Google is making its Veo 3.1 AI video mannequin pay nearer consideration to the reference pictures you need generated clips to be primarily based on. The corporate is releasing new visible enhancements for the “Ingredients to Video” tool that was launched final yr, alongside increasing native vertical video assist and backbone upscaling options.
The Components to Video device permits Veo customers to generate movies primarily based on as much as three reference pictures, pulling in supplies like character topics, backgrounds, and textures to have extra management over how the outcomes will look. Google says this replace will make movies “extra expressive and artistic,” and supply “richer dialogue and storytelling.” There are additionally consistency enhancements that needs to be extra perceptible — Veo 3.1 ought to now guarantee a personality seems to be the identical throughout totally different clips and environments, and can let customers reuse objects, backgrounds, and textures throughout scenes.
Clips generated utilizing Components to Video will now additionally assist vertical outputs. This follows Google giving builders the power to generate vertical videos in Veo last year for text-based prompts with out references. Customers can choose to output movies in a local 9:16 side ratio that’s able to add to platforms like TikTok and YouTube Shorts, as a substitute of manually cropping the leads to video modifying software program.
Google is including Veo’s improved Components to Video and portrait mode options to the Gemini app beginning right this moment, and integrating these instruments into YouTube Shorts and the YouTube Create app “for the primary time.”
Lastly, this replace permits Veo 3.1 customers to upscale their generated movies to a 4K decision, up from the earlier 1080p restrict. Google says that 1080p video technology has additionally been improved to offer “a sharper, cleaner video.” This isn’t the native 4K decision that Google claimed Veo was able to producing back in 2024 — one thing we’ve but to see in any model of Veo that’s launched to the general public — however on-platform upscaling is best than nothing.
