I’ve heard a lot about the new video engine from Google (Veo3). The samples I’ve seen we’re impressive, but my test has always been, can I make video that we could actually use. For the first time in the 3 years or so that I’ve been testing video creation engines, I have finally generated something that I would feel comfortable using.
Pros:
- Generated useable video
- Super easy to use
- Relatively quick
- Allows you do download an animated GIF, 720 or will upres to 1080 (haven’t tested this yet)
- This blew me away – I told it I was going to superimpose my own video on the laptop. The second video even included registration marks for me so that I could track the content to the laptop
- It automatically generates two versions per prompt
Cons:
- Relatively expensive. I had to sign up for their “Google AI Ultra (30 TB)” plan. Introductory price is $125/mo for 3 months and then goes to $250/mo – Still, if it can generate usable video, maybe value
- The first video did show a strange fade as the student sat down
- It did ignore my prompt about the Duke University Library. I tried this because I recently had amazing luck in ChatGPT 4o creating the “Duke Chapel”. Up until the test I did yesterday, I was never able to create something from the prompt “Duke Chapel” – and ChatGPT did a great job (more on that later). Still, the “library” was usable.
- Still struggles with creating hands
- It only generated the registration marks on the 2nd version… still…
There are other settings that I’ll be testing, but this first try was too good not to share.
First Version:
Second Version:
Yes… the fingers. 🙂 Here’s a quick and dirty edit showing you have enough usable content and get out before the other fingers grow:
Update:
Here’s a new test. I told it to focus on the fingers and used a “green screen” rather than a “blank” screen which made the keying of the screen capture easier. Even though I told it to “lock camera” there was still camera moves which required me to use the tracker in Final Cut Pro (which could have been tweaked) to get the screen to lock in place. I also told it to pause the typing but it didn’t so the new screen loads but the dude is still typing which looks strange.
