MiniMax H3 Video to Video AI

Upload a clip and MiniMax H3 builds a new one from it — restyled, re-voiced, or carried on past where it stopped. Up to three sources, 2 to 15 seconds each, 4 to 15 seconds out. It does not touch your file.

Rebuild from your clip[video editing]

MP4/MOV · H.264/H.265 · ≤50 MB · 2–15s each · up to 3 clips · 15s total

SoundtrackYour clip's own audio is part of the input.

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Source clips run on MiniMax H3. Free engines cannot take a source video. H3 on your own prompt starts at $24.9 a month.

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Four dogs in knitted statement sweaters, arranged as a campaign posterSTART FRAME · 2:3 · 768P

Four subjects, one campaign

What happens to your clip

What MiniMax H3 video to video AI does to your clip

Nothing, technically. That is the part worth knowing first.

MiniMax H3 video to video AI reads your clip as a condition and generates a fresh one that obeys it. The action, the framing and the timing carry over because you asked for them, not because the pixels were preserved. Give it up to three sources, 2 to 15 seconds each and 15 seconds combined, and you get back 4 to 15 seconds at 768P or 2K with sound in the same MP4.

Source clips
3

Source clips

Across all sources
15 s

Across all sources

Out, at 24 fps
4–15 s

Out, at 24 fps

Resolution
768P / 2K

Resolution

  • No edit endpoint
  • No timeline
  • No file of yours is changed

Regenerated, not edited

Nothing is edited. Your clip is regenerated

Whatever you do not pin down can move — so the bench names what held and what did not.

Your clip

The source clip: a walk through a street food stallYour clip · 6s

What came out

The regenerated clip: the same walk, restyled[video editing] · 768P

heldframingwardrobetiming

movedgradesurfaces

Runway Aleph and Gemini Omni Flash have an edit endpoint: they mutate the file you hand them. MiniMax H3 has no such endpoint. Video goes in through the reference path, and what comes out is a new clip built to resemble yours. That sounds like a downside until you look at the board — H3 sits first on the video editing arena precisely because regenerating with full multimodal context beats surgical edits on the changes people actually want.

It does set the rule for this page: whatever you do not pin down can move. In practice that means writing down the things you assumed were safe — the background, the wardrobe, the time of day — because none of them are load-bearing until you say so. Combining several assets into a scene that never existed is a different job — that is reference to video.

Four task types

Four jobs people call MiniMax H3 video to video AI

MiniMax H3 declares what it is doing in the prompt, and the four jobs below are four different declarations. Picking the wrong one is the most common reason a result drifts.

  • Restyle — the look changes, the action stays

    [video editing]

    Describe only the new look and leave the rest alone; anything you mention is fair game to change. Motion and timing are the parts that survive best, surfaces and lighting the parts that move.

    Survives
    Action, timing, composition
    Moves
    Surfaces, lighting, grade
  • Re-voice — new words, same face

    [video editing + audio reuse]

    Write the line short enough to fit the seconds you asked for, or the lips will not land.

    Survives
    Identity, scene
    Moves
    Lip sync, the line
  • Continue — pick up where the clip stopped

    [video continuation]

    Your clip is the run-up; describe what happens after the last frame.

    Survives
    Subject, scene, style
    Moves
    What happens next
  • Move the camera — borrow the move, drop the subject

    [reference generation]

    Your clip supplies only the movement. Describe the new subject and say nothing about the move itself — name it twice and you can no longer tell which instruction the camera followed.

    Survives
    Camera path and rhythm
    Moves
    Subject and scene, entirely

    Officially this one is reference generation. It is taught on reference to video.

The bracketed names are the official `summary` prefixes, not our shorthand. Restyle, re-voice and continue also open with `The target video is an edited version of <Video 1>.`

Source requirements

What your source clip has to be, and what it costs twice

The checker above reads your file before it uploads and tells you which number is wrong, not just that something is.

Your source is billed by its own length, on top of the output. Ten seconds in and ten seconds out at 2K is charged twice over. Trim the source to the seconds that matter and the same run costs a third less.

Container
MP4 · MOV
Official
Video codec
H.264 / AVC · H.265 / HEVC
Official
In-file audio
AAC · MP3
Official
Per file
≤ 50 MB
Official
Clips
≤ 3 · 2–15 s each · ≤ 15 s total
Official
Frame size
256 – 5,760 px per side
Official
Aspect
0.4 – 2.5
Official
Frame rate in
23.976 – 60 fps
Official
Frame rate out
24 fps, alwaysA 60 fps source does not come back at 60.
Official

Frame size runs 256 to 5,760 pixels on each side and the aspect has to sit between 0.4 and 2.5, which almost anything shot on a phone already satisfies. Two more: reference video replaces first and last frame control, so you cannot use both, and output is always 24 fps. Full rates are on pricing.

Audio comes with it

Your clip's soundtrack comes with it

Upload a clip and its audio is conditioned on too, whether or not you meant it to be.

This is why a voice you never uploaded turns up in the result, and it carries gender and accent with it. A laugh recorded from a woman still reads as a woman's laugh on a man's face.

  • Keep it whole

    The original track becomes the finished track.

    fully_copy
  • Keep it under new dialogue

    The music survives, mixed beneath lines you write.

    partially_copy
  • Motion only

    The audio is dropped and the clip conditions on movement alone.

    weak_reference

These are three of the eight retention markers H3 reads; the other five matter more when you are building a scene from scratch.

Third-party blind tests

Where MiniMax H3 video to video AI ranks, and when not to use it

Artificial Analysis runs blind head-to-head preference tests with public vote counts. This is the 2026-08-14 snapshot of the Video Editing (With Audio) board.

  • Video editing (with audio)

    First place(rank range 1–2)

    #1

    9001500
    Elo
    1,127
    95% CI
    ±6
    Votes
    11,474
    Rank range
    1–2

Read the rest of the row before you quote it: Gemini Omni Flash is three points behind at 1,124 and the intervals overlap. That is a tie, not a win. The claim that holds cleanly is narrower and more useful — H3 is the only open-weights model on that board, and it is at the top of it.
When to use something else: Runway Aleph 2.0 sits sixth here, but it performs real edits on your file and takes longer clips. If you need a surgical change to footage you cannot afford to have redrawn, that is the tool.

How H3 compares goes through the rest.

Artificial Analysis · Video Editing (With Audio) · snapshot 2026-08-14

Responsible use

Before you upload footage of someone else

Re-voice makes a real person on screen say something they did not say. That is the highest-risk control on this site.

  • LikenessMaking a real person say words they never said can be unlawful, and it is against our terms without their consent.
  • VoiceA timbre reference clones how a specific person sounds. Use your own, a licensed one, or a synthetic one.
  • CopyrightUploading footage or music you do not own transfers no rights to the output. Check the source licence.
  • ModerationMiniMax screens submitted media automatically; false positives and negatives happen.
  • DisclosureFollow the labelling rules of wherever you publish.

Full policy: Responsible use

Questions people actually ask

MiniMax H3 video to video AI FAQ

Ten answers · all visible · nothing collapsed

What is MiniMax H3 video to video AI?

It takes a clip you already have, reads it as a reference, and generates a new one shaped by it. There is no separate edit endpoint; this is the reference path with a source clip in it.

Does it change my original file?

No. Your upload is untouched. What you download is a new video.

How long can my source clip be?

Up to three clips, 2 to 15 seconds each, 15 seconds combined.

What formats work?

MP4 or MOV, H.264 or H.265, AAC or MP3 audio, 50 MB per file, 23.976 to 60 fps.

Can I keep the original background?

Say so, and describe only what should change. Anything you leave unmentioned is likelier to survive than anything you rewrite.

Why did the voice change when I uploaded no audio?

Your clip's own soundtrack is part of the input. Switch the route to motion only to drop it.

Can I go past 15 seconds?

Not in one run. Generate in segments and join them.

Will it come back at my source's frame rate, and with sound?

Output is 24 fps regardless of your source, with 32 kHz stereo generated alongside the picture.

How does billing work?

Output seconds plus your source's own seconds, both at your resolution's rate. Drafting at 768P then upgrading costs the same as going straight to 2K, and the upgrade re-bills the source.

Do I need to sign up, is it watermarked, and can I use it commercially?

Source video runs on MiniMax H3. Sign in free for 30 credits, then unlock H3 on /pricing. Free-engine clips are watermarked; paid H3 is not. Commercial use is the one no: everything generated here is for personal and evaluation use, on every plan including the free one. We are an independent third-party interface and we are not in a position to grant you commercial rights to the output. For commercial work, generate through MiniMax's own Hailuo product or the official API, both of which come with commercial terms. A summary, not legal advice.

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