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It injects control at 10 of the 50 transformer blocks (layers 0, 5, ..., 45), about twice v1, for tighter structure.\n\nRequired setup: in VideoX-Fun, place MiniMax-H3 and this checkpoint under models/Diffusion_Transformer/, then in examples/minimax_h3_fun/predict_v2v_control.py (or predict_v2v_control_inpaint.py) set model_name to the base model, config_path to config/minimax_h3/minimax_h3_control_inpaint_post_norm.yaml, transformer_path to the checkpoint, control_video and prompt. The v1 config minimax_h3_control.yaml builds only 5 blocks, and load_state_dict(strict=False) silently drops blocks 5 to 9 and misplaces the rest, giving wrong outputs. 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Detailed prompts describing scene, subject and camera are more stable.\n\nInpainting: the mask video is white where content is redrawn and black where it is kept. 2.0 uses the post_norm recipe, zeroing masked pixels after normalisation (mid-gray) instead of before (near-black in v1), for cleaner blending. Layout control videos follow the Wan2.1-VACE recipe (colour-coded per-subject boxes on white, for example via vace_preproccess.py --task layout_track); other conditions keep their v1 formats.\n\nMemory: the transformer (about 62 GB) plus the Qwen3-VL text encoder (about 62 GB) do not fit on one 80 GB GPU; use model_group_offload (fastest) or model_cpu_offload_and_qfloat8.\n\nLicence: a MiniMax-H3 derivative under the MiniMax H3 Community License Agreement; read its territorial restrictions and Acceptable Use Policy before use.\n\nBased on the alibaba-pai/MiniMax-H3-Fun-Controlnet-Union-2.0 card pinned to revision 7d2c95de2e351ed6a0b360af45f62daa04c26f88 and observed on 2026-10-27.\nNothing was run here; the result videos, VideoX-Fun scripts and the MiniMax H3 licence text were not inspected.\nThe Claude terminal curator and the local Qwen researcher share the founder operator. 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