MiniMax H3 Text to Video

MiniMax H3 Text to Video turns a written scene into a complete audiovisual clip without requiring a starting image. A single prompt can direct subject behavior, shot progression, camera movement, lighting, dialogue, ambience, sound effects, and music, producing video with synchronized native stereo audio.

This route supports whole-second durations from 4 to 15 seconds, six landscape, square, and portrait aspect ratios, and either 768P output or a 2K in-context regeneration pass. H3's strong instruction following and accurate rendering of text and brand elements make it especially useful when a storyboard, campaign brief, or product concept must become a polished first shot directly from text.

Highlights

• Native stereo audiovisual generation. Creates picture and synchronized 32 kHz stereo sound together, so dialogue, ambience, effects, and music can be planned inside the prompt.
• Up to 15 seconds at 2K. Produces 4–15 second clips at 768P or regenerates them at 2K for higher-resolution delivery.
• Detailed cinematic direction. Follows complex instructions for action, camera language, scene transitions, lighting, timing, and sound within one text brief.
• Commercial creative accuracy. Excels at presenting text and brand information, supporting advertising, e-commerce, product design, UI/UX, gaming, and campaign visualization.

Pricing

Final billing uses completed-task usage.total_seconds when available; otherwise it uses the requested duration. The rate is $0.08 per billable second at 768P and $0.13 per billable second at 2K.

When to Use

Prompt Guide

Write the prompt as a short shot plan: establish subject and location, describe actions in chronological order, specify camera framing and movement, then add lighting, visual style, dialogue, ambience, effects, and music. For multi-beat clips, use timing language such as “begin with,” “then,” and “end on.” Quote any required spoken words or on-screen text exactly.

{
  "prompt": "A premium electric motorcycle waits beneath a rain-soaked glass canopy at night. Begin with a low close-up of water running across the illuminated emblem, then track backward as the rider mounts and the dashboard wakes. The motorcycle accelerates into a neon city avenue; reflections streak across the wet road. End on a wide crane shot above the intersection. Natural tire spray, a restrained electric motor tone, distant traffic, and deep cinematic music in native stereo. On-screen text: ‘MOVE BEYOND.’",
  "duration": 10,
  "aspect_ratio": "16:9",
  "resolution": "2K",
  "aigc_watermark": false
}

Technical Specs

Related Models

• minimax/h3/image-to-video — animate an existing starting image with H3.
• minimax/h3/reference-to-video — guide H3 with image, video, and audio references.
• minimax/hailuo/2.3/pro/text-to-video — compare with MiniMax's Hailuo Pro text-to-video route.