Gemini can now turn your photos into video with Veo 3

Google’s Veo 3 videos have propagated across the Internet since the model’s debut in May, blurring the line between truth and fiction. Now, it’s getting even easier to create these AI videos. The Gemini app is gaining photo-to-video generation, allowing you to upload a photo and turn it into a video. You don’t have to pay anything extra for these Veo 3 videos, but the feature is only available to subscribers of Google’s Pro and Ultra AI plans.

When Veo 3 launched, it could conjure up a video based only on your description, complete with speech, music, and background audio. This has made Google’s new AI videos staggeringly realistic—it’s actually getting hard to identify AI videos at a glance. Using a reference photo makes it easier to get the look you want without tediously describing every aspect. This was an option in Google’s Flow AI tool for filmmakers, but now it’s in the Gemini app and web interface.

To create a video from a photo, you have to select “Video” from the Gemini toolbar. Once this feature is available, you can then add your image and prompt, including audio and dialogue. Generating the video takes several minutes—this process takes a lot of computation, which is why video output is still quite limited.

Veo 3 videos are limited to 720p resolution and eight seconds in length, and there’s no guarantee you’ll like what Veo 3 spits out. That can be frustrating because you are extremely limited in how many videos you can create with Veo 3. Anyone subscribing to AI Pro ($20 per month) gets three video generations per day. Upgrade to the $250 AI Ultra plan and that goes up to just five videos per day.

Veo 3 video

Google says photo-to-video generation is rolling out in Gemini today, so you won’t have to wait long to give it a shot, assuming you have a paid AI subscription. Free Gemini users won’t have access to this feature at all.

As we’ve been recently reminded, people can use AI video generation for nefarious purposes. Veo 3 does seem quite compliant, producing almost whatever you want unless it’s overtly in opposition to Google’s rules. The company says it is committed to safety with “red teaming” to aggressively test its AI systems to ensure they do not create unsafe content. All the videos created by Gemini with Veo 3 will also have Google’s SynthID digital watermark, which helps identify them as artificial.

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