Google Vids: Generate and style captions

Demo summary
The demonstration shows how Google Vids automatically generates captions from the voiceover and allows the user to apply different visual styles.
Step-by-step
- Go to the Captions menu
- Allow the tool to read the voiceover audio
- Select a caption style template
- Play back the video to preview the captions
- Select a different template to change the visual style
Options
- Choose between multiple visual caption templates
Highlights
“Of course, we can. We need to go to captions and when we go there, it will just read the actual the actual voice over and we just need to create a style.”
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