CoreLesson 235 min

Camera Language and the Prompt Grammar

By the end of this lesson you can
  • Distinguish the two officially documented prompt layers - casual bracket hints and the trained natural-language camera vocabulary - and know which official source documents each
  • Compose camera direction as motion type + amplitude + speed sentences from the 12-type vocabulary
  • Read and hand-author the structured prompt format: shot markers, timestamped cuts, speaker IDs, dialogue tags, and continuity tags

H3 has no camera parameter. Every camera decision you make rides inside the prompt — and MiniMax documents two distinct systems for expressing it. Nearly every guide in circulation teaches a mangled version of the first and doesn't know the second exists.

Layer one is the casual syntax on the platform's video-generation guide: bracket tags placed directly after key descriptions. Verbatim: "add camera motion instructions (e.g., [pan], [zoom], [static]) directly after key descriptions to guide the camera work." Note the "e.g." — the docs present [pan], [zoom], [static] as examples, not a closed vocabulary.

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