Zero-dollar local MV: Krea 2 for the singer, MiniMax Music 3 and H3 for music and video
kornerson · reddit · 2026-09-07
A Reddit user spent two weeks testing whether a professional-looking music video could be made entirely on a local rig with open-weight models—at zero dollar cost. Stack: singer generated locally with Krea 2, music with MiniMax Music 3 open weights (then remixed for bass and consistency), video with MiniMax H3 open weights. Key findings: using Reference-to-Video instead of static first frames plus lip-sync is what makes it feel professional; local generation is slow but you can queue 20 videos overnight and curate; H3 is the first local video model that feels professional with excellent prompt adherence and stunning character consistency (a freckle stays put across shots).
More from Multimodal
- Dense instance segmentation via Muse Wonder + SAM 3.1 on Meta's Model API — nikhilaravi · 2026-10-26
- LichtFeld Studio v0.5.4.3 ships community-built SteadySplats, POPSpa and Voxelization — janusch_patas · 2026-10-26
- One prompt to a 2-3 min narrated short: hands-on test of Antigravity video generation — AI_Andrew · 2026-10-26
- Creator makes 10,564-frame animated short entirely with Gemini toolchain — AI_Andrew · 2026-10-26
- FLUX.3 Klein step-distilled to 4-8 steps with CFG baked in — Fit-Structure-6489 · 2026-10-26
- ostris pre-training "Primal VAE": 1-channel latents match modern 8x VAEs via patching — ostrisai · 2026-10-26