In simple English
Writing a good video usually takes a team for the script, character designs, camera angles, and final rendering. This tool automates all those steps from one text prompt. You type a story concept, and the system plans scenes, creates reference images, and generates the clips. It connects to external AI providers for language, image, and video generation. You need your own API keys and enough budget to pay for those external models.
What it is
ViMax is an agentic video generation framework that coordinates narrative planning, image synthesis, video rendering, and final assembly. It includes a command-line terminal interface, a web browser interface, and multiple pipelines to turn ideas, scripts, or novels into videos.
What it is good for
Solo creators and builders who want to produce multi-scene animated videos, trailers, or short stories without manually managing dozens of disconnected AI prompts and reference frames.
- Handles the entire pipeline from raw concept to finished multi-shot video.
- Includes both a terminal interface and a web browser workspace for project management.
- Supports character consistency features to keep appearances steady across different scenes.
- Requires paid API keys for external language, image, and video generation models.
- High hardware and time requirements to run parallel video generation jobs.
- Complex configuration setup involving multiple YAML files and external services.
manual prompt chaining across separate image and video generation tools
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git clone https://github.com/HKUDS/ViMax.git cd ViMax uv sync