Introduction
Generative video shifts toward editing existing footage through language rather than only synthesizing new clips. The master provides year precision only; an exact day has not been established.
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Changing objects, viewpoints and lighting within existing footage.
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Release and use
Runway introduced Aleph on 25 July 2025 as a video-editing system conditioned on existing footage. Demonstrations included adding, removing or altering objects, generating other viewpoints, and changing style or lighting. Production can therefore begin with a recorded shot and an instruction about what to change, rather than a text prompt for a completely new clip. Demonstrated capabilities do not establish reliable performance on every complex shot.
Section sources: Introducing Runway Aleph
Change in creative practice
The boundary between recorded material and generated alteration becomes an important part of describing the work. Researchers need to know which actions and spaces came from a camera and which from subsequent transformation. For artists, this also moves generation beyond initial ideation into re-editing, re-performance and critical revision of existing images.
Section sources: Introducing Runway Aleph
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