Google Streamlines Video Editing on Drive with New Vids Shortcut Button

Google announced Friday that it’s enhancing the editing experience for Drive videos with a new shortcut button for Vids, the tech giant’s AI-powered video creation tool.

The new feature allows Workspace users to initiate a video edit using Vids directly from the Google Drive interface. Now, while previewing a video in Drive, users will see an “Open” button in the top right corner that launches the video in the Vids app. Vids will automatically open the video file, enabling further edits such as trimming the clip or adding music and text.

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This new shortcut, which is activated by default, indicates that the company is integrating the app more closely with Google’s Workspace suite. Launched last year, Vids aims to streamline video production, including capabilities to generate videos from simple text prompts, automatically create scripts, rearrange video clips, add transitions, and more.

This announcement follows the introduction of another Gemini AI feature for Workspace users in May, which allows them to use AI to summarize video files stored in Google Drive.