Overview
- The Ingredients to Video tool now generates portrait 9:16 clips natively, targeting YouTube Shorts, TikTok, and Instagram Reels without cropping.
- Reference‑image guidance sees major gains, delivering richer motion and storytelling with stronger character, object, and background consistency across scenes.
- High‑fidelity outputs can be upscaled to 1080p and 4K through Flow, the Gemini API, and Vertex AI, while the Gemini app remains limited to native 720p.
- Google is embedding imperceptible SynthID watermarks in generated videos, and Gemini can verify whether a video was created with Google AI.
- The update is rolling out across the Gemini app, YouTube Shorts and YouTube Create, Flow, Google Vids, the Gemini API, and Vertex AI, with short clip lengths suited to Shorts‑style workflows.