Well rigs are MiniMax H3 2K, not geologists
MiniMax H3 is 2K text-to-video, 5–15s, 26 credits: the mast is the shot, not a synthetic hydrologist.
MiniMax H3 is 2K text-to-video, 5–15s, 26 credits: the mast is the shot, a synthetic hydrologist is the wrong row.
A well-driller ad that books is the derrick against sky, the kelly, the mud pit, a mast that reads as a machine. It is not a constructed geologist walking an aquifer, a yield, or "what you should do with this well." Those lines are water talk from a fake expert. Buy the rig plate. Do not buy a talking hydrologist.
The mast is the picture
Write camera and iron. "Low angle, lattice mast, overcast, slow push, no people." Stop. "Dr. Maya explaining groundwater" is a second job. It is a private-person job if Maya is on payroll. It is a health-adjacent job if the line is drinking-water safety.
MiniMax H3 Text to Video is a frontier row: 2K from a text prompt alone, durations 5s through 15s, 26 credits, six aspect ratios (21:9, 16:9, 4:3, 1:1, 3:4, 9:16). Catalog audio is empty. This file is silent. Quoted lines in the prompt do not become a voice. That is the point of using H3 on a rig: you get a sharp plate without a mouth.
Open it from the AI video generator. Iterate at 5s or 6s. Fifteen seconds of the same mast is a long miss unless the move actually lasts. Pick aspect for the destination. 21:9 cropped to 9:16 throws away the 2K you paid for. 9:16 if the feed is vertical. 16:9 if the site header is.
H3 will invent a generic derrick. That is allowed when the ad is "we drill," not "this serial-numbered mast on this pad." Livery, a unit number, your carrier — photograph those. Then the job is image-to-video on a locked still, not this T2V slug.
2K, silent, not a talking meter
Audio is unset on this slug. Do not claim native dialogue. Do not write a hydrology VO into the prompt and wait for a soundtrack. Score after lock if you want a bed. Overlay after lock if you need a town, a depth range you actually sell, a phone line. H3 will not letter a yield. Invented gallons are a claim you cannot ship.
26 credits is the catalog figure. It is not a cheap talking-head discount and it is not a 4K promise. Max output is 2K. Use that when the plate will sit large: a landing hero, a shop-floor loop, a print-adjacent still from a frame. Do not buy 2K to fill a phone feed that will crush it. If the feed is the only destination, hunt the camera move on a cheaper silent row and keep H3 for the shot that is the shot.
Five seconds is the honest test. The spec will let you go to 15. Identity of a generic mast still drifts at the long end: extra guys, extra trucks, a second derrick. Until the iron holds, stay short.
A synthetic hydrologist is the wrong row
Synthetic presenters on health and finance are a YPP kill when the persona plays human expert on health, legal, finance, or politics. Water-quality advice, "safe to drink," well-contamination protocols delivered by a constructed geologist is that shape with a hard hat. Labelling the face AI does not leave the bucket. A silent mast is not that shape.
Do not glue a talking yield card onto the rig file inside one generate. If a job needs a voice, that voice is a real named person on a different day. Generation can still do the derrick. It cannot be the adviser.
A mascot pump-jack is not a human expert. A photoreal "senior hydrologist" is. Hold the machinery.
Contractors and plumbers are different /for pages
/for/contractors is general-contractor process: demo-day, behind the walls, a homeowner walkthrough. That is a remodel crew. A water well is not a kitchen gut. Do not rewrite the contractor page as a rig commercial.
/for/plumbers is indoor fix shots: clear pipe, hidden leak, van tools. That is a house system. The well-driller listing is the mast on the pad. Indoor copper is the plumber's object. Name the difference and stay outside.
If the week is "we also do pressure tanks in the basement," that clip is a photographed tank, overlay the rating, not H3 inventing a mechanical room and a talking tech. H3 is the 2K mast when the sky and the lattice are the ad.
FAQ
If I prompt "no medical or water advice," can H3 still put a geologist on the pad?
The face is still a constructed presenter. Yield and safety talk is still advice-shaped. Hold the mast. If someone must speak, put a real named person on camera, or do not prescribe.
Does MiniMax H3 take a photo of our rig?
Not on this slug. H3 is text-to-video, 2K, 5–15s, 26 credits, audio empty. Your livery is image-to-video from a still, a different job. Use T2V when a generic mast is enough.
Do silent rig clips still need type?
If they autoplay muted and there is a town, a CTA, or a depth you sell, yes. Overlay the line you wrote. H3 will not typeset it, and it will not speak it.
Why not a talking cinematic row because it looks more "brand"?
A talking generate of a hydrologist is the expert-persona pattern. The mast on H3 is the well-driller job: 2K, silent, 5–15s, 26 credits. Score later. No lips.