In this tutorial, I show you how Gen-2 AI from Runway works to transform images and text into cinematic videos, utilizing new artificial intelligence features for video inpainting through the motion brush and camera control. Gen-2 is considered, along with Pika Labs, the best AI for generating videos from images, soon to be rivaled by Stable Video Diffusion as well.

Gen-2 from Runway is an online application that offers nearly 2 minutes of free animation generation, short films, and cinematic videos from images, with a duration of 4 seconds that can be extended. This application surpasses others in quality, such as Kaiber, Genmo, or the Deforum extension for Stable Diffusion, and matches Pika Labs with its camera control and inpainting options. Although it still has a long way to go to create videos indistinguishable from real recordings, it is currently regarded as the best AI for animation generation. I hope you find this guide to Gen-2 useful.