Google’s Veo 3.1, the latest upgrade to its AI video generation tool, is rolling out via third-party services—and it’s aiming to take on the industry’s best, with longer and more cinematic video clips. Veo 3.1 can generate native 1080p videos up to one minute long, breaking past the previous eight-second limit and stepping up to rival models like OpenAI’s Sora 2.
Here’s what’s new with Veo 3.1:
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Videos up to 60 seconds, produced at full HD 1080p, offer creators much more flexibility for storytelling, advertising, or even short films.
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Character and scene consistency are vastly improved. Characters maintain their features throughout the video, and scenes transition more smoothly, with no more random changes in appearance or setting.
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Multi-prompting support lets users direct multi-shot videos, combining several prompts for separate scenes—all driven from a single image or text prompt.
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Cinematic Presets are included, so you can instantly add high-level effects like drone shots, pans, zooms, tracking shots, and customized cinematic lighting and color grading.
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The model now works not only with photos but also supports illustrations and cartoon characters, opening up creative potential for animation and digital art creators.
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AI lip-sync remains a core feature from Veo 3, perfectly aligning audio with visuals for lifelike results.
Although Veo 3.1 isn’t in Google Gemini yet, users can try it now through services like Higgsfield, Envato, and Imagine Art. Influencers and AI filmmakers are already praising its ability to create multi-scene narratives and experiment with longer, more complex prompts and shot compositions.
The feature set squarely targets OpenAI’s Sora 2, which also touts Hollywood-level multi-shot generation and higher image quality. With rumors swirling about further upgrades and a wider rollout, Veo 3.1 could mark a major leap forward for AI-generated video content—whether for creators, marketers, teachers, or anyone experimenting with digital narrative.
If seamless transitions, consistent characters, and directorial control are important to you, Veo 3.1’s latest update brings pro-level effects, all at the click of a button.
