Control visual timing with object tracks

Feature availability

  • This feature is available to users on work or school accounts through a Gemini for Google Workspace add-on, and to users on personal accounts through Google One AI Premium. Learn about Gemini features and plans.
  • This feature is also available as part of our early access testing program, Google Workspace Labs.

Each item (text, shape, line, image, GIF, sticker, or video) on a scene’s canvas in Vids has its own object track in the timeline at the bottom of the Vids window. The object track allows you to customize when an item enters and leaves the scene.

View & customize timing using object tracks

To view and customize object tracks for your video:

  1. On your computer, open a video in Google Vids.
  2. Select an object to show timing, then click above the timeline.
    • Tip: To view multiple tracks at once, press Shift and click on the objects you want to select or drag your cursor across them to multiselect.
  3. To shorten or lengthen the timing of objects, hover your mouse over the left or right edge of the object track and then when the blue handle appears, click and drag to adjust the duration.
    • Tip: Above the timeline, click to preview.
  4. To change when an object appears in the scene, click and drag the object track left or right.
    • Tip: This will only work if the object track is shorter than the scene.
  5. To close this view, click .

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