New parents who are curious about what to expect from their newborns should probably avoid Tiktok and AI. There is now an unpainted number of videos showing newborns working in factories and burger joints, marshes over the dusty plains of Mars and comments on the dull state of the world they have just entered.
Ever since Gemini revealed its VEO 3 video model, which allows you to generate synchronized audio and video, people have generated very convincing, yet impossible 8-second video clips. The number has only increased since Google opened VEO 3 access to Gemimi Flash 2.5 Pro users.
After watching more than a few of these videos in my feed, I decided to try it. I have now spent the last few weeks creating VEO 3 clips of newborn babies that do all kinds of things and often comment on their situation.
Here’s what I learned with some tips to help you create similar clips or really improve your Gemini VEO 3 videooreration effort.
Planning
Unless you pay for an account, you will receive a maximum of three 8-second VEO 3 clips per Day, so you will use this number wisely and if possible predict all three clips.
Start with a concept or idea
What do you want your newborn to do and say? Try to think through the setting and action across all three clips so that they together make up a mini history.
When I started to generate my baby clips, I did not consider this and instead created a series of clips depicting a newscaster interviewing a newborn in the hospital but with different levels of success. Eventually, however, I chose a theme, like a baby astronaut on Mars, or a newborn working in a robot factory.
When I had a mini history in mind, my results improved exponentially.
Imagine a style
One of my favorite sets with clips is where I imagined a baby in the role of Dr. Frankenstein. I specifically asked VEO to portray the baby in a “1930 -number lab” and added this critical line, “The film is black and white with strong contrast and shadows.”
Don’t be afraid to describe stage information that can improve credibility. In my Mars Baby Astronaut video, I described “a newborn baby using a selfie stick to film even” and noted that the earth was visible in the sky. VEO 3 did an excellent job of including these details.
Be specific
I found that unless I described the protagonist as a newborn baby, I ended up with a toddler, and sometimes one that looked like a Pixar character.
Also, be sure to describe the action. What is the baby doing? A number of events are the best way to make sure VEO 3 builds the scene you imagined.
Keep the dialog close
You only have 8 seconds of video, so be sure to set time on your dialogue to make sure it’s not 15 seconds of Blather. Whatever VEO 3 cannot fit, it will cut off.
Keep the characters on a minimum
One of the reasons these videos are so compelling is that they contain newborn babies who speak as adults. Achieving these results has occasionally proven to be challenging.
I have struggled to make sure it is the baby who speaks and not another character I included in the prompt. I found that it is best to describe a maximum of two characters and make sure your prompt makes it crystal clear who should talk the lines, which should always be between quotes.
Even with all this careful planning, I still struggled to make sure that only the newborn was talking. In my Frankenstein series, The Last Clip has a Talking Frankenstein monster, though I specifically assigned this dialogue to the baby.
Tell a story
If you create all three clips in the same session, one after the other, Gemini VEO 3 will remember the style and even the look of the included characters, which means you do not have to repeat all these details in the following prompt.
That said, make sure to describe the baby and other characters with the same words; Otherwise, AI may change things up. If possible, design all three requests to promote your 24-second history.
Call it “realistic”
To ensure photo realism, use the term “photo-realistically” or “realistic” in your prompt. Otherwise, the Gemini will choose the style for you and it may not look like a real baby.
Download the video
Gemini doesn’t save your generated videos indefinitely. They are usually gone within a day, though the directions remain. If you like what the prompt created, remember to download the video.
These tips could undoubtedly be used on any style of generative video, but if you want to join the AI Baby -Memme -Dille, this should help you get started.
