You stop re-shooting to change a look. Aleph 2 restyles the take you already have. Up to 30 seconds of it.
Free account · ⚡50 on signup · No card
● Shot on Aleph 2
Two takes off Aleph 2. Each with the prompt that produced it.
10sRunway Aleph 2 · 10s
“Make a stylised animated video of a giant spherical airship drifting over a camel caravan in a red desert canyon.”
10sRunway Aleph 2 · 10s
“Make a moody photorealistic video of a man in a black overcoat walking away as crowd blurs past him.”
● Release notes
01
Attach footage. The restyle rides your own frames.
02
Gen-4.5 stops at ten. A whole scene fits here.
03
Cast, product and palette carry across the take.
04
No chip ladder. Any whole second from 1 to 30.
● Rendered on OpenClips
Four takes off our own account. Three are Aleph 2, one is Gen-4.5.
Video to Video00:00:04:00Runway Aleph 2 · 4s
“restyle to a cold winter palette, add gentle falling snow”
Video to Video00:00:07:00Runway Aleph 2 · 7s
“restyle to a warm autumn palette, falling leaves”
Video to Video00:00:10:00Runway Aleph 2 · 10s
“Make a fast first-person drone video skimming over snowy forest tracks into pink alpenglow.”
Text to Video00:00:05:00Runway Gen-4.5 · 5s
“Slow steady push-in down the centre aisle of a grand theatre toward the bare stage, empty red velvet seats, ornate gilt balconies, lit only by flat white work-lights.”
● The sheet
Figures reflect OpenClips defaults, August 2026.
Compare every model that takes several references.Compare every model that takes a clip.
● The pair
Aleph 2 when you already have the footage. Gen-4.5 when the shot starts from a prompt.
| Spec | Runway Aleph 2 | Runway Gen-4.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Status | Live in the composer | Live in the composer |
| Starts from | A clip you bring | A prompt or one still |
| Clip length | 1 to 30s | 2 to 10s |
| Audio | Silent | Silent |
| Resolution | Not offered | Not offered |
| References | Up to 5 | Up to 1 |
| Cost on OpenClips | ⚡3 per second | From ⚡46 |
● Three moves
From your footage to a restyled take.
Press a themeIt loads a real prompt
“Make a stylised animated video of a giant spherical airship drifting over a camel caravan in a red desert canyon.”
“Make a moody photorealistic video of a man in a black overcoat walking away as crowd blurs past him.”
01 ·
≈ 1 min
Name the new look. Keep the action you shot.
02 ·
≈ 30 sec
Your video is required. Add up to 5 references.
03 ·
≈ 3 min
The ⚡ price sits on the button before you press.
● OpenClips MCP
No console and no syntax. Your agent briefs Aleph 2 through the OpenClips MCP server. It restyles the take you already have.
https://mcp.openclips.aiStep 01
One sentence is the brief. Grade, weather, wardrobe.
Step 02
The clip, the length and the ⚡ quote. Queued for you.
Step 03
Download it, remix it, or ship it. Credits settle automatically.
● Director's notes
Four habits that separate a clean pass from a re-roll.
The restyle inherits your framing and your motion.
Source decides
You pay by the second. Prove the look cheap first.
Short, then long
One still per face or product. Five slots per render.
One still per subject
Aleph 2 returns picture only. Lay your track back on.
Picture only
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Read it →● The gaps
The vendor ships these. The composer does not.
Runway renders an Aleph 2 edit at up to 1080p. The composer offers no resolution control on this model.
Read the vendor pageRunway previews the change as a still image first, so you shape the look before committing to a render. The composer has no field for it.
Read the vendor pageRunway applies one edit across multiple shots at once, instead of shot by shot. The composer takes a single clip per render.
Read the vendor page● Version history
Newest first, straight off the roster.
video · Live on OpenClips
Aleph editing, consistent world references.
video · Live on OpenClips
Video-to-video restyling — bring your own clip.
● Questions
Runway Aleph 2 is the video-to-video model in the Runway column, and on OpenClips it restyles footage you attach. A take runs 1 to 30 seconds and comes back silent. You can ride up to 5 reference images alongside the clip. It bills at ⚡3 per second, quoted before the render runs.
Yes. The source clip is the input, not an optional extra, and the composer will not dispatch an Aleph 2 render without one. Attach the take you want changed, then describe the change. If you have no footage yet, render a shot on Runway Gen-4.5 first and bring that back here.
One to 30 seconds, set by a slider rather than fixed chips. Any whole second in that range is dispatchable. Thirty seconds is three times what Gen-4.5 gives a single shot, which is what makes a whole scene survive the restyle in one pass instead of several.
Aleph 2 is priced by the second: ⚡3 for every second of the take. A 3-second test is cheap and a 30-second pass costs ten times as much, so prove the look short before you buy the length. A free account opens with ⚡50. Packs start at $10/1,000⚡.
No. Aleph 2 returns picture only, the same as the rest of the Runway line on OpenClips. Your original track is untouched on your own file, so lay it back over the restyled take in your editor. For sound rendered with the frames, Veo 3.1 and Kling 3.0 sit in the same composer.
Aleph 2 when the footage already exists and the look has to change. Gen-4.5 when the shot starts from a prompt and one still, from ⚡46. Aleph 2 holds five references to Gen-4.5's one, and runs to 30 seconds against its 10. Both share your wallet and library.
● The receipts
Every link goes to the vendor's own page.
Attach the take. Describe the change. See the ⚡ first.
Generate with Runway Aleph 2Free account. ⚡50 on signup. Pay per render.
Or roll with a sibling model
Aleph 2 is the video-to-video door in the Runway column. You attach a clip, describe the change, and the take comes back restyled. The composer will not dispatch without that clip: the source is the input, not an optional extra.
A take runs 1 to 30 seconds, set by a slider rather than a chip ladder. That is three times the room Runway Gen-4.5 gives a single shot, and it is why a full scene survives the restyle in one pass. Output is silent, in 16:9, 9:16, 21:9, 4:3, 3:4 or 1:1.
Up to 5 reference images ride along with the clip: a face, a product, a palette, a set. Gen-4.5 holds one. Reach for Aleph 2 when the restyle has to stay on model across a whole scene.
Aleph 2 bills at ⚡3 per second of the take, so a 30-second pass costs ten times a 3-second test. Prove the look short. Then buy the length. The composer quotes your exact render before it runs, and the takes land in the same library as the rest of the roster.
● Where to go next
