Runway
Runway offers a suite of AI-powered video generation, editing, and visual effects tools used by filmmakers and creators.
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About Runway
What it is
Runway is a suite rather than a single generator. It creates video from text and images, and it also provides the editing tools around that: removing an object from a moving shot, replacing a background without a green screen, motion tracking, slow motion and frame interpolation.
Why it's different
The editing tools are the part that earns its place, and they are frequently the reason to be here rather than with a better pure generator. Rotoscoping a moving subject by hand is hours of work and this does it in minutes. It is well established with professional users and priced accordingly, and credits disappear quickly once you are generating rather than editing. The interface assumes some familiarity with video work and is not the gentlest place to start.
How people use it
Removing an unwanted object or person from a shot. Background replacement without a studio. Generated b-roll and inserts for a real edit. Extending or slowing existing footage. Use it for the repair jobs first, because that is where the value is most reliable and it will earn its cost before you have generated anything at all.
Step by step
- Use it for repair before generation. Removing an object or replacing a background is where it reliably beats doing the work by hand.
- For object removal, mask generously on the first frame and let it track, then check the frames where the subject overlaps the object.
- Generate at short durations and extend only the takes that work, because extending a weak clip inherits the weakness.
- Feed it an image for image-to-video rather than describing a scene, which settles composition before motion is attempted.
- Watch the credits. They disappear quickly once you are generating rather than editing, and editing is the better value.
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