MiniMax Notes

Current default assumptions

MiniMax H3 is promising, but brute-force paths are too heavy to be the first bet on a 3070.
Speed-first and low-VRAM community workflows matter more than official purity for the first real test.

Prefer Turbo LoRA for the first text-to-video attempt.
Prefer INT8-based community workflows for reference-to-video exploration.
Keep attention and memory-efficiency helpers if they are already integrated and well documented.

Keep optimized/text-to-video/minimax-h3-3070-turbo-master/ as the first MiniMax default.
Keep the INT8 reference-video workflow as the next donor for future low-VRAM optimization.
Keep optimized/image-to-video/minimax-h3-extender-3070-r2v-480p-clip-by-clip/ as the first MiniMax H3 Extender path to compare against the compact Contex Loop masters.

For MiniMax H3 Ref2VA, treat 480p and 10s as the safe planning baseline on 8GB VRAM unless direct tests prove otherwise.
Use one master-scene reference to control environment/composition, one primary full-body reference per subject to control overall appearance, and headshots only to reinforce facial identity.
Explicitly state when multiple images represent the same subject, and explicitly tell the model to ignore character-reference backgrounds so they do not fight the master environment.
Use the prompt mainly for action, performance, camera movement, dialogue, and audio rather than re-describing scene details already visible in the references.
Full guidance now lives in optimized/notes/minimax-h3-ref2va-prompt-guidelines.md.