Yes — AI in-paint and cleanup can now remove objects from existing video cleanly, but artifact-free results hinge on three factors: background reconstruction quality, shadow and reflection handling, and temporal stability across frames. Google Omni Flash treats object removal as a native footage feature, and edge-preserving swap workflows cut the halo artifacts that mask-based fills leave behind.
Start by judging the shot against the three things that produce visible artifacts: how well the model reconstructs the background behind the removed object, whether it also removes the object's shadow and reflections, and whether the fill stays stable frame to frame instead of flickering. If all three hold, the removal is invisible; if any fails, you see smearing, ghost shadows, or shimmer where the object used to be.
In-paint and cleanup on existing footage. Object removal has moved from a specialist VFX task to a baseline model capability — in-paint and cleanup (inserting or removing objects from footage you already shot) is now a standard expectation for Omni-class models. In testing across 30+ outputs of Google Omni Flash, this class of edit worked directly on uploaded footage: you describe or mark what to remove, and the model reconstructs the background behind it.
Preserve your subject's edges instead of repainting them. The biggest artifact risk sits at the boundary between what you keep and what you remove. When the unwanted element surrounds or touches your subject, use a swap-style edit — Omni's swap feature replaces backgrounds, environments, or clothing around a subject while preserving the original subject's rotoscoping and edges. Because the subject's own pixels are never regenerated, you avoid the halo and edge-crawl artifacts that appear when a mask-based fill repaints along the subject's outline.
Where artifacts still show up. Fast motion, complex or fine-grained textures, and shots where the removed object cast strong shadows or reflections are the cases where fills break down — and current model textures have a ceiling. "The current state of the textures that Google is offering, I'm not so sure if they're ready for prime time cinema yet," per invideo's creative team's testing. For social and web delivery the results hold; for big-screen work, inspect the fill at full resolution before signing off. On resolution specifically: Omni Flash outputs default to 720p with a 1080p upscale at no cost, while 4K costs the equivalent of a full generation — always check your cleaned shot at the resolution you'll actually deliver, since artifacts invisible at 720p can surface after upscaling.
If you're running this inside invideo, the invideo agent handles the routing: upload the footage, describe the removal, and it sends the job to the model best suited to the edit — you don't need to pick a platform per model.
Watch some of these to see what works for you:
the current state of the textures that Google is offering, I'm not so sure if they're ready for prime time cinema yet.
— invideo's creative team