Pika H3 Flex
Generate a video with synchronized audio from a text prompt. Choose any whole-second duration from 5 to 15, 480p or 768p resolution, and one of 11 aspect ratios. Optionally rewrite the prompt. 1080p/2k/4k generates at 768p and upscales once with Pika Upsampler V1, preserving audio and frame rate. Combined pricing is per actual output second; the quote reserves the native frame-count duration bound.
pika/pika-h3-flex/text-to-video
Examples
representative generations · starting points to seed the playground
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A large working vegetable farm under a soft overcast sky, pale grey-white cloud with patches of soft blue. Endless parallel rows of raised beds of dark brown tilled soil, clumpy and freshly turned, each lined with tall pale bamboo cane A-frame teepees tied with twine at the top, young leafy green tomato and pepper seedlings at their base, terracotta pots along low weathered grey timber bed edges, a line of green crops on the far flat horizon. The video opens with NO person visible. The first four seconds show only rows of plants and bamboo. Shot 1, one continuous camera move: 0-4s: The camera is low, at waist height, and trucks sideways to the right at high speed, travelling perpendicular to the rows. Row after row after row of bamboo teepees and green plants rushes across the frame from right to left, each row flashing past one after another: canes, plants, gap of soil, canes, plants, gap of soil. Strong motion blur on the foreground canes, the horizon steady. Like a camera car racing along the end of the field. 4-5s: The camera brakes hard and stops dead, perfectly lined up looking straight down the length of one single row, the row's soil path running to a vanishing point in the centre of frame. A tiny silver figure is just visible far away at the end of the row. A brief still beat. 5-8s: The camera launches forward and dollies fast and low straight down that row between the bamboo canes, the canes streaming past either side. It decelerates as the figure grows into a woman kneeling in the soil and stops in a medium-wide side-on shot of her: early 30s, pale skin with a few freckles, dark brown hair in a low loose chignon, a calm focused expression, wearing a dramatic Victorian-silhouette ballgown made of crinkled glossy SILVER metallic tarpaulin, with a deep V neckline, enormous puffed short sleeves, a gathered waist and a huge skirt pooled and spread across the soil behind her. She leans forward on one hand over the bed, planting a small seedling with a steel hand trowel with a wooden handle. Hard cut. Shot 2: 8-12s: Tight close-up at soil level on her hands. She presses dark damp soil firmly around the base of the seedling and pats it down twice, sets the trowel aside, then brushes her palms together to dust them off. Crumbs of soil fall from her fingers. The glossy crinkled silver plastic of her skirt fills the background. The silver plastic gown has real stiffness: it crackles, creases and catches soft highlights. Soil is clumpy and leaves dirt on her fingers. Soft diffused overcast light, no hard sun or hard-edged shadows, but rich contrast and dimension. Surreal fashion-editorial tone played straight. Photographic natural colour, subtle film grain. The woman and her gown stay exactly the same; nothing morphs. SPEED IS CRITICAL: everything moves at normal real-time speed, like 24fps footage played back at 24fps - natural motion, NO slow motion. Sound: natural diegetic location sound only — rushing wind and whoosh of canes flashing past, then quiet wind through leaves, the crinkle of the plastic gown, trowel scraping soil, soft pats, dry hands brushing together. No music, no score, no singing, no melody, no rhythm track.
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A 1990s American multi-camera sitcom scene: bright, flat studio lighting on a cosy, slightly cluttered early-90s living-room set, slight videotape softness and warm, saturated colour. THE SET: a long deep forest-green velvet sofa with a fringed skirt and a red-green tartan cushion, dark wood-panelled walls behind it, a brass fireplace screen with a red-and-white Christmas stocking hanging above, a glass vase of red flowers on a side table at the left, a cream pleated lampshade on a floral chinoiserie ceramic lamp at the right, an ornate gilded-brass coffee table in front of the sofa scattered with magazines and a black VCR, a patterned oriental rug, and a floral chintz armchair at the right edge. THE WOMAN — the same woman in every shot: a young woman with voluminous dark curly shoulder-length hair and red lipstick, in a long-sleeved bright red dress with a ruffled high collar, and black knee-high boots. THE DOG — the same dog in every shot: a big, fluffy, long-haired black, white and tan dog, wearing a small striped cone party hat. A live studio audience laughs throughout. Hard cuts between different camera angles. [Shot 1] 0-3 s: wide shot of the whole set. She carries a pretty birthday cake into the living room and sets it on the gilded coffee table; the dog in the party hat sits by the sofa, staring at the cake. (Audience: "Aww.") [Shot 2] 3-5 s: medium shot. A sudden knock at the door. She points at the dog: "Wait here. Don't touch it." and walks out of frame to answer the door. [Shot 3] 5-9 s: close-up, locked on the coffee table: the dog jumps up and wolfs down the cake, cream flying, party hat askew, tail wagging wildly. (Audience bursts out laughing.) [Shot 4] 9-12 s: wide shot. She comes back and freezes: only a small piece of cake is left, the dog has cream all over its face and sits back down as if nothing happened, licking its lips. She throws her hands up, baffled: "…What happened?!" [Shot 5] 12-15 s: close-up. The dog lets out a creamy little burp and tilts its head at her. She looks at the camera and sighs. (Big laugh and applause, sitcom transition music.) The woman, the dog, the party hat and the living-room set stay exactly the same in every shot; nobody and nothing morphs. SPEED IS CRITICAL: everything moves at normal real-time speed, like 24fps footage played back at 24fps - natural motion, NO slow motion. Sound: studio audience laughter and applause, a knock, the dog gobbling and a tiny burp, an upbeat 90s sitcom theme. Only these two lines. No subtitles or other text.