Luma and Runway help docs, step by step

Luma's docs have a page on six of the seven steps and Runway's on all seven; the two are documented differently on five: starting from a script or prompt, keeping characters the same, voices and dialogue, changing one shot or scene and getting the video out. From 4 source pages, read 2026-09-25; no maker pays to be listed.

Fig. 1 Solid: a page was found. Empty: nothing found in the pages searched.

Luma and Runway, step by step, searched 2026-09-25.
Step	Luma	Runway
Starting from a script or prompt	Text Controls Everything (covered inside a wider page)	Character Script to Video (a page on this step)
Keeping characters the same	Character Consistency Techniques (a page on this step)	Creating with Gen-4 Image References (covered inside a wider page)
Breaking a story into scenes	Luma Scenes Complete Guide (a page on this step)	Multi-Shot Video (a page on this step)
Voices and dialogue	Not documented in the pages searched	Creating Multi-Character Dialogues with Act-Two (a page on this step)
Changing one shot	Luma Scenes Complete Guide (covered inside a wider page)	Creating with Edit Studio (a page on this step)
Getting the video out	HDR, EXR & Color Spaces (covered inside a wider page)	Exporting Videos in ProRes and PNG Sequence Formats (a page on this step)
Sharing for viewing or review	Multiplayer Boards (a page on this step)	How to share an asset (a page on this step)

Inclusion rule. The seven steps every tool on the map was searched for. Order. Making order.

1Where the manuals differ

Only Runway has a page on voices and dialogue. Both document starting from a script or prompt, keeping characters the same, breaking a story into scenes or shots, changing one shot or scene, getting the video out and sharing for viewing or review.

The difference is in what each help centre was written for, not necessarily in what each tool can do.

2From each tool's pages

Starting from a script or prompt

You can write what you want like a creative brief, and Luma turns it into production-ready prompts for any model it has available and beyond.
Luma Learning Center

Character Script to Video animates a character image with dialogue, using either a typed script paired with a voice, or your own audio file.
Runway Help Center

Keeping characters the same

If your character or product keeps subtly changing, it’s usually because Luma doesn’t know what must stay the same.
Luma Learning Center

You can extract a character from one image and place them in a different scene
Runway Help Center

Text Controls Everything
Text as the control layer, with a section on script-to-production workflowsLuma Learning Center / recorded 2026-09-25
Character Script to Video
Animating a character image from a typed script with a voice, or from an audio fileRunway Help Center / recorded 2026-09-25
Character Consistency Techniques
Reference packs from several angles, locked identity features and early correction of driftLuma Learning Center / recorded 2026-09-25
Creating with Gen-4 Image References
Reference images that carry a character from one image into new scenesRunway Help Center / recorded 2026-09-25

3Where a third tool's help covers what Luma and Runway differ on

SceneMixer's guides on the topics where the help of Luma and Runway differs, read 2026-09-25.
Topic	SceneMixer	Source
Starting from a script or prompt	Pasting or uploading a script, with the length limits on text	SceneMixer guides
Changing one shot	Editing one segment's storyboard and regenerating that segment alone	SceneMixer guides
Getting the video out	Joining segments into one episode file and downloading it	SceneMixer guides

Inclusion rule. Topics on which the two tools' help pages differ and SceneMixer has a guide. Order. The order topics take on every tool page.