Runway This Week | August 10

Key Takeaways

Hey, I'm Nico and this is Runway. This week, this week we shipped a lot of small features across all of our products. When you use ALF, you now have the option to trim uploaded video clips to match the 5-second requirement. We have also updated the product so that any audio that is included in your input footage will also be included in your outputs. We also launched ALF to mobile. This is huge because now ALF is attached directly to the camera right inside of your pocket. We also launched Act 2 on mobile allowing you to capture your performances right on your device and apply them to different characters from on the go. Lastly, we also launched the turbo model of our references feature on the API. This should bring a lot more speed to different applications that are using this service. Next up, let's shine the light on some of the amazing creators in the runway community. First, we would like to showcase Aurora. One thing we've been seeing a lot of success with is giving VFX instructions in your inputs and aloe. So, to get this shot, what Aurora did is take a reference frame from that initial video and they drew different arrows where that effect is supposed to happen. We can see the original video here that they paired that image with and the result is much more control. We see that the ink follows those motion paths, giving that control to the creator to really direct this scene. We also wanted to do a second shout out to Yahimat. This is a great reminder that Alf also works across different styles here shown in an anime. You can go over to Yahimat's page. He shares all of the prompts how to get these BTS shots. Really cool results here. Our last example is from Yudi who's part of the runway Discord. Here we see a very powerful workflow where we mock up a unrendered scene in Blender and then use ALF to render it out. As you can imagine, this saves ton of rendering time. This massively empowers ideation and allows for much faster explorations. Lastly, a reminder that you can find all of these different use cases on our ways to use runway page, which we will link below. Next up is our daily Discord challenge. If you don't know already, we host daily challenges in our Discord, and you can find the link below. The topic for today is match cut. So, as always, you have until tomorrow morning, 10:00 a.m. Eastern time to generate something fitting to the word match cut. Good luck. That's it for this week. We're excited that our mobile users finally can use all of our flagship models in our mobile app. We will also continue to follow our community closely to see what other use cases they continue to discover with ALF and our other tools. We have some very exciting things to announce next week, but until then, we wish you happy generating. See you next week. Ciao.