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Runway Gen-4.5 Text + image in. Cinematic clip with synced audio out. INPUTS TEXT PROMPT drone shot over a fishing boat at sunrise, calm waves REFERENCE IMAGE harbor-sunrise.jpg 2048×1024 · 1.2MB SETTINGS 10 sec 16:9 audio on 10 SECOND CLIP · 4K · 24FPS SYNCED AUDIO
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Runway

Runway Gen-4.5: The Production Standard for AI Video in 2026

Runway sits at #1 on the text-to-video Elo leaderboard and is the tool most ad agencies, studios, and music-video directors actually ship with. This guide covers Gen-4.5, Director Mode, Motion Brush, and the Runway API.

Veo 3.1 — text to 4K Native 4K, synchronized audio, lip-sync, character continuity across cuts. PROMPT "A barista in a Tokyo café explains the day's pour-over to a customer. Hand-held, warm light, ambient chatter in the background." 4K 8 sec lip-sync 0:02 / 0:08 4K
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Google Veo

Google Veo 3.1: The Video Model Most Likely to Replace Sora

Veo 3.1 leads the 2026 text-to-video benchmarks with native 4K, synchronized audio, and lip-sync. With Sora's app shut down and API ending in September, this is the model serious creators are migrating to.

Sora — minute-long generative video Coherent motion. Plausible physics. Camera work that follows your direction. PROMPT "A surfer paddles out past the break at dawn, camera glides on a drone parallel to the water, orange-pink sky." 60 sec 1080p drone glide STORYBOARD · ONE CONTINUOUS TAKE 0:00 0:24 0:60 Camera, lighting, and motion physics persist across the entire take.
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Sora

Sora: A Guide to AI Video Generation

Sora 2 is OpenAI's latest video generator with synchronized audio, accurate physics, and storyboards. Note: the Sora app is shutting down in favor of integration with ChatGPT Pro.