Veo 3 Makes Yesterdayโs Best Look Like a Beta Test + Runway & Midjourney Check-In
Midjourney Fast Hours, Episode 40 After a short hiatus (blame conferences and caffeine dependency), the Rory Flynn and Drew Brucker break down Googleโs shiny new Flow suite โ with its Veo 3 video model, sound + dialogue generation, and confusing-as-hell product naming. They talk strategy, cost, coherence, and why it still feels like Midjourney has that โmagic dustโ no one else can replicate.Along the way: Runway love, layering hacks, JSON secrets, interior design with arrows, and 3D dogs with job titles. Itโs fun. Itโs weird. Itโs chaotic. But youโll probably walk away with 3 ideas you want to try right away.Also, someone paid $125 just to tell you whether it's worth it. (You're welcome.)---Midjourney Fast Hour0:00 โ When did this madness begin?2:19 โ AI video is finally getting spicy3:29 โ Googleโs Flow Suite: Veo 3, sound, and coherence5:02 โ Google's confusing product soup: Flow, Gemini, Imagen, Whisk10:45 โ Pricing pain: Is Veo 3 worth the $125?13:09 โ Veo 2 vs Veo 3: Best value tips and tradeoffs15:08 โ Prompt accuracy and physics: Is Google really listening?17:53 โ Why less prompt effort = better results now19:40 โ Veo 3 vs Kling vs Midjourney: Prompting philosophies20:52 โ Scene builder: Longer takes and smart extension workflows22:34 โ The catch: extending drops quality and loses sound24:17 โ New image-to-video support + third-party images25:41 โ Ingredients-based generation and persistent characters27:10 โ Frame extraction: finally, a feature we all needed28:08 โ Timeline editing, upscaling, and staying inside the tool29:48 โ Sora vs Veo 3 vs Runway: usability and consistency31:43 โ Canva, Figma, Framer: Tools are becoming monsters35:33 โ Figmaโs new AI website builder is wild36:40 โ Prompting sneaker ads and JSON-based design37:09 โ Why training teams on AI is almost impossible38:07 โ Hedra who? Veo 3 makes fast pivots a must39:55 โ Midjourney's next move: what video could look like41:11 โ Runwayโs underrated features and clever reference hacks44:26 โ Scene sketching and layout prompting: mind blown47:25 โ Interior design from mood board to layout to render49:45 โ Lighting direction via floorplans = next-gen hack52:53 โ Try-on tech and Chrome extensions54:22 โ Style consistency with JSON + ChatGPT58:23 โ Mass-generating stylized icons and dogs with jobs1:02:36 โ Midjourney updates: V7.1, personalization, and video1:05:01 โ What Midjourney must get right with video1:07:18 โ The one-shot window to impress1:09:23 โ Bring back the Midjourney magic1:11:14 โ Wrap-up: chaotic times, coherent thoughts, caffeinated takes