Subject
Who or what text to video AI should put on screen, with one or two details that make them specific.
Text to video AI for single shots
What text to video AI needs from you
Text to video AI renders exactly one continuous shot per request. The clearest prompts answer four questions, in this order. Leave one out and text to video AI fills it in for you, usually with something generic.
Action
Something the camera can record. Text to video AI animates actions, not moods or backstory.
Camera
Framing and movement: text to video AI follows a locked wide shot, a slow push-in or a handheld follow.
Sound
What we hear in the scene and any music over it — every text to video AI model here renders sound with the picture.
A text to video AI prompt that works
This one is from our prompt library. It is written in MiniMax H3's three-block format — scene, scene sound, music — but the four parts above are all in the first block, so it reads fine on any text to video AI model here. Load it, change the subject, and run your own version through text to video AI.
Load this prompt aboveintegrated_multimodal_description: [Shot 1] Live-action, cinematic, a medium-wide shot frames a silver-haired violinist in a rain-soaked wool coat standing under a shop awning at night. The camera pushes in with small amplitude at slow speed as she finishes a phrase, lowers the bow, and turns toward the doorway behind her, ending on her face in close-up. overall_soundscape: Rain drums steadily on the canvas awning above a low street ambience. Water runs from the edge of the fabric onto the pavement, and a door hinge creaks once behind her. non_diegetic_music: A solo violin line at a slow tempo, warm and slightly detuned, thinning to a single sustained note before it fades.
Pick a text to video AI model
Same prompt, different trade-offs. Switch the text to video AI model in the console above; each card links to that model's own page.
MiniMax H3
- Length
- 4–15 s
- Resolution
- 768P / 2K
- Shortest clip
- 800 cr
Omni-modal: picture and stereo audio come out of one pass, up to 15s at 2K.
About MiniMax H3Veo 3.1
- Length
- 4 / 6 / 8 s
- Resolution
- 1080P
- Shortest clip
- 4,400 cr*
Google's video model with generated sound: 1080P clips of 4, 6 or 8 seconds.
About Veo 3.1Veo 3.1 Fast
- Length
- 4 / 6 / 8 s
- Resolution
- 1080P
- Shortest clip
- 1,652 cr*
The faster, lower-cost Veo 3.1 tier, with sound: 1080P clips of 4, 6 or 8 seconds.
About Veo 3.1 Fast* Provisional rate; it may change before the model is generally available.
Model pages: MiniMax H3 for 15-second shots and 2K, Veo 3.1 for 1080P with generated sound, and Veo 3.1 Fast for cheaper drafts.
One shot, no edits
Text to video AI does not cut within a clip. A prompt that asks for “first the kitchen, then the street” gets one compromise shot. Write each location as its own clip and join them afterwards — or start the next clip from the last frame of this one with image to video.
Length is a setting, not a sentence
Writing “a 10-second clip” in a text to video AI prompt changes nothing; the length selector does. Text to video AI fits the action you describe into the length you pick, so a long action in a short clip gets rushed. The price of text to video AI follows length and resolution, never the number of words.
Text to video AI FAQ
Text to video AI turns a written description into a video clip. Here, one request makes one continuous shot with sound, on the model you choose.
MiniMax H3, Veo 3.1, Veo 3.1 Fast. MiniMax H3 goes up to 15 seconds and 2K; Veo 3.1 and Veo 3.1 Fast make 1080P clips of 4, 6 or 8 seconds.
Not in one request. Text to video AI makes a single shot per clip, so write each scene as its own clip and join them afterwards, or continue from the last frame of one clip with image to video.
No. Plain sentences work: name the subject, the action, the camera and the sound. Our library prompts use MiniMax H3's three-block format, which text to video AI on the other models also reads, because the first block carries the whole shot.
Text to video AI is priced by model, resolution and length — never by the number of words. The Generate button shows the exact credit reservation for your settings before you submit, and failed tasks return their credits.
Related pages
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- AI Video MakerCreate an H3 video from a prompt, with native audio and the exact credit cost shown before submission.
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- Video promptsA library of complete prompts — copy one, or load it into the generator in a click.
- BlogEvery article in one place: model explainers, prompt guides and local-setup walkthroughs.
- PricingOne-time credit packs from $9.99 with no subscription or free allowance.