Animate objects, scenes & photos in Vids

You can animate text, shapes, images, videos, and other objects within a video scene.

Animate text, shapes, & media

Animate different object types (including texts, shapes, images, and videos) within a scene of your video.

  1. On your computer, open a video in Google Vids.
  2. Click on a scene.
  3. Click on the object and then Change animation .
  4. In the Animation side panel, select an animation.
  5. Select how you want the animation to show:
    • Enter & Exit
      • To select different animations for Enter & Exit, at the bottom of the side panel, turn on Separate enter and exit animations.
    • Loop
  6. Select an animation style, such as fade, slide, or rise.
  7. Customize your animation:
    • For some animations you can:
      • Change the speed of the animation.
        • Under "Duration," adjust the slider.
      • Change the direction of the animation.
    • Set text animation preferences:
      • Whole: Animates all text
      • Paragraph
      • Word
      • Character

Set an animation preset for a scene or video

With an animation preset, you can apply a pre-configured set of visual effects and timings to a scene or video.

  1. On your computer, open a video in Google Vids.
  2. Select a scene.
  3. In the toolbar, click Scene and then Animation .
  4. On the right panel, select an animation preset
    • If you've selected an object instead of the scene, the Object tab will be selected.
    • To apply the same animation to all objects in your scene, switch to the "Scene tab".
  5. Optional: Apply or preview optional animation preset settings.
    • To preview an animation, hover over the preset styles.
    • To apply the animation preset to all the scenes, click Apply to all scenes.
    • To view the timing of the animation preset, at the top left of the timeline, click Show timing .
      • If you add an additional object to your scene, the animation preset maintains the timing and animation settings with the new object.
      • To shorten or lengthen the timing of objects, hover over the left or right edge of the object track until the blue handle appears. Then, click and drag to adjust the duration. After you adjust the timing, the object no longer displays an overlay.

Tips:

  • To check what an animation preset includes, click an object on the scene and then Animation .
  • If you deselect an object, you can still return to the "Scene" animation tab.

Add a photo effect

An animation that shows the user how to add photo effects

To add motion to create dynamic visual effects from static images, use photo effects.

  1. On your computer, open a video in Google Vids.
  2. Select a scene in your timeline.
  3. Click on the photo and then Change animation .
  4. In the Animation side panel, select a photo effect.
  5. Customize your photo effect.
    • For some effects, you can select:
      • Loop duration: The time it takes to complete the effect.
      • Direction: The animation's path into or out of the scene.
      • Reverse on loop: Change the direction of animation with each loop.

Tip: Photo effect animations always loop or repeat continuously.

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