Veo / Flow Generation Issues, Lost Credits, Consistency Problems, and Excessive Failed Generations

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I’m submitting this because I’m honestly frustrated and I’ve reached a point where using Veo and Flow feels more stressful than creative.

I create story-based content and spend a significant amount of time planning scenes, continuity, prompts, references, and character consistency. My projects are not random one-off generations. They are connected sequences with recurring characters, environments, and ongoing narratives.

The biggest issue is that I’m repeatedly losing generations while trying to create content that should reasonably work.

Some of the problems I keep running into:

1. Constant failed generations

I repeatedly receive:

“I can’t generate that video. Try describing another idea. You can also get tips for how to write prompts and review our video policy guidelines.”

The issue is that many of these prompts are NOT violating policy.

These are often simple lifestyle scenes:

  • characters walking

  • entering rooms

  • sitting at tables

  • adjusting bags

  • rooftop scenes

  • museum scenes

  • friends talking

  • everyday interactions

Nothing explicit.

Nothing unsafe.

Nothing extreme.

Yet the system refuses them anyway.

After spending time planning prompts and references, this becomes extremely frustrating.

2. Lost generations feel expensive

Every failed attempt matters.

Creators do not have unlimited attempts.

When a generation fails:

  • time is lost

  • workflow breaks

  • creative momentum disappears

  • generation limits get burned

  • upload schedules get delayed

This is especially frustrating when working with daily limits.

I feel like I’m spending more time fighting the system than creating.

3. Character consistency is extremely unstable

This is probably my biggest complaint.

I use recurring characters.

I carefully establish:

  • outfits

  • shoes

  • hairstyles

  • accessories

  • body proportions

  • environments

  • visual identity

Then Veo changes things anyway.

Examples:

Character shoes randomly changing

Hair changing unexpectedly

Facial details appearing or disappearing

Objects moving

Characters morphing

Unexpected body changes

New features appearing that were never requested

Wardrobe swaps

Continuity breaks between clips

This becomes a huge issue for episodic storytelling.

4. Movement quality feels inconsistent

Sometimes motion looks great.

Other times:

Characters move in slow motion

Walking becomes unnatural

Simple actions barely happen

Small gestures get ignored

Characters freeze

Movements become stiff

Actions requested in prompts do not occur

A scene asking for “walk into room and sit” can become:

walk halfway

pause

stand still

slow-motion movement

incorrect body positioning

This makes multi-scene storytelling difficult.

5. Flow and Veo struggle with continuation projects

I build connected stories.

Clip A leads into Clip B.

Clip B leads into Clip C.

Current issues:

identity drift

environment drift

camera mismatch

character replacements

object switching

continuity loss

Characters stop looking like themselves.

Scenes stop matching.

Previous references appear ignored.

It feels like every clip starts from zero again.

6. Prompt sensitivity feels unpredictable

Sometimes small wording changes completely break generations.

I’ve had prompts rejected that were almost identical to prompts that worked earlier.

The inconsistency makes it difficult to understand:

what is allowed

what triggered rejection

whether policy actually blocked it

or if generation simply failed

More transparency would help creators.

7. Error feedback is too vague

The current message:

“I can’t generate that video…”

does not explain:

WHY it failed

Which part triggered it

If it was policy

If it was motion

If it was character issues

If it was system instability

If it was temporary

Creators are left guessing.

Please give actual feedback.

Even:

“camera instruction issue”

“motion conflict”

“policy review”

“continuity instability”

would help.

8. Request to Google

Please improve:

  • continuity retention

  • recurring character memory

  • outfit locking

  • shoe locking

  • object consistency

  • movement realism

  • continuation workflows

  • clearer rejection reasons

  • protection against wasted generations

  • recovery when generations fail

Please also consider refunding failed generations when videos never render.

Creators are investing real time into these projects.

I genuinely want to keep using Veo and Flow because the potential is incredible.

But right now it feels like I’m battling the tools instead of creating with them.

I’m frustrated because I care about the platform and want it to work.

2

I have the same frustration. I don’t know what to do.

Today it’s more frustrating cause when i provide a ref image, ut changes everything characters and environment.

3

Keep changing my Character in the prompt and cause inconsistency using the Agent

4

Yup, the quality that Veo generate is below cheap / free ai generator. It didn’t give what you want. Unknown character, location, wrong ratio, don’t know how to follow a simple prompt.

It just take/rob your credit. Veo can’t even make a proper video, there are more toward robbing your money.

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Our team all feel the same. Google appear to be launching updates and celebrating while the reality for heavy ultra users is very different. Characters created as part of Omni update and then day or two later the character has disappeared from inventory.

Constant battle with prompts that go against policy - but nothing specific is stated.

Try lodge a ticket and you will get 10 hours of homework designed to wear users down. There is still unresolved tickets from late Feb when Gemini lost all of our history in research chats.

Ultra users should have been taken better care of.