How does MiniMax H3 generate video?

MiniMax H3 starts with a creative brief, collects any reference assets, and applies your selected mode, ratio, and output settings. The MiniMax H3 workflow then routes the request through the connected video model and saves the result for review.

You can create an account and explore the workspace for free. Video generation consumes paid credits because every completed MiniMax H3 request incurs provider compute costs.

Can MiniMax H3 edit existing videos?

MiniMax H3 accepts reference videos to guide motion, timing, and style. A reference guides a new generation; it is not a traditional timeline editor that modifies the source file in place.

MiniMax H3 vs Veo - which should I use?

Use MiniMax H3 when native 2K output, synchronized sound, and mixed image, video, and audio references fit your brief. Evaluate each model with your own prompts because quality and style preferences vary by scene.

How much does MiniMax H3 cost?

MiniMax H3 2K video costs 45 credits per output second. Reference-video duration is billed at the same rate. The first 5 reference images are included; images 6–9 cost 15 credits each. The workspace shows the total before generation.

What inputs work best in MiniMax H3?

MiniMax H3 works best when the prompt describes the subject, setting, camera movement, lighting, style, and timing. MiniMax H3 image references help anchor identity, product shape, wardrobe, color palette, and first-frame composition. Clear inputs usually produce cleaner motion and fewer random changes.

Can MiniMax H3 keep a character or product consistent?

MiniMax H3 is built around reference-guided workflows, so creators can use source images, short clips, and written notes to keep character appearance, product details, and visual tone closer to the intended direction. The best results come from clean references and specific notes about what must stay fixed.

What is the best way to write MiniMax H3 prompts?

A strong MiniMax H3 prompt starts with the scene goal, then adds subject details, motion, camera language, lighting, mood, aspect ratio, and any constraints. Short, specific prompts usually work better than vague descriptions. Keep one main action per prompt so the video has a clear direction.

Are MiniMax Hailuo, Hailuo H3, and MiniMax H3 the same?

MiniMax is the model company and Hailuo AI is its video product brand. People may search for MiniMax Hailuo, Hailuo MiniMax, Hailuo H3, or MiniMax H3 when looking for the newest Hailuo AI video model.

What makes the MiniMax H3 AI Video Generator useful for teams?

The MiniMax H3 AI Video Generator is designed for reference-rich production. Teams can describe how text, images, clips, and audio should relate, then use natural-language revisions to explore advertising, product, brand, UI, and story concepts in one workflow.

MiniMax H3 AI Video Studio

Direct 2K video with text, image, video, and audio context in one MiniMax H3 workspace.Create up to 15-second clips with native stereo sound and natural-language revisions.

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Explore MiniMax H3 examples shaped by multimodal references, native audio, motion transfer, and precise creative direction.

Dance

Rhythmic Dance Push-Pull

@image1's female star as the main subject, reference the camera movement method of @video1 for rhythmic push-pull-pan-tilt movements. The female star's movements also reference the dance movements of the woman in @video1, performing energetically on stage.

Examples

LIVE

Stadium Live

@image1 [Camera View] Official television sports broadcast feed. High-angle professional zoom lens, smooth tripod-mounted tracking, no handheld jitter. The video features a permanent digital scoreboard overlay in the top-left (MATCHWEEK 24, NAS 2, SHB 1) and a "SSC 1 LIVE" television logo in the top-right, perfectly static. [Candid Discovery] The broadcast camera cuts from the game to scan the crowd in natural, ambient daylight. It locks onto a stunning woman in a dark brown silk halter dress. She is surrounded by a diverse audience wearing everyday casual clothes (hoodies, jackets, t-shirts). She is casually eating a burger and holding a blue soda can. She incidentally glances up, catches her own image on the stadium's giant screen, and realizes the live camera is on her. She gives a surprised, cool smirk to the camera. [The Transition] She quickly but calmly sets her burger and drink on her seat, stands up with athletic poise, and coolly vaults over the professional stadium railing onto the pitch. The broadcast camera pans smoothly to follow her movement from the stands to the grass. [The Interaction] On the pitch, a professional soccer player in a white kit passes the ball directly to her feet. Despite wearing sharp high-heeled shoes, she expertly traps the ball and executes a powerful, professional-level strike. The ball arcs with high velocity into the top corner of the goal net. [Audio & Finish] Audio is authentic stadium environment sound: the distant hum of thousands, the rustle of clothing, the sharp "thwack" of the high heel hitting the ball, and the massive roar of the crowd after the goal. She turns toward the lens with a radiant smile and playfully covers the camera with her hand, ending the broadcast segment. [Technical Specs] Broadcast-quality 4K, 60fps, natural color grading, high-end optical zoom, photorealistic textures, clean TV graphics.

POV

Prey Drift

Overall Style and Aesthetics: A high-energy, thrilling first-person action sequence, shot in a 9:16 vertical aspect ratio. The visual style is a raw, high-budget prehistoric adventure film, shot with a 35mm anamorphic lens, retaining a strong film grain and noticeable noise to create a realistic and stunning texture. The camera work simulates a GoPro-style wide-angle lens with peripheral distortion. High-fidelity visual effects, realistic mud and water physics, and 8K resolution. Narrative Timeline (9:16 Vertical Shots): 0:00 - 0:03 (High-Altitude Paragliding Flight) This scene opens from the first-person perspective of a paraglider pilot. Two gloved hands grip the control stick, and brown tactical boots sway at the bottom of the frame. The pilot soars above a vast, ancient jungle filled with giant tree ferns and prehistoric palm trees. In the center of the treetops, a massive, long-necked sauropod dinosaur (Brachiosaurus) stands majestically, its head facing the camera. 0:03 - 0:06 (Canyon Dive - Dynamic Chase) The pilot pulls the control stick, diving into a narrow basalt canyon in a thrilling maneuver. A group of pterosaurs, emitting sharp cries, blurs past the camera. Below, a rushing river flows between jagged rock walls. The camera uses strong motion blur and shaky shots to simulate wind resistance and speed during the descent. 0:06 - 0:10 (Water Glide - Low-Altitude Gliding) The pilot glides close to the water's surface, just inches away. Water spray and splash onto the "lens." The camera follows the winding river at incredible speed. Lush green vegetation and ancient moss-covered rocks rush past on either side. The lighting is natural, overcast sunlight, casting realistic reflections on the water. 0:10 - 0:13 (Fall - Physics and Textures) The paraglider loses altitude and plunges violently into a deep, muddy clearing. The camera angle drops sharply. A large patch of thick, brown mud splashes onto the lower half of the frame. The paraglider's white canopy collapses, hanging above the camera, forming a suffocating, translucent white veil.

Director Control

Continuous Shot

Single continuous cinematic shot. Audio begins with daytime Shibuya street noise mixed with 8-bit video game sounds and chaotic Japanese chatter. Background music: shamisen strings. The camera pushes low along the ground. A girl’s leather shoe slams into frame — heavy first step. A Japanese schoolgirl in JK uniform sprints into frame at extreme speed, then suddenly slows on the second beat. She side-rolls and runs along a Shibuya crosswalk, shoulder nearly brushing the lens, skirt sweeping across frame. Obstacle ahead. She suddenly accelerates, steps onto a low wall — explosive jump. The camera lifts into the air with her. City lights streak below. She lands steadily, stabilizes with one hand, immediately rolls forward. The camera rotates half a turn with the roll, then quickly corrects. She sprints again. Full speed. Charges toward a railing. No hesitation. She leaps. The camera follows into weightlessness. Wind roars. Shamisen music briefly cuts midair. She lands on a lower platform. Knees absorb impact. Lowest point. Next beat — she snaps her head up and resumes sprinting into the crowd.

ASMR

Vertical Skincare Gel ASMR

Vertical ASMR video. No music. Macro details. Shot 1: A light blue skincare gel bottle sits on glass. A pale elegant hand gently taps the glass, producing crisp fingernail tapping sounds. Shot 2: The hand picks up the bottle and slowly twists the cap. The cap rotation sound is clearly audible. Shot 3: A spoon scoops a portion of gel. With a soft “plop,” a thick blob of pale blue gel lands heavily in the center of the glass surface. The gel is dense and viscous, containing tiny realistic air bubbles. Dramatic cool lighting from behind makes it glow like a gemstone. Shot 4: The hand presses firmly onto the gel. The pressure flattens it, causing it to spread outward into an irregular circle. Tiny bubbles swirl within the texture. Palm lines and skin details are clearly visible through the glass. The hand slowly spreads the gel in circular motions. The thick gel thins into a semi-transparent oily film. Focus entirely on friction and fluid dynamics between hand, product, and glass.

Couple Vlog

Love Shot

Based on a storyboard of reference images, a fast-paced flashback montage was created. This is a nostalgic love story, shot on 35mm film in the style of a Kodak Portra 800. Soft grain, dreamlike bokeh, warm highlights, and slight color shifts create a retro cinematic atmosphere. The background music is an English song.

Comedy

Fisheye Horse Comedy

UGC Ad

Skin Glow

TikTok-style vertical 9:16 marketing video. A glowing Colombian woman in her late 20s with bronze skin, fresh barefaced complexion, tight curly black hair pulled up in a claw clip, white terry headband, ivory bathrobe. She is in a bright marble bathroom with morning daylight. She turns on the pearl-white sonic facial cleansing brush, gently moves it across her cheek with foam, then turns to camera, beaming, and says in confident English: "My skin has never been this smooth. I am throwing out all my old face washes." Quick TikTok jump cuts: brush close-up, foam macro, before-and-after skin tone shot, sparkle SFX, natural sync sound English voiceover, upbeat clean beat track.

Product

Car Sketch to Scene

A car sketch on paper. The camera pushes in. The sketch lines rise off the paper, gaining dimensionality and color, transforming into a photorealistic 3D car driving on a road.

Dance

Rhythmic Dance Push-Pull

Cinematic

Frozen Hunt

Ultra epic wow visual with a thrilling clear crisp great lighting scene with a frozen grassland under a pale orange dawn, where a rider in layered wool armor and carved antler shoulder plates faces a long-necked ice predator with translucent fins and six running limbs, intense anticipation across the open plain. The camera begins at horse level, racing beside the rider as the beast charges from the right. The rider throws a rope harpoon into the beast’s shoulder fin, circles wide to avoid its bite, then uses the horse’s turn to pull the beast off line. Snow trails and breath plumes show direction clearly. The camera speeds up with a clean lead shot in front of the horse, a wide side sweep showing the rope tension, and a gradual overhead arc as the beast recovers and sprints again. Climax: the rider dismounts onto a boulder, anchors the rope, and the beast’s own speed brings it down in a slide of ice and snow. Ending: the horse slows, the beast stops struggling, and the rider cuts the rope loose as dawn light warms the plain

Music

Midnight Keys

The performance erupts within the grand, shadowed theater of **Figure 3**. The protagonist (**Figures 1 and 2**) sits at the center, a single high-contrast spotlight cutting through the darkness to reveal swirling dust. Following the cinematic rhythm of **Figure 4**, the scene unfolds with breathless intensity. The camera utilizes handheld techniques, creating a gritty, documentary-style urgency with slight motion blur as it pivots from wide shots to aggressive close-ups. We see the pianist’s fingers strike the keys with percussive force, capturing the vibration of strings and the spray of sweat under the harsh light. The visual narrative transitions from a top-down "God's eye" perspective to a claustrophobic close-up of the performer’s face, etched with strain and desperation. The color grading is desaturated and cool, emphasizing the stark, modern-action aesthetic. Every shot is framed with an imperfect, shaky composition that heightens the tension, turning a solo recital into a visceral, high-stakes battle.

Craft

Bread Craft

00:00 - 00:02 | The Disappointment (Cold Realism) Visual: A man in a dimly lit, sterile kitchen stares sadly at a piece of dry, factory-processed white bread. The atmosphere is melancholic. Prompt: Medium shot, a middle-aged man looking disappointed at a piece of bland, industrial sliced bread on a cold granite counter, desaturated colors, cinematic moody lighting, 4k. 00:02 - 00:05 | Nostalgia Flashback (Vintage 16mm) Visual: Rapid-fire montage of "The Golden Age of Baking." Hands covered in flour, a wooden table, dough rising, and a stone oven glowing. Prompt: Fast rhythmic cuts, 16mm film grain, vintage sepia tones, close-up of hands kneading dough on a wooden board, flour dust flying in the air, golden sourdough loaf emerging from a wood-fire stone oven, nostalgic 1970s aesthetic. 00:05 - 00:08 | The "What Happened?" (Modern Grittiness) Visual: Quick, shaky shots of bread in plastic bags on a conveyor belt and a squashed, soggy loaf. Prompt: Handheld camera, gritty texture, quick zoom on a crushed loaf of bread in a plastic grocery bag, industrial factory lighting, fast-paced editing, motion blur. 00:08 - 00:12 | The Craftsmanship (High-End Food Porn) Visual: Extreme macro shots of the new handmade bread. The "crack" of the crust, steam rising from the center, and a baker smiling while handing it over. Prompt: Extreme close-up macro shot, a knife slicing through a crusty artisan loaf, audible crunch texture, steam rising from the soft white interior, warm golden hour lighting, high-speed camera (slow motion), a friendly baker in a flour-dusted apron smiling. 00:12 - 00:15 | The Resolution (The New King) Visual: The man from the first scene takes a massive, happy bite of the fresh bread. Bold text appears: "REAL BREAD. FOR THE REAL KING." Prompt: Cinematic close-up, the man taking a satisfying bite of a thick slice of handmade bread, eyes closing in delight, warm sun-drenched lighting, high-end color grading, bold gold text overlay 'THE REAL BREAD IS BACK,' logo reveal.

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MiniMax H3 model overview

What is MiniMax H3 for multimodal video production?

MiniMax H3 is MiniMax AI’s general-purpose multimodal generation model, released on July 31, 2026. Instead of treating text-to-video, image-to-video, motion reference, and audio as isolated tasks, MiniMax H3 understands text, images, video, and audio as one creative context.

The MiniMax H3 AI Video Generator creates video with native stereo sound at up to 2K resolution and 15 seconds. MiniMax highlights instruction following, accurate text and brand rendering, V2V motion transfer, and natural-language reference and editing relationships for advertising, e-commerce, product design, UI/UX, gaming, and film concepts.

What can MiniMax H3 do with multimodal references?

See how the MiniMax H3 AI Video Generator combines unified context, native stereo sound, 2K output, and natural-language control.

MiniMax H3 unified multimodal direction

MiniMax H3 understands the relationship between text, images, video, and audio in one creative brief. A reference can guide the subject, performance, camera language, timing, or sound of the new shot.

MiniMax H3 director-level camera control example

MiniMax H3 native stereo sound

The MiniMax H3 AI Video Generator creates picture and native stereo audio together for more coherent dialogue, ambience, effects, and music—without treating sound as a separate finishing step.

MiniMax H3 cinematic action sequence example

MiniMax H3 2K commercial output

Create up to 15 seconds of 2K MiniMax H3 video with strong instruction following, accurate text and brand rendering, and V2V motion transfer for advertising, e-commerce, UI/UX, gaming, and design workflows.

How the MiniMax H3 Video Generator Works

Three simple steps from idea to export in the MiniMax H3 app.

Set the MiniMax H3 brief

Start with a prompt, still image, or reference clip. MiniMax H3 reads subject, camera movement, pacing, and visual style from natural-language descriptions.

Generate in MiniMax H3

Choose text-to-video, image-to-video, or reference-to-video mode, set resolution and aspect ratio, then generate the first cinematic cut in MiniMax H3.

Refine MiniMax H3 output

Adjust prompts, swap references, compare versions, extend clips, and export when the MiniMax H3 result matches your creative brief.

Why use MiniMax H3 for reference-rich production?

Bring a prompt, product image, motion reference, or audio cue into one MiniMax H3 brief. Compare directions and refine the relationship between every input without rebuilding the production plan.

Explore the MiniMax H3 App

MiniMax H3 reference aligned

Keep MiniMax H3 images, motion cues, and shot language together.

MiniMax H3 revision ready

Re-run MiniMax H3 scenes without rebuilding the whole brief.

MiniMax H3 version compare

Generate several MiniMax H3 directions and choose the strongest cut.

MiniMax H3 video guided

Use video references to guide motion, timing, and visual direction.

How does MiniMax H3 differ from fragmented video workflows?

MiniMax H3 moves beyond separate text-to-video, image-to-video, motion-reference, and audio tasks by understanding them as one creative context.

Capability

MiniMax H3MiniMax H3

Basic workflow

Creative context

Text + image + video + audio

Separate task inputs

Max resolution

2K by default

Workflow-dependent

Video duration

Up to 15 seconds

Short single-task clips

Sound

Native stereo generation

Often added separately

Video guidance

V2V motion transfer

Limited reference control

Brand detail

Text and brand rendering

Variable prompt adherence

What can you create with MiniMax H3?

Use MiniMax H3 for ad concepts, product demos, storyboards, social media content, training videos, and rapid creative testing.

MiniMax H3 Social Media Marketing

Draft MiniMax H3 short-form concepts for TikTok, Reels, Shorts, launch videos, and paid social variations.

MiniMax H3 E-commerce Product Videos

Turn product images into MiniMax H3 animated promos with seasonal hooks, hero shots, and platform-ready crops.

MiniMax H3 Video Production

Use MiniMax H3 to explore scenes, previsualize camera movement, and build pre-production footage.

MiniMax H3 Business Presentations

Create MiniMax H3 motion clips for decks, explainers, training material, internal launches, and sales stories.

MiniMax H3 Creative Projects

Experiment with MiniMax H3 visual styles, music videos, installations, surreal loops, and concept films.

MiniMax H3 Educational Content

Illustrate lessons, abstract ideas, language variants, and quick refreshes with MiniMax H3 learning assets.

How much does the MiniMax H3 AI Video Generator cost?

Choose the MiniMax H3 plan that fits your video production volume, queue needs, and credit usage.

Starter

For exploring H3 and creating a few polished clips each week.

$9.90/month$19.9050% OFF

Billed at $118.80/year· Save $120 / year

19,200 credits / year

1,600 issued each month

Effective cost

$0.0062

≈ $0.28 / second · MiniMax H3 2K

Multiple image and video models
Text, image, and reference-video workflows
Native MiniMax H3 2K output
Up to 2 concurrent video generations
Standard processing queue
Watermark-free downloads
Standard email support
Commercial usage rights

Popular

Pro

For creators publishing social, product, and marketing content every week.

$24.90/month$49.9050% OFF

Billed at $298.80/year· Save $300 / year

72,000 credits / year

6,000 issued each month

Effective cost

$0.0042

≈ $0.19 / second · MiniMax H3 2K

Multiple image and video models
Text, image, and reference-video workflows
Native MiniMax H3 2K output
Up to 6 concurrent video generations
Priority processing queue
Watermark-free downloads
Priority email support
Commercial usage rights

Max

For teams and client work that need more throughput and priority.

$49.90/month$99.9050% OFF

Billed at $598.80/year· Save $600 / year

180,000 credits / year

15,000 issued each month

Effective cost

$0.0033

≈ $0.15 / second · MiniMax H3 2K

Multiple image and video models
Text, image, and reference-video workflows
Native MiniMax H3 2K output
Up to 10 concurrent video generations
Highest-priority processing queue
Watermark-free downloads
Priority customer support
Commercial usage rights

MiniMax H3 FAQ

Answers about MiniMax H3, MiniMax AI, MiniMax Hailuo, Hailuo H3, Hailuo AI, pricing, inputs, and multimodal video workflows.

MiniMax H3 is MiniMax AI’s general-purpose multimodal video-generation model, announced on July 31, 2026. It unifies text, image, video, and audio context to create video with native stereo sound at up to 2K resolution and 15 seconds.

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