Yes. Google can show your videos in search results when the page and video are easy to find, crawl and understand.
Video results, carousels, thumbnails and key moments all appear in Google Search.
A watch page is one page with one main video, a unique title and a unique description.
No. Use standard embeds. A video that loads only after a click is harder for Google to find.
Use one unique, stable thumbnail URL and never block it in robots.txt.
VideoObject markup with name, thumbnailUrl and uploadDate, plus description and duration.
Use clip markup or YouTube timestamps. Google must be able to fetch the video file.
Open the Video indexing report in Search Console.