Tonight I tried out Google’s newly released video-generation AI. Just like I guessed a few days ago, it’s already been rolled down into the Pro plan.
Every AI-generated clip comes out at eight seconds long. I spent tonight really putting it through its paces.
The most obvious takeaway: eight seconds from the Pro tier is still too short. A lot of scenes don’t even have time to set up properly before the clip ends. That said, what actually makes it into those eight seconds is still fairly rich.
But there’s one clear problem: Chinese-language support isn’t great. Chinese keywords I typed in would either get read as English or just dropped entirely.
If I forced it to use Chinese text, I’d often end up with garbled characters. Sticking to English text worked fine.
Overall, that part of the experience wasn’t great. Also, if you don’t specify what a character in the scene looks like, it defaults to generating what looks like a Western news reporter.
Hopefully future versions improve on this — longer clips, and better Chinese-language support.
