What is Google Veo?
Google Veo is the latest
generative AI video model that can generate high-quality 1080p resolution
videos over a minute in length in a wide variety of visual and cinematic styles.
How does Google Veo work?
Google Veo has an advanced
understanding of natural language and visual semantics, enabling the model to
understand cinematic terms like “timelapse” or “aerial shots of a landscape”.
Users can direct their desired output using text, image, or video-based
prompts, and Google says the resulting videos are “more consistent and
coherent,” depicting more realistic movement for people, animals, and objects
throughout shots.
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How to join the waitlist for Google Veo?
Veo has been made available to
select creators in private preview in VideoFX by joining our waitlist. The
waitlist can be joined on Google labs.
How to sign up for VideoFX waitlist
Powered by Veo,
VideoFX is Google's experimental tool which allows users to input text and get
an output video. You can sign up for the waitlist starting today.
Head to Google Labs (labs.google).
Select the "Join
waitlist" button on the upper yellow widget.
Sign in to your Google
account if you haven't already.
Click the join
waitlist button.
Fill out the Google form with the
necessary information like your name, email address, and how you heard about
VideoFX.
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How does Google Veo compare to other AI video tools?
Google Veo is one of the most
impressive video generation models that Google has produced over the last few
years, from Phenaki and Imagen Video — which produced crude, often distorted
video clips — to the Lumiere model. However, Google is not the only company
working on AI video generation models, OpenAI is also working on a similar
project called Sora, which is already being pitched to Hollywood and is
expected to be released to the public later this year.
What are the capabilities of Google Veo?
Some of the capabilities of
Google Veo include:
Generating high-quality, 1080p
resolution videos that can go beyond a minute, in a wide range of cinematic and
visual styles
Understanding prompts for all
kinds of cinematic effects, like time lapses or aerial shots of a landscape
Generating video that closely
follows the prompt
Accurately capturing the nuance
and tone in a phrase, rendering intricate details within complex scenes
Editing videos by applying
commands to the initial video and creating a new, edited video
Supporting masked editing,
enabling changes to specific areas of the video when you add a mask area to
your video and text prompt
Generating a video with an image
as input along with the text prompt
Conditioning the output video to
follow the style of the input image and user prompt’s instructions
Reducing the appearance of
inconsistencies, keeping characters, objects and styles in place, as they would
in real life
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What are the limitations of Google Veo?
Google Veo is still a developing
technology and it has some limitations. For example, video results can be
refined using additional prompts and Google is exploring additional features to
enable Veo to produce storyboards and longer scenes.
Conclusion
Google Veo is a powerful AI video
generation tool that has the potential to revolutionize the video production
industry. With its advanced understanding of natural language and visual
semantics, it can generate high-quality videos that closely follow the user’s
prompt. However, it is still a developing technology and has some limitations.
If you are interested in trying out Google Veo, you can join the waitlist on
Google labs.