Nowadays, AI video generators are transforming the way content is created. It has made it easier than ever to produce realistic videos with minimal effort. From celebrities holding props to lifelike lip-syncing avatars, you can create anything you want as AI tools are taking video creation to the next level. The competition is becoming harder in this industry, with new text-to-video tools launching every month. 

Today in this blog, you will be excited to get introduced to a completely free tool that stands out from the crowd—no trial periods, no daily limits, just unlimited video generation. So, let’s get started to drive into the realm of AI.

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Introducing Minimax

Introducing Minimax, a free AI video generator which is completely free to use. You can compare it to other tools in the market, including Sora, another well-known AI video generator. But most importantly, Sora’s full capabilities remain largely untested by most users, making it difficult to draw direct comparisons. 

However, Minimax AI is a Chinese AI video generator startup backed by Alibaba and TensorArt. These emerging tools are rapidly shaping the future of AI-driven video creation, making it an exciting space to watch so, let’s explore it in this blog. 

To start generating videos with Minimax, first, if you find the interface in Chinese language and you don’t understand Chinese, then use the translator to translate it into English.

• To start creating, first you have to create an account to sign in. You have to log in with your phone number.
• Now you can see a prompt box which is actually a chatbot like ChatGPT where you can ask anything and it will respond like ChatGPT.
• There at the bottom, you will find two options-

1.     The first one is to generate songs and

2.     The second one is to generate videos

• In the song generator platform, you have to enter the song lyrics which you can generate with the chatbot and paste it there.
• After entering the lyrics, select the music genre and then hit the generate music button
• Then you will get your brand new song ready.

So now you can generate amazing songs with this Minimax AI.  All right now let’s move forward to the actual video generation option. This is the video generator option where you have to click on the Create button to be on the Minimax AI video generator platform.

• You will not find so many options here except The Prompt area and the video generation button.
• Right now, this AI tool is only limited to text-to-video generation. There is no image-to-video option in this AI tool yet.
• You can see these are some of the featured videos generated by the community from where you can also get ideas. You will find them amazing and more cinematic with the amazing colour and mood.
• Now if you look at the prompt of the generated video, you can notice they use an outstanding prompt to generate those videos.
• As you have no other control options like other AI video generators, you have to enter rich prompts to generate videos like this.
• In this case, the things you have to follow to create the prompt are-

o   Camera shots

o   Motion

o   Subject

o   Action setting

o   Location and visual style

Generating Prompt

So, now let’s generate some prompts first with ChatGPT using this formula. You can also enter a particular prompt to generate the prompt with ChatGPT which you can get from the Discord server prompt Guide channel here-  / discord. 

• After entering the prompt, hit the enter button.
• In the next step enter your basic visual idea for example, you can mention a Superhero fighting with a villain.
• After hitting the Enter button, there you can see it generates two very detailed prompts.

Now let’s generate a video with the first prompt by simply copying the prompt coming back to Minimax and pasting the prompt. After that hit the generate video button and there at the bottom of the Mine tab, you can see that it starts creating the video. After a few times, you will get the generated video with a super quality that feels like real cinematic video.

Now let’s create another prompt and another video following the same method to explore more of this AI too. After getting your prompt ready just generate the video following the previous process. After getting the result, you will find a top-notch character with incredible consistency. 

So, now you can create incredibly realistic and cinematic videos with Minimax. Now you can also test the famous Sora prompt to compare the result and see the output. You can compare the video by creating another video using the same prompt in Minimax AI. You will find Minimax better than other AI tools.

Limitations

However, some limitations of Minimax need to be discussed also-

• It is currently outputting at a resolution of 1280×720 at 25 frames per second.
• The downside of Minimax AI is that it only generates 6 seconds of video, which is shorter considering the need for any content, especially in the current era where 10-second outputs are becoming the standard. Although you may notice some AI tools generating 8-second outputs.
• Minimax makes up for the shorter duration by using that time very efficiently.

Despite the limited length, the tool delivers impressive results within a short timeframe and effort, making it a noteworthy option in the growing AI video generator market. In conclusion, Minimax is a pretty good video generator tool.

FAQs

Q: Is there any character limitation in the Minimax AI?

Here, based on the available information, Minimax AI Video Generator does not specify a character limit for any text prompts. However, crafting detailed and descriptive prompts is highly required to achieve high-quality video outputs which is also mentioned in this blog.