Veo 3.1 extend video validation error - Files API

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Hey,

I’m trying to implement VEO 3.1 extend video capability for my project. Here’s the step by step workflow:

  • A process is responsible of generating videos. After it generates a video using VEO 3.1, it saves it to GCS.
  • When using extend video capability, another process downloads the generated file from GCS and uploads it using files API for model to use. When I use the uri of the uploaded file as video parameter for extend video API, I’m getting an error response:

VideoGenExtend Error: {“error”:{“code”:400,“message”:“Input video must be a video that was generated by VEO that has been processed.”,“status”:“INVALID_ARGUMENT”}}

Can you confirm if the error is related to using a different uri (from files api) that is not from video generation result ? If so, it doesn’t make sense because the generated videos have 2 days retention period.

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Hi @Okan , Welcome to forum!!!

Thanks for reaching out to us. Could you please confirm whether you’re passing the original VEO-generated video reference into the extend video API, or a URI from a video that was downloaded and re-uploaded?

Thanks.

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Hi, thank you!

It is URI from a video that was downloaded and re-uploaded.

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Hi @Okan ,

Thank you for your response. To extend videos previously generated using Veo, please note that the Gemini API supports video extensions only for Veo-generated videos. The video must come from a prior generation, such as operation.response.generated_videos[0].video.

For more details, please refer to the documentation.

Thanks

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Hi @Nireeksha_K_A
Yes, I know it. The issue I want to resolve is:
As it stated in the documentation:
”Generated videos are stored on the server for 2 days, after which they are removed. To save a local copy, you must download your video within 2 days of generation. Extended videos are treated as newly generated videos.”

If I want to use extend video on a veo generated video, there’s no way to do it after 2 days. Is that correct ?

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Hello,

There has been a while since I posted and this is crucial for my project. Is there any news about this ?

Thank you!