Google Drive Improves Video Navigation with New Thumbnail Previews
Finally, Google Drive is catching up with the times! For ages, trying to find a specific part in a video on Google Drive was like searching for a needle in a haystack. You'd drag the progress bar, cross your fingers, and hope you landed somewhere near where you wanted to be. I can't tell you how many times I've wasted precious minutes doing just that.
But now, Google's rolling out a feature that adds thumbnail previews to the progress bar. Imagine being able to see a little snapshot of each scene as you move the cursor across the timeline! It sounds like a dream, right? This will definitely take away all the guesswork involved and you will save a lot of time.
According to their Workspace Updates post, this feature is now being released for some users, and then later, on August 20, it should be available for everyone. While this is good news, older videos won't have this function enabled, only new videos being uploaded will. It's a bummer, but better late than never, I guess!
This improvement is one of many Google Drive updates. Just last June, the Android app received a new video player design, similar to the desktop version. In fact, Google has also introduced AI-powered features in Drive, such as AI summaries for PDFs and a "Catch me up" tool that highlights changes made to shared documents since the last time you opened them.
It's really cool to see Google adding these quality-of-life improvements to Drive. Although it would've been great if they could apply this to older videos, the new thumbnail previews promise to make finding the right moment in your videos a whole lot easier.
Source: AndroidAuthority