🚨 How to make longer videos with Veo 3: I've spent hours experimenting with the new image-to-video mode. And I've found a way to generate consistent + cohesive stories that are much longer than the 8 second limit. Tutorial and tips to make it work 👇

To begin: Veo 3 can still only generate 8 seconds at a time. But you can essentially "extend" this by taking the end frame from one clip and using it as the start frame for your next clip. This sounds easy, but it's pretty finicky. My learnings so you don't waste credits ⬇️

(1) Remember the end frame from your last clip is the ONLY context the model has. Therefore - any characters, objects, or environments that you want to re-appear later need to be in that frame. This clip, for example, doesn't work if I want the woman to be in the next scene.

(3) You can't upload your own audio, so there's no way to get a consistent character voice across clips. It sometimes works to prompt traits (e.g. accent, age, intonation). But it's not perfect - listen below to the same man speaking across two generations. To fix this you can either: 1.) generate clips of a consistent voice on @elevenlabsio, and use them as voiceovers (mute the parts of the Veo video where the person is speaking) 2.) just use @hedra_labs, which makes it much easier!