
The feature means you can now simply doodle on an image (or video frame) in any app of your choosing, upload the picture to Frames to Video — and Flow will understand it and compose the video around it:
We just discovered the 🔥 COOLEST 🔥 trick in Flow that we have to share:
Instead of wordsmithing the perfect prompt, you can just… draw it. Take the image of your scene, doodle what you'd like on it (through any editing app), and then briefly describe what needs to happen… pic.twitter.com/zEnfO3ouCl
— Google Labs (@GoogleLabs) July 24, 2025
That means you don’t have to spend endless time and energy trying to come up with a plot for your scenes in a text prompt, which can get very specific and convoluted for detailed compositions.
Like an old visual script
Now, you can simply draw your scene — and even add some notes in your own writing about how it should look.
It’s almost like writing a visual script book like a proper artist.
A lot of X users have been giving it a try, and it seems a much simpler way to use Veo 3, although some are asking for a proper in-app user interface for the feature:
Google just discovered a powerful emergent capability in Veo 3 – visually annotate your instructions on the start frame, and Veo just does it for you!
Instead of iterating endlessly on the perfect prompt, defining complex spatial relationships in words, you can just draw it out… pic.twitter.com/DWsxiVGBuq
— Bilawal Sidhu (@bilawalsidhu) July 25, 2025