the level of some of the other big players in the game, but you also have to think Google just released these a week or two ago. And if they see users using the AI avatars, I'm sure that they're going to improve them. And I would not bet against Google. Look at what they've done in the past, ten months. They are wiping out competition across all different sectors.

Jordan Wilson [00:19:51]:
Alright. So, they're they're not the best right now. I think there's 12 preset digital presenters, that you can use right away. You can write a script or you can have Gemini write a script, choose your avatar, and get a thirty second video with an avatar, in the minutes, and then you can generate up to 20 avatar videos, per week for whatever use you may need. Like I said, there's also the v o3 image to video, worked into these new AI features, the automatic transcript, the trimming, removing those awkward words. Alright. So, enough of me chatting about it. Let's just do it live.

Jordan Wilson [00:20:26]:
What could possibly go wrong? Livestream audience as always, I need a favor from you. I'm gonna share my screen here, and there should be eventually be audio. Alright? So I'm gonna show you some ways that we are, looking at using Google Vids internally. Alright. Live stream audience if you could. Let me know if you see my screen. We're gonna get this thing going. See if this works.

Jordan Wilson [00:20:53]:
Alright. So podcast audience, I'm gonna do my best to describe exactly what we got going on. Hopefully, when and if this works, you will see the audio. So, what I'm doing here and I'm waiting for, one of one of my livestream friends to let me know that we can see the screen. I'm gonna choose again, we have these eight different ways that I can start a vid. I'm gonna do what I think is probably one of the more impressive ways, and that's the plan your video story. Okay? So in this way, it's just like I'm chatting with Google Gemini and they give you some, kind of starter prompts. So, again, I can start this with a prompt, and you'll see here in a minute, I'm gonna get an entire timeline.

Jordan Wilson [00:21:41]:
Alright. So here's what I'm doing. I'm saying generate a short promo video for a new everyday AI podcast series called AI agents in everyday life. Should I do some series like this, y'all? Like, a week of just, you know, shows on AI agents and tackle it from a different angles. Let me know. And then, I'm gonna say use, the So what I'm doing now, sorry, I have a prompt box. Alright. I already typed this out, but I can click the at key and I can reference different files within my organization.

Jordan Wilson [00:22:17]:
So I'm clicking the at and I just used Google Gemini to type up a quick script, and then I saved it in Google Docs. So I said use the I clicked the at key. I found my script inside, you you know, it auto populates for your most recent files. So I said use the AI agent script as a guideline for a script. And then I said, and pull information and visuals from my and then I'm gonna click at, from my agentic AI presentation. So I imported my Canva slides from a recent podcast episode. So I'm having Google pull a script that Gemini wrote from my Google Docs, and then I'm having it reference one of my, essentially slides that I made. Alright? So can you already see the power of this? How many, like, PowerPoints you have sitting around? How many of these one pagers, you know, SWOT analysis, whatever.

Jordan Wilson [00:23:13]:
Think of the different docs that you just had piling up that could probably use some new life with some visuals. Alright. And now all I'm going to do at this point, let thank you. Thank you, team, that, Angie saying you can see it. Alright. So all I'm gonna do now is click next. Alright. So I'm doing this in real time.

Jordan Wilson [00:23:33]:
So it is creating and you'll see right now it's editing the outline. So, and the outline's done. That was super fast. Alright. So essentially, I have different cards. So it hasn't created an actual video yet, but based on the script that I gave it and based on the presentation that I shared, alright, it went and created, looks like about 12 different slides. Okay? And some of these slides are text based and some of them are video based, and I can tell by the little icon. Okay? So I can go through, and add or edit any of them or delete the scenes before it actually generates.

Jordan Wilson [00:24:15]:
Okay? This again, I'm not gonna be using this video. I just want everyone to see quickly, how this works. So I'm gonna go ahead and click next. So next, I need to choose a design to start with. So, there's other templates aside from this inside Google Vids, but I'm gonna go ahead and, I'm gonna choose this first one. Alright? And then when I click one of the templates, I can kind of scroll through. They have, kind of different default slide types within it. So think of these, as like starter packs.

Jordan Wilson [00:24:53]:
Okay? This looks good to me. I'm gonna go ahead and say create the draft video. Alright. So again, we're doing this live. I would expect a hiccup or two. These features have only been out for a couple, for couple of days. And I have done a little okay. I lied.

Jordan Wilson [00:25:12]:
Alright. So the timeline is already done. Alright. And if you've done, any editing before, this is extremely impressive. So not only does, is my timeline essentially done, but it's already starting to generate the videos throughout. So if I start clicking okay. So, if you've done any, timeline editing, so I can see my different visuals on my timeline. It created, a video or sorry.

Jordan Wilson [00:25:49]:
An audio track, and then it also created voice overs. Okay. So I essentially have three different layers on my timeline, and I can click to either, show some of these details or hide them. Okay. So the great thing is, it's very easy to go and edit anything in here. All I have to do is click. So as an example, the first kind of slide, it says AI agents series, and then the second one says welcome to Everyday AI. So instead, I can literally just click on this.

Jordan Wilson [00:26:21]:
It's like you're using a a PowerPoint or Canva, and I'm gonna say, I'm gonna change this to an Everyday AI, original series. Okay? So one thing I can tell right now, I don't like the colors. Alright? So all I have to do, there's a little button up there at the top that says customize styles. I'm gonna go ahead and change this now. It brings a very simple color palette. I'm gonna get rid of the greens. I'm gonna go for, maybe a little more blue. I should have had our color code, kind of ready to go.

Jordan Wilson [00:26:52]:
Let's do a darker blue, maybe. There we go. So we're going to change that to a dark blue. And then this other green, we're going to change this one to a lighter blue. All right. And then there we go. So you'll see my slides, throughout the presentation have already started to reflect this. I can also change the font.

Jordan Wilson [00:27:20]:
So as an example, I don't want Verdana. Let's do Roboto. Right? We're AI. Let's use Roboto for the fonts. So pretty quickly, updated, the different slides. It looked like almost everything worked. For whatever reason, one of the slides, it looks like the slides that are title only, the color didn't update yet. Oh, that's because I didn't update it.

Jordan Wilson [00:27:44]:
So let's go ahead. Let's just change that color and we'll do I don't know. We'll do a kind of grayish color. Make sure it works probably a darker gray. There we go. Let's click okay. There we go. And it changed.

Jordan Wilson [00:27:56]:
Perfect. So right away, I've already showed you it's very easy. You don't have to be a technical person. If you've ever used PowerPoint, my you know, Word, Canva, it's it's as easy as clicking on something and changing it. Okay. So you'll see here, in, livestream audience, let me know if you can hear. I'm gonna just play kind of the first, I don't know, ten ten or fifteen seconds, and hopefully, you will be able to hear the audio, and our podcast audience will be able to hear it as well. Like I said, if you have any questions, y'all, go ahead and get them in.

Jordan Wilson [00:28:29]:
We're gonna play the first, I don't know, fifteen or twenty seconds of this.

Google Vids [00:28:32]:
Are you ready to transform the way you work and achieve unprecedented levels of productivity? Welcome to the official briefing for the new AI agent series on the Your Everyday AI podcast. I'm Jordan Wilson, and I'm about to give you command. In a world of overwhelming data and endless to do lists, are you still operating as an agent of one? What if you could deploy a team of specialists, intelligent, autonomous, and working for you around the clock? This is your official briefing. Welcome to the new AI agent series on the Your Everyday AI podcast. I'm Jordan Wilson, and I'm giving you command. Forget just time using Asterisk AI. It's time to Asterisk deploy it. In this groundbreaking series, you'll learn.

Jordan Wilson [00:29:19]:
Alright. Cool. So, hopefully, let's let let's see. Alright. Good. So as you can hear it. So there's already some, some issues, and let's just go ahead and, tackle these right away. So as an example, it looks like in the script, right, it said asterisk.

Jordan Wilson [00:29:38]:
Okay. So I'm gonna go ahead and change that and regenerate just to show you how easy it is. So I can go and click, like I said, there's essentially three different tiers. There's our visual tier, our music tier, and the voice over. So all I have to do, I think it was right here. So I just can click on the voice over. I can click the, the scripts. There we go.

Jordan Wilson [00:30:05]:
So it it's it literally read the asterisks out, because the asterisks were there for, emphasis. So all I have to do is delete those. I can go in and change this, have the, AI, narrator say anything I want. Is the is is the voice great? No. Absolutely not. It sounds kinda robotic. Right? You can obviously record your own voice to put in here, but it's not the worst. That's the other thing.

Jordan Wilson [00:30:32]:
It's not the worst AI voice. You can also, go in. So now once I've done that, I can click generate the voice over, and I can change. So here's a different one. This one's educator higher pitch.

Google Vids [00:30:45]:
The voice you select makes a difference in how viewers will respond to your video. This is your your videos

Jordan Wilson [00:30:50]:
The voice you select makes a difference in how viewers will respond to your video. It should fit your videos perp Okay. So, I chose the different one. I can click update voice over, click replace, and we're done. So, some of them are better than others in terms of quality. Actually, the, the default one, I think, is a little more robotic sounding than the, the third one there that I just chose. So it's as simple as that. I showed you how you can easily change the text, how you can change, the narration, the the the script, kind of the AI script that goes over it.

Jordan Wilson [00:31:25]:
If you look here on the right hand side of the screen, you can add, this is where you can add v o, v o3. You can add an avatar, record your uploads, stock, text, shapes, etcetera. So let's just go ahead and change one thing. There was one scene I didn't really like. Again, I didn't listen. We didn't watch this whole thing. Okay. So there was one instance in here where they're talking about deploying AI agents, and the other one about working around the clock.

Jordan Wilson [00:31:55]:
So there's actually two different, videos on the screen here. And for the AI agents video, it showed a group of people, working around a table, which I I'm not I'm not into. So here's what I'm gonna do instead. I'm gonna go over to VO, and we're gonna do this live. So you can choose, right now, Vo3 preview is the only one available. And I can just use Vo3, right here and then insert it in. So I'm gonna say, a computer screen showing, code running autonomously, quickly filling the screen, then zooming out to show a, you know, 40 year old man sitting at his desk in, in an office with an amazing Chicago skyline view. All right.

Jordan Wilson [00:33:00]:
This is actually a pretty tough video. Let's go ahead and create it. See if it works. So again, it created this, thirty second video with a single prompt referencing the script that I already wrote. Also, I know that it pulled out some of the information, from my document that I shared because I'm I'm listening, to, and looking at the visuals. So I know it referenced that document as well. So, we are about, which actually pretty fast, VO. So we're already at 60%.

Jordan Wilson [00:33:38]:
Let's see how good this video is, and then we're gonna wrap up our live demo portion here. But you can see already how powerful this is, essentially, to be able to work with all of your Google Docs, to be able to use v o3, to be able to use these new AI voiceovers, pretty impressive. So I'm gonna go ahead and click this insert button. Okay. So here we have our video. Actually, let's let's just go ahead and play it first. Right? We're gonna have some sound here. I don't think it's gonna nail this, but let's let's see if it did.

Jordan Wilson [00:34:17]:
Autonomous and working for you around the clock. Not bad. Alright. It actually it actually got it. So let me resize, this video here. We're gonna delete the one that was there. We're gonna drop this VO created one, put it right there. So now it's a side by side.

Jordan Wilson [00:34:36]:
It sounded like this one had audio, so I'm gonna go ahead and disable the audio, and then we're gonna replay just that one. So, livestream audience, let me know what you think on, this updated version. Here we go.

Google Vids [00:34:51]:
Data and endless to do lists. Are you still operating as an agent of one? What if you could deploy a team of specialists, intelligent, autonomous, and working for you around the clock? This is your

Jordan Wilson [00:35:04]:
Alright. The v o3 clip was actually was actually pretty good. Not gonna lie. I didn't think it would would would hit it exactly how we needed it. But y'all, like, all these AI video generating platforms, right, it's like, what are you supposed to do after? Okay. You have an asset, but you need a story line. Right? You need the music. You need the script.

Jordan Wilson [00:35:27]:
You need a simple way to edit it and, share it with those people that need it. So, fairly fairly impressive. Yeah. Robert here, saying it doesn't get much easier than that. Love it. Cecilia saying need the voice to be yours. I don't I'm gonna lose my voice eventually. Alright.

Jordan Wilson [00:35:44]:
So surprisingly, we did a decent, live demo. Alright. Unedited, unscripted. There we go. So I would obviously go through, spend more time updating some of the visuals. Like I said, the templates are serviceable. I I I think you have to find the right, you you know, narration voice. The default one, not very good.

Jordan Wilson [00:36:07]:
Some of the other ones, that Google bids offers, much better. You can add the avatar, all of that. But, again, this is something that, you know, ten years ago, probably would've cost you 10 to $20,000 if I spent maybe an hour on this. We probably could have something that would have cost multiple tens of thousands of dollars, and it probably would have taken, weeks in, you you know, multiple shoots to get something, of this quality ten or twenty years ago. Alright. Is it gonna replace your, you you know, $6.07 figure production budget? Absolutely not. Is it a way to bring new life, and get new messages across? Absolutely. Alright.

Jordan Wilson [00:36:51]:
Let's wrap this thing up. So time savings. Like I said, this goes from spending hours or sometimes days to minutes. Right? That live demo, like I said, that one's not ready to go, to the masses, but with a little editing, it probably could. And the training video production goes from weeks, like I said, to same day completion. This allows you to test more messages faster, for your purposes. And let's just talk about executive communications. Right? How many times has the CEO sent, oh, note from the CEO, long email from the CEO, boring, you know, boring slides, boring voice over video from the CEO with PowerPoint.

Jordan Wilson [00:37:32]:
Right? I think this can start to spice it up. So who should use Google Vids and how? So training teams, if you're already spending multiple tens of thousands of dollars on internal training and you're facing huge delays, this is one way to do it. Like I said, you can record yourself, then you can use, v o3 for background b roll. Right? So maybe it is you're still presenting the normal the the way you normally would, and then you can use Google Vio, and maybe, an a AI narrator almost as a second source or, you know, someone to video, to interview you about what you're working on. I think this is great for managers who are having to reexplain processes, you know, hours every single week. Sales team, looking to video demos while booking, calls, normally doing PowerPoint, remote teams, you know, where your daily updates just get buried in a sea of text in Slack. I think there's a lot of great use cases. Speaking of those, I'm gonna go over five that I think you should consider.

Jordan Wilson [00:38:36]:
One is, like I said, bringing new life to your PowerPoints. Go find those PowerPoints that you spent a ton of time on, you know, last quarter that are collecting dust. Go update them with new stats. Bring them into Google bids, and then you can convert it into a video automatically. HR onboarding, please. Alright. We're tired of that boring HR onboarding of that video that was shot seven years ago. The cheesy transitions, just get rid of it.

Jordan Wilson [00:39:08]:
Right. And you can personalize this. So in the same way that, you know, I've talked about on the show before, like, using something like notebook using their video overviews, their audio overviews, guess what? You can export those and upload them into Google Vids and use those as your assets. So I help I I think this can, create department specific onboarding, region specific, you know, there's so many ways that you can just create more impactful, onboarding because it's personalized. So you don't just have to send out the boring 80 page onboarding packet where people are gonna go to sleep, you know, start making it a little bit more interactive and update your onboarding. And it's easier. Right? I showed you. In five minutes, you can go in, you know, create a duplicate, change some of the text, change some of the AI narration to make it, more personal.

Jordan Wilson [00:40:00]:
Next, training people actually complete. How many, of your trainings do you have that are just so boring? Okay. So the other thing is this is built into Google Vids. You can screen record whatever you have to do along with your video, and then you can transform those compliance documents into watchable content that employees are gonna prefer. Not only are they gonna prefer that, a lot of studies show people learn and retain information better when it is presented in a video format. And then you can, track completion automatically through Google Workspace instead of having to manually follow-up. I kind of already referenced this one, but how about executive updates without meetings? So instead of those super entertaining all hands, Zoom meetings, where we get to see bills, PowerPoints again. How about instead, recording, quarterly updates once, personalizing them for different teams, and then being able to share them.

Jordan Wilson [00:41:03]:
So no one likes, you know, waking up at 5AM, across different time zones for the big all hands on deck meeting. Instead using Google bids to do that is much better. And then last but not least, customer FAQs, reducing support. So instead of just referring people to your help docs, how about explaining things to them in a way that increases customer retention and reduces churn in a way that actually answers their question in a visual and interactive way? So screen recording solutions to frequent problems that you run into with customers, you know, so finding those things whether you have an online, chatbot, your most viewed pages on your website in your help or support docs, and then turning those into interactive videos. I think that will help you reduce support ticket volume, by giving customers more visual and personalized answers faster. Whew. That was a lot. We made it through.

Jordan Wilson [00:42:06]:
We beat the demo demons. So Google vids, let me wrap by saying this. It's extremely impressive. All right. And there's a chance you already have access. You're probably already paying for these features and you don't even know that's the thing about Google. Whether you have a workspace subscription or you're paying the $20 per month for Gemini, people don't understand what else that gives you. Right? Like, the premium version of NotebookLM.

Jordan Wilson [00:42:31]:
It gets you, you know, more generations inside their, imagine for a photo platform, inside v o3 video platform, inside the new viral, nano banana. Right? You get better, better limits. So there's a good chance you already have access to these premium features in Google bids. And I do think Google vids does have the chance to do for video. What Canva did for design more than a decade ago. There's been so many pretty good tools, you know, online video tools that have gotten maybe half of the way there. But this is one of those all in one powerhouse tools that has access to your data and is powered by some of the most, impressive, capable, and robust AI models in the world in Google Gemini and in v o3. So I think this is a way not just to breathe life into the work that you've already done, and we went over those use cases.

Jordan Wilson [00:43:36]:
But I also think Google vids is a simple way to reimagine how you can communicate, educate, train and connect with customers, clients, and even employees. So the new updates, bringing all these new AI features are extremely impressive. And I think they're so impressive. You can't afford to avoid them. I think it's going to be, if Google continues to invest in the Google bids platform, if they continue to update it, if they, improve as an example, the, the avatars, the AI voices, which we know they're capable of, It's going to be a can't miss platform that you can't not pay attention to. I hope this episode was helpful. If so, please share this with your network. Don't be greedy.

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