Content creators will have more control over the look and feel of their AI-generated videos thanks to a new feature set coming to Runway’s Gen-3 Alpha model.
Advanced Camera Control is rolling out on Gen-3 Alpha Turbo starting today, the company announced via a post on X (formerly Twitter).
Advanced Camera Control is now available for Gen-3 Alpha Turbo. Choose both the direction and intensity of how you move through your scenes for even more intention in every shot.
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— Runway (@runwayml) November 1, 2024
The new Advanced camera controls expand on the model’s existing capabilities. With it, users can “move horizontally while panning to arc around subjects … Or, move horizontally while panning to explore locations,” per the company. They can also customize the direction and intensity of how the camera moves through a scene “for even more intention in every shot,” while combining “outputs with various camera moves and speed ramps for interesting loops.”
Unfortunately, since the new feature is restricted to Gen-3 Alpha Turbo, you will need to subscribe to the $12-per-month Standard plan to access that model and try out the camera controls for yourself.
Or quickly zoom out to reveal new context and story.
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— Runway (@runwayml) November 1, 2024
Runway debuted the Gen-3 Alpha model in June, billing it as a “major improvement in fidelity, consistency, and motion over Gen-2, and a step towards building General World Models.” Gen-3 powers all of Runway’s text-to video, image-to-video, and text-to-image tools. The system is capable of generating photorealistic depictions of humans, as evidenced in the X post, as well as creating outputs in a wide variety of artistic styles.
Advanced Camera Controls arrive roughly a month after Runway revealed gen-3’s new video-to-video capabilities in mid-September, which allows users to edit and “reskin” a generated video in…
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