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Learn how to fully automate Google Flow video creation using Claude Code for free with a step-by-step walkthrough.

## Key Takeaways

- Claude Code can fully automate Google Flow video creation, saving time and effort.
- Using Flow Studio, users can control the entire video production process with simple English commands.
- Careful planning and image approval before video generation helps conserve credits.
- Free narration options are available, eliminating extra costs for voiceovers.
- Flow Studio is accessible for free and integrates seamlessly with existing Google Flow accounts.

## What the video covers

- The video demonstrates automating Google Flow video creation using Claude Code without manually writing prompts.
- The creator built Flow Studio, a control panel tool that lets Claude manage characters, images, clips, narration, and final cuts.
- Google Flow provides 50 free credits daily, allowing users to create one 30-second clip per day without extra cost.
- Claude designs and edits characters, generates images for scenes, and controls video clip creation using Google’s Omni Flash model.
- The process emphasizes creating and approving images first to avoid wasting credits on video generation.
- Flow Studio includes 39 presets for camera moves and transitions, enhancing video production quality and consistency.
- Users can create free narration using Google’s text-to-speech or local voices, avoiding credit costs for voiceovers.
- The video explains how to set up Flow Studio, including obtaining a Google AI API key and installing FFmpeg.
- The tool runs on the user's existing Google Flow account, requiring no additional subscriptions.
- The walkthrough includes practical tips for maintaining character consistency and smooth scene transitions.

## Chapters

1. 00:00 Introduction to automating Google Flow with Claude
2. 00:26 Google Flow credits and usage overview
3. 00:54 Flow Studio: Claude controlling Google Flow
4. 01:16 Getting started with Google Flow account
5. 01:38 Demo clip: The Lamplighter story and goals
6. 02:10 Step 1: Creating and editing characters with Claude
7. 02:38 Step 2: Planning and generating key images
8. 03:26 Step 3: Creating video clips and managing credits
9. 04:31 Flow Studio presets and camera moves
10. 05:18 Managing scene transitions and character consistency

Answers

## Questions about this video

How does Claude Code automate Google Flow video creation?

Claude Code acts as a control panel that types prompts, picks settings, waits for generation, and retrieves files within Google Flow, allowing users to create videos by simply describing what they want in plain English.

Is there any cost to use Flow Studio and Google Flow for video creation?

Flow Studio is free to use and runs on your existing Google Flow account, which provides 50 free credits daily. This allows you to create one 30-second video clip per day without any additional subscription fees.

How can I add narration to my videos without spending credits?

You can use Google’s free text-to-speech service or a voice already installed on your computer to create narration without using Google Flow credits. Flow Studio supports integrating these free voiceover options.

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I made both of these clips for free without sitting inside Google Flow, writing prompt after prompt.

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I just told Claude what I wanted in plain English, checked its work along the way, and let it handle everything else: characters, images, clips, narration, even the final cut.

00:16

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There are tools out there asking for $30 a month to do this as a Chrome extension.

00:20

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I'm going to show you exactly how to do this for free. This one on your screen is 30 seconds long and costs 45 credits.

00:26

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Google gives you 50 credits a day, so you could make one of these every day.

00:30

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I wanted to automate the whole process through Claude Code and also have a control panel without clicking around in Google Flow, trying to figure out how everything works together.

00:38

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So I built what I call Flow Studio, a tool that handles the repetitive work inside Google Flow, all controlled through Claude: the characters, the images, the video clips, the narration, all the way to the final cut.

00:50

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And today, I'm not keeping the tool to myself. I'm sharing it with you for free.

00:54

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It's basically a Google Flow MCP that lets Claude control Flow. You tell Claude what you want, and Claude goes and does it inside Flow for you.

01:02

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It types the prompts, picks the settings, waits for the generation, and brings the files back to your computer.

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So you don't have to worry about exactly how to phrase your prompts. You just talk to it, and that's it.

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It runs on the Flow account you already have, so there is no new subscription.

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And if you don't have a Flow account yet, just sign in with your Gmail.

01:19

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To work with it, all you have to say is things like, create these three scenes, continue from where that clip ended, or add the narration and cut the film together.

01:28

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That's really all there is to it. Setup takes about 10 minutes, and I'll walk you through it at the end.

01:32

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But now, let's actually make something. The first film I'll show you is called "The Lamplighter." A tiny character shows up in a dark town.

01:38

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He lights the lamps while a narrator tells the story. The goal in this clip was to show as many of the tool's features as I could, working together in 30 seconds.

01:47

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Things like making one character and keeping him consistent across several video clips. And then, adding a free narration on top that tells the story using a free premium Google AI voice.

01:57

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Before it made anything, Claude asked me four questions. What kind of story, what the shape was, how much I wanted to spend, and which voice I wanted to use.

02:05

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For this demo, I picked a brand new character, widescreen, about 45 credits, and a voice called Charon.

02:10

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Step one is the character. Claude designed them and named them Pip. You can also click through the control panel I built, but honestly, just telling Claude what you want is easier.

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You can say something like, create a small cartoon lamplighter and give him a name.

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One body, a navy coat with brass buttons, a mustard flat cap, and a long brass lantern pole.

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Patient, quietly stubborn, never hurries. Show me his portrait before we go on. Claude sends that into Flow, and Flow creates Pip as a saved character you can drop into any scene.

02:38

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And if you want to change something about him, you just tell Claude to edit it.

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Make his coat red, keep everything else the same. Flow redraws him in place, for free, and he keeps his name, his personality, and his voice.

02:48

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You don't have to build them all over again. Any scene you make after that just uses the new version.

02:53

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I did exactly that with my stick figure Sticky. I gave him gloves without rebuilding him.

02:58

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That's step one. Step two is where most people start burning credits. The rule I follow is simple.

03:04

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Don't generate any video until the pictures are right. Video costs credits, but Flow's default image model is free.

03:09

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I made about 200 images, even in bulk at times, and they never cost me a single credit.

03:14

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So this is the place to fix problems. Ask Claude for the plan first, not the pictures.

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Give me three key images. Pip on a rooftop, looking out over a dark town.

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Pip lighting the first lamp. The whole town glowing, with Pip tiny at the bottom.

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Same character, same art style. Describe each one before you make it. Once the plan looks right, tell Claude to go ahead and make them.

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Then look over the images. If they all look good, you can move on. If one of them looks off, tell Claude what's wrong with it and ask it to fix it.

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So I got these three images that I'm happy with. And the purpose of these three pictures is to decide where each of the shots will end up for the clips that we're going to generate.

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I'll show you how in a second. Step three is turning those frames into a video.

03:56

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This is why we use Google's video model Omni Flash. It makes the video at 720p.

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And if you're on a paid Google AI plan, you can scale it to 1080p when you download it at no extra cost.

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Every 10-second clip costs 15 credits. So the free credits cover three clips a day.

04:10

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By the way, I didn't write the shot prompts. Claude wrote them from the three pictures.

04:16

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But here's how those pictures get used. Shot one starts on the first picture and has to finish on the second.

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Shot two picks up on the last frame of shot one and has to finish on the third.

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Before shot three ran, I double-checked. Does it start from where shot two ended? It already did.

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That last shot just drifts up over the glowing town. Before the tool generates anything, it reads Flow's price for the shot.

04:38

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I mean, it should be pretty standard. 15 credits for 10 seconds 720p shot. But it's nice to have that check in case any of the settings change for some reason.

04:45

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So the purpose here is that it tells you why, if it's over the limit and it doesn't generate the shot.

04:51

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The tool Flow Studio I created also has 39 presets built in. 30 of them are camera moves, like an orbit, a crash zoom or a drone move.

04:58

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The rest are things like a match cut or a seamless loop. You can pick one from the list or just describe the move, which is what Claude did for Pip.

05:05

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That same trick of starting from the real last frame is how this drone shot over New York keeps going.

05:10

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This was literally my first test with the tool. So the jump from one clip to the next isn't perfect, but it's still decent given I did not provide any details.

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One important note here, there's a choice you need to make, whether to use the character or the last frame for the next clip in the sequence.

05:24

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So you either go with an exact join, which uses that last frame, or you lock the character reference.

05:30

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For a straight continuation like this, I go with the exact join. Because when I tested locking of the character for a similar scene, Flow changed some of the surroundings.

05:38

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Even when I described the scene exactly, the characters stayed consistent, but the surroundings didn't.

05:44

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So in this case, using the last frame worked fine. The rule of thumb is, only lock the character when the next shot jumps to a new place.

05:51

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Because if you have the character features fully present, it will stay consistent of the last frame.

05:56

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One other important thing to watch is that if you are using more detailed characters with an exact join, the next clip only knows what your character looks like from that last frame.

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So if you're using a complex character, make sure their face is clearly in it.

06:08

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If they are turned away, or tiny, the next clip has to guess, and they can come out looking different.

06:14

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Anyways, that's the video. Now let's get to the voice. Flow can make the voice, but it charges you credits for it.

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But don't worry, my tool Flow Studio is designed to create exact same voice for free.

06:25

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So there are two ways to do this voiceover. You can use Google's text-to-speech, or a voice that's already on your machine, if you're lazy.

06:33

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For Pip, I asked Claude to write the narration to match the story. It actually recorded it before any of the clips existed.

06:38

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So from the start, I knew the footage needed to run at least 27 seconds.

06:42

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Claude also wrote one line of direction for how to read it, warmly and unhurried, like a storyteller reading a bedtime fable, with gentle pause.

06:51

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On another film, I gave it a longer note about how to perform the line, and it read for 11 minutes.

06:56

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But anyways, here's how you do it for free. Go to Google AI Studio and create a free API key.

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You have to log in with your Gmail, and then hit the key icon at the bottom left, and it opens up a menu, then you click create a key.

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Before you create a key, you will need to create a project if you don't already have one.

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Once you create the project, then you type the name of the key, and create the key.

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Copy the generated key somewhere, then come back to Flow Studio. Go to narration, you'll see a place to paste it.

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Once you do that, you're good to go. You can now generate Google AI Studio quality voices in Flow Studio.

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Claude will use it to make the voiceover, so the narration doesn't cost you any Flow credits.

07:30

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At this point, you're ready to put it all together. The cut tool in Flow Studio joins everything on your computer using FFmpeg, so this part doesn't cost any Flow credits either.

07:40

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If you don't have FFmpeg yet, Claude will help you install it, so just follow the instructions when it asks.

07:45

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Then, tell Claude something like this. Put the three clips in order. Add the narration.

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Make sure the footage lasts as long as the narration, so the last frame doesn't freeze.

07:54

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In Flow Studio, there's an option to add music too, but I left it out on this one.

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And here's how it came out. Every evening, the lamplighter looked out at the town and saw a thousand dark windows, far too many, so he stopped counting and lit the one in front of him.

08:13

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Then the next. He never did light them all, but by morning, everyone who needed light had found it, and the town, without ever noticing, had learned to glow.

08:29

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All of this costs 45 credits. And that was just for the video. The voice didn't cost me any Flow credits, and neither did the cut.

08:36

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I just told Claude what I wanted and it put the pieces together. All I had to do was answer its questions up front, set the budget, and check its work along the way.

08:44

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If you want this, the link is in the description. And while you're at it, if this has been useful, give it a like and a subscribe.

08:49

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And if you want to know how to add captions because you want to create a 30-second reel for social media, post a comment for me so I can help you.

08:56

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Before I show you how to install Flow Studio, here's a quick look at a few other things the MCP can do.

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It can restyle a clip you already made. So you can change the lighting, the weather, the background.

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Just know that Google charges 40 credits per edit for that one. That's more than it costs to make a brand new clip.

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So keep that in mind. It also can browse your Flow library and download something again without generating it a second time.

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If you need a lot of images, there's bulk mode. You can hand it a whole scene list up to 50 at a time.

09:22

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20 of them came back for me in about 30 seconds. The second film, the photoreal one from the start, was made the same way.

09:29

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One character, two shots, and the cut in the middle is invisible. This one used opening and closing frames.

09:34

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And this one starts out in space and comes all the way down to the Statue of Liberty.

09:39

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These are all real outputs from the tool. And if you'd rather click than talk to Claude, there's a control panel I built as well.

09:45

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It has seven tabs in it, Cast, Frames, Shots, Voice, Restyle, Cut, and Library. It uses the same tools underneath the MCP and you don't need Claude for it at all.

09:55

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I switch between the two depending on what I'm doing. Right. Now the install. Like I promised.

10:01

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Open Claude Code and paste in the GitHub link from the description that you just got.

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Then tell it, "Install and set this up." All the instructions are in the GitHub repo.

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Claude checks for Chrome, Node, and FFmpeg and walks you through anything that's missing. Once everything is set up, you'll need to do a one-time login to Google yourself in the browser.

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The tool never touches your password. Then open the Flow project you want to work in and ask Claude, "Check Flow and tell me my credit balance." Once Claude reads that number back to you, you're live.

10:25

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By the way, if the setup breaks anywhere for you, just tell me in the comments so I can fix it.

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But there's more to this. In this video on your screen, I show you how to make characters and bulk generate multiple character-consistent images right inside Flow for free.

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It's on your screen right now. Watch that one next.

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