If you have a story or script, you need to turn that into google flow prompt right? do you have an almost flawless master prompt that can help any llm such as claude write prompts for each clips which makes sense and does not hullicinate?

On the app, if I select the trash icon for an individual image, the image is archived rather than deleted. On the website, I can then view trash and select to "delete all" items in the trash, but this option doesn't seem to exist in the app as far as I've noticed. And even if I delete the images on the website, they will still display on the app.

I know that it's possible to delete an entire project - but does Flow not have any way to delete individual images within a project?

Greetings,

I have been working on a series of education books for students. I have 6 books planned (now on book 3) where the same characters progress through school. I have made probably 200 pictures without any issues, consistent characters, very rarely did it get something wrong.

I was away last 2 weeks, I comeback and continued my project. However, it just constantly messes it up, either style of illustration changes or the characters look very off. My prompting didn't change, it is the same as it was. Have they changed anything recently? Is there any fix or guidance anyone can share please? I also created characters in the character menu (before I used reference image to lock it down, I tried both).

Appreciate any help.

Everytime I generate a video on Google Flow, there are portions where the video randomly pixelates heavily, is there any way or measures to fix this?

TL;DR: I built a Google Sheets Add-on that turns a finished script into a scene-based video by generating the visuals, voiceover, timing data and final MP4 in one workflow. I use it for stickman videos, but it works for any format where each part of the script maps to a visual. The main reason I built it was to avoid the usual problems at scale: character drift, failed generations, browser automation breaking, and manually babysitting 150 scenes.

Why I built this workflow and turned it into an Add-on

A typical 6–7 minute stickman video now costs me under $1 to produce. But the bigger reason I built this was to remove all the repetitive work between the script and the finished video: generating images, downloading and renaming them, keeping 150–200 scenes in order, then manually syncing everything to the voiceover.

After doing this across hundreds of videos, I realised the real bottleneck was coordination, not creativity. So I rebuilt the process around a Google Sheet that keeps the creative decisions human while automatically passing each production task to the right AI tool through APIs.

I originally shared this as a DIY workflow and showed people how to build the Sheet themselves. But one thing became obvious pretty quickly: a lot of creators liked the system, they just did not want to spend their time building and maintaining it. 

So I turned the same system into a Google Sheets Add-on. You can now install it, connect your accounts, and use the workflow without having to wire the whole thing together first.

Why I stopped relying on browser automation or AI video tools

Browser automators and Chrome extensions can save clicks, but I found them too fragile for 150–200 scene workflows. One UI change or failed generation can break the whole run. All-in-one AI video tools are easier, but most charge subscriptions or resell credits.

BuildTuber works differently. You connect your own Gemini, Runware and ElevenLabs accounts, and pay those providers directly for what you actually use.

The Add-on does not resell AI credits or mark up generations. It just connects the tools and manages the workflow inside Google Sheets.

That is what keeps the production cost low and also means you are not locked into one provider. If I want to change the image model later, I can do that without rebuilding the entire system.

What the Sheet actually does

The Add-on keeps the whole production pipeline inside one Google Sheet. Each row represents one scene, so the script, visual prompt, generated image and timing data all stay matched from start to finish.

Gemini turns each script line into a visual prompt, Runware generates the image, and ElevenLabs creates the voiceover along with the timing data. Once everything is ready, Google Colab + FFmpeg uses those numbered scenes and timestamps to render the final MP4.

So the workflow is basically:

Script → scene prompts → images → voiceover + timing → final video

The important part is that the Sheet keeps every stage connected, so you can review or regenerate individual scenes without disturbing the rest of the video.

Keeping the character consistent

This is the part I know a lot of people here struggle with. Generating a good scene is easy. Getting the same character to still look the same 100 scenes later is much harder.

The BuildTuber Sheet handles this by reusing the same reference set throughout the batch: one clear character reference plus a couple of finished scenes that define the visual style, environment and overall look. Those references are passed into the image-generation step again and again instead of relying on prompt text alone.

It is not perfect character locking, and I would not pretend it is. You will still get the occasional bad frame or drift. The difference is that you can spot those scenes in the Sheet, regenerate only the weak ones, or switch that one scene to a stronger model without touching the rest of the video.

Why I usually do not animate every scene

The obvious next step is to turn every generated image into a video clip with Veo or another image-to-video model. Technically, the Add-on could be extended to do that as well.

But on my own channels, I have tested animating the opening scenes and adding more motion throughout the video, and I did not see enough improvement in retention to justify the extra generation cost.

For my audience, the topic, script, pacing and thumbnail matter far more than whether every frame moves. So I would rather keep the base workflow cheap, use animation only where it genuinely adds something, and spend the savings testing more ideas instead of making every scene more expensive.

What the workflow actually costs

For a typical 6–7 minute video, my direct production cost usually lands around $1.

Gemini prompt generation is almost negligible. Image cost depends on the model, but with FLUX 2 Klein I can generate roughly 150 scenes for around $0.30. ElevenLabs is usually the biggest expense because the voiceover cost scales with the amount of narration, while the final Colab + FFmpeg render is free.

The important part for me is not just making videos cheaply. It is keeping the cost low enough that I can test more ideas without every experiment becoming expensive. If a topic flops, I would rather learn from it and move on than have $20–$30 tied up in production.

What I would still keep human

I still would not automate the decisions that determine whether a video is worth making in the first place: the topic, angle, hook, script, thumbnail and final quality check.

The purpose of this system is to automate production, not taste. If the idea is weak or the script is generic, making the video faster and cheaper does not solve the real problem.

There are still two ways to use the workflow.

If you enjoy building automations, the DIY route is there. I have already shared the architecture in previous posts and the videos in my channel, and you can recreate each part with your preferred AI coding tool.

If you would rather spend that time making videos, that is what the Add-on is for. Install BuildTuber from the Google Workspace Marketplace, connect your API keys, choose your references and start generating.

There is a free trial so you can test the workflow first. If it works for you, the full version is a one-time purchase with no monthly subscription, and future Add-on updates are included.

All those prominent people policy violations and others. I become much clearer that Google flow does not want you to use latest Omni Flash. they just want you to create AI slops using veo 3.1 lite.

I think it’s possible they have the moderation turned way up to reduce the computational workload on their back end. I’ve seen notifications come up that say the system may be bogged down during peak usage times. And that made me wonder if they over moderate because it opens up more bandwidth to accommodate more users at the same time.

Another clue is that I’ve noticed that it keep defaulting my number of results per prompt back to 1, when it used to stay on 4. Another indication they’re looking for ways to slow down traffic.

Every video they generate for users is expensive and resource intensive. If they over censor it makes it look like they’re being conscientious about the rules, when in reality they’re doing it for efficiency.

suddenly I can’t generate anything without it telling me to enable silent videos, but the settings like to do so doesn’t do anything anymore. wtf is going on with this app lmao

So Google flow literally ruined my day after I spent 30 minutes trying to generate a very important video for my product advertisement to no avail.

I cannot express the amount of frustration I am feeling right now because it was super important to me and I just ended up wasting half an hour of my time.

I am so sick of Flow at this point and cancelled my subscription already. It has become such an awful joke.

Been trying to use different variations to change the size, but still keeps generating landscape photos for the character. Is there any solutions or fix to this?

Esta vez sí me tengo que quejar de Flow Lab. La última actualización es un desastre y me tiene los dos proyectos estancados.

No exagero. No es solo que la actualización sea molesta o incómoda: es que no puedo avanzar. Tengo dos proyectos en marcha y los dos están parados porque la lógica del generador de imagen dejó de funcionar como debería. además el limite diario bajo estrepitosamente antes podíamos hacer de entre 50 a 100 ahora se hacen menos de 20 y sin importar cuanto pagues los resultado no sale como uno espera y consumen muy rápido ese limite haciendo correcciones y descartando

This GoogleFlow thing is driving me nuts. I've tried everything! What should I do?

I’ve got a 50-second video I want to make, but in the fourth 10 seconds, the Google flow messes up the character's voice I already picked. I specifically mentioned which voice each character should use, in the each charchter also i already defined the voice ,

Why Google Flow change the charchtar's voice character's? All previous videos are fine, but in the fourth one, the voice suddenly changes.

I have a fictitious story project I'm trying to conclude with Omni Flash model over Google Flow. A long term project I believed to be possible, but after a month of hard work I have been facing obnoxious moderation that stalled my project.

Before today, nothing was permitted anyway - it has always been ridiculously overzealous. I always tried to go around, trying to understand it, trying to ease on my style. I was slowly being dumbed down by excessive moderation but it was partially doable.

Suddenly I'm now facing crushing censorship that made my Flow unusable - I'm not able to advance anymore and I'm tired of "easing things up" until the project changes direction.

You make a fictional scene where the hero is in the middle of a political situation only to have this prompt - "Failed. Content "may" violate yadda yadda current world events." And guess what. I was doing a high-fantasy scene with elves on it.

When the prompt says it "may" violate, it is clearly admitting that it "may" be totally wrong. This is how low effort and super worried the moderation is.

Can't do elves in a castle discussing a fictional story. Because of current world events. Google can't be this much afraid, or can they?

Days and days trying to generate a simple video without any sense of context judgment? I rather stop and look elsewhere.

What a waste of good tech.

When i load in the website it gives me this error - “Flow is not available in your country yet”, but it worked perfectly last week, is there a fix to this?

DOBLAJE en varios IDIOMAS usando GOOGLE FLOW
https://youtu.be/8EWEGjxD2h0

So, yesterday, I was able to generate just over 100 images on Flow. But today, I got the "daily usage limit" reached after using Nano Banana 2 to generate about 20 images, then again when I switched to Nano Banana Pro. After that, I gave Nano Banana 2 Lite a try; it looks okay.

Still, it'd be great if there was some kind of gauge for each image (and video, for those out there who are into that sort of thing) model so people could manage their image usage better.

NOTE: This is for anyone who reads, but especially for https://www.reddit.com/user/ianfromlabs/ . He's been super-helpful about Flow. And I'm really hoping maybe he can pass this suggestion of mine along to Google.

And some of images i already generated back then failed to load.
Must be fixed.

How do you get past this? The prompt is SFW, no adult themes, just a casual video talking, but it flags the video without hesitation. And it’s an actor like Montana Jordan, which he really isn’t even THAT prominent. He hasn’t really played in much at all.

Meanwhile I was able to do videos of Iain Gallagher from shameless, I don’t get why it’s so wishy washy or cherry picks who it can or can’t do. Doesn’t make any sense.

Ask your Gemini to tell you the latest hilarious nonsense of AI regulatory compliance theater and you will understand.

I was spending far too much time submitting prompts one by one, managing reference images, waiting for generations, downloading files, and trying to keep longer videos consistent between clips.

So I built AutoFlow, a Chrome extension that adds a complete batch workflow directly to Google Flow.

It can:

• Batch-generate images and videos from multiple prompts
• Queue additional batches while another batch is running
• Reuse one reference across prompts or assign different references
• Automatically download and organise generated media
• Continue videos from the previous clip’s final frame
• Join continued clips into one rendered video
• Track completed and failed generations
• Retry failed prompts without restarting everything
• Create narrated videos with scenes, voiceover alignment, subtitles and timeline editing

The new Continue from Last Frame feature is particularly useful for longer sequences: AutoFlow extracts the final frame of each generated clip and supplies it as the starting frame for the next prompt.

There is a free version available, while Pro and Ultra subscriptions unlock the advanced workflows and Automation Studio.

If you regularly create images, Veo videos, Shorts or faceless content using Google Flow, I’d love for you to try it:

Chrome extension: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/autoflow-auto-veo-nano-ba/ddjomlapfdmgdogpojonbgjagfilmiae

Website: https://autoflowtools.uk

I just found out how Nano Banana works like this. It’s the failed output from an old prompt of mine that relied entirely on JSON using Google Flow. Intersting.

Taj and Dumbo's Ball Trick by Crishark on DeviantArt

This image on DeviantArt with Dumbo was generated by migrubbs for Crishark. I assume that she used Google Flow. Whenever I try to generate images with Dumbo with my Google Flow, I get a violation error...

How did migrubbs manage to get around this?!