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Name the subject, the action, the setting and the camera behavior for one continuous shot.
Those are published limits, not measurements — this site has no first-party benchmark hardware, and the VRAM guide shows where every number comes from. Generating with this AI video maker needs no GPU of your own; the trade-off is that each clip costs credits instead of electricity, billed by the second of output at the rates listed on the credit pricing page. Failed tasks refund what they reserved.
MiniMax H3 reads three blocks — the scene, the diegetic soundscape, and the non-diegetic music. Leaving the audio blocks out does not give you silence; it gives you whatever the model picked. One generation is one shot, so camera movement belongs inside the prompt rather than in a separate field.
Start the scene block with a visible subject and an action the camera can record. Add the framing or camera move next: a locked wide shot, a handheld follow, a slow push-in or another observable instruction. The soundscape block covers events inside the scene, such as speech, footsteps, rain or room tone. Music belongs in its own block so the model does not confuse a score with sound coming from the pictured environment.
Name the subject, the action, the setting and the camera behavior for one continuous shot.
Describe dialogue, ambience and timed sound events that belong inside the pictured world.
Specify the non-diegetic score, or request no music when the clip should rely on scene sound alone.
The live workflow is text to video. Write a single-shot prompt, choose a duration from 4 to 15 seconds, select 768P or 2K, and set the aspect ratio. The form calculates the credit reservation from the selected resolution and output length before you submit. Changing the words in the prompt does not change that price; changing duration or resolution does.
Nothing is sent when you type or change a selector. Generation begins only after you press Generate. The AI video generator then reserves the displayed credits, sends the allowed request, follows its status and places the completed MP4 in the Result panel. If the task fails, the reserved credits are returned automatically. Image and Reference remain visible as planned modes, but ordinary accounts cannot submit them until secure media upload and moderation are available.
Hosted generation uses credits rather than a subscription. The button shows the reservation for the current request, while the pricing page lists the available one-time packs and the per-second rates for 768P and 2K output. New accounts receive welcome credits, and daily check-in credits provide a repeat reason to return without changing the paid cost of production work.
You can explore the controls and draft the full prompt before signing in. Login is requested at the point where generation needs an account and a credit balance, after the tool has already shown the exact cost. Signed-in users can reopen the History panel, download completed clips and reuse an earlier prompt instead of reconstructing a shot from memory. That private generation history is the retention loop behind the AI video generator, not a gate placed in front of the editor.
The hosted route is for people who want to make a clip without downloading model files. The browser handles the prompt and controls, while remote infrastructure performs the generation. You choose the inputs and receive the finished MP4, but hardware setup, model loading and memory stay outside your machine. That trade removes installation work and replaces local electricity and hardware costs with a visible credit charge.
A local MiniMax H3 workflow offers node-level control, quantization choices and direct access to model files, but it requires software, enough GPU and system memory, and time to troubleshoot. Use the local setup guide when those controls matter more than convenience. Use the hosted route when you need a priced request, a saved account history and a downloadable result from the same browser workflow.
Use the links below when you need a tested prompt structure, want to reverse a reference clip into text, or are deciding whether hosted generation or a local installation better fits your workflow.
It is a browser-based AI video maker that runs MiniMax H3 on remote hardware. You write one shot as a prompt, pick the length, resolution and aspect ratio, and the AI video generator returns an MP4 with native stereo sound already in it. Nothing is installed and nothing is generated until you press Generate.
No. Generation happens on remote hardware, so a laptop with a browser is enough. Running MiniMax H3 yourself is the alternative: the official guidance calls for four GPUs, and quantized community builds still start around 8.5GB of weights before runtime overhead. The trade is that hosted generation costs credits per clip instead of hardware and electricity.
Output is billed per second of finished video: 200 credits per second at 768P and 300 at 2K. The shortest clip, 4 seconds at 768P, reserves 800 credits. Credit packs start at $9.99 for 10,000 credits. The exact reservation is printed on the Generate button before you submit, and rewriting the prompt never changes it — only duration and resolution do.
Our own production records for 4-second 768P clips settle in about 2 minutes end to end, measured from pressing Generate to the file being playable. That figure comes from a small number of completed jobs at that one setting; we do not publish times for longer or 2K clips because we have not measured enough of them, and queue time does not scale neatly with output length.
You can open the AI video maker, load an example, write the whole prompt and see the exact credit cost without signing in. An account is required at the moment you press Generate, because generation spends credits and the result has to belong to someone. Signing in also unlocks History, where finished clips and their prompts stay available for reuse and download.
Generating video consumes paid compute, so clips are priced in credits rather than given away. What is free is the runway: a new account receives 150 credits, a daily check-in adds 30, and every 7-day streak adds 100 more — 15 consecutive days of check-ins with nothing spent is exactly enough for one 4-second 768P clip. Beyond that, credits are bought in one-time packs; there is no subscription.
The credits reserved for that request are refunded automatically and the failed job stays visible in History with its status, so you are never charged for a clip you cannot watch. Refunds cover our own failures and provider errors; they do not cover a finished video you simply dislike, because that clip consumed the same compute as a successful one.
Not yet on this page. MiniMax H3 supports image to video and reference to video, and both modes are visible in the console, but ordinary accounts cannot submit them until secure media upload and moderation ship. Text to video is the live workflow. If you already have footage you want to match, the video to prompt tool reads it and hands back a structured prompt you can generate from here.
Duration runs from 4 to 15 seconds in whole-second steps, resolution is 768P or 2K at 24fps, and the aspect ratio selector offers 21:9, 16:9, 4:3, 1:1, 3:4, 9:16. One generation is one continuous shot, so camera movement belongs inside the prompt rather than in a separate control, and longer pieces are made by generating consecutive clips and editing them together.
Yes, and it cannot be switched off. MiniMax H3 renders picture and stereo audio in the same pass, so a prompt that says nothing about sound does not return silence — it returns whatever soundtrack the model chose. Describe the diegetic sound and the music you want, or explicitly ask for a silent clip, and check the audio before you publish.