There’s no sign of the NotebookLM team slowing down with their updates. This one expands what you can do when you create videos from your sources.
In addition to the Cinematic and Explainer options, now you can create Short videos. They call them “A bite-sized overview to help you quickly grasp core ideas from your sources”.
I’ve seen people reference them as “TikTok-style”. You can decide that part for yourself.
The videos are usually less than 60 seconds long. Ironically, they take a LONG time to generate. Keep that in mind if your goal is to summarize a bunch of sources quickly before a meeting or some other scenario where you hope to use the feature to save time right now. That plan may backfire. It could also take so long because the feature is still new so more people are trying it out. Who knows?
It’s the same initial setup within NotebookLM
At the top of the window, choose Short as your Format
Then decide what the video should focus on. Either pick one of their AI-generated options or type in your own custom topic