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# Generate videos with AI
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Use case
Input
Output
Social content
Text prompt
Short video clips
Product demos
Product image
Animated product video
Creative apps
User prompts
Generated video content
Marketing
Static images
Animated banners
`, `
prompt
video
A serene mountain lake at sunrise with mist rising from the
water
`, `
image
video
`, `
Mode
Input
Use case
Text-to-video
Text prompt
Create videos from descriptions
Image-to-video
Image
Animate static images
`, `
Model
Description
veo-2.0-generate-001
Latest Veo model for high-quality video
`];
Create videos from text prompts or animate images using Google’s Veo
model.
## Problem
You need to generate video content programmatically—for social media,
product demos, or creative applications.
## Solution
**What’s in this recipe:**
* Generate videos from text prompts
* Animate existing images into videos
* Store prompts and generated videos together
Use Google’s Veo model to generate videos. Videos are
cached—regeneration only happens if the prompt changes.
### Setup
```python theme={null}
%pip install -qU pixeltable google-genai
```
```python theme={null}
import getpass
import os
if 'GEMINI_API_KEY' not in os.environ:
os.environ['GEMINI_API_KEY'] = getpass.getpass(
'Google AI Studio API Key: '
)
```
```python theme={null}
import pixeltable as pxt
from pixeltable.functions import gemini
```
```python theme={null}
# Create a fresh directory
pxt.drop_dir('video_gen_demo', force=True)
pxt.create_dir('video_gen_demo')
```
Connected to Pixeltable database at: postgresql+psycopg://postgres:@/pixeltable?host=/Users/pjlb/.pixeltable/pgdata
Created directory 'video\_gen\_demo'.
\
### Generate videos from text prompts
```python theme={null}
# Create a table for text-to-video generation
videos = pxt.create_table(
'video_gen_demo/text_to_video', {'prompt': pxt.String}
)
# Add computed column that generates videos
videos.add_computed_column(
video=gemini.generate_videos(
videos.prompt, model='veo-2.0-generate-001'
)
)
```
Created table 'text\_to\_video'.
Added 0 column values with 0 errors.
No rows affected.
```python theme={null}
# Generate a video from a text prompt
videos.insert(
[
{
'prompt': 'A serene mountain lake at sunrise with mist rising from the water'
}
]
)
# View the result
videos.select(videos.prompt, videos.video).collect()
```
Inserting rows into \`text\_to\_video\`: 1 rows \[00:00, 190.68 rows/s]
Inserted 1 row with 0 errors.
### Animate images into videos
```python theme={null}
# Create a table for image-to-video generation
animated = pxt.create_table(
'video_gen_demo/image_to_video',
{'image': pxt.Image, 'description': pxt.String},
)
# Add computed column that animates images
animated.add_computed_column(
video=gemini.generate_videos(
image=animated.image, model='veo-2.0-generate-001'
)
)
```
Created table 'image\_to\_video'.
Added 0 column values with 0 errors.
No rows affected.
```python theme={null}
# Animate an image
base_url = 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pixeltable/pixeltable/main/docs/resources/images'
animated.insert(
[
{
'image': f'{base_url}/000000000030.jpg',
'description': 'Beach scene',
}
]
)
# View the animated result
animated.select(animated.image, animated.video).collect()
```
Inserting rows into \`image\_to\_video\`: 1 rows \[00:00, 291.88 rows/s]
Inserted 1 row with 0 errors.
## Explanation
**Generation modes:**
**Veo model options:**
**Tips:**
* Prompts work best when descriptive and specific
* Generated videos are cached - same prompt returns cached result
* Image-to-video preserves the composition of the input image
* New rows automatically generate videos on insert
**Requirements:**
* Google AI Studio API key (set `GEMINI_API_KEY`)
* `pip install google-genai`
## See also
* [Extract frames from
videos](/howto/cookbooks/video/video-extract-frames) -
Pull frames from generated videos
* [Add text
overlays](/howto/cookbooks/video/video-add-text-overlay) -
Add captions to videos
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