The outcome
Create a short cinematic draft that communicates the intended action and camera language without being mistaken for cleared final footage.
Hailuo AI is a AI video and media creation platform from MiniMax. Creating short cinematic video concepts, animating owned images, testing camera movement, and producing subject-led social-video drafts from controlled references. This guide narrows that broad capability into one repeatable outcome, with checkpoints that keep the source material and your judgment in the loop.
Before you begin
Set the boundary before the tool starts.
Choose one real task, identify who will use the result, and decide what evidence or test will make the result acceptable. Gather only the source material needed for that task. If the work contains confidential, personal, regulated, or client-owned information, confirm that the platform and account are approved before sharing it.
AI should make the work easier to inspect. If the workflow removes the source, the owner, or the review step, redesign the workflow.
Step by step
A workflow you can repeat.
- 01
Write the shot purpose, duration, aspect ratio, subject, action beats, environment, camera path, lighting, style, sound, and prohibited elements.
- 02
Confirm the current plan, model, credit cost, watermark, privacy, and commercial-use terms before entering any client or campaign material.
- 03
Start with text-to-video for a fictional concept or an authorized master image for precise composition, and keep camera direction to one coherent move.
- 04
Generate a short preview and inspect each frame for subject drift, anatomy, object permanence, physics, camera continuity, background warping, text, and accidental likeness.
- 05
Use the result as a storyboard or licensed source only after rights review, add sound and typography in an editor, preserve disclosure, and archive generation details.
Working standard
What good use looks like.
- Use one coherent camera move.
- Review rights before spending credits.
- Inspect the clip frame by frame.
Hailuo's current published terms grant broad rights in user contributions and describe service use as personal and non-commercial unless another agreement applies. Subject references can create impersonation and privacy risks, while generated motion may drift or invent details. Never upload a person's face or voice without specific consent, assume a paid plan automatically grants commercial rights, remove provenance marks, or publish before checking current terms, privacy, likeness, copyright, and platform rules.
Official references
Check the current product documentation.
Features, plan limits, availability, and data controls change. These official pages are the starting points used for this collection.