Runway plugin lands in DaVinci Resolve

What changed

Until now a Runway shot meant a round trip: out of Resolve, into a browser, back down and into the Media Pool again. The plugin puts a Runway panel inside Resolve Studio instead. You prompt for new images or video, watch them finish in a feed and import with a click. The Edit Studio side works on footage you've already got. Sit the playhead over a shot, or set in and out points, and the plugin exports just that section. You restyle anchor frames, or set as many as five keyframes, and Aleph 2.0 renders the clip again at the same length as the source. There's a side-by-side view of old and new, and the new version is placed on the track above your original.

Who it's for

Resolve Studio users on version 19 or newer who already pay for Runway. It won't run in the free version of Resolve. The plugin itself costs nothing on Mac or Windows, but generating needs a paid Runway plan and uses your existing credits. After you log in you can see your workspaces and credit balance, and what a job will cost before you start it, and everything you make also turns up in your Runway library.

What it means for a cut

Keeping the same duration is the important bit. A restyled shot sits over the original without retiming, so your edit points and sync stay where they were, and the source is still underneath if you change your mind. It's good for trying a look on a few shots or a pickup, less so for a whole timeline, since every pass costs credits. Runway doesn't say what resolution, codec or frame rate comes back, so check the clip matches your timeline settings before you commit. Our earlier note pointed to Runway Workflows for chaining steps; this post doesn't mention that, so we've dropped it.

Checked on 31 Oct 2026 against Runway's own page ↗. Every fact above comes from that page.