
Google DeepMind’s spectacular video technology device Veo simply picked up an replace, bringing a long-awaited characteristic to customers. The device now helps native vertical video output, making it excellent for creating content material for Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, and TikTok.
In its announcement, Google notes that Veo now lets customers generate movies in a 9:16 side ratio, eliminating the necessity to crop or reframe clips for vertical-first platforms. To create portrait movies, customers solely have to add a vertical picture and Veo will preserve the side ratio and orientation. The replace additionally brings enhancements to the device’s Components to Video capabilities, permitting it to make movies “extra expressive and artistic, even with easy prompts.”
Id consistency has additionally been upgraded within the newest Veo 3.1 launch, with generated characters now wanting the identical even when the setting modifications. Google says this makes it simpler for creators to inform a full narrative “by having the identical character seem throughout a number of scenes.” Moreover, the device now maintains the integrity of the setting and objects inside it, and lets customers reuse objects, backgrounds, or textures throughout totally different scenes.
Creators can now upscale movies to 1080p and 4K
Google provides that Veo now additionally has the potential to mix totally different components, corresponding to characters, objects, textures, and stylized backgrounds, to create extra cohesive movies. For creators who require high-resolution clips for his or her initiatives, the device has additionally picked up help for upscaling to 1080p and 4K.
The replace is already rolling out, and customers can attempt the portrait mode and Components to Video enhancements within the Gemini app. These options are additionally coming to Movement, the Gemini API, Vertex AI, and Google Vids. Nevertheless, the 1080p and 4K decision upscaling choices are at the moment restricted to Movement, the Gemini API, and Vertex AI.

