Runway: breaking a story into scenes

Runway explains breaking a story into scenes or shots in “Multi-Shot Video”: one prompt turned into a video of up to five connected shots. From 1 source page, read 2026-09-25; no maker pays to be listed.

Multi-Shot Video generates a single cohesive video made up of up to 5 connected shots from one text prompt.

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• Multi-Shot Video
  One prompt turned into a video of up to five connected shotsRunway Help Center / recorded 2026-09-25

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1Other tools' pages on this step

• Boords: “Creating a storyboard”
• Colossyan: “Scenes”
• D-ID: “How do I add new scenes to my video?”
• Descript: “Scenes overview”
• Fliki: “Guide: Scenes”
• Google Flow: “Edit videos & build scenes in Google Flow”
• invideo: “Creating storyboards with invideo”
• Kapwing: “Saying Goodbye to Scenes”
• Katalist: “How do I create a script breakdown in Katalist?”
• Kling AI: “Kling VIDEO 3.0 Model User Guide”
• LTX Studio: “LTX Storyboard Generator Update: From Script to Storyboard, Faster”
• Luma: “Luma Scenes Complete Guide”
• Morphic: “Storyboarding”
• Pictory: “Meet the New Storyboard – Built for speed”
• SceneMixer: “What Is Inside a Project”
• Storyboarder.ai: “Understanding The Scene Breakdown”
• Synthesia: “How do I manage scenes in Synthesia?”
• Vyond: “Scenes”

2About the step

Storyboard apps treat it as their core and document it in detail. Kapwing is the odd case: its page on the step announces that the Scenes view was removed in 2022.

3Runway's pages on the other steps

• Starting from a script or prompt: Character Script to Video
• Keeping characters the same: Creating with Gen-4 Image References
• Voices and dialogue: Creating Multi-Character Dialogues with Act-Two
• Changing one shot: Creating with Edit Studio
• Getting the video out: Exporting Videos in ProRes and PNG Sequence Formats
• Sharing for viewing or review: How to share an asset

Inclusion rule. Every tool on the map, with or without a page on this step. Order. Alphabetical by tool name.

4More on this step

• Runway, all seven steps
• Breaking a story into scenes, every tool
• Morphic on this step
• Storyboarder.ai on this step