Google is making videos created with the AI filmmaking tool Flow[1] even more realistic — and harder to identify as AI-generated at first glance. The company announced Wednesday[2] that users can add in and change the shadows and lighting of their AI videos. The expanded editing features in Flow are tied to the Veo 3.1 update[3], also announced on Wednesday, which Google says does a better job of making a video based on the images submitted as a prompt.
Flow users will also be able to generate videos with audio using several of the tool’s new features. Users can make a video with audio based on three reference images that the company calls “Ingredients to Video.” Another feature, called “Frames to Video,” creates a video that bridges a starting image with an ending image, with accompanying audio. The “Scene Extension” feature lets you take the final second of a clip and add on additional generated video up to a minute in length, also with generated audio.
Veo 3.1 costs the same as Veo 3, is available as part of a “paid preview” through Gemini API to developers, and is enabled in the Gemini app.
According to Google, Flow users will soon be able to remove “anything” from a video — the tool will restructure the background and scene to make “it look as though the object was never there.”
References
- ^ AI filmmaking tool Flow (www.theverge.com)
- ^ announced Wednesday (blog.google)
- ^ Veo 3.1 update (developers.googleblog.com)