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AI video model

MiniMax H3

Create stunning cinematic clips with synchronized audio using MiniMax H3 (Hailuo 3.0), one of the best open-weight video models ever released — text-to-video and image-to-video with optional first and last frame control.

  • Text to video
  • 10 credits per video
  • Image to video
  • Audio
MiniMax H3 - AI generated video example

Overview

MiniMax H3 (Hailuo 3.0) is the latest generation of the Hailuo video family and one of the most impressive open-weight video models released to date. It generates complete audiovisual clips in a single pass: 5–15 seconds of smooth 24fps video with synchronized stereo audio — dialogue, sound effects, and ambience produced together with the picture, no separate audio stage. The result is a level of realism and cinematic coherence that puts it among the very best video models available today.

Key Features

  • Incredible Visual Quality: Cinematic detail, natural physics, and rock-solid temporal consistency across the entire clip
  • Native Audio Generation: Dialogue, sound effects, and room tone generated in sync with the action — you get a finished scene, not a silent clip
  • Text-to-Video: Turn a simple text prompt into a fully realized audiovisual scene
  • Image-to-Video: Animate from a first frame, and optionally pin a last frame to control exactly where the shot lands
  • Top-Ranked: Sits at the top of independent human-preference leaderboards among all video generation models

Best For

  • Short cinematic scenes with sound (ads, social content, film pre-viz)
  • Bringing still images to life with controlled start and end frames
  • Storytelling clips where dialogue and sound must land with the picture
  • High-end creative generation where quality matters most

Prompt Tips

  • Write the shot as a short brief: subject, action, camera, lighting, and the sound you want
  • For image-to-video, use the last frame option to lock the final composition of the shot
  • Describe audio explicitly ("soft rain, distant traffic, whispered dialogue") — H3 generates it with the scene

Community showcase

Example prompts

Real prompts shared by the Gen-Image community, with the videos they produced using MiniMax H3. Copy a prompt, or open it in the generator to remix it with your own ideas.

Video

She races down the track slowly at first but then goes faster when the camera zooms out to see more of the race track from a wide overhead view. The scene becomes more 3d and realistic looking with detailed textures when zoomed out.

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Video

A very dramatic and epic slow motion swinging sword. Stunning scene from an anime movie. The man cuts a huge large wide swatch with his blade leaving a trail behind it as it swipes across the screen. The flames flow and sizzle in the air, his cape billows, light against his armor shimmers and glistens, he grunts as he lifts the massive sword. Epic sound for a heavy action scene.

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video game, 3D, POV, player holding a shotgun, shooting at a flaming demon while running forward,

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Video

Keep the image entirely as is with the female elf being entirely still. The animation is only the glowing blurred embers in the foreground to enter and move off screen. Also add a slight heat shimmer to the image.

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A group consisting of a cute anthro cartoonish flamingo, tan coloured louse, green cobra and a black wolf. They are small and chibi. They are marching across the screen playing different instruments as a marching band. It's against a plain flat pale cream coloured background with flat colours.

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recreate the 'Here's Johnny' scene from 'The shinning'. replace Jack Nicholson's character with a flamingo. Keep aesthetics from the movie. The flamingo is anime styled. the flamingo screeches "Here's Tiny!". keep a static fixed camera showing the flamingo moving into view before he speaks.

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Lara Croft, walking her pet T-Rex, Use graphics from original PS1 game. she is walking her T-Rex along a busy London street, use photo-realistic art style. the camera moves back as she advances

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Keep the image entirely as is with the male human remaining in center frame. Animate the glowing blurred embers in the foreground to enter and move off screen. The man starts from a standing position to drawing from his left side and sweeping his scimitar out to the right. As the scimitar moves through the air it catches the light glinting. As he is drawing the scimitar he is also starting to charge forwards towards the left going from standing still to running. The man's expression changes from being entirely neutral to smiling like he is in the end frame image. Both his bandages and his cloak flow dramatically in the wind. In the foreground blasts of sand picked up by the gusting win go from the left to the right. Also add a slight heat shimmer to the image. Make the music is of arabesque style starting off low and then building up dramatically along with the motion of the man and the sweeping of his scimitar dominantly being played on an oud.

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The camera moves forward out from the balcony slowly into the air. It travels over the city as if following a bird flying over the buildings towards the shimmering sunlight in the distance. The lady watches the unseen bird as it leaves the balcony in its flight. Soft gentle flight. The light rays shine and pulse and glow with a radiating light.

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Her posture relaxes as she puts her sword away behind her. The dragon floats and slithers around her behind her like a snake in the sky, slowly slithering around, the light from above glows and flickers and shines rays down, the trees sway in the wind softly, leaves blow in the wind around her, peaceful scene.

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A tiny chibi girl with pink hair and fox ears, clad in a blue-and-white Gundam-style mech suit, stands heroically on a futuristic platform as twin thrusters ignite beneath her feet. She raises her right hand to draw a glowing laser sword from her back, eyes wide with determination, while behind her, massive rocket ships launch into the starry night sky, trailing fiery exhaust and streaks of light. The camera slowly orbits clockwise around her, capturing the rising smoke and distant explosions as city spires pierce the cosmos above. Cinematic lighting shifts from twilight to deep space glow, emphasizing motion blur in the flames and drifting debris.

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