Runway brings precise camera controls to AI videos

Content creators will person much power complete nan look and consciousness of their AI-generated videos acknowledgment to a caller characteristic group coming to Runway’s Gen-3 Alpha model.

Advanced Camera Control is rolling retired connected Gen-3 Alpha Turbo starting today, nan institution announced via a station connected X (formerly Twitter).

Advanced Camera Control is now disposable for Gen-3 Alpha Turbo. Choose some nan guidance and strength of really you move done your scenes for moreover much volition successful each shot.

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— Runway (@runwayml) November 1, 2024

The caller Advanced camera controls grow connected nan model’s existing capabilities. With it, users tin “move horizontally while panning to arc astir subjects … Or, move horizontally while panning to research locations,” per nan company. They tin besides customize nan guidance and strength of really nan camera moves done a segment “for moreover much intention in each shot,” while combining “outputs pinch various camera moves and velocity ramps for absorbing loops.”

Unfortunately, since nan caller characteristic is restricted to Gen-3 Alpha Turbo, you will request to subscribe to nan $12-per-month Standard scheme to entree that exemplary and effort retired nan camera controls for yourself.

Or quickly zoom retired to uncover caller discourse and story.

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— Runway (@runwayml) November 1, 2024

Runway debuted nan Gen-3 Alpha exemplary successful June, billing it as a “major betterment successful fidelity, consistency, and mobility complete Gen-2, and a measurement towards building General World Models.” Gen-3 powers each of Runway’s text-to video, image-to-video, and text-to-image tools. The strategy is tin of generating photorealistic depictions of humans, arsenic evidenced successful nan X post, arsenic good arsenic creating outputs successful a wide assortment of creator styles.

Advanced Camera Controls get astir a period aft Runway revealed gen-3’s caller video-to-video capabilities successful mid-September, which allows users to edit and “reskin” a generated video successful different creator style utilizing only matter prompts. When mixed pinch Apple’s Vision Pro AR headset, the results are striking. The institution besides announced nan merchandise of an API truthful that developers tin merge gen-3’s abilities into their ain apps and products.

The caller camera controls could soon beryllium put to usage by movie editors astatine Lionsgate, nan workplace down the John Wick and The Hunger Games franchises, which signed a woody pinch Runway successful September to “augment” humans’ efforts pinch AI generated video content. The woody reportedly centers connected nan startup building and training a caller generative AI exemplary fine-tuned connected Lionsgate’s 20,000-title catalog of films and tv series.