# Google Launches Gemini Omni Flash for Conversational Video Editing

> Google is turning video editing into a conversation. Gemini Omni Flash lets you describe a change in plain language, swap a character or relight a scene, and it applies the edit while preserving the original audio. It also generates audio natively alongside video output, so sound and picture come from the same model rather than being stitched together afterward. Pricing lands at $0.10 per second of generated video, and the feature is rolling out globally to Google AI Plus, Pro, and Ultra subscribers, plus consumer-facing homes in YouTube Shorts Remix and the YouTube Create app. That distribution is the real weapon here, putting generative editing in front of the people who already make short-form video every day. The broader story is multimodal models graduating from party tricks to production tools. When relighting and character swaps become a typed instruction rather than a specialist's afternoon, the line between casual creator and studio blurs, and the questions about consent and provenance that trail synthetic video get a lot more urgent.

_Section: [Daily AI Updates](https://www.wortins.com/daily-ai) · Source: Google Cloud · Published Thursday, July 16, 2026_

## Wortins' read

Google is turning video editing into a conversation. Gemini Omni Flash lets you describe a change in plain language, swap a character or relight a scene, and it applies the edit while preserving the original audio. It also generates audio natively alongside video output, so sound and picture come from the same model rather than being stitched together afterward. Pricing lands at $0.10 per second of generated video, and the feature is rolling out globally to Google AI Plus, Pro, and Ultra subscribers, plus consumer-facing homes in YouTube Shorts Remix and the YouTube Create app. That distribution is the real weapon here, putting generative editing in front of the people who already make short-form video every day. The broader story is multimodal models graduating from party tricks to production tools. When relighting and character swaps become a typed instruction rather than a specialist's afternoon, the line between casual creator and studio blurs, and the questions about consent and provenance that trail synthetic video get a lot more urgent.

## Source

[Read the full story at Google Cloud](https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/nano-banana-2-lite-and-gemini-omni-flash-available)

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