A MiniMax prompt has to answer one question before anything else. Which of the two models is going to read it? MiniMax H3 understands text, images, video, and audio in one context, and returns video with native stereo sound. MiniMax H3 Max reads words and frames only, and reads them fast.<\/p>\n
That split decides what your prompt needs to say. Write a soundtrack into an H3 prompt and the clip arrives with audio already in sync. Write the same line for H3 Max and you have spent words on something its controls do not expose. So the ten prompts below are sorted by the model that runs them best.<\/p>\n
Both models live in Picsart AI Playground<\/a>, which means you can paste a prompt, generate, and switch models without changing anything else. Copy any prompt here, swap in your own subject, and run it.<\/p>\n Both models want the same four things named plainly, in this order:<\/p>\n After those four, the models diverge. MiniMax H3 generates native stereo audio in the same pass as the picture, so an H3 prompt gets a fifth job: name what makes the noise. MiniMax H3 Max was tuned to follow a prompt more closely and to look better doing it, so its prompts reward precise camera and framing language instead.<\/p>\n There is one more habit worth building for H3. When you attach a reference, describe the relationship between that input and the clip you want, rather than just describing the clip. “Move the camera the way the reference video does, but around the man in the reference image” is the kind of instruction it was built to follow.<\/p>\n Reach for MiniMax H3 when the clip has to arrive finished. It generates 2K by default at 24 fps, produces matching stereo audio in the same pass, models multiple shots natively inside one generation, and takes reference images, video, and audio together. It is also strong at rendering legible text and brand marks, and at transferring motion from one clip to another. Clips run 5, 10, or 15 seconds.<\/p>\n Reach for MiniMax H3 Max when you are still deciding. It turns a prompt around in seconds at 480p or 768p, accepts any whole second count in the 5 to 15 range, and pins the first and last frame. There are no reference slots, so the prompt carries everything.<\/p>\n The practical order is to draft on H3 Max and finish on H3. Full specs for each sit on the MiniMax H3<\/a> and MiniMax H3 Max<\/a> model pages.<\/p>\n These six lean on what only H3 does. Each one either names its own audio or puts a reference to work. Notice how the sound line describes a source rather than a mood, because “a wooden rib scraping the clay” is something a model can render and “atmospheric” is not.<\/p>\n A ceramicist’s studio at first light, wet clay turning on the wheel, grey light coming through one dusty window. Her hands close around the rising wall of the pot and steady it, both thumbs pressing a groove into the rim. The camera holds at hand height and does not move. Sound: the low hum of the wheel, water sliding under her palms, a wooden rib scraping once against the clay, birds outside the glass. No music.<\/p>\n\n What every MiniMax prompt has to carry<\/span><\/h2>\n
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Which model should run your prompt<\/span><\/h2>\n
MiniMax H3 prompts: sound, references, and 2K<\/span><\/h2>\n
One continuous take with its own soundtrack<\/h3>\n\n