- YouTube Shorts now offers VEO 3 AI video generator for creating 8-second videos from text prompts
- VEO 3 creates movie or animation clips with customized motion, lighting and native audio
- All AI-generated videos have SynthID watermarks and visible AI labels
Google has incorporated the most advanced AI video generator, the Veo 3, into its YouTube shorts.
Create a simple text prompt within the YouTube mobile app, and create video clips that contain sounds that last up to 8 seconds in your AI.
Enter something like “Hummingbirds flying through the neon jungle at sunset” or “Robot chefs tipping pancakes on Mars”, and choose visual styles like animation and cinematic look, Veo 3 renders your dream minimoby right away.
The streamlined “fast” version of the VEO 3 may have limited video length and quality, but the Native version of the shorts is still impressive given that the actual film footage is produced on unrelated phones.
The integration is based on VEO's official debut earlier this year, expanding the Dreamscreen feature that allows users to generate AI backgrounds in shorts. But Veo 3 raises the ante with more than just background. Create a complete standalone video.
Google boasts that the VEO 3 is good enough to create natural-looking camera movement.
It involves how objects move within space. Submitting a prompt such as “Knight riding a horse through a burning village” will not only bring together different elements, but also get choreographed action scenes. The horse's movements, knight's arms, and flickering flames move independently in response to each other.
Tap and play on VEO 3 from the YouTube app Create And choose Create a video From the prompt. At this time, you don't need to upload anything or have a Gemini subscription.
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There is still sound, but there is no complete dialogue yet. Still, you can get the atmosphere and theme music generated based on the scene.
Giving wind and bird sounds to a forest scene, or hearing the hum and beeping of a spaceship will complete the final clip than silent film can manage.
But don't think you're fooling people into thinking your crazy videos are from the real world. Google has added a safeguard to prevent that. All clips are generated with VEO 3 in shorts, automatically tagged with the label “AI Generation” and embedded with an invisible watermark for SynthID.
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Google bets that it's not a contract breaker for viral shorts, meme makers, visual poets and other untrained users.
And the content doesn't have to be kept Ai-Only. This tool also allows users to generate a green screen video background. This can be stacked behind a human performer.
You can record yourself in the bedroom and replace the background from your mobile phone with a dramatic space opera landscape. Possibilities are as broad as your imagination.
For everyday users, the real question is: What do you do with that? Do you want to create surreal memes? Create a video loop around a music track? Do you want to build a background for AI-powered reactions?
The barrier to entry for video creation is lower the underground. No gear or editing software is required. It's definitely just as big a deal as the first release of a mobile YouTube app with video creation options.
Of course, that's not necessarily a good thing. YouTube has a lot of weird and annoying nonsense that has been produced in some way with AI.
This can flood your YouTube shorts with even more unpleasant oddity. Also, if your shorts feed is filled with too much AI content, it can overwhelm the work of humanity.
Watermarks help, but they don't stop people from using generation tools in misleading ways. Nevertheless, Google focuses on how to do some of the AI-generated videos, such as everyday internet experiences, skateboard penguins and more.
