Runway launches Enhance Frame Rate model
Runway has released Enhance Frame Rate, a frame-interpolation model that converts video to standard delivery frame rates inside its platform, so creators can skip a separate conform step before broadcast or post-production.
Runway announced Enhance Frame Rate, a new model that converts video to 25, 30, 48, 60 or 120 fps. It also supports NTSC's 59.94 fps standard. The company says it works on any video, including footage not generated on Runway, and that users never have to leave the platform.
Runway says the model runs up to seven times faster and costs a third as much as other interpolation models, with higher output quality. It did not name the models it compared against or publish benchmark details.
The tool is aimed at delivery and post-production work: broadcast and streaming, motion design, VFX pipelines and editorial. Runway pointed to specs like the UK's mandated 25 fps broadcast standard, where a clip at the wrong frame rate would otherwise need a manual conform pass before it can go into a timeline.
Enhance Frame Rate handles video up to 4K resolution and five minutes long, and keeps the source resolution through conversion. It costs one credit for every two seconds of video, regardless of resolution or target frame rate. Runway says more frame rates are coming but has not said which ones or when.
The company is pitching the model alongside Runway Ruby, its recently released SDR-to-HDR upscaler, as part of a path that takes generated clips "from first draft to production-ready." Enhance Frame Rate is available now.