Vertex AI Media Master

Overview

Multimodal media operations on Google Cloud Vertex AI covering video understanding, audio generation, image creation, and marketing campaign automation. This skill orchestrates Gemini 2.5 Pro/Flash, Imagen 4, and Lyria models to process, analyze, and generate rich media assets.

Prerequisites

• Google Cloud project with Vertex AI API enabled
• google-cloud-aiplatform Python SDK installed (pip install google-cloud-aiplatform[vision,audio])
• GOOGLE_CLOUD_PROJECT and GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS environment variables set
• Service account with roles/aiplatform.user permission
• Sufficient quota for target models (Gemini 2.5 Pro: 2M tokens/min; Imagen 4: 100 images/min)

Instructions

1. Initialize the Vertex AI client with the target project and region (us-central1 recommended for model availability).
2. Select the appropriate model for the task:
   • Video analysis: Gemini 2.5 Pro (up to 6 hours at low resolution, 2 hours at default).
   • Image generation: Imagen 4 for highest quality stills; Gemini 2.5 Flash Image for interleaved text+image output.