Hosted video models, hands on

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Text, image and first-and-last-frame to video

Lesson 3 of 10 in Hosted video models, hands on.

Checked against the makers' documentation on 25 September 2026.

Veo 3.1 - Frames to video · Google DeepMind
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In code the three routes differ by one or two fields. Text to video needs only the prompt. Image to video adds an image to the same source object, and Veo uses it as the opening frame. First and last frame keeps that image and adds last_frame to the settings, which Google's docs describe as a constraint on the generation rather than an input. On 25 September 2026 the API refused it. The SDK and raw REST both got 'Your use case is currently not supported', moving lastFrame into the parameters got 'lastFrame isn't supported by this model' on Lite, Fast and Standard, and none of it was charged.

textpromptall openimagemotiononlystill =frame 1frame 1 fixedtwo endsmotiononlyframe 1lastframerefused 25 septwo ends today: gemini omni did it, veo would not
Three routes into Veo: text only leaves every frame to the model; image to video fixes the first frame; first and last frame fixes both ends but was refused by the Gemini API on 25 September 2026, while Omni's two-image route worked.
An ink drawing of two tea tins on a dark shelf, the first closed and the second open with its lid leaning against it, joined by a dotted arc.
Two fixed ends, and the model only has to invent the path between them.
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  1. Question 1, locked

    Which of these words means this? “Words only. Veo invents the subject, the set, the light and the move.”

    • Gemini API
    • Text to video
    • Task
    • First and last frame
  2. Question 2, locked

    Which of these words means this? “Your still becomes frame one, and the prompt only has to describe what moves.”

    • X-Runway-Version
    • Motion prompt
    • Hit rate
    • Image to video
  3. Question 3, locked

    Which of these words means this? “Two stills pin both ends of a clip. Omni did it for us; the API refused it for Veo.”

    • Native audio
    • Forced length
    • First and last frame
    • Export

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