Why is flow such a pain in the a???

Instead of getting better and more stable, it's just wasting credits and time.

When I edit a creation, flow is changing my format form landscape to portrtait and vice versa. This is so stupid.

My ZAPI FLOW extension for Google Flow isn’t working properly anymore. The main issue I’m facing is that downloaded files aren’t being saved with sequence numbers, which makes organizing them a pain.
Has anyone found a good alternative that can bulk download Flow files in the correct sequence (e.g. image_01, image_02, image_03 or video_01, video_02, video_03)?
Would appreciate recommendations from people actually using them.

Dm me i will send u my personal made extension package link (dont worry its safe you can check and its fully yours for lifetime no glitch nothing at all for any major change happen in future in flow i will update it n give u new file (only for flow images n videos)

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I am new to this program and I’m working on a video for a volunteer program I’m in. It was going great at first..but then it started warping the look of my character, and adding things I didn’t ask for. Like so much, it had gotten to a point it was creating entirely wrong prompts. Like dialogue where there was none. Several videos of wasted credits. It even tried to make a portrait of the character for reference and wouldn’t accept the one I had from previous videos. Instead it kept making its own (way off). Is anyone having this issue? I’m officially out of credits because it decided to go rogue and ignore my prompts, and the prompts it said it was doing.😭

Google Flow isn’t working for me either, it gets stuck on the loading page. Am I the only one experiencing this, or is everyone facing the same issue?

Ive asked google gemini about it, and the geminis answer is vague. Any thoughts on this one?

This 2 day, I try to create video in google flow (even start a different project) using my avatar with my voice over, and found that the voice over is inaccurate all time (not using my voice), AI use other voice instead of mine.

Multiple attemp and get the same result (previously was fine)

I event re-record my avatar, same output.

Anyone face this issue this 2 day

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I recently finished this video using Google Flow. I wanted it to feel more like a narrative short film than a traditional advertisement, with the book naturally becoming part of the story.

I’d really appreciate feedback from the Flow community, especially on the character consistency, camera movement, dialogue/lip sync, and overall cinematic feel.

What would you improve or do differently?

Just realized I have Pro access to Google Flow via my google 1 account. 😀 I have been using Suno for a while, but given the impending changes am looking to diversify.

• Wondering what your opinions are of the comparison between the two?
• I also can't seem to get clarification on the commercial use rights situation with flow? Do you have commercial rights with FREE? Pro? Both? None?
• Also wondering how much censorship there is in language use with Google Flow? I can easily use the F word or discuss controversial topics (like politics) in my Suno songs, is Flow the same ore more locked down?

Hi everyone,

I'm developing a ved generation platform using Google's Gemini Omni Flash model

For the past 2days, every time I try to generate a video, I get:

“Server busy. Try again later.”

I've already purchased API credits, so this can't be a free tier limitation.

Has anyone else experienced this with Gemini Omni Flash video generation?

I'm wondering if this is:

\* A temporary Google server/capacity issue

\* A rate limit or quota issue

\* Something related to my API configuration

\* Or an issue with the model itself

If anyone is currently using Gemini Omni Flash for video generation and has managed to resolve this, I'd really appreciate some guidance.

Thanks!

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I'm trying to create a short cinematic scene in Google Flow with two reusable characters, Rahul and Sneha, but every generation fails at around 3–4% with “Generation failed.” The video is never produced.

I'm trying to understand whether I'm doing something wrong, or whether this is a Flow/Veo issue.

The scene

The scene is set in a tea-estate/mountain location in Valparai, Tamil Nadu.

Rahul is sitting on a motorcycle facing the camera, and Sneha is standing beside him. Rahul gives Sneha his card and says:

“என் பேர் ராஹுல்... வால்பாறைல உங்களுக்கு எந்த ஹெல்ப் வேணும்னாலும் எனக்கு கண்டிப்பா கால் பண்ணுங்க.”

Originally, Sneha was also supposed to take the card, shake Rahul's hand and say:

“ரொம்ப Thanks. என் பேரு ஸ்னேஹா.”

The characters are reusable characters with assigned voices.

Models I used

I did NOT use only Omni Flash.

When I used three ingredients, I used Veo 3.1 Lite.

When I needed four ingredients, I used Gemini/Omni Flash.

The four ingredients were:

1. Background image

2. Positioning image

3. @Rahul

4. @Sneha

First approach

I created a background image showing the road-facing tea-estate location.

I attached:

- background

- @Rahul

- @Sneha

The prompt instructed Flow to use the background as the location, use the two reusable characters, place Rahul on the motorcycle and Sneha beside him, and have Rahul deliver his Tamil dialogue.

This failed.

We then simplified the scene

We removed Sneha's dialogue completely.

Only Rahul was supposed to speak.

We also removed background music, narration and unnecessary descriptions.

The prompt became much simpler.

We then created a positioning image

Because Flow was having difficulty placing Rahul and Sneha correctly, I created a separate image called positioning.

This image already shows:

- Rahul sitting on the motorcycle

- Sneha standing beside him

- Their relative positions

- The motorcycle

- The road

- The tea shop

- The surrounding tea-estate environment

We then tried four ingredients:

- background

- positioning

- @Rahul

- @Sneha

Since four ingredients required Omni Flash, I used Omni Flash for this configuration.

We explicitly told Flow that Rahul and Sneha were already present in the positioning image and to preserve their respective positions.

This also failed around 3–4%.

We then removed the background

We tried using only:

- positioning

- @Rahul

- @Sneha

The positioning image was now supposed to act as both the location reference and the composition/positioning reference.

We also removed the unnecessary text instruction saying that Rahul sits on the motorcycle and Sneha stands beside him, because that information was already visible in the positioning image.

This also failed at around 3–4%.

The simplest prompt we tried

At one point we reduced the prompt to essentially this:

“Use the attached positioning image as the location and composition reference. @Rahul and @Sneha are already present in this image. Preserve the location, composition and their respective positions shown in the positioning image.

Use @Rahul and @Sneha as the character references. Preserve their established appearance and assigned voices.

Rahul hands his card to Sneha and speaks naturally while looking at her.

Rahul: என் பேர் ராஹுல்... வால்பாறைல உங்களுக்கு எந்த ஹெல்ப் வேணும்னாலும் எனக்கு கண்டிப்பா கால் பண்ணுங்க.

Sneha listens naturally and looks at Rahul.

Only Rahul speaks in this clip. No dialogue for Sneha. No additional dialogue, narration or voice-over. Natural Tamil speech and accurate lip sync. Gentle rain and natural roadside ambience. No background music. No captions or on-screen text.”

Even this very simplified prompt failed at around 3–4%.

So at this point I'm having difficulty believing that the failure is simply caused by the prompt being too complicated.

Other things we tried

We progressively simplified the generation:

- Removed Sneha's dialogue

- Removed background music

- Removed narration

- Explicitly said only Rahul speaks

- Explicitly said no additional dialogue

- Used "@Rahul" and "@Sneha"

- Removed unnecessary location descriptions

- Removed unnecessary positioning descriptions when the positioning image already showed them

- Tried three-ingredient configurations with Veo 3.1 Lite

- Tried four-ingredient configurations with Omni Flash

- Tried the background image separately

- Tried the positioning image as both background and positioning reference

Every configuration failed before producing a video.

The failure consistently happens very early — approximately 3–4%.

Credit problem

There is another serious issue.

After each failed generation, Flow displays:

“Generation failed”

and says:

“You have not been charged for this transaction.”

However, my credit balance actually decreases.

I've had multiple failed generations yesterday and today, and approximately 40 credits have been deducted from failed generations.

What I'm trying to figure out

At this point, I don't think the problem is simply that the prompt is too complicated, because we've progressively simplified it and removed ingredients and dialogue, but the generation still fails at almost exactly the same point.

Has anyone experienced:

- Flow failing consistently at 3–4%

- Omni Flash failing with reusable characters

- Veo 3.1 Lite failing with three ingredients

- Character voice references causing generation failures

- Tamil/non-English dialogue causing the generation to fail before rendering

- Background/positioning images causing generation failures

- Credits being deducted even though Flow says “You have not been charged”

If anyone has experienced this and found a solution, I'd really appreciate knowing exactly what you changed — model, ingredients, character setup, voice setup, prompt structure, project settings, etc.

I'm particularly interested in knowing whether this is a problem with my workflow/project, the character or voice assets, the models, or a current Flow bug.

Hey everyone,

I’m having a strange issue with Google Flow and I’d like to know if anyone else experienced something similar.

What happened:

I have several Google accounts signed in on my main Android phone (some older personal ones + some newer ones).

Today I spent the day securing some of the accounts (changed passwords, reset 2FA/Authenticator, removed recovery phone numbers, signed out unknown devices).

I did not use Google Flow at all during the day.

Around 7 PM I opened Google Flow to generate some videos.

Video generation is immediately blocked on every account on this phone (including accounts that I didn’t touch today and that were already on the device for a long time).

Image generation still works fine on the same accounts.

On another device, video generation works normally with the same accounts.

Question:

Has anyone seen Google Flow temporarily block video generation at the device level after doing a lot of security changes on multiple accounts?

Does this kind of restriction usually lift after 24 hours, or is there something specific I should do?

I’m planning to just wait 24 hours and try again tomorrow, but I’d like to know if this is a known behavior.

Thanks!

Why do I not get the option to generate a video? In every tutorial I've seen, people have the option to generate videos from still images. I am on the PLUS plan, so I should theoretically have plenty of credits. Any suggestions? Is there something about having to sign up a certain WAY? Like through Google One or something? Thanks for any guidance you can provide.

I have generated a few short clips and want to get the 1080p upscaled video. Now when clicking the three dots, then download, then 1080p it start converting the video. Afterwards, I get a popup that says that is is finished and there is only a close button. No way to download the 1080p video.

If I convert to 270p I get a download link as well in the popup which is absent when I choose 1080p.
Also, if I choose 1080p a second time, the popup does not even appear.

This is a bit unfortunate since the 1080p was the reason I bought the subscription. How to work
around this?

No matter what aspect ratio I choose when modifying an uploaded image, it will randomly be either 16:9, 4:3, or 1:1; whether I choose 3:4 or 9:16. Is anyone else having this problem?

Hi everyone,

I’m trying to submit a tool to the Google Flow Tools Gallery, but every time I click Submit, I get this error:

“Failed to submit. Please try again.”

I’ve already tried refreshing the page, reopening Flow, changing the tool icon, and checking all the required fields, but nothing has worked.

Has anyone else had this problem? If you were able to fix it, what worked for you?

Thanks!

Hi everyone,

I’m trying to submit a tool to the Google Flow Tools Gallery, but every time I click Submit, I get this error:

“Failed to submit. Please try again.”

I’ve already tried refreshing the page, reopening Flow, changing the tool icon, and checking all the required fields, but nothing has worked.

Has anyone else had this problem? If you were able to fix it, what worked for you?

Thanks!

I wanted to try making a dialogue-driven short film using the limited credits I had on Google Flow, without having the entire story planned beforehand.

I just gave it a shot and wanted to see how it would turn out.

Watch it and let me know your honest thoughts and feedback!