Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash extends a shot to forty seconds and drafts it in 360p first

Google released Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash on August 27, a set of creative controls for generative video aimed at developers rather than at people making one clip at a time. The theme running through all of them is iteration: draft cheaply, keep continuity across cuts, and pay for resolution only once the shot is right.

Continuity is the substantive change

Scene extension continues an existing video from where it stopped. What is new is how much the model looks back: Omni 1.1 analyses up to ten seconds of prior context, where earlier models referenced only the final second. Clips extend in ten-second increments to a cumulative length of forty seconds.

Alongside it, first and last frame specification generates the footage between two keyframes, which is what makes orbits, dolly-zooms and seamless loops reproducible rather than lucky. Multimodal input now accepts up to three seconds of video as a reference, so a character or a movement can be carried from one shot into another.

Draft cheap, finish expensive

A 360p draft mode generates previews up to 60 percent faster and at a third of the cost of the model's standard 720p. Google footnotes the speed claim as system throughput of 360p against 720p, not a wall-clock guarantee. Finished output upscales to 1080p or 4K.

Google published a pricing table as an image rather than as text on the announcement page, so the per-second and per-token figures are not quoted here. Anyone budgeting a pipeline should read the pricing page directly.

Where it is available

The model is reachable through the Gemini API in Google AI Studio and through the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform API for businesses. Beyond developers, Omni 1.1 is available in Google Flow to all Google AI Plus, Pro and Ultra subscribers globally from the day of the announcement, and scene extension alone is in the Gemini app for those same tiers.

Runway, which builds its own video tools on multiple models, is quoted in the announcement describing Omni Flash as another way for its users to move between ideas, which is a fair description of where a model like this sits: inside somebody else's editor more often than on its own.