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license: other
license_name: minimax-h3-community-license
license_link: https://huggingface.co/MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3/blob/main/LICENSE
base_model: MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3
base_model_relation: adapter
pipeline_tag: image-text-to-video
tags:
  - lora
  - video
  - text-to-video
  - vhs
  - retro
  - 1980s
  - style
  - minimax-h3

vh5tape — a worn-VHS look for MiniMax H3

A style LoRA that makes H3 footage look like it was recorded off 1980s broadcast television onto a VHS tape that has seen better days — soft smeared detail, chroma bleed, tracking noise, head-switching bands at the frame edge, and (because H3 trains audio jointly) the matching muffled mono sound, tape hiss and warble.

The damage is a prompt-controlled dial with three trained levels, from a gentle analog glow to a tape the VCR can barely hold onto.

Gallery

All clips are raw single takes at 480P / 4:3 — none of this content was in the training data.

Prompting

Prompt the way the model was trained: trigger first, damage tier second, scene third.

vh5tape, badly damaged VHS tape with heavy tracking errors and distortion. A loud
1980s local used car commercial: a salesman in a plaid suit shouts at a car lot
with strings of pennant flags and a spinning price sign, cheesy synthesizer
jingle, echoing announcer voice.

The damage dial

level	phrase
light	`lightly worn VHS tape with slight analog noise`
medium	`worn VHS tape recording with visible tape damage`
heavy	`badly damaged VHS tape with heavy tracking errors and distortion`

Tips

Trigger: vh5tape — put it at the very start of the prompt.
Prompt expansion: the LoRA was trained through H3's caption format, and the balanced expansion mode preserves the trigger and damage phrases — safe to keep on.
Scale: 1.0 for the full look; 0.7–0.9 softens the wear if heavy prompts overshoot; up to ~1.5 pushes toward barely-watchable tape (fun for horror).
Sound comes along for free: describe the audio ("muffled mono audio", "canned laughter", "cheesy jingle") and it renders appropriately tape-worn.
Dialogue: give characters short explicit quoted lines (the host says: "It slices, it dices!") — they come through near-verbatim.
Period set dressing helps: wood paneling, studio lighting, 4:3, era wardrobe.

Recipe (fal)

Works on the H3 and H3-Max LoRA endpoints (minimax/h3/text-to-video/lora, minimax/h3-max/text-to-video/lora) and their image-to-video LoRA siblings:

{
  "prompt": "vh5tape, worn VHS tape recording with visible tape damage. A 1980s ...",
  "loras": [{ "path": "<url to vh5tape.safetensors>", "scale": 1.0 }],
  "resolution": "480P",
  "aspect_ratio": "4:3",
  "duration": 15,
  "prompt_expansion_mode": "balanced"
}

480P / 4:3 is the period-correct sweet spot; the style carries fine to higher resolutions if you want clean pixels of a dirty tape.

Training

Trained with fal's MiniMax H3 t2v trainer (rank 32, 5,000 steps, 4:3, joint video+audio objective) on a small hand-curated set of four-second clips of period broadcast material — sitcoms, soap operas, commercials, news and station sign-offs — each captioned with its content and one of the three damage-tier phrases above. The 5,000-step checkpoint beat its 2k/3k/4k/6k siblings in blind A/B testing; more steps past 5k made the damage tamer, not heavier.

Get the weights

file	what
`vh5tape.safetensors`	the LoRA, rank 32, 5,000 steps

Made for H3-TV — a 1970s portable CRT being rebuilt to play an endless, slightly wrong 1980s broadcast day.