Amazon says its AI video model can now generate minutes-long clips

Amazon has upgraded its AI video model, Nova Reel, with the ability to generate videos up to two minutes in length. Nova Reel, announced in December 2024, was Amazon’s first foray into the generative video space. It competes with models from OpenAI, Google, and others in what’s fast becoming a crowded market. The latest Nova Reel, Nova Reel 1.1, can generate “multi-shot” videos with “consistent style” across shots, explained AWS Developer Advocate Elizabeth Fuentes in a blog post. Users can provide a prompt up to 4,000 characters long to generate up to a two-minute video composed of six-second shots. Nova Reel 1.1 also introduces a new mode called “Multishot Manual.” In this mode, the model can reference an image along with a prompt to offer more control over a video shot’s composition. According to Fuentes, given a 1280×720-resolution image and 512-maximum-character prompt, Multishot Manual can generate videos containing up to 20 shots. Nova Reel is only available through AWS plat ... Read full article.