# Wan 3

> Studio's everyday video model — video from words, from a first and last frame, from your pictures, clips and sound, or a change to a clip you have.

**Wan 3** is Studio's everyday video model, and the widest: it makes video from words, brings a first frame (and a last one) to life, follows your pictures, a clip and a sound of your own, or changes a clip you already have. It is where **Videos** begins on Studio's home, and the first of **Generation** in **Choose a model**. **Bring to life — a video from this picture**, in History, starts here too.

## What it takes and makes

### Make — words to video

| Setting | What it takes |
| --- | --- |
| Your words | Required — up to 10,000 characters |
| Length | 2 to 30 seconds — starts at 5 seconds |
| Quality | 480p, 720p or 1080p — starts at 720p |
| Shape | 21:9, 16:9, 4:3, 1:1, 3:4 or 9:16 — starts at 16:9 |
| Sound | Can make sound with the video — a switch, off until you turn it on |
| Advanced | Seed |
| Makes | A video |

### Animate — a picture comes to life

| Setting | What it takes |
| --- | --- |
| Your words | Required — up to 10,000 characters |
| Frames | A first frame (required) and, if you like, a last frame |
| Length | 2 to 30 seconds — starts at 5 seconds |
| Quality | 480p, 720p or 1080p — starts at 720p |
| Shape | Follows your first frame |
| Sound | Can make sound with the video — a switch, off until you turn it on |
| Advanced | Seed |
| Makes | A video |

### Reference — your pictures and clips guide a new video

| Setting | What it takes |
| --- | --- |
| Your words | Required — up to 10,000 characters |
| Pictures | Up to 10 pictures (Image 1, Image 2… in the order you add them) |
| Video clips | One clip, if you like, up to 15 seconds |
| Recordings | One recording of your own, if you like, up to 15 seconds |
| Length | 2 to 30 seconds — starts at 5 seconds |
| Quality | 480p, 720p or 1080p — starts at 720p |
| Shape | 16:9, 4:3, 1:1, 3:4 or 9:16 — starts at 16:9 |
| Naming your references | Type @ and pick one — each by its number: Image 1, Image 2… |
| Sound | Can make sound with the video — a switch, off until you turn it on |
| Advanced | Seed |
| Makes | A video |

### Edit — change a clip you already have

| Setting | What it takes |
| --- | --- |
| Your words | Required — up to 10,000 characters |
| Your clip | One video clip, 1 to 15 seconds long |
| Pictures | Up to 10 pictures (Image 1, Image 2… in the order you add them) |
| Recordings | One recording of your own, if you like, up to 15 seconds |
| Length | Follows your clip |
| Quality | 480p, 720p or 1080p — starts at 720p |
| Shape | Follows your clip |
| Naming your references | Type @ and pick one — each by its number: Image 1, Image 2… |
| Sound | Can make sound with the video — a switch, off until you turn it on |
| Advanced | Seed |
| Makes | A video |

> These are the facts of the way Studio offers this model by default. Studio can also offer it with fewer ways of working or other limits; when it does, the model's page in Studio shows exactly what it takes — and the price, before you press.

The price is never written here — prices change. It is on the model's page in Studio: on the **Make** button and beside each length, size or quality that changes it, before you press.

## What it is good at

A dependable all-rounder across every way of making video Studio has. In **Reference**, a clip of yours can lend the take its camera movement or its choreography. In **Edit**, *"parts not named for change remain unchanged"* — and style, light, dialogue and changes from your own pictures all count as edits.

## Writing for it

- **Several shots in one take.** In **Make**, write the shots one after another with their times — *"Shot 1 (00:00-00:04): …, Shot 2 (00:04-00:08): …"* — and the take follows them.
- **Name your references by their number.** Type `@` and pick: Image 1, Video 1, Audio 1 — each kind counted on its own. Then say what each gives the take: *"Image 2 is the jacket"*.
- **In Edit, say what to add, remove or change.** What you do not name stays as your clip shows it.
- **Sound is your switch.** Turn **Sound** on for a take with its own sound; it starts off.

Source: https://routix.studio/help/video-models/wan-3 · Updated 2026-10-20