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Hailuo (MiniMax) text to video prompting guide

How to prompt Hailuo (MiniMax) in text-to-video mode. Every point links its source; community tips are marked. Your agent gets the same guide through the Atlas MCP (get_guide).

Prompt structure

shot header style→subjects→action timeline→camera amplitude speed→dialogue→soundscape→music

• Three fields: integrated_multimodal_description (visuals, action, shots, dialogue on the timeline), overall_soundscape (1–4 sentences), non_diegetic_music (or N/A). source ↗

What the text should describe

• T2VA has no image-alignment instruction and begins directly with the three fields; build the whole audiovisual timeline from text. source ↗
• Runway: hailuo3 768p or 2k; h3_max 480p/768p with promptExpansionMode disabled|balanced|quality (seed only repeats with disabled). source ↗

Camera vocabulary

• Camera = motion type + amplitude + speed as a sentence: 'The camera pushes in with small amplitude at slow speed toward ...'. Types: zoom, push/pull, pan, truck, tilt, pedestal, arc, tracking, static, shake, POV, roll. source ↗

Responds well to

• On-screen text in double quotes, verbatim. source ↗

Duration and limits

• H3 Reference to Video: up to 9 images, 3 videos (2–15 s), 3 audio, 12 files; Runway hailuo3 768p/2k, h3_max 480p/768p. source ↗

Multi-shot

• [Shot 1] (no timestamp), then '[Shot 2] At 00:03.500, the camera cuts to ...' with strictly increasing times. source ↗

Avoid and failure modes

• Use a cut only for new information; small angle changes = camera motion. source ↗

Negative prompt

Supported via .

Real prompts, credited

Cinematic long shot with forward tracking: In a frozen wasteland under a black sky filled with auroras, a small squad treks across an ice ridge, their footsteps crunching over ancient wreckage. Wind howls. One pauses, raising a scope. In the valley below: dozens of beasts, dormant, coiled around a shattered mech carrier. The camera slowly tracks forward as the squad descends each step heavy, uncertain. Then one of the creatures stirs. Its eyes glow. Others follow. The ice begins to crack beneath their feet. The camera pulls upward as all hell breaks loose, beasts charging up the slope, soldier

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Sources

• docs.dev.runwayml.com/api/
• fal.ai/models/minimax/h3/reference-to-video/api
• huggingface.co/MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3/blob/main/docs/VIDEO_PROMPT_WRITING_GUIDE_base_en.md