Generate Video Overviews in NotebookLM

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

1. 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.
2. 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.”
   • Select a language or 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:

• To change the playback speed, select a different speed from “1x”.

• Navigate forward or backwards in the video by using the playback slider, or by tapping “rewind” or “skip forward”.

• Enter full screen mode by clicking on the full screen button

• 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.

1. Open an existing notebook.
2. In the "Studio" panel, select the title of your previously generated Video Overview.
3. Once the video player opens, start the Video Overview by hitting “play” 

Share a Video Overview

Option 1: Share a link

1. Generate a Video Overview.
2. In the video player, select Share.
3. 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”).
4. Copy link to Video Overview to share with recipient.
5. 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

1. Generate a Video Overview.
2. Share the full notebook.
   • Other users can access the Video Overview in the "Studio" panel.

Option 3: Download & share the Video Overview

1. To download the Video Overview, select Download.

2. Share the downloaded MP4 video file.

Output language for Video Overview

You can generate Video Overviews in 50+ languages.

To set your desired output language:

• Navigate to Settings  Output Language.
• Or, choose your language when generating the video overview 

Tip:NotebookLM uses the preferred language from your Google Account settings as your default output language.

Related resources

• Learn about NotebookLM
• Create a notebook in NotebookLM
• Add or discover new sources for your Notebook