Summary: Google has upgraded its AI video creation tool, Flow, introducing enhanced editing capabilities like lighting and shadow adjustments, along with new audio generation features. These improvements, part of the Veo 3.1 update, make AI-generated videos more realistic and customizable, while upcoming tools promise even greater control over video content.
Improved Editing with Lighting and Shadows
Google is enhancing the realism of videos created with its AI filmmaking tool, Flow. Users can now adjust shadows and lighting within their AI-generated videos, making the visuals more natural and harder to distinguish from real footage. These expanded editing features come with the Veo 3.1 update, which also improves how videos are generated based on the images provided as prompts.
New Audio Features in Flow
In addition to visual enhancements, Flow now supports audio generation to accompany videos. Several new features enable users to create videos with sound based on reference images. For example, the “Ingredients to Video” feature lets users generate a video with audio from three reference images. The “Frames to Video” feature creates a video that transitions from a starting image to an ending image, complete with audio. Another addition, “Scene Extension,” allows users to extend the final second of a clip by up to a minute with generated video and audio.
Upcoming Removal Tool for Videos
Google has also announced plans to introduce a powerful removal tool in Flow. This feature will enable users to remove any object from a video, with the AI restructuring the background and scene so seamlessly that it appears as if the object was never there.
Availability and Pricing
The Veo 3.1 update is available as part of a “paid preview” through the Gemini API for developers and is enabled in the Gemini app. Pricing remains the same as the previous Veo 3 version.
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