Video-to-video keeps the source blocking; a prompt cannot restage it
Footage in, altered footage out — camera and timing survive. Omni Flash Edit and Lucy Restyle are that mode. Asking for a different shot is a generate.
/glossary/video-to-video is footage in, altered footage out — camera and timing survive. Omni Flash Edit (13cr) and Lucy Restyle (1cr) are that mode. Asking for a different shot is a generate.
The glossary page is the definition. This page is the routing mistake: treating a restyle instruction as a new camera. If the walk, the hand, and the cut points already exist in a file, you are not allowed to describe a different room and call the result an edit. The source blocking is the brief. A prompt cannot restage it.
Footage in, structure survives
The glossary already says what the mode is. Own this: if blocking is in the file, a prompt is not a second camera. “Make it snow” is a surface change. “Make it a different shot” is a generate wearing an edit label. Contradict the source motion and you get the old walk with artefacts on top. A single frame can look perfect while the sequence flickers.
No new blocking. No new performance. If you needed those, you needed a generate. The AI video generator runs a generate row when the idea is still a sentence. It is the wrong door when the idea is already a take. Video editing is captions, crop, hard cuts — when you do not need new pixels. Video-to-video sits between those: new surface, same structure.
Omni Flash Edit is the 13-credit retouch
Gemini Omni Flash Edit is Google Gemini Omni Flash — conversational video editing, video-to-video. Category: edit-video. Catalog credits: 13. audio is false. No duration enum. No output resolution on the snapshot. The input is a video, not a still.
Write the change: warmer grade, red jacket, tighter window, mug swapped for the branded can. Everything you did not name is supposed to survive. That is how blocking stays. Re-roll is a new sample — new person, new table, new logo that is almost the logo. “One more generate” is two almosts and a lost take.
Catalog audio is false. Do not ask the mouth to say a new line. Do not claim a soundtrack this row does not list. One continuous plate in, one revised plate out. Three setups is three generates, then a cut. Edit requires the file. A crop is not a new shot. Asking for another eight seconds from a blank prompt is a generate. Only the edit keeps the walk.
Lucy Restyle is the 1-credit look pass
Lucy Restyle is AI-powered video restyling and transformation. Provider: Decart. Content type: video. Category: edit-video. Credits: 1. Max output: 720p. audio is empty. No duration list. Features: Restyle, Transformation, Creative.
That is a look pass on footage you already have. Ceiling: 720p. You are not getting a 4K invent. You are getting a 720p transformation of blocking that already exists.
audio is empty. Restyle will not write a score. Do not claim native audio. Plan the mix after.
One credit is why people click this row for “cheap video.” Cheap video of what? A prompt-only 1080p take is text-to-video. A locked still that needs to move is image-to-video. A clip whose look is wrong is Lucy Restyle. If the scene does not exist yet, Restyle has nothing to restyle. There is no 5s-versus-10s dial: length arrives with the file. A prompt that asks for a new angle is a generate wearing a restyle label.
A different shot is a generate
Write the note as a sentence. If it starts with “change,” “replace,” “crop,” “warm,” “restyle,” or “keep this and…,” you are on video-to-video. If it starts with “a shot of,” “new,” “another take,” or “from a different angle,” you are on generate.
Then look at the plate. If you would be sad to lose this exact hand, this exact label, this exact move, edit or restyle it. If you would not miss this take, generate.
Omni Flash Edit and Lucy Restyle are not two skins of one button. Thirteen credits, conversational attribute change, audio false. One credit, 720p look pass, audio empty. Both keep source blocking. Neither restages the room because you asked nicely. The glossary stays the definition. This page is only the restage mistake.
FAQ
Can a prompt restage the camera if I say “same actor, new angle”?
No. Video-to-video is bounded by the source: no new camera moves, no new blocking. A new angle is a generate. You will get the old move with a costume change, or a cousin shot that is not the take.
Why Omni Flash Edit at 13 credits instead of Lucy Restyle at 1?
Different jobs. Omni Flash Edit is a conversational retouch of an attribute on a plate — jacket, crop, pack swap — audio false, 13 credits. Lucy Restyle is a look pass, 720p, 1 credit, audio empty. Pick the row that matches the note, not the cheaper sticker.
Will either model add a soundtrack?
Do not count on it. Omni Flash Edit lists audio false. Lucy Restyle leaves audio empty. Plan the mix after picture lock. Do not treat an empty or false field as native audio.
Is video-to-video the same as generating from a still?
No. A still is image-to-video: one frame, then invented motion. Video-to-video starts with motion that already exists. Timing survives because it was in the file. A still has no blocking to keep.