Runner / For

Built for editors who cut a lot.

If you finish two videos a month, Runner is not worth installing. If you finish twenty, the maths changes completely. This page is about the second case.

Where the time actually goes

Pulling one clip is not slow. Pulling forty is. The loop looks like this every single time:

1. Leave Premiere, open a browser, search the stock site.
2. Download. Wait. Find it in Downloads, which by now contains eleven files called pexels-video-8574281.mp4.
3. Drag it into Premiere. Discover the 4K one imported with no picture.
4. Convert it. Re-import it. Find where you were.

The clock cost is maybe three minutes. The real cost is step four, because by the time you are back you have lost the thing you were about to do.

What changes

Task	Normally	With Runner
Find a clip	Alt-tab to a browser	A tab inside the panel
Get it on disk	Downloads folder	Straight to the library tray
4K from YouTube	Imports as audio only	Converted to H.264 first
Onto the timeline	Find file, import, drag	Drag from the tray
Downloads folder	Full of junk	Untouched

The 4K thing specifically

This is the part that costs the most and gets explained the least. YouTube often serves AV1 or VP9 rather than H.264, and Premiere decodes neither. The clip lands on your timeline as a waveform with a blank video track, or throws an unsupported-compression error, and nothing tells you why. It is worst above 1080p, but it is not exclusive to 4K.

Runner checks the codec of what it actually downloaded and converts anything Premiere cannot read. You do not configure it and you do not find out it happened.

Who this is not for

Being straight about it saves us both time:

• Mac editors. Windows only right now. There is a waiting list on the home page.
• Anyone on a licensed library. If your work runs on Artgrid, Envato or Storyblocks and their panel already does the job, Runner adds little. See the honest comparison.
• Low-volume editors. A few minutes per clip is not worth new software if you pull four clips a month.
• Anyone who needs guaranteed uptime today. This is beta software written by one person. It is used daily by a handful of editors, which is not the same as being battle-tested.