diff --git a/src/h3_blackwell_runtime/vae_encoder.py b/src/h3_blackwell_runtime/vae_encoder.py
index d1d7dd9..c2aa87a 100644
--- a/src/h3_blackwell_runtime/vae_encoder.py
+++ b/src/h3_blackwell_runtime/vae_encoder.py
@@ -256,7 +256,8 @@ class MiniMaxH3VideoVAEEncoder(nn.Module):
         """``[B,3,H,W]`` or ``[B,3,T,H,W]`` pixels in ``[-1, 1]`` -> normalized latents ``[B,24,T_lat,H//16,W//16]``."""
         if x.ndim == 4:
             x = x.unsqueeze(2)
-        x = x.add(1.0).mul_(0.5).sub_(self.pixel_mean.to(x)).div_(self.pixel_std.to(x))
+        x = (x + 1.0) * 0.5
+        x = (x - self.pixel_mean.to(x)) / self.pixel_std.to(x)
         if x.shape[2] == 1:
             moments = self._adaptive_encode(x)[:, :, -1:, :, :]
         else: