What is an AI video generator?
An AI video generator creates video from creative instructions such as text, images, audio cues, frames, reference videos, and style direction. It helps you turn an idea into a video draft without filming every shot manually.
Can I create videos from text prompts?
Yes. You can start with a simple natural-language idea, such as a scene, character, product, or motion direction. MiniMax Design can help expand that idea into a stronger prompt with camera, style, mood, pacing, and scene details.
Can I turn an image into a video?
Yes. Image-to-video workflows can animate a still image while preserving key composition, subject identity, product shape, or visual style. You can add natural-language direction to control motion, camera movement, scene development, and atmosphere.
Can I use audio or reference videos to generate video?
Yes. MiniMax H3 supports richer video generation inputs, so audio and reference videos can help guide rhythm, timing, motion, camera behavior, mood, or visual direction. This is useful when text alone is not enough to describe the result you want.
What is MiniMax H3 Omni video generation?
MiniMax H3 Omni refers to video generation that can work with multiple creative inputs beyond text alone, including images, audio, and reference videos. It is useful for projects that need stronger control over motion, rhythm, style, character behavior, or scene direction.
Can I use MiniMax H3 ComfyUI workflows in MiniMax Design?
Yes. MiniMax Design includes a ComfyUI Workflows area with featured H3 workflows such as text-to-video, first/last-frame, multi-reference, and reference-video workflows. You can start from workflow cards, import workflows, or explore open-source workflows without building every node graph from scratch.
Do I need to write a complex AI video prompt?
No. MiniMax Design is designed for prompt freely creation: describe what you want in plain language, and the Agent can help turn your rough idea into a more complete video prompt with scene, subject, camera, motion, style, mood, and pacing details.
What can I make with an AI video generator?
You can create anime scenes, game trailers, commercial ads, product UI videos, music MV concepts, social media clips, product demos, educational explainers, story scenes, cinematic tests, and creative prototypes.
What makes MiniMax Design different from other AI video generators?
MiniMax Design combines leading video models, natural-language design, Agent-assisted prompting, omni-style inputs, featured creative skills, ComfyUI workflows, and editing in one workflow. You can generate a draft, compare directions, and refine the result without treating generation and editing as separate steps.
Do I need to choose a video model myself?
You can choose a specific model when you know what you want, or start from a featured skill or workflow when the scenario is clearer than the model. MiniMax Design helps organize the creation process around practical goals such as ads, product videos, animation shorts, or music visuals.
How is MiniMax Design different from a template video editor?
Template video editors are best when you already have footage and a fixed layout. MiniMax Design focuses on AI-native generation and refinement, helping you create new video material from ideas, prompts, images, audio, references, model choice, and natural-language edits.
Can AI-generated videos be used for marketing or commercial content?
Yes, AI videos can help with marketing concepts, social posts, product demos, ad creatives, and campaign testing. For final commercial use, review the output, confirm rights for uploaded references, follow platform policies, and make sure the video matches your brand and compliance requirements.
What should I prepare before generating a video?
Prepare your goal, target platform, basic creative idea, preferred visual style, and any helpful reference images, audio, frames, or video clips. You do not need a perfect prompt before starting—MiniMax Design can help refine the direction as you work.
Can I use MiniMax Design as an online AI video generator?
Yes. MiniMax Design can be used as an online AI video generator for text-to-video, image-to-video, reference-driven video creation, featured skills, and H3 ComfyUI workflows, with follow-up refinement and editing in the same creative workflow.