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How to write a MiniMax H3 video prompt

Use the official MiniMax H3 fields for shots, dialogue, sound, music, camera movement, and visible text.

Updated August 15, 20265 min read

MiniMax H3 generates picture and sound together, so its official base prompt format describes one timed audiovisual result. Text, first-frame, first-and-last-frame, and last-frame modes share three fields in this order: integrated_multimodal_description, overall_soundscape, and non_diegetic_music. Keyframe modes add an alignment instruction before those fields.

Start with the three official fields

Use integrated_multimodal_description for the visible timeline, actions, shot changes, speakers, dialogue, and synchronized sounds. Use overall_soundscape for ambience, physical sounds, and non-verbal human sounds across the clip. Use non_diegetic_music only for score that the characters cannot hear; write N/A when there is no audience-only music. Keep the field names and their order unchanged.

  • integrated_multimodal_description
  • overall_soundscape
  • non_diegetic_music

Build a timed shot sequence

Begin with [Shot 1] and no timestamp. Introduce later cuts as [Shot 2] At 00:03.500, using strictly increasing times inside the requested 4–15-second duration. A cut should add new information; use camera motion for a smaller viewpoint change. Describe motion naturally as type, meaningful amplitude, and speed—for example, a slow small-amplitude push in—while keeping subject motion separate.

Format speech and visible text exactly

Give every speaking or singing source a stable ID such as (S1) and reuse it across shots. Put only the language tag and exact spoken words inside <d>, as in <d>[English] The train is leaving.</d>. For an off-screen voiceover, say so explicitly and state that the visible character keeps their lips closed. Put text that must appear in the scene in straight double quotation marks and preserve its original language and punctuation.

Separate scene sound from the score

Keep timed dialogue, singing, radio, and other sounds heard by characters in integrated_multimodal_description. Summarize rain, footsteps, impacts, breathing, and room tone in overall_soundscape without repeating dialogue. Describe non-diegetic music with instruments, tempo, rhythm, and dynamic change—not an abstract mood. Match every action and cut to the selected duration.

Prompt checklist

  • Keep the three official fields in order
  • Time every shot within 4–15 seconds
  • Reuse stable speaker IDs and <d> tags
  • Quote visible text exactly
  • Separate physical sound from audience-only music

Put the workflow into motion

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