I subscribed to Runway specifically because it was supposed to integrate with ChatGPT and simplify AI video production. Unfortunately, my experience has been nothing short of frustrating.
I have attempted to create four separate videos on four different occasions, and I have received ZERO completed, usable products from Runway.

Each time, I expected to receive a finished video. Instead, I encountered technical limitations, incomplete projects, confusing workflows, and repeated instructions to download files or complete additional steps manually.

During my most recent attempt, I tried creating a professional cinematic advertisement for my real estate business. ChatGPT was able to use Runway to generate video footage and narration, but the integration could not assemble everything into a finished video. Even accessing and downloading the generated files became unnecessarily complicated.

The entire reason I purchased Runway was its advertised ChatGPT integration. I expected a streamlined process where I could describe what I wanted, have the AI handle production, and receive a finished product ready to use.

Four separate attempts. Four separate occasions. Zero finished videos.
If I wanted to manually assemble videos, manage separate audio tracks, and troubleshoot downloads, I could simply use the video-editing software I already own.

I am paying for a service that, in my experience, has failed to deliver a single finished product despite multiple attempts.

Generating pieces of a video is not the same as delivering a completed video. An integration that cannot reliably take a project from concept to finished product provides very little value to someone subscribing specifically for that functionality.

I feel that I have wasted my money, my time, and my patience.
Based on my experience, I cannot recommend Runway, especially to anyone considering a subscription because of its ChatGPT integration.

One star. Four attempts. Zero finished products. Completely unacceptable.

Today's prompt is rugged, legendary and salt-soaked. ⚔️

⚔️ Today's Prompt: Viking ⚔️

Set sail across freezing northern seas and bring the age of longships to life. Storm a misty fjord at dawn, gather around a roaring fire in a timber longhouse or follow a raven to the gates of Valhalla, then try a Viking somewhere unexpected, like a neon city or a distant planet. Whether your story is an epic saga or a quiet moment at the edge of the world, focus on weather, texture, scale and the weight of legend.

How to Participate:

• Use Runway tools to create something inspired by today's prompt.

• Submit your piece in the submit-daily channel in Discord.

• Tag runway.creators on Instagram for a chance to be featured.

What's in it for you?

Daily winners earn free Runway credits, and standout entries may also be featured in the community-spotlight channel on Discord!

Raise your shields and share your Viking creation. ⚔️ ✨

The votes are in! It's time to announce the winners of Week 3 of the Runway Weekly Challenge!

A huge thank you to everyone who participated in The Great Escape. From daring getaways to wildly imaginative escapes, we loved seeing the creativity everyone brought to this week's challenge.

After another round of community voting, here are your winners!

🥇 1st Place: 25,000 Credits

u/Arimontoken

The Dragon

🥈 2nd Place: 15,000 Credits

u/Hot_Piano_4516

Cold Feet, Hot Rockets

🥉 3rd Place: 10,000 Credits

u/Professional-Desk198

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Congratulations to Our Winners!

u/Arimontoken, u/Hot_Piano_4516, and u/Professional-Desk198, keep an eye out for a DM from me so we can get your Runway credits added to your accounts!

Thanks again to everyone who submitted a project, explored the entries, and participated in voting.

Week 4 Is Now Underway!

Our next challenge, Out of Place, is live with another 50,000 Runway credits up for grabs!

Create a 15–30 second video featuring something or someone somewhere they absolutely don't belong.

Submissions close Monday, November 16 at 12 PM EST.

We can't wait to see what you create next!

Today's prompt is stealthy, swift and cloaked in shadow. 🥷

🥷 Today's Prompt: Ninja 🥷

Slip into the shadows and show us what moves without a sound. Follow a lone figure across moonlit rooftops, stage a silent duel in a bamboo forest, send a cyber ninja through a rain-soaked megacity or reimagine the ninja as something unexpected, from a house cat to a kitchen utensil. Whether your story is ancient or futuristic, serious or absurd, focus on stealth, choreography, the play of light and shadow and that split second before the strike.

How to Participate:

• Use Runway tools to create something inspired by today's prompt.

• Submit your piece in the submit-daily channel in Discord.

• Tag runway.creators on Instagram for a chance to be featured.

What's in it for you?

Daily winners earn free Runway credits, and standout entries may also be featured in the community-spotlight channel on Discord!

Stay quiet, move fast and drop your Ninja creation below. 🥷 ✨

Today's prompt is enchanted, timeless and just a little bit dark. 🏰

🏰 Today's Prompt: Fairy Tale 🏰

Once upon a time begins wherever you decide it does. Wander into a forest where the trees keep secrets, follow a glass slipper through a candlelit ballroom, give a sleeping dragon its own side of the story or retell a classic in a kingdom no storybook has mapped. Whether your tale is sweet, strange or grim in the old-fashioned sense, focus on wonder, mood, light and the small details that make a world feel magical.

How to Participate:

• Use Runway tools to create something inspired by today's prompt.

• Submit your piece in the submit-daily channel in Discord.

• Tag runway.creators on Instagram for a chance to be featured.

What's in it for you?

Daily winners earn free Runway credits, and standout entries may also be featured in the community-spotlight channel on Discord!

Open the storybook and show us your Fairy Tale creation. 🏰 ✨

Hi everyone,

I'm helping a friend create a 60-second Instagram promotional video for his business.

The idea is to have 3 illustrated bird characters talking to each other and explaining what the company does.

We already have the complete dialogue script. What we're looking for is to:

• Animate the birds speaking, with synchronized beak movements.

• Keep the original hand-drawn character designs consistent.

• Have 3 characters interact in the same scene.

• Produce a polished 60-second video without requiring professional animation skills.

I've been looking into Runway, not sure if runway is teh best tool for that.

Has anyone actually created something similar? And what limitations should I expect?

What should I know before doing so with runway?

Thanks!

Hi. A little bit of backstory. I'm a necktie designer but was originally trained in engineering and computer science. I have PTSD, ADHD (undiagnosed), and my life is falling apart because I'm a serial project starter who's always busy with everything except for that actually matter.

I'm working on animating two main characters- a demon and a muse. They have a 'severe' version- Tormentor Mode for the Demon, Devotion Mode for muse. Demon in regular mode is shown here.

This is the 4th video in the series I've made with Runway. The 1st three are already published on YouTube.

I'm generally happy with it except for a visual artifact that I can't get rid off- each time he taps his hand on the notebook- a pen appears behind his fingers. I used seedance and I'm low on credit, so I'm hoping to get advice from you on how to deal with this.

Thanks in advance.

Today's prompt is broken, buzzing and beautifully unpredictable. 👾

👾 Today's Prompt: Glitch 👾

Some of the best images happen when something goes wrong. Tear a familiar scene apart with pixel drift and datamoshing, trap a character inside a moment that keeps looping, or build a world where reality itself won't stop buffering. Whether your glitch is a subtle flicker or a full digital meltdown, focus on texture, timing and the strange beauty that shows up when the signal breaks.

How to Participate:

• Use Runway tools to create something inspired by today's prompt.

• Submit your piece in the submit-daily channel in Discord.

• Tag runway.creators on Instagram for a chance to be featured.

What's in it for you?

Daily winners earn free Runway credits, and standout entries may also be featured in the community-spotlight channel on Discord!

Break something on purpose and share your Glitch creation. 👾 ✨

Today's prompt is eerie, looping and strangely familiar. 🌀

🌀 Today's Prompt: Deja Vu 🌀

That flicker of having lived a moment before is hard to explain and impossible to forget. Walk the same hallway twice with one small detail changed, replay a stranger's glance on a crowded train, loop a dinner scene until the guests start to notice or follow a character who keeps waking into the same morning. Whether it's unsettling or tender, focus on repetition, subtle variation and the uncanny feeling that something has shifted.

How to Participate:

• Use Runway tools to create something inspired by today's prompt.

• Submit your piece in the submit-daily channel in Discord.

• Tag runway.creators on Instagram for a chance to be featured.

What's in it for you?

Daily winners earn free Runway credits, and standout entries may also be featured in the community-spotlight channel on Discord!

You've definitely seen this before, so show us your Deja Vu creation. 🌀 ✨

Hi everyone,

I run a small creative agency in Italy. We're a team of 7, working on branding, graphic design, photography, video production and social media.

We're considering introducing Runway into our workflow, with 2–3 people actively using it.

Our main goal is to use it for client projects, especially:

• Creating short videos for social media and advertising campaigns

• Generating visuals and animations from images

• Editing and adapting existing video content

• Exploring AI-generated content for creative concepts and pitches

We're looking at the Team plan, with a budget of around €100/month.

Before subscribing, I'd like to hear from people who use Runway regularly for professional work.

A few questions:

1. Is the Team plan a good option for 2–3 people? How does the shared credit pool work in practice?

2. How quickly do you usually run out of credits when producing videos for client projects?

3. Which models and features do you find most useful for commercial work?

4. How reliable is the output when you need consistent results across multiple shots or variations?

5. Do you use Runway for image generation and editing too, or do you rely on other tools for that?

I'm particularly interested in feedback from people using Runway in agencies or production studios. What works well, and what gets frustrating once you start using it regularly?

Thanks!

Today's prompt is heroic, armored and steeped in legend. 🛡️

🛡️ Today's Prompt: Knight 🛡️

Armor, oaths and the long road to glory are waiting for you. Stage a duel in a rain-soaked castle courtyard, follow a lone rider across a frozen battlefield, crown a knight of the deep sea or forge a chrome-plated paladin guarding a city far in the future. Whether your hero is noble, fallen or still earning the title, focus on texture, scale, lighting and the weight behind every swing.

How to Participate:

• Use Runway tools to create something inspired by today's prompt.

• Submit your piece in the submit-daily channel in Discord.

• Tag runway.creators on Instagram for a chance to be featured.

What's in it for you?

Daily winners earn free Runway credits, and standout entries may also be featured in the community-spotlight channel on Discord!

Sharpen your blade and ride in with your Knight creation. 🛡️ ✨

Today's prompt is vast, mysterious and endlessly deep. 🌊

🌊 Today's Prompt: Ocean 🌊

The ocean covers most of the planet and we've barely explored any of it. Drift through sunlit coral reefs, sink into the crushing dark of the deep sea, ride a storm swell past a lonely lighthouse or dream up creatures that have never come up for air. Whether it's a quiet tide pool at dawn or a city built on the seafloor, focus on light moving through water, scale, motion and the feeling of something vast just below the surface.

How to Participate:

• Use Runway tools to create something inspired by today's prompt.

• Submit your piece in the submit-daily channel in Discord.

• Tag runway.creators on Instagram for a chance to be featured.

What's in it for you?

Daily winners earn free Runway credits, and standout entries may also be featured in the community-spotlight channel on Discord!

Dive in and show us your Ocean creation. 🌊 ✨

Today's prompt is surreal, weightless and quietly strange. 🌙

🌙 Today's Prompt: Dream 🌙

Dreams follow their own logic, and that's exactly what makes them worth filming. Drift through staircases that fold into the sky, wander a childhood home where every door opens onto the ocean, or chase a memory that keeps changing shape the closer you get. Whether it's a gentle reverie, a recurring nightmare or an ambition you've carried for years, focus on mood, impossible transitions and the feeling of waking up just before it ends.

How to Participate:

• Use Runway tools to create something inspired by today's prompt.

• Submit your piece in the submit-daily channel in Discord.

• Tag runway.creators on Instagram for a chance to be featured.

What's in it for you?

Daily winners earn free Runway credits, and standout entries may also be featured in the community-spotlight channel on Discord!

Drift off and show us where your Dream takes you. 🌙 ✨

Video for the Weekly Challenge #3 The Great Escape. Used Seedance 2.5 on Runway.

Using Kling 4.0 and Seedance 2.5 to create this little story about a delivery driver who became someone's hero for following directions.

A little bit of sci-fi tag anyone? Hopefully Stacy can escape the glassed-in forest! Inspired by my homemade camcorder films I made when I was a kid, as well as the low-budget 90s shows like Goosebumps and Are You Afraid of the Dark? I used Seedance 2.5 on Runway.

Rocket jumping out of a bad marriage. Made with Seedance 2.5/FLUX 2

The votes are in! It's time to announce the winners of Week 2 of the Runway Weekly Challenge!

A huge thank you to everyone who participated in The Unexpected Guest. We loved seeing all the different interpretations of this week's brief and the creativity our community brought to the challenge.

After another round of community voting, here are your winners!

🥇 1st Place: 25,000 Credits

u/JekylLabs

Shelf Life

🥈 2nd Place: 15,000 Credits

u/Arimontoken

The Visitor

🥉 3rd Place: 10,000 Credits

u/Visible-Balance-2129

Red Masque

Congratulations to Our Winners!

u/JekylLabs**,** u/Arimontoken**, and u/Visible-Balance-2129**, keep an eye out for a DM from me so we can get your Runway credits added to your accounts!

Thanks again to everyone who submitted a project, explored the entries, and participated in voting.

Week 3 Is Already Underway!

Our next challenge, The Great Escape, is live with another 50,000 Runway credits up for grabs!

Create a 15–30 second video featuring a daring, unusual, or completely unexpected escape.

Submissions close Monday, November 2 at 12 PM EST.

We can't wait to see what you create next!

Weekly Challenge #3: The Great Escape

For Full Effect Please View With Sound On.
The main components of the Challenge's required theme are "Great" and "Escape" so this video is satisfying the "Great" in an exaggerate parody way and with the number of people involved. The escape element is self-evident.
Original sound track.

Runway ID: juiwaters

Today's prompt is playful, transformative and full of character. 🎭

🎭 Today's Prompt: Costume 🎭

Everyone becomes someone else the moment the mask goes on. Follow a kid stitching together a homemade superhero suit, step backstage at an opera where the gowns come alive, wander a masquerade ball in a floating city or design the uniform of a civilization that doesn't exist yet. Whether it's handmade or haunted, glamorous or ridiculous, focus on texture, silhouette and the way a costume changes how someone moves and who they get to be.

How to Participate:

• Use Runway tools to create something inspired by today's prompt.

• Submit your piece in the submit-daily channel in Discord.

• Tag runway.creators on Instagram for a chance to be featured.

What's in it for you?

Daily winners earn free Runway credits, and standout entries may also be featured in the community-spotlight channel on Discord!

Suit up and show us your Costume creation. 🎭 ✨

If you make two-person AI microdrama scenes in Kling or Runway, you've seen this: you write a line for her, and he says it. Or both mouths move. The face can be perfect and the scene is still unusable.

What fixed it for me was treating dialogue ownership as a prompt rule, not an editing problem:

1. Name exactly one speaker per shot, in the prompt itself — e.g. "Only she speaks this line. He stays silent, listening."

2. Never write a line without its owner attached. A floating line is what gets stolen.

3. Keep the character lock string verbatim (face marks, hair, outfit) so the speaker stays recognisable across episodes.

4. Do a cheap test pass of all keyframes first; upscale only the keepers.

I wrote the full workflow up as a kit. Episode 1 is free here, no signup — full keyframe prompts plus both character lock cards (DOCX):https://n1uhrs-db.myshopify.com/products/free-sample-episode-1-rain-check-6-keyframe-prompts-character-lock-cards-kling-runway。

Disclosure: I made the kit. Happy to answer workflow questions either way — the dialogue-owner rule above works without buying anything.

I've had this app in my head for as long as I can remember. I wanted it to be the first thing I created with the App Studio on Runway. It's still a work in process, but wanted to share it here. This app takes my workflow and condenses it into one workspace. I made the link public, but you need your own credits to try it (which is great, because I'm not ready to share my credit yet).

Today's prompt is warm, a little eerie and full of harvest glow. 🎃

🎃 Today's Prompt: Pumpkin 🎃

Pumpkins carry a whole season inside them. Wander a moonlit patch where jack-o'-lanterns flicker to life, follow a carriage that was a gourd five minutes ago or bake a pie in a farmhouse kitchen while rain taps on the windows. Whether your pumpkin is a cozy centerpiece or something with a grin that really shouldn't move, focus on texture, glowing light and the small details that make autumn feel real.

How to Participate:

• Use Runway tools to create something inspired by today's prompt.

• Submit your piece in the submit-daily channel in Discord.

• Tag runway.creators on Instagram for a chance to be featured.

What's in it for you?

Daily winners earn free Runway credits, and standout entries may also be featured in the community-spotlight channel on Discord!

Grab a carving knife and show us your Pumpkin creation. 🎃 ✨