Introduction
Video quality, camera control and realism improve rapidly within seven months of the first Veo announcement.
View full image ↗Frame at 2 seconds from Google’s official December 2024 Veo 2 scientist demonstration. Model-generated footage.
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Source · Veo 2: video and image generation update, December 2024 ↗RESEARCH ACCOUNT
Bringing cinematographic instructions into video prompts.
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Release and use
Google’s announcement of 16 December 2024 introduced Veo 2 with an emphasis on motion, physical relationships and cinematographic instructions. Demonstrations described desired shots through lenses, viewpoints and movement rather than only the objects in a scene. Research capability limits must be distinguished from what users could actually access in VideoFX at the time; availability was staged.
Section sources: New video and image generation capabilities in Google Labs
Change in creative practice
When shot vocabulary enters an interface, cinematographic knowledge acquires a new role in prompting. Describing a tracking shot is nevertheless different from controlling every camera position. Retaining both instruction and result allows research into which decisions a system follows, departs from or reinterprets.
Section sources: New video and image generation capabilities in Google Labs
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