Can I write a MiniMax H3 prompt in Chinese?
Yes. The three field names stay in English because they are a fixed schema, but the values inside them can be Chinese — scene, action, camera movement, dialogue, and ambience all work. Tag dialogue with its language, for example <d>[Chinese] 我们错过了最后一班。</d>, so the model picks the right voice. Every template on this page has a 中文 version you can switch to.
My prompt looks fine but the video ignores it. What usually goes wrong?
Three useful starting checks: shorten an action chain that does not fit the clip; keep one compatible camera move per moment; and, for image-to-video, describe what changes instead of rewriting everything already visible in the upload. For example, replace “the person walks across the room, picks up a cup, drinks, turns, and exits” with one beat: “the person lifts the cup; the camera holds still.” Generate another draft with the same source image and change one instruction at a time so you can compare. This is a planning example, not a guaranteed repair or a measured output.
Does H3 have a negative prompt field?
There is no separate negative-prompt input in the documented H3 format. Write exclusions as a normal sentence in the timeline instead, in the same place the action lives — for example Do not add hands, packaging, liquid, smoke, or extra props. The three image-to-video templates on this page do exactly that.
Can I paste these templates into Veo, Kling, or another video model?
Not as-is. The field names, the [Shot N] timeline, the At 00:05.000 cut timestamps, and the <d> dialogue tags are MiniMax H3 conventions. Other models read a plain prose paragraph better. Reuse the shot plan — subject, action, camera move, sound — and rewrite the wrapper in that model's own format.
Should the prompt state resolution, duration, or aspect ratio?
No. Those are request parameters you select in the generator, and H3 ignores them inside the prompt text. Use the prompt for content and time: what happens, in what order, seen from where, and heard how. Writing "15s, 16:9" at the start of a prompt only spends characters that could describe the shot.