You can now give Google’s AI video model camera directions

is a news writer focused on creative industries, computing, and internet culture. Jess started her career at TechRadar, covering news and hardware reviews. Google is trying to make it easier for users of its video AI model Veo 2 to make cinematic-looking generations and edit real footage. The new Veo 2 capabilities are available to preview via Google Cloud’s Vertex AI platform, alongside other updates to improve Google’s text-to-image generator, Imagen 3, and audio-related AI models. New Veo 2 features include inpainting, which can automatically remove “unwanted background images, logos, or distractions from your videos” according to Google, and outpainting, which extends the frame of the original video into a different format. The latter tool will fill the new space with ai-generated video footage that blends into the original clip, similar to Adobe’s Generative Expand feature for images. When Veo 2 stretches a video beyond its original limits, the empty space is then filled with g ... Read full article.