In simple English
This tool turns your text descriptions or static images into moving video clips. It runs on your own computer if you have a powerful graphics card. The model needs a high-end setup to produce results quickly. You can download the model weights for free from Hugging Face. Tencent provides the code under a custom licence.
What it is
HunyuanVideo-1.5 is an open-source video generation model built by Tencent that uses a Diffusion Transformer architecture with 8.3 billion parameters. It includes support for text-to-video, image-to-video, and video super-resolution up to 1080p.
What it is good for
Solo creators and developers who want to generate cinematic video clips, animated scenes, or product demonstrations locally without paying a monthly fee to a cloud video service.
- Runs on consumer graphics cards with model offloading enabled.
- Supports both text-to-video and image-to-video generation workflows.
- Includes step-distilled models that reduce generation time by up to 75 percent.
- Requires an NVIDIA graphics card with at least 14 GB of memory.
- Complex installation process with multiple dependencies and specific attention libraries.
- Custom licence terms apply to the model weights and code.
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git clone https://github.com/Tencent-Hunyuan/HunyuanVideo-1.5.git cd HunyuanVideo-1.5 pip install -r requirements.txt