I had the idea to experiment with the Gen3 video model just released by Runway. First, I made a song to fit my idea with Udio and then set out to shoot the music. Each video generation in Gen3 costs 100 credits, so I decided to make the test even more challenging. I used only the clips generated in the first promt, which totalled 18 clips, of which the best twelve were used in the video.
The end result was a video for the fictional TV series "The Missing".

Gen3 is still in the Alpha phase, so it has some shortcomings. Perhaps the biggest of these is the ability to use your own images in addition to the prompt. The camera also needs to be controlled in the same way as Gen2, but these issues will no doubt be fixed soon. Based on a quick test, the Gen3 will pass the Lumalabs Dream Machine in text2video quality, but the competition for the top spot will be fierce.

Created by Kari Piirainen   / karipiirainen