Important: At this time, the NotebookLM mobile app does not support this feature. Learn more about the supported features in NotebookLM mobile app.
Video Overviews transform the sources in your notebook into a video of AI-narrated slides, pulling images, diagrams, quotes, and numbers from your documents. They distill complex information into clear, digestible content, providing a comprehensive and engaging visual deep dive of your material.
Generate a Video Overview
- Open an existing notebook or create a new one and upload sources.
- To generate or delete a Video Overview, you need edit access to a notebook.
- In the "Studio" panel, select "Video Overview" to initiate generation of a new video. The video will be generated in the background, so you can generate other artifacts concurrently or even navigate to other screens.
- To customize, open the three dots menu next to “Video Overviews” and select “Customize.”
- Input a steering prompt to provide instructions to focus on specific topics, target a specific audience, provide context, and more.
Important:
- Video Overviews, including voices and visuals, are AI-generated and may contain inaccuracies or audio glitches.
- NotebookLM may take a while to generate the Video Overview, feel free to come back to your notebook later.
Manage your Video Overview:
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To change the playback speed, select a different speed from “1x”.
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Navigate forward or backwards in the video by using the playback slider, or by tapping “rewind” or “skip forward”.
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Enter full screen mode by clicking on the full screen button
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To send feedback, tap “good video” or “bad video”
Play a Video Overview
Important: This is only applicable to notebooks that have previously generated Video Overviews.
- Open an existing notebook.
- In the "Studio" panel, select the title of your previously generated Video Overview.
- Once the video player opens, start the Video Overview by hitting “play”
Share a Video Overview
Option 1: Share a link
- Generate a Video Overview.
- In the video player, select Share.
- Confirm that the notebook is shared with the recipient or is made public (open to “Anyone with a link”), and viewers have access to the “full notebook” (and not just “chat only”).
- Copy link to Video Overview to share with recipient.
- Save to apply changes.
Important:
- Public notebook sharing is only enabled for consumer accounts. It's currently disabled for Workspace Enterprise or Education accounts.
- Only notebook owners and editors can make a generated video publicly available and manage its access. As an owner or editor, you can turn off public access by selecting a different Notebook access level in the sharing panel.
- Once a video is deleted, any previously generated share link will no longer work.
Option 2: Share the entire notebook
- Generate a Video Overview.
- Share the full notebook.
- Other users can access the Video Overview in the "Studio" panel.
Option 3: Download & share the Video Overview
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To download the Video Overview, select Download
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Share the downloaded MP4 video file.
Output language for Video Overview
At this time, video overviews are only available in English. Support for more languages is coming soon!