Runway Gen-4 · Color consistency across generations
Keep color consistent across Runway Gen-4 clips
Assembling a scene from several Runway Gen-4 generations often leaves you with clips that individually look great but don’t match each other in color balance.
What you're seeing
- Each Runway Gen-4 clip has a slightly different white balance
- Cuts between generations reveal brightness or saturation jumps
- No single clip is “wrong,” but together they don’t feel like one scene
Why it happens
Independent generations don’t share a color reference — even from similar prompts and seeds, Runway Gen-4 renders and encodes each clip on its own, so their color points land in slightly different places. There’s nothing tying them to a common look.
How to fix it with Color Correct
- Pick the clip whose color you want as the reference for the scene.
- Load the reference and a source clip into Color Correct.
- Frame-pair match the source clip to the reference so they share one color balance.
- Repeat for each remaining clip against the same reference.
Recommended settings
- Pair this with the Color-Recovery frame export (level 1) so the seed frame already pre-compensates for drift.
Step-by-step in the docs
Frequently asked questions
- Does Color Correct re-grade the whole clip or just match it?
- It matches. Color Correct computes a color transform from a reference frame (or frame pair) and applies it so the corrected clip lines up with your reference — it doesn't impose a creative grade. You stay in control of the look; Color Correct just removes the unwanted drift.
- Which Runway Gen-4 clip should be the reference?
- Choose the one whose look you like best, or the one that opens the scene. Matching every other clip to it gives the whole sequence a single, intentional color identity.
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