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Image-to-video: describe only motion

Animate a still by describing only motion, camera and timing, as Runway recommends for image input.

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Written for Runway Gen-4.5 · Updated 2026-10-16

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[Subject motion, e.g. The woman slowly turns her head toward the window and smiles]. [Camera, e.g. The camera gently pushes in]. [Environment motion, e.g. Curtains ripple in the breeze].

Replace everything in [square brackets] with your own details.

Settings & parameters

• Gen-4.5 image-to-video, 5 or 10 s
• For longer sequences, use the final frame as the next image input

Variations

• Locked-off camera with only environmental motion for cinemagraphs.

Tips

• Don't re-describe the image; it can fight the visual input.