How To Backup Videos To Google Photos: A Step-By-Step Guide

Saving photos or videos on your phone is always risky. You can damage it, or someone else may steal it. In either case, you lose all your data captured by your phone's camera. The best thing to do here is to save all these clips and images on the Cloud using a secure service like Google Photos.

Below, we'll share how to backup videos in Google Photos app and how Google Drive comes in handy when you are dealing with saving shared content through Whatsapp, Instagram, and other communication services.

Part 1. Can Videos Be Backed Up on Google Photos?

Don't let the name "Google Photos" deceive you. It can back up both photos and videos captured on your phone or tablet. The best part is you can access your backed-up videos from any mobile device that's signed into your Google account. If you want to access these videos on a computer, open Chrome or Safari, go to photos.google.com website and sign in with the same Google Photos account you use on your phone.

Google Photos supports many video formats, including 3GP, 3G2, ASF, AVI, DIVX, M2T, M2TS, M4V, MKV, MMV, MOD, MOV, MP4, MPG, MTS, TOD, WMV. The maximum upload size for each video is 20GB.

Only you can find your backed-up photos and videos unless you choose to share them. You can back up photos and videos to only one Google account at a time.

Part 2. How to Backup Videos to Google Photos on Android and iOS

You can backup videos in Google Photos either automatically or manually. Let's show you both of these methods.

How to Backup Videos In Google Photos Automatically

• 1.Install Google Photos on your phone (If you haven't already) from the Google Play Store and open it.

• 2.Select the same Google account you use on your phone.

• 3.Agree when the app asks you to automatically back up your photos and videos on the phone by tapping "Get Started."

  

• 4.Wait till all the content is backed up. You can confirm this scrolling stops around your profile icon.

• 5.All the captured videos on your phone are now backed in Google Photos.

How to Backup Videos In Google Photos Manually

When you first sign into Google Photos, you are asked to turn on automatic backup. If you allow it to do so, it will back up all the videos and photos on your phone. However, this can result in massive storage usage of your Google account.

In case you don't want to consume too much space on your Google Photos account or are not interested in added paid storage offered by Google, you can manually backup one or multiple videos to Google Photos this way:

• 1.After downloading and installing Google Photos.

• 2.Sign in to your account using the same Google account you use on your phone.

• 3.Toggle off the automatic backup option and tap "Continue without backup" to access the photo library.

  

• 4.Scroll to find the video you want to back up; tap & hold it, select "Back up" at the bottom, and it will be saved in Google Photos.

  

If you have already turned on the automatic backup and now want to upload only selected videos on Google Photos, do these steps:

• 1.Tap on your profile icon at the top right and select "Photos Settings."

  

• 2.Tap Backup and toggle the switch to turn it off.

  

• 3.Next, go back to the Photos library, tap and hold a video, select the other videos you no longer want to back up and tap "Trash" at the bottom.

  

• 4.Then, tap "Collections" at the bottom, select "Trash," tap the three dots, and choose "Empty trash." This will delete all the automatically backed-up videos on Google Photos to save the Cloud space. This won't delete the videos on your phone.

  

• 5.Finally, go back to the main photo library screen, tap and hold a video, and tap "Back up" to save it in Google Photos.

Part 3. How to Save Photos and Videos In Google Account

Google Photos is an excellent app for backing up your photos and vidoes.

However, there's a catch. If you haven't enabled the automatic backup option or didn't back up manually on Google Photos, your photos will still show up on the photos.google.com site, but not the videos. To access your videos, they need to be backed up in the Google Photos app on your phone. There's also a limitation that you can only back up photos and videos captured through your phone's camera.

In comparison, Google Drive works on both your phone and computer. You can simply upload your captured photos and videos and also the photos and videos received from communication apps and social channels on your phone. They will sync automatically when you open Google Drive on your computer, and you can quickly view and download them as well.

Here's how to save photos and videos in Google Drive on your phone and access them on your PC:

• 1.Install and then launch the Drive app on your phone.

• 2.Tap the "+ New" icon.

  

• 3.Select "Upload."

  

• 4.Tap the Gallery icon.

  

• 5.Now select as many videos and photos as you want, tap the tick icon, and they will saved on Google Drive. Alternatively, tap "Albums" to upload the photos and videos received from other sources.

  

• 6.Next, open drive.google.com on your computer and make sure you are signed in with the same Google account you are using on your phone.

• 7.Here, you will find the photos and videos you uploaded through the Drive app on your phone. If you want, tap the three dots next to the file and click "Download" to save it on your PC.

  

How to Move Videos from Google Drive to Google Photos

You have now successfully saved the videos and images, especially the ones received by your contacts on Google Drive. But there is one more thing you can do with them. You can now back up these received images and clips you saved on Google Drive to show up on Google Photos, as it won't allow you to do so without a backup.

• 1.Open photos.google.com.

• 2.Click "+" and select "Google Drive."

  

• 3.Here, you'll find the recent photo or video you uploaded from your phone's Google Drive app. You can also search for the file in the top search bar. Then, select it, click "Upload," choose the quality setting, click "Continue, and this will save it in the Google Photos browser version.

  
  

  The best part is that these backed-up photos and vidoes will now show up in the Google Photos app on your phone. Pretty nice workaround. Ain't it?

  

Part 4. Enhance Saved Videos With HitPaw Online Video Enhancer

Now that you have backed up your videos on Google Photos and Google Drive, you can improve their video quality without downloading any software with HitPaw Online Video Enhancer. You'll be surprised how easy it is to add richer colors and brightness and even upscale the video resolution in just three simple steps: Upload, select an AI model, and download.

The great thing about this tool is that it also works from your phone's browser. Let's explore each model of HitPaw Online Video Enhancer and see how it uses AI to enhance your saved videos.

Face Model

The Face Model fixes the people's faces in your videos and makes them more clear without introducing any superficial elements. This model is great if you have a video of family members and friends and want to sharpen eyes, smooth skin tones, and add detail to faces.

General Denoise Model

As the name suggests, the General Denoise model in HitPaw Online Video Enhancer removes unwanted noise, such as graininess, from your videos so you can share them with confidence. It does not deviate from the original details but only removes fuzzy pixels that show up in poorly captured footage.

Animation Model

The Animation Model works wonders on your backed-up cartoon clips or animated scenes. Not only that, but it can also add an animated effect to real people in your videos. This way, you can share your clip with anyone while adding a bit of humor to it with supreme clarity.

Color Enhancement Model

The Color Enhancement model, developed in HitPaw, boosts dull colors in your videos using AI without making them look fake. This model adjusts contrast, saturation, and brightness automatically and balances these properties to ensure your videos look like they were captured by a high-resolution camera.

Colorize Model

With the Colorize model, you can add a vintage feel to your videos by turning them into black-and-white masterpieces. The magic of HiPaw AI doesn't stop there. You can also upload an old video shot in black and white and use this model to get modern-day colored footage without adding unnatural artifacts.

Low-Light Brightness Model

Have you captured a video in a very low light environment, like after evening, in cloudy weather, or in a dark room, and don't like the result? HiPaw Online Enhancer Low-Light Brightness model can take care of this problem by adding bright shadows without washing out brighter areas to help anyone see clearly what's happening in the video's foreground and background.

Upscale Resolution

Your phone camera may fail to capture videos in a higher resolution. If you are happy with the results, you can select any AI model in HitPaw Online Video Enhancer along with the resolution booster that can upscale the video up to 8K. This feature adds pixels smartly without any blurriness.

After improving your video with HitPaw Online Video Enhancer, they'll look much better when you share it with your family or friends. The people inside the video will also complement you with your editing efforts, but in reality, it took you only a couple of minutes to get that awesome result.

Part 5. FAQs of How to Backup Videos In Google Photos

Conclusion on How to Backup Videos In Google Photos

In this informative guide, you've learned how to backup videos to Google Photos automatically or manually. You also got to know about saving photos and videos in your Google account using Google Drive and a workaround to transfer these files to the Google Photos web app, which you can see on its mobile version, too.

Don't forget about HiPaw Online Video Enhancer. You can make the most out of your saved videos by enhancing them with this AI tool on your browser and giving them a makeover.