Today Google has added a new feature to Veo 3, Gemini’s AI video-making arm. Starting today, you can turn an image into a video. These will be eight-second video clips and not longer, and they will have sound too.
To use this, select Videos from the tool menu in the prompt box and upload an image, then describe the scene and add any audio instructions you might have. That’s it, your image will turn into a video. Once it’s complete, you can of course share it or download it. You can also use the thumbs up and down buttons on your generated videos to give Google feedback about them, which it will use to improve the experience further.
This photo-to-video capability is starting to roll out to Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers in “select countries around the world”, and the same capabilities are available in Flow, Google’s AI filmmaking tool.
Google says over 40 million Veo 3 videos were already generated through the Gemini app and Flow over the last seven weeks, and this new functionality will undoubtedly make that number skyrocket in the near future. Note that these AI generated videos include a visible watermark to show they are AI generated, as well as an invisible SynthID digital watermark.