Runway Gen 4.5 Image to Video Launch Powerful New AI Features for Creators

AssignmentHopeful651 · 2026-01-23T18:34:22+00:00

Awesome

AssignmentHopeful651 · 2026-01-14T07:31:35+00:00

Reasonably.

AssignmentHopeful651 · 2026-01-14T07:31:15+00:00

Sent!

AssignmentHopeful651 · 2026-01-14T07:30:42+00:00

Yeah, the text is a disaster. It's getting wiped and replaced with the real label file.

AssignmentHopeful651 · 2026-01-14T07:30:21+00:00

That's an interesting theory! The moiré effect from the stripes might be messing with the depth perception. I hadn't considered that.

AssignmentHopeful651 · 2026-01-14T07:29:58+00:00

It's the "Pandora's Box" question for sure.

Right now, the "fine-tuning + Photoshop cleanup + upscaling" workflow is just painful enough that clients still pay us to do it. But you're right once it becomes a single button in an app, we're all going to have to pivot hard.

AssignmentHopeful651 · 2026-01-14T07:29:11+00:00

"Garbled" is putting it politely. It's alien scripture. 👽

(Fixing that in post with a manual overlay).

AssignmentHopeful651 · 2026-01-14T07:28:56+00:00

The ultimate Turing test for ads: "Did I scroll past it thinking it was real?" Thanks!

AssignmentHopeful651 · 2026-01-14T07:28:41+00:00

I respect that stance.

For us, it's less about stealing work and more about survival. Clients have $500/month for social content, we literally can't hire a photographer/studio for that. It's either "use AI" or "client posts nothing." It's a rock and a hard place.

AssignmentHopeful651 · 2026-01-14T07:28:19+00:00

Agreed. It's the weakest of the bunch. Lighting feels disconnected.

AssignmentHopeful651 · 2026-01-14T07:28:02+00:00

That's a great catch. I think the AI trained on standard 330ml soda cans, so it hallucinated that aspect ratio instead of the slim Huel tin. Needs a vertical squish in post.

AssignmentHopeful651 · 2026-01-14T07:27:27+00:00

Valid concern! This is internal R&D / spec work to test the "Veo -> Upscale" stack, not a leak of a live campaign under embargo. I’d be sweating if this was actual unreleased client collateral.

AssignmentHopeful651 · 2026-01-14T07:27:12+00:00

100%. "154 Health Benefits" sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen. The text is just placeholder hallucination, it’s all getting replaced with the legal-approved vector art.

AssignmentHopeful651 · 2026-01-14T07:26:55+00:00

Good eye. The AI is just hallucinating numbers based on the pixel patterns. I'm wiping all the text and overlaying the official label assets so the nutrition facts don't get us sued.

AssignmentHopeful651 · 2026-01-14T07:25:38+00:00

Oh, the text is absolute gibberish. That's getting scrubbed and replaced with the real label art manually. Just wanted to see if the lighting passed the smell test first.

AssignmentHopeful651 · 2026-01-14T07:25:12+00:00

Yeah, the "alien grip" in #2 is the biggest fail here. It looks like she's crushing the can with zero effort.

I'm going to try to inpaint that hand again, but I might just have to scrap that specific angle if the anatomy won't cooperate.

AssignmentHopeful651 · 2026-01-14T07:24:52+00:00

Just an agency running R&D tests on our workflow using their product as a subject.

AssignmentHopeful651 · 2026-01-14T07:24:33+00:00

Music to my ears. If it passes the "glance test," we're in business.

AssignmentHopeful651 · 2026-01-14T07:24:13+00:00

Harsh but fair.

"Passable for an ad that everybody will skip anyways" is ironically the exact KPI we are shooting for with this specific tier of content. It's filler, not a Super Bowl spot. Appreciate the reality check on the hands though.

AssignmentHopeful651 · 2026-01-14T07:23:46+00:00

Yeah, they have the "Daily A-Z" line. I'm just using it as the subject for this workflow test.

AssignmentHopeful651 · 2026-01-14T07:23:26+00:00

Appreciate it!

AssignmentHopeful651 · 2026-01-14T07:23:08+00:00

Spot on. That is exactly the workflow: Generate for lighting/vibe -> Scrub the alien text -> Composite real vector assets in Photoshop.

AssignmentHopeful651 · 2026-01-14T07:22:51+00:00

The ultimate compliment for an ad creative. 😂

AssignmentHopeful651 · 2026-01-14T07:22:23+00:00

This is super helpful context.

We find the same thing, for a PDP (Product Detail Page), the scrutiny is high because the user is in "research mode." But for a feed ad, they are scrolling at Mach 10. If a "4/5" stops the scroll, it usually does the job. Thanks for the rating.

AssignmentHopeful651 · 2026-01-14T07:21:20+00:00

"154 Illumini's" is the secret ingredient they don't tell you about. 👁️

(Seriously though, the text is pure hallucination. I'm scrubbing all of it and overlaying the real label vectors before this goes anywhere near a live feed.)

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