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Text or one still frame in. A 5–15 second clip with sound out.

MiniMax H3 Max: prompt in, finished take out

Write one line or drop a single still frame. MiniMax H3 Max hands back a 5–15 second clip with the audio already synced — watch it, change a word, run the next take.

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Showcase

Made with MiniMax H3 Max — prompts included

Six unedited MiniMax H3 Max takes, text to video and image to video, each with the exact prompt behind it. Copy the shape, change the subject.

One plain sentence, one cinematic take

"A white kitten chases a butterfly across a sunlit garden. Gentle camera tracking, natural movement, soft afternoon light filtering through the leaves." The sentence carried a subject, a camera move, and a light source — H3 Max staged everything else.

Write a shot like this
MiniMax H3 Max text to video result: a white kitten chasing a butterfly across a sunlit garden

Block the shot second by second

A prompt can carry timing, not just subject. This one blocks 0–4s of a warrior-monk crossing a ruined monastery while survey drones sweep the cliffs above, and the beats land where the prompt put them.

Direct a timed shot
AI video still from H3 Max: a warrior-monk crossing a ruined monastery with drones overhead

Give a still photo a voice

Image to video starts from one frame you supply. Hand the portrait a line of dialogue and H3 Max speaks it — the audio arrives synced, not layered on afterwards.

Animate a photo
H3 Max image to video result: a portrait speaking with synced dialogue

Pixel-art footage that looks playable

"Create a pixel-art side-scrolling platformer gameplay animation, presented as authentic 16-bit / 32-bit retro game footage." The prompt asked for a San Francisco endless runner with jump and duck, a SCORE HUD, and chiptune. H3 Max held the sprite, the parallax, and the soundtrack in one pass.

Run a pixel-art take
H3 Max pixel art video still: a San Francisco endless runner in 16-bit gameplay

Claymation that still shows fingerprints

"Stop-motion claymation: a round green frog in a knitted scarf carries a stack of pancakes across a tiny kitchen set, sets it down, then looks at camera and blinks." The prompt called for fingerprints in the clay, felt walls, 12fps stepped motion, and clay squeaks. H3 Max kept the stepped cadence and the sound in the same pass.

Stage a claymation
H3 Max stop-motion still: a claymation frog with pancakes in a tiny kitchen

Slow motion that still has a wing hum

"Slow-motion close-up of a hummingbird hovering at a red trumpet flower in a sunlit garden, wings a blur, tongue flicking into the bloom." Golden-hour backlight, pollen in the air, one bruised petal. H3 Max held the long-lens bokeh and the rapid wing hum together.

Shoot a slow-motion close-up
H3 Max slow-motion still: a hummingbird hovering at a red trumpet flower

What is MiniMax H3 Max?

MiniMax H3 Max is a video model that turns a written prompt — or a single start frame — into a 5 to 15 second clip that already carries synced audio. It is a tuned build of MiniMax H3, the family MiniMax created for commercial video work: ads, brand films, product spots, UI motion, and game cinematics. In August 2026 evaluations by Artificial Analysis and Design Arena, the tuned build placed first for overall quality, prompt understanding, and aesthetics, and took the top spot on Design Arena's image-to-video board. Choose 480P, 768P or 1080P: a 5-second take costs 35, 75 or 150 credits.

Controls

Every dial a MiniMax H3 Max take needs

  • 5 to 15 seconds, your call

    Whole seconds, 5 by default — long enough to carry a beat, short enough to iterate on.

  • Six frame shapes

    21:9 down to 9:16 for text to video. Image to video simply inherits your start frame.

  • 480P for drafts, 768P for keepers

    768P lands at 1344×768, 24 FPS. Iterate at 480P, then re-run the winner at 768P.

  • Audio is native, not added

    Every H3 Max clip renders with sound in place, and MiniMax lists dialogue as stable in 11 languages.

  • First frame, optional last frame

    Pin where the shot opens, and optionally where it lands — the motion between is filled in.

  • Type that survives the render

    MiniMax highlights text and brand rendering, so signs, labels, and logos hold their shape.

Workflow

How to make an AI video with MiniMax H3 Max

  1. 1

    Describe the shot

    One sentence will do — or upload a start frame, plus an end frame if you want to pin the landing.

  2. 2

    Set length, resolution, frame

    Choose 5 to 15 seconds, 480P, 768P or 1080P, and one of six aspect ratios — 480P bills 7 credits a second, 768P bills 15 and 1080P bills 30, so a 5-second draft is 35.

  3. 3

    Review it, then run the next take

    The clip comes back with audio in place. Keep it, or change one word and generate again.

On the job

Where a MiniMax H3 Max take earns its 768P

Jobs where the finished clip needs to speak, hold brand type, and survive a client review.

  • Dialogue-led product spots

    Write the line into the prompt and MiniMax H3 Max delivers the mouth, the voice, and the room tone in one render — no separate voice-over pass.

  • Localized ads in 11 languages

    Run the same 15-second spot with dialogue in Japanese, German, or Portuguese; all eleven are listed as stable, so one storyboard covers every market.

  • Brand type that has to stay legible

    Draft the end-card at 480P, then re-render only the winner at 1344×768 — H3 Max keeps lettering readable where earlier models smeared it.

  • Talking-head explainers from one portrait

    Upload a single headshot as the start frame and get a 5–15 second spoken intro for a landing page or onboarding screen.

  • Pitch reels from a single concept frame

    Pin the concept art as the first frame and, optionally, the final pose as the last; H3 Max stages the motion and score between them.

  • Vertical hooks for Shorts and Reels

    Choose 9:16 in text to video and the clip arrives already cropped and voiced for the feed — no reframing in an editor.

Why Max

MiniMax H3 Max vs MiniMax H3

Same family, different tuning — figures from Design Arena, August 2026.

On H3 MaxMiniMax H3 MaxThe tuned build, and what this site runsGenerateMiniMax H3The base model
TuningTuned for prompt adherence and aestheticsBaseline
Design Arena image-to-video Elo (Aug 2026)1,341 — ranked #11,333
Speed at matched quality (Design Arena)50×+ the base modelBaseline
Pricing

MiniMax H3 Max pricing

Every MiniMax H3 Max render is billed per second of finished video — 7 credits at 480P, 15 at 768P, 30 at 1080P — and monthly plans top up the balance.

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FAQ

MiniMax H3 Max, explained

Your first MiniMax H3 Max Turbo take is 15 credits.

480P to find the shot, 768P for the one you keep — both come back with sound in place.