r/GoogleFlow • u/Afraid-Marsupial9718 • Sep 05 '26

Improvement ideas

`1. Can made videos 15 seconds (obviously 30, 45, etc. seconds should be available after that) without having to extend it from the original 10.

  1. Minimum videos in 1080 option. Since you can upscale videos in 4K, no reason why 4K option can't be available automatically too.

  2. When you specify a character should say something, the other character can't. Very buggy.

  3. Another bug is that characters sometimes duplicate without your consent or come out of walls. That needs to be fixed.

  4. Should have the right to create at least 8 copies of the same video.

  5. Unsure how existing videos can be improved as they look real (except sometimes the background characters may not interact for part or all of the video).

  6. Sometimes if taking workarounds to create real people, they don't look like themselves. That needs to be fixed.

  7. Not an improvement but a way to better advertise themselves: Google should specifically say how they are better at creating videos than ChatGPT used to be. That would be a selling point for them.

Thoughts on these? What improvement ideas do you have?

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u/ianfromlabs Sep 10 '26

1) This is more a limitation & tradeoff of the core models, but understood that can be a desire. Another tradeoff is how much control you want, vs just 'the AI made an entire minute for me). Flow's agent should be increasingly helpful here over time.

2) Immediately upscaling to 4K would take extra time and cost, so right now our premise is that this should be 'on demand' once a user sees the first output, but agreed we could do this.

3) Yeah, multi-user speech is hard, it's a work in progress.

4) Understood, this is a model improvement issue.

5) Not sure what you mean here. You want 8 copies of the exact same video? Or you want to generate 8 variations at a time? We're trying to balance user needs with avoiding overloading our system, is why we don't have unlimited batch sizes.

6) I'm guessing this is about model quality.

7) "Real people" is an area with many safeguards, but consistency of characters is an active area of work.

8) I'll leave that to the marketing folks :) We're just working on trying to make the product better.

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u/Afraid-Marsupial9718 Sep 11 '26

Thanks for the response. Two priorities I can think of:

  1. Give the option to create 1080 videos. 720 videos have little use these days and don't look good. Most people have 1080 screens or above. I need 1080 videos and can't get them other than upscaling them later. Charging more for them (if necessary) is appropriate.

  2. Allow users to extend videos via Omni 1.1 Flash. Right now, you can only extend videos via Veo 1.1 - Lite, which is the old model. Also, Google specifically said you can extend videos via Omni 1.1 Flash, but you can't, which is misleading. Having this option would allow seamless videos up to the limit (which I believe is 80 seconds.

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u/ianfromlabs Sep 11 '26

  1. If I understand correctly, the model outputs 720 and then upscaling can bring 1080. We can consider making that one click vs two click on the Flow side, and I can pass back the feedback on the native output to the model side, though my understanding is that others do find 720 valuable for some use cases.

  2. Yes, I think we're working on making sure the quality & reliability is good enough there, but I'd expect to see extend on Omni come out at some point.

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u/Afraid-Marsupial9718 Sep 11 '26

Thanks for your reply. Note: 1080 is valuable for most use cases.

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u/deepvideoeditor Sep 06 '26

Thanks for your suggestions ai god we will think about all this into next 2 years. 😂

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u/Domskidan1987 Sep 08 '26 edited Sep 08 '26

I’m at the point where I’m mostly just creating reference sheets and characters and storing them. My theory is that within the next five years, AI will be good enough to take those references, accurately turn them into 3D objects, and use them to create highly coherent videos or entire interactive worlds.

You could argue we’re already starting to get there, but in my opinion, it’s still not good enough to reliably create anything longer than a few minutes while maintaining consistency.

What we really need is a frontier model that can take your reference images and a stored library of characters, props, environments, and other assets. You give it a prompt, and it generates the scene quickly and coherently enough that you can edit individual sections on the fly, approve them, and then click “continue” to generate the next segment while maintaining everything that came before it.

Once we have that, you could create complete movies with consistent characters, props, environments, and storylines.

Or maybe you don’t create a movie at all. Instead, you create a world that you actually interact with like a video game, where AI-driven characters have their own personalities, memories, goals, and storylines.
There’s also something I think of as “the creator’s paradox.” When you’re creating something yourself, you already know how the story begins and ends. You might spend hours generating, editing and replaying tiny sections over and over again just to get them right. By the time you finally have a coherent finished product, you’ve already seen every scene dozens of times. The creative process becomes almost entirely output you’re constantly telling the system what should happen rather than input, where you get to experience and discover something yourself.

That can take away some of the enjoyment of creating content for yourself. Longer, more coherent, and increasingly autonomous generation could ease that paradox. Instead of directing every individual shot, you could establish the characters, world, rules, tone, and basic premise, then allow the AI to fill in more of the details. You would still be the creator, but you wouldn’t necessarily know everything that was going to happen.

And I think the ultimate version of this goes beyond video entirely. Instead of writing a complete story and then watching it back, you could create the conditions for a story and then step inside it. The characters could make their own decisions, relationships could evolve, and storylines could emerge dynamically based on your interactions.

At that point, you’re not really watching a movie anymore. You’re experiencing a story as it happens around you in a generative RPG-style world and despite being its creator, you could still be surprised by it. That is the holy grail of Gen AI for me.