Veo 3.1 — Cinematic AI Videos with Native Audio in 4K
Veo 3.1 is Google's video model with native audio. Describe a scene — including what people say — and get a short cinematic clip with matching dialogue and sound effects. Type a prompt below to try it.
- Google DeepMind video model
- Native dialogue and sound effects
- 720p, 1080p or 4K
- 4–8 second clips
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Why Veo 3.1 Is One of the Best AI Video Generators
Veo 3.1 is the choice when a clip has to look and sound like a finished shot. It generates picture and audio together, follows film language well, and turns a still image into a believable moving scene.
Native synchronized audio
Dialogue, sound effects and ambience are generated with the video and line up with what happens on screen.
Cinematic look
Understands shot types, camera moves, lighting and genre styles, so prompts written like a shot list work well.
Better image to video
Start from your own picture as the first frame; Google improved prompt adherence and quality for image-to-video in 3.1.
Up to 4K
Output at 720p, 1080p or 4K in landscape 16:9 or vertical 9:16.
What Veo 3.1 can do
Text to video
Describe subject, action, setting, camera and sound in one prompt.
First frame to video
Upload one image to use as the opening frame and describe how the scene should move.
Dialogue in quotes
Write lines in quotation marks, for example: the barista says "Your usual?" — and the character speaks them.
Sound effects and ambience
Name the sounds you want — rain on a window, footsteps, a distant train — or turn audio off for silent clips.
4, 6 or 8 seconds
Short, focused shots that are easy to cut together into a longer edit.
Landscape or vertical
16:9 for YouTube and widescreen, 9:16 for Reels, Shorts and TikTok.
Use cases
Starting points you can copy into the generator above.
| Use case | Good for | Example prompt |
|---|---|---|
| Short ads | Product moments with voice-over-style lines and sound. | Close-up of a hand pouring iced coffee into a glass on a sunny café counter, ice cracking and coffee splashing, a woman off-screen says "Summer starts here", warm cinematic light, slow push-in |
| Story scenes | Short dramatic moments with dialogue between characters. | Two friends sitting on a train at night, city lights passing outside, one turns and says "We should have left earlier", the other laughs softly, quiet rumble of the train, handheld medium shot |
| Animate a photo | Bring a still image to life as the first frame. | The camera slowly drifts forward as the lanterns in the picture begin to sway in the evening breeze, distant crowd chatter and soft music |
| Nature and travel | Atmospheric establishing shots with natural sound. | Aerial shot gliding over a misty pine forest at sunrise toward a still lake, birds calling, gentle wind, cinematic color grading |
| Vertical social clips | 9:16 clips made for short-video feeds. | Vertical shot of a street food vendor flipping noodles in a flaming wok at a night market, sizzling and crowd noise, vibrant neon colors |
| Mood pieces | Genre-styled shots for trailers and mood boards. | Film noir style: a detective in a trench coat lights a cigarette under a flickering streetlamp in the rain, saxophone in the distance, black and white, low angle |
Veo 3.1 in 3 steps
- 1
Describe the shot or add a first frame
Write the action, camera and sound; put any spoken lines in quotes. Or upload one image to start the video from.
- 2
Pick duration, resolution and format
Choose 4, 6 or 8 seconds, 720p to 4K, 16:9 or 9:16, and whether to generate audio. The credit cost is shown before you submit.
- 3
Generate and keep your video
Videos take a few minutes and are saved to My works. If a video fails, its credits are refunded automatically.
X Posts About Veo 3.1 — Cinematic AI Videos with Native Audio in 4K
- Google DeepMind@GoogleDeepMind
Veo is getting a major upgrade. 🚀 We’re rolling out Veo 3.1, our updated video generation model, alongside improved creative controls for filmmakers, storytellers, and developers - many of them with audio. 🧵 pic.twitter.com/YQVRxwj7hk
View on X - Google DeepMind@GoogleDeepMind
These are just a handful of capabilities powered by Veo to try in @FlowbyGoogle, through the Gemini API and beyond. Find out more ↓ https://t.co/YpdR3HyEMX
View on X - Google AI@GoogleAI
Meet Veo 3.1 👋 With Veo 3.1, you can generate videos with richer audio, better narrative control, and enhanced realism. This new update also comes with a suite of additional features built for creative control. Including the ability to: — Extend your videos to make them longer… pic.twitter.com/WMH9TQH0w5
View on X - Google AI@GoogleAI
It’s been an unbelie-veo-ble week of launches! Here’s everything that happened: — We launched Veo 3.1 with a suite of new features to give you more creative control of your video generations. — We brought Nano Banana into new surfaces like @Google Search, @NotebookLM, Slides in…
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Frequently asked questions
Yes. Audio is on by default and includes dialogue, sound effects and ambience synchronized with the picture. You can switch it off for a silent clip.
It depends on duration, resolution and audio — from 241 to 961 credits per clip on this site. The exact cost is shown before you submit, and failed videos are refunded.
Yes. Switch to the first-frame mode and upload one image (JPEG, PNG or WebP, up to 10 MB). The video starts from that frame.
Each clip is 4, 6 or 8 seconds (1080p and 4K at 8 seconds). For longer pieces, generate several shots and edit them together.
16:9 landscape or 9:16 vertical. 720p is available at every length; 1080p and 4K are offered for 8-second clips.
No. Veo is a Google model; this is an independent service that runs Veo 3.1 through a model provider.
Ready to Direct Your Scene with Veo 3.1?
Google’s cinematic model: realistic motion, 4K output and native sound in every clip.
- Clips up to 8s
- Native audio
- Failed outputs refunded
