Feature availability
- This feature is available as part of Gemini for Google Workspace Alpha.
- Your administrator controls access to Gemini for Google Workspace Alpha. If you can’t find these features, your administrator may not have Alpha features enabled for your organization.
- This feature is also available as part of our early access testing program, Google Workspace Labs.
Record your own video clips to add to a scene using the Vids recording studio. You can use the recording studio to:
- Add a video recording of yourself.
- Add a screen recording with narration.
- Add a screen recording with video recording.
- Add audio-only recording.
Add a recording placeholder
Use video placeholders to plan where you’d like to add video clips from the recording studio or stock videos.
- On your computer, open a video in Google Vids.
- From the timeline, click the scene where you want to add the recording
click Insert
.
- Click on a video placeholder to add it to your scene.
- The video placeholder will be added to the scene for you to arrange and format.
- Before you add your recording, you can add a sample video.
- Right-click on the placeholder.
- Click Sample video.
- Select a video to add to your placeholder.
- Before you add your recording, you can add a sample video.
Record a video or audio clip
Record your own video or audio clips to add to a scene using the Vids recording studio.
Important: To use a teleprompter in the Vids recording studio, add a script before opening the studio. Learn more about scripts.
- On your computer, open a video in Google Vids.
- From the timeline, click the scene where you want to add the recording.
- In the side panel, click Recording
.
- Tip: If your scene has a video placeholder where you want to add your recording, click Record video
- Tip: If your scene has a video placeholder where you want to add your recording, click Record video
- The recording studio will open. On the pop-ups that appear, allow your browser to access your device’s camera and microphone.
- Select from available recording options:
- Camera
- Camera and screen
: To capture video and audio from your computer’s camera and microphone and your computer screen.
- Audio and screen
: To record your screen with system audio.
- Audio
: To capture audio only from your computer’s microphone.
- Camera
- If you’re using a script, select your teleprompter mode, text size, and scroll speed:
- Select your teleprompter mode:
- Read along: As you read from the script, Vids will help follow your speech to highlight the current portion of your script and scroll to match your progress.
- Tip: When you turn on read along mode, your web browser controls the speech-to-text service. It determines how your speech is processed and then sends the text to Google Slides.
- Rolling: The script will scroll at a constant speed.
- Manual: In manual mode, scroll down as needed to view your script or click into the teleprompter text and you can use your up/down buttons on the keyboard to scroll.
- Tips:
- Use the slider next to speed to adjust the speed your script appears in Manual mode.
- Make sure you click Recording before you click into the teleprompter to control with keyboard.
- Tips:
- Read along: As you read from the script, Vids will help follow your speech to highlight the current portion of your script and scroll to match your progress.
- To adjust text size, find Text size
below where the script appears, and use the slider to adjust text to your preferred size.
- To edit your script, click Edit
below the teleprompter, then update your script in the Script side panel.
- Select your teleprompter mode:
- When you’re ready, select Start recording
at the bottom of your screen.
- When you’re done, select Pause recording
at the bottom of your screen.
- Click Preview
- Tip: If you want to reuse a recording you’ve created in one video in a different video, you can copy and paste your recording into a new video.
Give feedback on this feature
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