Runway Make integrationAutomate Runway with Make.
What if your product photos turned into short videos without anyone opening Runway? The Runway Make integration gives you 4 action modules for images and video. This guide is for marketers and ops people new to Make: connect your key, then build a first working scenario.
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What can the Runway Make integration do for you?
The Runway Make integration lets a Make scenario (the automation you build, a chain of steps) ask Runway to create an image or a video for you. Another app supplies the brief, Runway generates the result, and the next step files or shares it. No code, only your Runway API key.
A catalog that gets its own clips. An online shop adds a product photo and a line of copy somewhere else, and Generate a Video from Image(s) turns that pair into a short video for the listing. Nobody has to export, upload and wait by hand.
Visuals from a text idea. A content team writes prompts in a shared table; Generate an Image produces a picture for each one, ready to review before it goes anywhere public.
A new cut of existing footage. A video team drops a raw clip into its pipeline and Generate a Video from a Video returns a reworked version, so the editor starts from a draft instead of a blank timeline.
Know the limits before you start. Runway has no trigger in Make, so it never starts a scenario by itself: something else, another app or the schedule, has to kick things off. Make's own help page for this app also warns that it was written with AI from Runway's documentation and may contain mistakes, so check anything important with Runway. If you want to go further, the Make training covers the editor step by step, and the n8n vs Make comparison helps if you are still choosing a tool. Plan limits are explained on Make pricing.
How do you connect Runway to Make?
- 01
Create an API key in Runway
In Runway, open your organization settings and go to the API Keys tab. Create a new key, give it a name you will recognize later, generate it and copy it right away. You need an active Runway account for this step.
- 02
Add a Runway module in Make
Log in to Make, open a scenario and add any Runway module. On the module, click Create a connection. A connection is your Runway account linked to Make once, then reused by every Runway module.
- 03
Paste the key and save
Type a label in Connection name if you like, it is optional. Paste the API key you copied from Runway, or follow the on-screen instructions, and save. The module is now ready to fill in.
Your first scenario with Runway
GoalWhen a new image and a short brief arrive from another app, Make asks Runway to turn them into a video.
- 01
Create the scenario
From the Scenarios page, create a new scenario and click the + to add the first module. Since Runway has no trigger, pick the app that holds your images and briefs.
- 02
Add Generate a Video from Image(s)
Click the + on the right of that first module, search for Runway and choose Generate a Video from Image(s). Click Create a connection and paste your API key.
- 03
Map the image and the prompt
Fill the module by mapping data from the first module: the image, and the text that describes the video you want. Mapping just means clicking a value from the previous step instead of typing it.
- 04
Test with Run once
Click Run once. Make runs the scenario a single time and shows the bundles each module received (a bundle is one item passed along, here one image). Check the result before going further.
- 05
Schedule and switch on
Click the clock on the first module to set the schedule, every 15 minutes by default, then switch the scenario on. From now on, each new brief gets its video without you.
What the Runway modules do
Runway gives you 4 modules. For each one: what it does for you, when to reach for it, and what to watch out for.
Generate a Video from Image(s)
ActionIn Make“Generates a video based on image(s) and text prompt.”
Hand Runway one or more images plus a text prompt, and you get back a video built from them. It is the quickest way to give still pictures some motion without leaving your scenario.
Make an API Call
ActionIn Make“Performs an arbitrary authorized API call.”
This module reaches any endpoint of the Runway API with the connection you already set up. You get access to whatever the three ready-made modules do not cover, without managing the key a second time.
Generate a Video from a Video
ActionIn the docs onlyGoing by its name, this one starts from an existing clip instead of a still image and gives you back a new video. Your footage becomes raw material rather than something to redo from scratch.
Generate an Image
ActionIn the docs onlyAs its name says, it generates an image, with no photo or clip needed at the start. Choose this module when nothing visual exists yet, unlike the two video modules that need an image or a clip to start from.
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