
7:00 AM PDT · August 27, 2025
Google debuted its new-age video editor called Vids for nan Google Workplace productivity suite past year. On Wednesday, nan institution is adding caller features for illustration AI avatars, automatic transcript trimming, and image-to-video tools. It is besides releasing a free-to-use characteristic for consumers pinch constricted features.
This type of nan editor will person basal edit controls on pinch entree to Google’s template library, font collection, and banal media library, but it won’t connection AI features astatine this time.
In nan business world, startups for illustration Sythesia and D-ID connection companies entree to AI avatars and related tooling for nan creation of training and acquisition videos. Google is debuting a akin characteristic for its Workplace customers done Vids. The halfway transportation is nan same: if you don’t person capable fund to create videos, usage our AI devices to make one.
Users tin station a script, prime an avatar from a scope of voices and personas, and create a video. Google announced the AI avatars characteristic astatine Google I/O successful May and released it successful beta. Now, nan characteristic is hitting wide availability.
Google is besides adding a video editing characteristic that automatically detects filler words for illustration “um” aliases “ah” and agelong pauses. You tin click connected these words aliases pauses to region them, and nan editor will set nan video accordingly.

The institution launched the image-to-video procreation capability for Veo 3 successful July. It is now adding that characteristic to Vids for users to create eight-second video clips.

Google said that isolated from these features, it is moving connected sound cancellation, Google Meet-like backgrounds and effects, and support for caller sizing formats specified arsenic portrait, landscape, and square. However, nan institution didn’t specify nan merchandise day for these.
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The caller AI-powered features will beryllium disposable to Workplace Business aliases Enterprise Starter users, a Google AI Pro aliases Ultra subscriber, aliases a Workspace for Education customer.
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