Google Vids
The AI avatars can be controlled by prompts as if they were a kind of virtual actors: you can give them commands and create exactly the videos you need. You can also record with a Chrome extension to help with your videos. You can of course have avatars ‘act’ in a scene, for example, you can let the avatar work with a product from your company, or you can give him or her a tool or something else with which to do something. Maybe a fire extinguisher to make a video about emergency response. You can customize the avatar completely to your taste, so if you prefer him or her to have red hair, you can indicate that, or glasses. You can also wear different clothes, use different backgrounds, and so on. Thanks to Lyria 3 and Lyria 3 Pro, you can also put music behind your video and all kinds of audio effects. However, they are 8 second clips, which is quite short. You get 10 free 8-second videos per month, but if you have Google AI Ultra or Workspace AI Ultra, a paid plan that costs hundreds of dollars per month, you can count on 1,000 Veo videos.
Corporate videos with the same avatar
It’s a shame that you can only make such short videos, because this means you have to use a lot of pasting to make a longer video. Still, it’s probably a matter of time before you need to be able to make much more extensive videos with the avatar. It can help to make explanation videos about new products, but also emergency response videos. It can also help when making pitches for new products: a lot is possible with such an avatar, which is immediately a very recognizable persona in the videos. There is more that is new. Google’s video tool has Veo 3.1 support and it allows you to export videos to YouTube very quickly. However, the voice-over is not yet available in Dutch: it is only available in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Korean, Spanish and Japanese. Of course you could record your own voice-over.