{
  "test": "AI video generator test, 1 November 2026",
  "publisher": "Hermoso Research",
  "settings": {
    "aspectRatio": "16:9",
    "resolutionAsked": "720p",
    "secondsAsked": "6, except MiniMax H3 at 8",
    "takesPerJob": 3,
    "seeds": "1101, 2202, 3303 sent to Veo 3.1, Wan 3.0 and MiniMax H3; none sent to Seedance 2.5 or Kling 4.0",
    "renderDate": "2026-11-01"
  },
  "models": [
    {
      "model": "Wan 3.0",
      "maker": "Alibaba",
      "seconds": 6,
      "promptStyle": "Alibaba guide: overall description, Shot N with start and end seconds, dialogue with lip sync asked by name, sound, style, negative list at the end."
    },
    {
      "model": "Kling 4.0",
      "maker": "Kuaishou",
      "seconds": 6,
      "promptStyle": "No Kling 4.0 guide exists, so Kling 3.0 guide habits: plain shot description, speaker named with tone in parentheses."
    },
    {
      "model": "Seedance 2.5",
      "maker": "ByteDance",
      "seconds": 6,
      "promptStyle": "Seedance 2.5 guide: one-sentence summary, timeline, what stays constant, line written once, subtitles and music excluded in words."
    },
    {
      "model": "MiniMax H3",
      "maker": "MiniMax",
      "seconds": 8,
      "promptStyle": "MiniMax guide: three labelled fields, speaker id, <d>[English] line</d>, named camera moves, label text in double quotes, music N/A."
    },
    {
      "model": "Veo 3.1",
      "maker": "Google",
      "seconds": 6,
      "promptStyle": "Google guide: prose picking subject, action, context, camera, lens, style, audio in its own sentences, speaker then colon, and no \"no\" or \"don't\" wording."
    }
  ],
  "criteria": [
    {
      "key": "motion",
      "label": "Motion"
    },
    {
      "key": "hands",
      "label": "Hands, faces"
    },
    {
      "key": "physics",
      "label": "Physics"
    },
    {
      "key": "detail",
      "label": "Detail"
    },
    {
      "key": "fidelity",
      "label": "Followed the brief"
    },
    {
      "key": "audio",
      "label": "Audio"
    }
  ],
  "prompts": [
    {
      "job": "Person speaking with hands",
      "prompts": {
        "Wan 3.0": "A baker speaks to camera in a small bakery kitchen and counts three ingredients on her fingers. She is a woman in her late thirties with short curly dark hair, flour on her forearms and a navy linen apron.\n\nShot 1 (0-6 seconds): Locked-off medium shot at eye level, 35mm lens, shallow depth of field. She stands behind a floured wooden counter with a round crusty loaf in front of her and looks straight into the lens. She raises her right hand and shows one finger, then two fingers, then three fingers, one finger for each ingredient she names. Then she lowers both hands and pats the top of the loaf twice, and a small puff of flour rises into the window light.\n\nDialogue: The baker says in a warm, dry voice: \"Just three things. Flour. Water. Salt. That's the whole loaf.\" Accurate lip sync.\n\nSound: her voice and the soft room tone of the kitchen.\n\nStyle: realistic documentary, warm morning window light, one continuous shot.\n\nNegative prompt: subtitles, captions, on-screen text, watermark, background music, cuts.",
        "Kling 4.0": "Medium shot at eye level, locked-off camera, one continuous shot, realistic documentary look, warm morning window light in a small bakery kitchen. A woman in her late thirties with short curly dark hair, flour on her forearms and a navy linen apron stands behind a floured wooden counter with a round crusty loaf in front of her and looks straight into the lens. As she speaks she raises her right hand and shows one finger, then two fingers, then three fingers, one finger for each ingredient she names. Then she lowers both hands and pats the top of the loaf twice, and a small puff of flour rises into the window light.\n\nBaker (warm, dry voice): \"Just three things. Flour. Water. Salt. That's the whole loaf.\"\n\nOnly her voice and the soft room tone of the kitchen are heard.",
        "Seedance 2.5": "A baker speaks to camera in a small bakery kitchen and counts three ingredients on her fingers, realistic documentary style, locked-off medium shot at eye level, warm morning window light.\n\n0-1 seconds: She stands behind a floured wooden counter with a round crusty loaf in front of her and looks straight into the lens.\n1-4 seconds: She raises her right hand and shows one finger, then two fingers, then three fingers, one finger for each ingredient she names.\n4-6 seconds: She lowers both hands and pats the top of the loaf twice, and a small puff of flour rises into the window light.\n\nDialogue: The baker says in a warm, dry voice: \"Just three things. Flour. Water. Salt. That's the whole loaf.\"\n\nConstant throughout: she is a woman in her late thirties with short curly dark hair, flour on her forearms and a navy linen apron. One continuous shot, the camera stays still. Sound: her voice and the soft room tone of the kitchen. No subtitles. No background music.",
        "MiniMax H3": "integrated_multimodal_description: [Shot 1] Live-action, realistic documentary style, a Static Shot at eye level holds a medium shot of a small bakery kitchen in warm morning window light. A woman in her late thirties with short curly dark hair, flour on her forearms and a navy linen apron (S1), on screen, with a warm, dry voice, stands behind a floured wooden counter with a round crusty loaf in front of her. She looks straight into the lens and says: <d>[English] Just three things. Flour. Water. Salt. That's the whole loaf.</d> As she speaks she raises her right hand and shows one finger, then two fingers, then three fingers, one finger for each ingredient she names. Then she lowers both hands and pats the top of the loaf twice, and a small puff of flour rises into the window light.\n\noverall_soundscape: The soft room tone of a small kitchen. Her palms pat lightly on the bread crust.\n\nnon_diegetic_music: N/A",
        "Veo 3.1": "A medium shot at eye level with a locked-off camera in one continuous take. In a small bakery kitchen lit by warm morning window light, a woman in her late thirties with short curly dark hair, flour on her forearms and a navy linen apron stands behind a floured wooden counter with a round crusty loaf in front of her and looks straight into the lens. She raises her right hand and shows one finger, then two fingers, then three fingers, one finger for each ingredient she names. She then lowers both hands and pats the top of the loaf twice, and a small puff of flour rises into the window light. Realistic documentary style, 35mm lens, shallow depth of field.\n\nThe baker says in a warm, dry voice: \"Just three things. Flour. Water. Salt. That's the whole loaf.\"\n\nAudio: her voice and the soft room tone of the kitchen, and nothing else."
      }
    },
    {
      "job": "Product with fine print and liquid",
      "prompts": {
        "Wan 3.0": "A macro product shot of an open jar of honey with a printed label while a ribbon of honey falls into it.\n\nShot 1 (0-6 seconds): Slow push-in, 100mm macro lens. The frame shows an open, squat, clear glass jar of golden honey on a dark slate counter in soft daylight from the left. A cream paper label on the front of the jar is printed in black with exactly three lines of text: \"HERMOSO\" in large serif capitals, \"WILDFLOWER HONEY\" in smaller capitals below it, and \"NET WT 12 OZ\" in small capitals at the bottom. A hand at the top of the frame holds a wooden honey dipper above the jar, and a thin ribbon of thick honey falls into the open jar, where it folds and coils on the surface before slowly sinking. The camera pushes in slowly toward the label until the three lines of text fill the lower third of the frame, sharp and legible, with the letters fixed in place on the glass.\n\nSound: a quiet kitchen with a kettle simmering softly and birdsong through an open window.\n\nStyle: photoreal commercial, soft daylight, one continuous shot.\n\nNegative prompt: subtitles, captions, watermark, background music, extra text on the label, cuts.",
        "Kling 4.0": "Macro product shot, one continuous shot, photoreal commercial look. The frame shows an open, squat, clear glass jar of golden honey on a dark slate counter in soft daylight from the left. A cream paper label on the front of the jar is printed in black with exactly three lines of text: \"HERMOSO\" in large serif capitals, \"WILDFLOWER HONEY\" in smaller capitals below it, and \"NET WT 12 OZ\" in small capitals at the bottom. A hand at the top of the frame holds a wooden honey dipper above the jar, and a thin ribbon of thick honey falls into the open jar, where it folds and coils on the surface before slowly sinking. The camera pushes in slowly toward the label until the three lines of text fill the lower third of the frame, sharp and legible, with the letters fixed in place on the glass.\n\nSound: a quiet kitchen with a kettle simmering softly and birdsong through an open window.",
        "Seedance 2.5": "A macro product shot of an open jar of honey with a printed label while a ribbon of honey falls into it, photoreal commercial style, slow push-in, soft daylight.\n\n0-2 seconds: The frame shows an open, squat, clear glass jar of golden honey on a dark slate counter in soft daylight from the left. A cream paper label on the front of the jar is printed in black with exactly three lines of text: \"HERMOSO\" in large serif capitals, \"WILDFLOWER HONEY\" in smaller capitals below it, and \"NET WT 12 OZ\" in small capitals at the bottom.\n2-4 seconds: A hand at the top of the frame holds a wooden honey dipper above the jar, and a thin ribbon of thick honey falls into the open jar, where it folds and coils on the surface before slowly sinking.\n4-6 seconds: The camera keeps pushing in slowly toward the label until the three lines of text fill the lower third of the frame, sharp and legible.\n\nConstant throughout: the label's letters stay fixed in place on the glass. One continuous shot. Sound: a quiet kitchen with a kettle simmering softly and birdsong through an open window. No subtitles. No background music.",
        "MiniMax H3": "integrated_multimodal_description: [Shot 1] Live-action, photoreal commercial style, a macro shot shows an open, squat, clear glass jar of golden honey on a dark slate counter in soft daylight from the left. A cream paper label on the front of the jar is printed in black with exactly three lines of text: \"HERMOSO\" in large serif capitals, \"WILDFLOWER HONEY\" in smaller capitals below it, and \"NET WT 12 OZ\" in small capitals at the bottom. A hand at the top of the frame holds a wooden honey dipper above the jar, and a thin ribbon of thick honey falls into the open jar, where it folds and coils on the surface before slowly sinking. The camera performs a Push In at slow speed toward the label until the three lines of text fill the lower third of the frame, sharp and legible, with the letters fixed in place on the glass.\n\noverall_soundscape: A quiet kitchen with a kettle simmering softly. Birdsong drifts through an open window.\n\nnon_diegetic_music: N/A",
        "Veo 3.1": "A macro product shot in one continuous take with a slow push-in, 100mm macro lens. The frame shows an open, squat, clear glass jar of golden honey on a dark slate counter in soft daylight from the left. A cream paper label on the front of the jar is printed in black with exactly three lines of text: \"HERMOSO\" in large serif capitals, \"WILDFLOWER HONEY\" in smaller capitals below it, and \"NET WT 12 OZ\" in small capitals at the bottom. A hand at the top of the frame holds a wooden honey dipper above the jar, and a thin ribbon of thick honey falls into the open jar, where it folds and coils on the surface before slowly sinking. The camera pushes in slowly toward the label until the three lines of text fill the lower third of the frame, sharp and legible, with the letters fixed in place on the glass. Photoreal commercial style.\n\nAudio: a quiet kitchen with a kettle simmering softly and birdsong through an open window, and nothing else."
      }
    },
    {
      "job": "Moving camera through a busy scene",
      "prompts": {
        "Wan 3.0": "A low tracking shot follows a bicycle courier through a crowded rainy night market and rises above the crowd to reveal the whole street.\n\nShot 1 (0-6 seconds): Wide 24mm lens. In a narrow night-market street at dusk in heavy rain, lined with food stalls under plain canvas awnings and strings of warm lanterns, a bicycle courier in a yellow rain jacket rides away from the camera while the camera follows behind at low height at the same speed. The rider swerves left around a vendor pushing a cart, then a small dog runs across the street in front of the bicycle and the rider rings the bell once. Steam rises from a noodle stall and the wet cobblestones reflect the lanterns. In the last two seconds the camera rises smoothly above a crowd of people with umbrellas and reveals the whole street stretching ahead, rain streaks catching the lantern light.\n\nSound: heavy rain on canvas, one bicycle bell, sizzling woks, crowd chatter.\n\nStyle: cinematic realistic, rainy dusk, one continuous shot.\n\nNegative prompt: subtitles, captions, on-screen text, watermark, background music, cuts.",
        "Kling 4.0": "One continuous tracking shot, cinematic realistic look. In a narrow night-market street at dusk in heavy rain, lined with food stalls under plain canvas awnings and strings of warm lanterns, a bicycle courier in a yellow rain jacket rides away from the camera while the camera follows behind at low height at the same speed. The rider swerves left around a vendor pushing a cart, then a small dog runs across the street in front of the bicycle and the rider rings the bell once. Steam rises from a noodle stall and the wet cobblestones reflect the lanterns. In the last two seconds the camera rises smoothly above a crowd of people with umbrellas and reveals the whole street stretching ahead, rain streaks catching the lantern light.\n\nSound: heavy rain on canvas, one bicycle bell, sizzling woks, crowd chatter.",
        "Seedance 2.5": "A low tracking shot follows a bicycle courier through a crowded rainy night market and rises above the crowd to reveal the whole street, cinematic realistic style, one continuous shot.\n\n0-2 seconds: In a narrow night-market street at dusk in heavy rain, lined with food stalls under plain canvas awnings and strings of warm lanterns, a bicycle courier in a yellow rain jacket rides away from the camera. The camera follows behind at low height at the same speed. The rider swerves left around a vendor pushing a cart.\n2-4 seconds: Ahead, a small dog runs across the street in front of the bicycle and the rider rings the bell once. Steam rises from a noodle stall and the wet cobblestones reflect the lanterns.\n4-6 seconds: The camera rises smoothly above a crowd of people with umbrellas and reveals the whole street stretching ahead, rain streaks catching the lantern light.\n\nConstant throughout: the same rider, the same rainy dusk light. Sound: heavy rain on canvas, one bicycle bell, sizzling woks, crowd chatter. No subtitles. No background music.",
        "MiniMax H3": "integrated_multimodal_description: [Shot 1] Live-action, cinematic realistic style, a Tracking Shot at low height follows a bicycle courier in a yellow rain jacket who rides away from the camera through a narrow night-market street at dusk in heavy rain, lined with food stalls under plain canvas awnings and strings of warm lanterns, with the camera moving at the same speed. The rider swerves left around a vendor pushing a cart, then a small dog runs across the street in front of the bicycle and the rider rings the bell once. Steam rises from a noodle stall and the wet cobblestones reflect the lanterns. Near the end the camera performs a Pedestal Up with large amplitude at slow speed, rising above a crowd of people with umbrellas and revealing the whole street stretching ahead, rain streaks catching the lantern light.\n\noverall_soundscape: Heavy rain drums on canvas and one bicycle bell rings. Woks sizzle under the crowd's chatter.\n\nnon_diegetic_music: N/A",
        "Veo 3.1": "One continuous tracking shot with a wide 24mm lens, cinematic realistic style. In a narrow night-market street at dusk in heavy rain, lined with food stalls under plain canvas awnings and strings of warm lanterns, a bicycle courier in a yellow rain jacket rides away from the camera while the camera follows behind at low height at the same speed. The rider swerves left around a vendor pushing a cart, then a small dog runs across the street in front of the bicycle and the rider rings the bell once. Steam rises from a noodle stall and the wet cobblestones reflect the lanterns. In the last two seconds the camera rises smoothly above a crowd of people with umbrellas and reveals the whole street stretching ahead, rain streaks catching the lantern light.\n\nAudio: heavy rain on canvas, one bicycle bell, sizzling woks and crowd chatter, and nothing else."
      }
    }
  ]
}