Video generation

Higgsfield Cinematic Studio 3.0 / Video 3.5

Name: Higgsfield Cinematic Studio 3.0 / Video 3.5
Author: Higgsfield AI

Cinematic Studio is Higgsfield's current first-party video pipeline, exposed through the product at higgsfield.ai/generate and through the CLI and API as cinematic_studio_3_0 and cinematic_studio_video_3_5. It accepts a prompt plus start image, end image, and image, video and audio references (up to 15 media references in total), and generates multi-shot output with named cinematography controls: camera_style, light_scheme, color_grading, genre and speedramp presets.

A video generation model by Higgsfield AI · read 2026-08-14 · sourcing low

Resolution: 4k (cinematic_studio_3_0 resolution enum: 480p, 720p, 1080p, 4k; Video 3.5 tops out at 1080p)
Aspect ratios: auto, 21:9, 16:9, 4:3
Weights: Not released
API: Yes
Commercial use: Not established

Cinematic Studio 3.0 lists 480p, 720p, 1080p and 4k resolution options and optional generated audio.

Commercial use — Not established

Cinematic Studio is partly an orchestration layer over both Higgsfield models and licensed third-party models, so the effective terms depend on which underlying model a job routes to.

The licence notes recorded during research were read for a commercial-use position and did not state one. Read the licence before you rely on any of this. Nothing on this page is legal advice, and this site does not tell you a model is cleared for commercial use.

Specification

Vendor figures, read 2026-08-14Read from Higgsfield AI's own documentation on 2026-08-14. Vendors change these between model versions without announcing it, so check theirs before you commit a shot to a number. Sourcing for this entry is thin. Treat it as a starting point and verify before relying on any figure. Check the vendor's current documentation

What it takes in: text, image, video, audio
What it makes: video, audio
Maximum duration: not established
Maximum resolution: 4k (cinematic_studio_3_0 resolution enum: 480p, 720p, 1080p, 4k; Video 3.5 tops out at 1080p)
Aspect ratios: auto, 21:9, 16:9, 4:3, 1:1, 3:4, 9:16
Controls: image-to-video, start-end-frame, camera-control, reference-character-consistency, keyframes
Weights: Not released
API: Yes
Pricing: Subscription credits; Higgsfield plans are $19, $47 and $99 per month billed annually. Higgsfield's published per-model credit table does not include a Cinematic Studio row, so the credit cost per second could not be verified.
Released or updated: Cinematic Studio 4 announced on the Higgsfield home page as of 2026-08-14; CLI catalogue exposes cinematic_studio_3_0 and cinematic_studio_video_3_5. Exact release dates not published first-party.

Maximum duration is not established here. That means no page we could retrieve stated it, not that the model lacks one.

Strengths

Named cinematography axes (camera style, lighting scheme, colour grading, genre, speed ramp) rather than free-text prompting alone
Up to 15 mixed image/video/audio references in one job
4k option on Cinematic Studio 3.0
multi_shots plus multi_prompt for sequences; batch_size for variants
First-party CLI and MCP server for agentic workflows

Weaknesses

Maximum duration is undocumented; the schema only shows integer duration with defaults of 5 (3.0) and 15 (Video 3.5)
No credit price published for Cinematic Studio specifically
Unclear how much of the output is Higgsfield's own model versus routed third-party models
Default prompt_language is zh, which is easy to miss

Best for

Directors who want preset-level control over camera, lighting and grading across a multi-shot sequence in one tool.

Where the sources disagree

Recorded rather than resolved. Picking the tidier number would hide the fact that the vendor's own pages do not agree.

{'claim': 'Current Cinematic Studio version', 'a': "Higgsfield's home page promotes 'Cinematic Studio 4 Is Here'", 'aUrl': 'https://higgsfield.ai/', 'b': 'The CLI model catalogue exposes only cinematic_studio_3_0, cinematic_studio_video_3_5, cinematic_studio_video_v2 and cinematic_studio_video', 'bUrl': 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/higgsfield-ai/cli/main/MODELS.md'}

What to understand before using it

Explainers naming the mechanisms this model's own documentation mentions.

Character and set consistency: the weakest link names “consistency”
Temporal consistency: flicker, drift and morphing names “consistency”
Camera control: a move without a camera names “control”
Conditioning and control: everything you hand the model besides noise names “control”

MCP servers that front Higgsfield AI

Servers in the media MCP directory whose own description or homepage names this vendor. Absence of a server here is not evidence that none exists: most publish no tool list at all.

Dora Video generation
Multi-model AI image and video generator. 14 models behind one OAuth-secured MCP endpoint.
Filtrix AI MCP Video generation
Filtrix MCP for image/video generation. Portal.
Hermoso Video generation
AI ad studio: competitor ad research, video + image ads, social publishing, campaigns. 247 tools.
Higgsfield Video generation
Create images and videos from a prompt inside any MCP compatible AI tool.

See it from the vendor

Shotcraft hosts no sample output. Judging a model means watching its own showreel with your own eyes, and a clip re-hosted here would be a clip we chose.

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Sources

Read on 2026-08-14. A source that has changed since then will not be reflected here until the next pass.