Google Vids

 You knew this was coming after I made my most recent Lucas animation with it. Google Vids is a new video editing software released in the last year that uses Gemini and a Google Slides like interface to make "engaging" videos. It is very simple and easy to use, encouraging users to utilize the AI features to make short, appealing videos. You can do everything manual, too, but I feel like the AI makes it better. You're basically able to add images, shapes, text, and audio to a bunch of "scenes" that you can adjust. Google actually (probably unintentionally) made it more optimized for animations, since you can time each individual slide (scene) and add music and effects on top of the animation. It actually feels easier to make animations and the new features make the process smoother and more fun. The AI is great for finding backgrounds for a scene since you can ask it to generate an image. The fact you can directly import audio means I can already have voice clips for each character without using a separate editor. The only gripe I found with this software is that the time limit for a video is 10 measly minutes. I'm not sure why it's that short. Google claims is so that the video can remain engaging, but what if you don't give a shit about that? It's not like this is widely known about either-- I never heard people talk about it when it came out. This is partly because not every Google account can access this; only work/school ones (which aren't free) or personal accounts with "Google Workspace Labs". 

 Even with that time limit, I think this app is still pretty cool. It's cool to see Google adding goodies to their line of web apps now and then.