Runway Prompts

Runway Gen-3 excels at director-level camera control — but only when you lead with the move. This prompt covers the camera-first template, 3 worked examples, a reliability ranking of camera moves, and what Runway does better than any other generator.

Runway's image-to-video mode adds a camera move to any still — a photo, painting, or product shot — without distorting what's in it. The key is using Runway's camera presets correctly and describing only the camera, not the scene.