{"id":167181,"date":"2025-08-22T18:54:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T18:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/167181\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T18:54:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T18:54:11","slug":"google-makes-it-easier-to-edit-drive-videos-with-a-new-vids-shortcut-button","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/167181\/","title":{"rendered":"Google makes it easier to edit Drive videos with a new Vids shortcut button"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Google <a href=\"https:\/\/workspaceupdates.googleblog.com\/2025\/08\/edit-google-drive-videos-in-vids.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">announced<\/a> Friday that it\u2019s enhancing the editing experience for Drive videos with a new shortcut button for Vids, the tech giant\u2019s AI-powered video-creation tool.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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 \u201cOpen\u201d button in the top right corner that opens the video in the Vids app. Vids will automatically launch the video file, allowing further edits such as trimming the clip or incorporating music and text.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"425\" width=\"680\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/edit-drive-videos-in-vids.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3039086\"\/><strong>Image Credits:<\/strong>Google<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This new shortcut, which is activated by default, suggests that the company is integrating the app more closely with Google\u2019s Workspace suite. <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2024\/04\/09\/new-google-vids-product-helps-create-a-customized-video-with-an-ai-assist\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Launched last year<\/a>, Vids aims to streamline video production, including the ability to generate videos from basic text prompts, automatically craft scripts, rearrange video clips, add transitions, and more.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This comes on the heels of the company introducing another <a href=\"https:\/\/workspaceupdates.googleblog.com\/2025\/05\/understand-videos-using-gemini-google-drive.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Gemini AI feature<\/a> for Workspace users in May, which allows them to use AI to summarize video files stored in Google Drive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We\u2019re always looking to evolve, and by providing some insight into your perspective and feedback into TechCrunch and our coverage and events, you can help us!\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/survey.researchresults.com\/survey\/selfserve\/53b\/g002\/s0064551?list=tcap\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Fill out this survey to let us know how we\u2019re doing<\/a>\u00a0and get the chance to win a prize in return!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Google announced Friday that it\u2019s enhancing the editing experience for Drive videos with a new shortcut button for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":167182,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2722,1874,96059,96060,158,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-167181","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-google","9":"tag-google-drive","10":"tag-google-vids","11":"tag-google-workspace","12":"tag-technology","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115073939164882636","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}