Summary
This beginner tutorial explores Google Vids, Google’s free browser-based AI video editor, and explains how it differs from Google Flow. Starting from an empty project, the video walks through the main AI features and shows how they fit into a video-making workflow.
Vids works much like Google Slides: a project is a stack of timed scenes, with AI video, avatar, voice-over, music and image tools in the right sidebar. The tutorial begins with a Google-built template, a 27-scene logo redesign presentation, and shows how to use find and replace (Ctrl+H) to update repeated placeholder text across every scene at once.
The creator then replaces stock presenters with AI-generated avatar clips, choosing the Farah avatar and writing prompts that describe only the setting, spoken line and camera movement. Image generation is used to create custom visuals for a feedback slide, with prompts written to match each card’s written critique and ending with no-text instructions because image models still struggle with lettering. The review is candid about limits, noting a plastic skin look and a watermark, but concludes that the free tool offers more than most competitors at that price.
📺 Source: Youri van Hofwegen · Published September 29, 2026
🏷️ Format: Tutorial Demo
