May 21, 2025 12:50:00

Google announces 'Flow,' a tool that can create movies with AI, integrating image generation AI 'Imagen' and video generation AI 'Veo' to perform everything from scene generation to cutting and editing

Google announced its AI-powered filmmaking tool, Flow , on May 21, 2025 (Japan time). Flow integrates the video generation AI

Veo 3 and the image generation AI Imagen 4 , allowing you to perform the entire process from generating each scene to cutting and editing in a single app.

Flow
https://labs.google/flow/about

Introducing Flow: Google's AI filmmaking tool designed for Veo
https://blog.google/technology/ai/google-flow-veo-ai-filmmaking-tool/

Flow is a web app-style AI tool. The following video explains in detail what Flow is.

Creating in Flow | How to use Google's new AI Filmmaking Tool - YouTube


The Flow screen looks like this: All the scenes you've created so far are lined up on the screen, and at the bottom of the screen is an input box for creating new scenes.

There are three ways to generate scenes: 'Text to Video', which generates based on text; 'Frames to Video', which generates based on images (frames); and 'Ingredients to Video', which generates based on multiple materials.

With 'Frames to Video,' you can use existing images as materials, or you can generate new material images using Imagen.

Camera work can also be specified.

'Ingredients to Video' allows you to generate scenes by combining multiple materials such as 'scenery materials' and 'subject materials.'

You can also perform cut editing such as trimming and rearranging scenes on Flow.

In addition, AI can be used to extend scenes or generate new scenes during cut editing. In this case, just give a rough instruction such as 'a scene of someone running through a forest' and Gemini will convert it into an appropriate prompt and generate the scene you imagined.

Once your movie is complete you can download it locally.

There is also a website called ' Flow TV ' that collects videos made with Flow. For example, you can watch the short film 'Dear 'Stranger'' made with Flow at the following link.

Flow TV | Short Films | Dear “Stranger”
https://labs.google/flow/tv/channel/short-films/RvXJU9R5DP6ADgHqUYMW

To use Flow, you need to subscribe to Google AI Pro for 2,900 yen per month or the newly announced Google AI Ultra for 36,400 yen per month, and the AI models you can use will change depending on the plan. Flow is only available in the United States at the time of writing, and will be available in more countries soon.