How to Upload Videos in Google Docs

Google Docs has been many users choice for years for alternative backup solution to Microsoft Office which provides you with editing and storing of documents, spreadsheets, forms, presentations and lot more. You can do lot more things over Google Docs now like -move Microsoft office files to Google docs, sharing videos is another options which is discussed here.

Google Docs Video Upload & Play

Google introduces another interesting feature to the Google Docs and just a perfect start to the new year. Now with Google Docs you can upload videos, preview it completely and can easily share with the users that you want to share with.

With Google Docs upload and sharing of videos gets lot more easier and faster with reliability.

Video formats which are supported by Google Docs Video Player are

• Adobe Flash Video codec (FLV Format)
• Windows Media Video (WMV Format)
• MPEG2 Video Codec and MP2 Audio
• Audio Video Interleave (AVI format)
• H264, H263, MPEG4 video codec and AAC audio code
• WebM video files

While the total size permitted in Google Docs remains 1 GB to any users the video player in Google Docs support a video playback of 1920 x 1080 which means that user could get high quality of videos in HD format similar to those found in YouTube now.

Once you have uploaded the video you would have easy options of sharing it with others users or public or wanted to keep it drafted. And you also need a flash player to play those videos on to your browser.

Once you have upload you video you can easily have a preview and details of the video on the right side. Here is the one which I have uploaded it just now-

Wondering why there is no preview for this video which I have uploaded but normally they provide you preview of whatever video uploaded and actually in those preview you can complete watch that video.

So this becomes alternative to YouTube where video sharing for the private users was very difficult options and as Google Docs is known for files, docs and other documents sharing with a limited group of people this would be the right place to make it happen and its adds another wonderful options to Google Docs.