Runway: starting from a script or prompt

Runway explains starting from a script or prompt in “Character Script to Video”: animating a character image from a typed script with a voice, or from an audio file. From 1 source page, read 2026-09-25; no maker pays to be listed.

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

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• 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

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1Other tools' pages on this step

• Adobe Firefly: “Generate videos using text prompts”
• Boords: “Importing scripts with AI”
• Colossyan: “Script”
• D-ID: “How do I use the AI text generator?”
• Descript: “Write with AI tools”
• FlexClip: “AI Video Creator - Text to Full Video”
• Fliki: “Guide: Video Types”
• Google Flow: “Create videos in Google Flow”
• HeyGen: “How to Write Scripts in the AI Studio”
• Kapwing: “About Kapwing's AI Script Generator”
• Katalist: “CSV Script import tutorial”
• Kling AI: “Text-to-Video”
• LTX Studio: “LTX Storyboard Generator Update: From Script to Storyboard, Faster”
• Luma: “Text Controls Everything”
• Midjourney: “Video”
• Morphic: “Storyboarding using a script”
• Pictory: “How to turn your ideas or script into a video with Pictory”
• SceneMixer: “What You Can Feed In”
• Storyboarder.ai: “Understanding The Screenplay Section”
• Synthesia: “How do I create a script in Synthesia?”
• Topview: “Topview Official Guide: AI Video”
• VEED: “How to Use AI Video Generator”
• Vyond: “Using Vyond Go (Text to video)”

2About the step

It is the step tools document most. Storyboard apps explain importing a finished script; video makers explain prompting; a few, such as Kapwing and Pictory, explain generating a script from an idea.

3Runway's pages on the other steps

• Keeping characters the same: Creating with Gen-4 Image References
• Breaking a story into scenes: Multi-Shot Video
• 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
• Starting from a script or prompt, every tool
• Pictory on this step
• Storyboarder.ai on this step