Google has a new tool just for making AI videos

Google wants to marque it easier to make AI-generated videos, and it has a caller instrumentality to bash it. It’s called Flow, and Google is announcing it alongside its caller Veo 3 video procreation model, much controls for its Veo 2 model, and a caller representation procreation model, Imagen 4. 

With Flow, you tin usage things similar text-to-video prompts and ingredients-to-video prompts (basically, sharing a fewer images that Flow tin usage alongside a punctual to assistance pass the exemplary what you’re looking for) to physique eight-second AI-generated clips. Then, you tin usage Flow’s scenebuilder tools to stitch aggregate clips together.

Flow seems benignant of similar a movie editing app, but for gathering AI-generated videos, and portion I’m not a filmmaker, I tin spot however it mightiness beryllium a utile instrumentality based connected a demo I saw. In a briefing, Thomas Iljic, a merchandise manager astatine Google Labs, showed maine a fewer examples of Flow successful action.

In 1 demo, we watched an animated-style video; the “camera” zoomed retired to uncover that the video was playing connected a TV; the video zoomed retired again to amusement the country the TV was in. Then, the “camera” dilatory flew done a model and watched a motortruck walk by.

It each looked beauteous seamless, though I was lone concisely seeing the video successful a tiny Google Meet window, truthful I can’t talk to immoderate AI strangeness that mightiness beryllium disposable if you look closely. But the thought for Flow isn’t truthful overmuch astir creating agelong videos. Instead, it’s much astir helping filmmakers rapidly get their ideas “on paper,” says Iljic.

As for Google’s caller models announced astatine I/O, Veo 3 volition person amended quality, is easier to prompt, and tin make video and dependable unneurotic (including dialogue), Matthieu Lorrain, originative pb astatine Google DeepMind, tells The Verge. It’s besides amended astatine knowing longer prompts and correctly handling a succession of events successful your prompt.

Veo 2 volition connection tools similar camera controls and entity removal. And Google’s caller representation procreation model, Imagen 4, has improved quality, tin export successful much formats, and is seemingly amended astatine penning existent substance alternatively of the AI garble that often appears successful these images.

Flow is launching contiguous successful the US for radical who subscribe to Google’s caller Google AI Pro and Google AI Ultra plans. “Google AI Pro gives you the cardinal Flow features and 100 generations per month, and Google AI Ultra gives you the highest usage limits and aboriginal entree to Veo 3 with autochthonal audio generation,” according to a blog post.