# Runway x Baseten - Reality Inpainting by Runway

A playful live-action demonstration of generative video manipulation, where a first-person hand point-and-edits a Brooklyn street corner in real time, altering musicians, pedestrians, and street architecture before snapping to reveal the Runway logo.

- Company: Runway
- Year: 2024
- Duration: 0:15
- Type: Advertisement
- Objective: Build awareness
- Industry: AI
- Audience: Creator
- Medium: Live action, Mixed media, 2D animation, 3D
- Style: Playful, Cinematic, Bold
- Techniques: Compositing, Camera move, Morph
- Structure: Transformation
- Pace: Moderate
- Audio: Music-led
- Format: Landscape

## Observations

- The video uses a first-person point-of-view hand to simulate real-time AI inpainting and object replacement in a practical street setting.
- Runway and Baseten logos are displayed at the outset against a graffitied brick wall with a jazz trio playing.
- Multiple AI generative concepts are referenced: inpainting (electronic keyboard replaced by an upright acoustic piano), object removal and replacement (owner removed, dog duplicated), style transfer (real man leaning against a pole replaced with an animated line drawing), and text generation (pigeons dispersed to reveal a 3D Runway sign).
- A brisk jazz trumpet and drum soundtrack drives the playful tone throughout.

## Moments

### 0:00–0:03 · Instrument Swap

A first-person hand points at a street band's electronic keyboard, instantly transforming it into an upright piano.

Tags: inpainting, live action, transformation

Link: https://motionreference.com/reference/97f7c997-d764-46c4-bbd8-2768b2362685?t=0 · Moment id: `97f7c997-d764-46c4-bbd8-2768b2362685-m0`

### 0:03–0:06 · Pedestrian Removal and Dog Duplication

Panning down the sidewalk, the finger points at a woman walking her poodle, causing the woman to vanish and leaving two synchronized poodles walking together.

Tags: object removal, duplication, street

Link: https://motionreference.com/reference/97f7c997-d764-46c4-bbd8-2768b2362685?t=3 · Moment id: `97f7c997-d764-46c4-bbd8-2768b2362685-m1`

### 0:06–0:10 · Style Transfer Transformation

The finger points to a man smoking by a lamppost, altering him into an animated 2D sketch animation while keeping the rest of the scene live action.

Tags: style transfer, 2D animation, mixed media

Link: https://motionreference.com/reference/97f7c997-d764-46c4-bbd8-2768b2362685?t=6 · Moment id: `97f7c997-d764-46c4-bbd8-2768b2362685-m2`

### 0:10–0:15 · Runway Sign Reveal

The camera tilts up to a fire escape full of pigeons; a snap of the fingers scatters the birds, revealing an extruded 3D Runway logo.

Tags: logo reveal, 3D, payoff

Link: https://motionreference.com/reference/97f7c997-d764-46c4-bbd8-2768b2362685?t=10 · Moment id: `97f7c997-d764-46c4-bbd8-2768b2362685-m3`

## Links

- Motion Reference page: https://motionreference.com/reference/97f7c997-d764-46c4-bbd8-2768b2362685
- Watch: https://attachments.are.na/51410797/6b9bd7e220939a2c731dfd9cfb24cc58.mp4?1792009623
- Original: https://x.com/runwayml/status/2110364429816827936/video/1
- Video id: `97f7c997-d764-46c4-bbd8-2768b2362685` (use with the MCP tools get_reference, get_breakdown and get_related_references)

Cite the Motion Reference page and credit Runway when you use this.