Plating: gloss plates, silent if you will grade

Ray/H3. Score later.

Plating content is gloss: chrome, nickel, anodize, a highlight that still has grain after you downmap. That is a lighting job. It is not a talking-plater job unless a line was written. If a colourist is next, generate silent. A score baked into the take is a stem you will fight. Choose the row by hold length and resolution. Do not invent audio on Ray.

Speculars, not a salesperson

The part dies in the highlight. You need headroom, not a person standing on the rack. Tagging PQ onto a Rec.709-looking file does not create wet metal.

Prompt metal and light: a grazing key, a slow orbit, a rack travelling. Do not prompt a constructed plater reciting mil-thickness. Voice is later, off-screen, on a plate with no mouth in frame.

Generic chrome coupons may be text-to-video. You are buying physics, not a serial. A photographed rack is a different contract — attach that still and leave these T2V rows. A cousin of a tank you already run is how the shop notices.

Name the row after the brief names resolution, duration, and whether sound is post. The AI video generator is the launcher until that sentence exists.

Ray 2 720p: short, expensive, silent

Luma Ray 2 720p is Luma Ray 2 video generation in 720p quality. Text-to-video. 5s or 9s. 720p. 50 credits. Audio empty. No image required. Empty audio is the product. A musical in the prompt will not yield a bed. A presenter in the prompt will not yield a mouth.

Fifty credits is the unit. Nine seconds is not four free seconds on top of five. One prompt, one length, then decide whether the orbit deserves a longer 2K hold.

Max output is 720p. Listed qualities: 720p. There is no 1080p switch. Upscaling this take is not picking H3. Choose aspect for the destination. 21:9 cropped to 9:16 throws away the sharpness you paid for.

Ray is the expensive short 720p chrome plate you will score later. It is not a 2K master and it is not a sketch-pad price.

H3: 2K, longer hold, still silent

MiniMax H3 Text to Video is a frontier video model: 2K from text, 5s–15s, 26 credits as the catalog figure, six aspect ratios (21:9, 16:9, 4:3, 1:1, 3:4, 9:16). Audio is empty here too. It is not a talking plater. It is the longer, sharper plate when a grade is real — a landing hero, a shop-floor loop, Rec.709 scopes.

Nine seconds on Ray and nine seconds on H3 share a clock and nothing else: 720p versus 2K, fifty credits versus the H3 meter.

Do not buy 2K to fill a phone feed. Encoders and small screens erase the extra pixels. Hunt the camera move cheaper. Commit to H3 when the shot is the shot.

Identity — this rack, this coupon — is not a T2V paragraph. Photograph the coupon. Move it with AI image-to-video. Motion only. The finish is already in the pixels. Leave "chrome type II" out of the prompt.

Silent first, then the bed you chose

Ray does not list native audio. H3 does not list native audio. That is the plating pipeline: silent plate, then a bed you picked.

Add music to a video after picture lock. Off-screen line: add a voiceover on a plate with no lips. Do not dub a closed generated face. Do not file a bug because "industrial soundtrack" in the prompt produced silence. The audio field was empty.

A talking installer is another row, another day. Gloss wides on Ray or H3. The line on a talking model. Cut. The wide does not speak. The talker does not carry the chrome.

Pick by the grade, not the brand name. Ray: expensive short 720p. H3: 2K longer hold. Score later.

FAQ

If I describe music, does Ray 2 720p emit a soundtrack?

No. Audio is empty. You get a silent 5- or 9-second 720p file at 50 credits. Lay the bed after picture lock.

Can Ray 2 720p be the HDR master?

No. Max output is 720p. Tagging PQ onto that file is a metadata lie. Need a 2K plate for scopes? H3. Need a short 720p hold? Ray, then score it.

Why not H3 on every chrome orbit because 2K feels safer?

Without a grade, 2K is an expensive feed clip. H3 pays off when someone will sit on scopes — even twenty minutes, even you. A 5-second Ray test is how you learn the move.

Can these text-to-video rows take our real rack?

They will invent a subject. A locked shop photo belongs on image-to-video. Attach the still. Do not prompt a cousin of a tank you already run.