Runway’s Gen-3 Alpha Turbo model now offers Advanced Camera Control, giving content creators greater control over their AI-generated videos. This feature allows users to manipulate camera movement and perspective, enhancing the cinematic quality of their AI creations.
The new camera controls significantly expand the existing capabilities of Gen-3 Alpha Turbo. Users can now orchestrate complex camera movements, such as horizontal panning and arcing around subjects, to dynamically explore locations within their AI-generated scenes. These controls provide a new level of intentionality, allowing creators to craft specific shots and enhance storytelling within their videos.
Furthermore, the Advanced Camera Control feature offers customizable direction and intensity of camera movement. Users can combine various camera moves with speed ramps to create captivating loops and dynamic visual sequences. This provides a powerful toolkit for creating engaging and visually compelling AI-generated video content.
The Advanced Camera Control feature is exclusively available for Gen-3 Alpha Turbo users subscribed to Runway’s Standard plan ($12/month). Gen-3 Alpha, introduced in June, represents a substantial advancement in AI video generation, boasting improved fidelity, consistency, and motion compared to its predecessor, Gen-2. It powers Runway’s text-to-video, image-to-video, and text-to-image tools and is capable of generating photorealistic humans and outputs in diverse artistic styles.
This new feature arrives approximately a month after Runway unveiled Gen-3’s video-to-video editing capabilities, allowing users to modify the artistic style of generated videos using text prompts. The combination of these advancements, coupled with devices like Apple’s Vision Pro, opens up exciting possibilities for creative content generation. Runway has also released an API enabling developers to integrate Gen-3’s powerful features into their own applications and products.
This innovative camera control technology may soon be utilized by film editors at Lionsgate, the studio behind franchises like John Wick and The Hunger Games. Lionsgate recently partnered with Runway to explore the use of AI-generated video content in filmmaking, focusing on the development and training of a new generative AI model based on Lionsgate’s extensive film and television catalog.
