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Ad hooks you can test in batches
Write six versions of the same opening beat, hold the product and brand colours fixed, and vary only the action or the camera move. The cheaper tiers make that volume affordable before you commit to a hero cut.
Write the scene and Seedance shoots it. Subject, action, camera move, and light all follow the words you type, with Track progress in your workspace and no watermark on what you download. New generation requires an account and a confirmed quote.
Real output
Nothing was attached to this generation: no reference image, no editing pass. The prompt below is the entire input, and the clip beside it is what came back.
Prompt
A macro FPV chase shot follows a striped bee skimming inches above a busy highway at sunset, weaving between speeding cars, tires, lane markers, dust, and road debris. The low camera races across the asphalt with intense motion blur and warm golden-hour light. The bee narrowly escapes traffic as a huge explosion erupts behind it, flames and smoke swallowing the road, cinematic high-speed action.
The full prompt, exactly as it was sent.
Result
Seedance output, downloaded without a watermark.
Use cases
Text to video is the fastest way to test an idea that does not exist as footage yet. These are the jobs it takes on most often here.
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Write six versions of the same opening beat, hold the product and brand colours fixed, and vary only the action or the camera move. The cheaper tiers make that volume affordable before you commit to a hero cut.
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Turn a written shot list into moving frames, so a director, a client, or a teammate reacts to pacing and blocking instead of a static board.
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Choose the aspect ratio first and write for it. Vertical hooks for short-form feeds, wide frames for pre-roll, and no reframing pass afterwards.
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Establishing shots, weather, crowds, macro detail, aerials: the footage that would otherwise need a location, a permit, or a drone.
How it works
There is no mode to pick. The composer reads your input and routes itself, so attaching nothing keeps the job on text to video.
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Name the subject, what it does, where the camera sits, and how it moves. Lens and lighting words such as golden hour, macro, or handheld land far harder than adjectives such as beautiful.
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Seedance 2.5 runs up to 30 seconds. Seedance 2.0, Fast, and Mini trade ceiling for cost, and Veo 3.1, Kling 3.0, and MiniMax H3 sit in the same picker.
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Finished clips land in your asset library at full quality with no watermark, ready to download or to attach back in as a reference.
Jobs people arrive with
These are the questions people bring to an empty prompt box, worded the way they ask them. Each answer says whether it works here, on which model and with what limit, then gives the steps and a prompt you can paste as written.
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Yes. Seedance 2.5, Seedance 2.0, 2.0 Fast, 2.0 Mini and 1.5 Pro, Kling 3.0, Kling O3 and Wan 3.0 all have an audio switch here, and with it on the clip comes back with ambience, effects and voices generated together with the picture. Spoken lines work when the words are in quotes and the speaker is named. On the Seedance models the switch does not change the credit cost, and Seedance 2.0 Mini, the model that with purchased credits, has it too. Veo 3.1 and MiniMax H3 show no audio option in this workspace.
How to do it
Prompt
Night market in the rain, close-up on a street cook flipping skewers over a charcoal grill, sparks lifting into the steam. Handheld, shallow focus. She glances up at the camera and says, "Two more minutes, they are almost ready." Rain drumming on the canvas awning, fat sizzling on the coals, chatter behind her.
Settings
Prompt recipe: no clip attached, paste it and run it.
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Seedance 2.5 renders 4 to 30 seconds in a single run, and so does Wan 3.0; most other models here stop between 8 and 15 seconds. For a multi-shot take, give each shot its own time range in the prompt, such as 0–10 s, 10–20 s and 20–30 s, and describe the camera inside each range. Thirty seconds is the length people choose most often for Seedance 2.5 text to video on this site, and it needs a paid plan or a credit pack; the cost table below prices a 15-second 1080p run on every plan.
How to do it
Prompt
Launch film for a handmade ceramic mug, three shots. 0–10 s: macro of wet clay spinning on a potter’s wheel, hands shaping the rim, soft window light. 10–20 s: cut to the glazed mug lifted out of a kiln, orange glow, slow push-in. 20–30 s: cut to a kitchen table in the morning, coffee poured into the mug, steam rising, the camera settles on it. Warm film look, the same mug colour in every shot.
Settings
Prompt recipe: no clip attached, paste it and run it.
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Eligible new verified accounts may claim up to 5 welcome credits for 7 days after human verification, while the promotion budget is available. This can cover a low-cost image, not a guaranteed free video. New video generation requires sufficient purchased credits or eligible bounded unlimited capacity.
How to do it
Prompt
Vertical 9:16. A skateboarder rolls straight toward a low camera on an empty rooftop at sunset, kicks the board up into her hand right in front of the lens and grins. Low angle, wide lens, golden backlight, city skyline behind her, no text on screen.
Settings
Prompt recipe: no clip attached, paste it and run it.
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Words alone drift: the same description gives a slightly different face on every run. The dependable fix is reference images. Attach stills of the character and, on the Seedance models, the prompt stays the scene while the pictures hold the identity: up to 30 images on Seedance 2.5 and nine on Seedance 2.0, Fast and Mini. Name each image in the prompt, such as “the woman in image 1”, and reuse the same set for every clip in the series. Human faces are supported as references: of 6,214 image jobs run here between September 15 and October 14, 2026, only 19 were refused for showing a real person.
How to do it
Prompt
The woman in image 1, wearing the yellow raincoat from image 2, runs up a flight of stone steps in a narrow old-town street at dusk, looks back over her shoulder and laughs. Tracking shot from behind, then she turns to the camera. Wet cobbles, warm street lamps.
Settings
Prompt recipe: no clip attached, paste it and run it.
What you can generate
Every row is read from the model registry the composer enforces, not from a brochure. The resolution ceiling, the duration range, the audio toggle and the reference limits are the same values the workspace applies when you press generate, and the table is rebuilt whenever the registry changes.
No model quotes are currently available. Please try again later.
Available models, resolutions and reference formats are shown in the generator. Credit-mode concurrency is 1 for Lite, 4 for Pro and 8 for Premium. A model guide is not a guarantee that every discussed model is currently enabled.
| Plan | Billed amount | Credits | Price per credit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lite 300 | $14.90/month | 300/month | $0.0497 |
| Lite 300 | $156.00/year | 300/month | $0.0433 |
| Pro 600 | $29.00/month | 600/month | $0.0483 |
| Pro 600 | $174.00/year | 600/month | $0.0242 |
| Pro 1300 | $59.00/month | 1300/month | $0.0454 |
| Pro 1300 | $598.80/year | 1300/month | $0.0384 |
| Pro 2000 | $89.00/month | 2000/month | $0.0445 |
| Pro 2000 | $828.00/year | 2000/month | $0.0345 |
| Premium 3500 | $149.00/month | 3500/month | $0.0426 |
| Premium 3500 | $1188.00/year | 3500/month | $0.0283 |
| Premium 5200 | $219.00/month | 5200/month | $0.0421 |
| Premium 5200 | $2028.00/year | 5200/month | $0.0325 |
| Premium 7200 | $299.00/month | 7200/month | $0.0415 |
| Premium 7200 | $2748.00/year | 7200/month | $0.0318 |
| Credit pack | $29.90 | 350 | $0.0854 |
| Credit pack | $49.90 | 600 | $0.0832 |
| Credit pack | $79.90 | 1000 | $0.0799 |
| Credit pack | $199.00 | 2500 | $0.0796 |
| Credit pack | $999.00 | 13000 | $0.0768 |
Annual plans are billed yearly. Starter credits are valid for 180 days; other standard packs for 365 days. Taxes and personal offers are shown in checkout.
Last updated
Cost in dollars
Credits are what the composer charges; this table turns four common jobs into dollars at each plan’s price per credit. The credits come from the same calculation the generator bills with, plan discounts included, and the prices from the pricing page, so the two move together.
| Plan | Billed amount | Credits | Price per credit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lite 300 | $14.90/month | 300/month | $0.0497 |
| Lite 300 | $156.00/year | 300/month | $0.0433 |
| Pro 600 | $29.00/month | 600/month | $0.0483 |
| Pro 600 | $174.00/year | 600/month | $0.0242 |
| Pro 1300 | $59.00/month | 1300/month | $0.0454 |
| Pro 1300 | $598.80/year | 1300/month | $0.0384 |
| Pro 2000 | $89.00/month | 2000/month | $0.0445 |
| Pro 2000 | $828.00/year | 2000/month | $0.0345 |
| Premium 3500 | $149.00/month | 3500/month | $0.0426 |
| Premium 3500 | $1188.00/year | 3500/month | $0.0283 |
| Premium 5200 | $219.00/month | 5200/month | $0.0421 |
| Premium 5200 | $2028.00/year | 5200/month | $0.0325 |
| Premium 7200 | $299.00/month | 7200/month | $0.0415 |
| Premium 7200 | $2748.00/year | 7200/month | $0.0318 |
| Credit pack | $29.90 | 350 | $0.0854 |
| Credit pack | $49.90 | 600 | $0.0832 |
| Credit pack | $79.90 | 1000 | $0.0799 |
| Credit pack | $199.00 | 2500 | $0.0796 |
| Credit pack | $999.00 | 13000 | $0.0768 |
Annual plans are billed yearly. Starter credits are valid for 180 days; other standard packs for 365 days. Taxes and personal offers are shown in checkout.
Measured here
Timed on this site from the moment a job is submitted to the moment the finished clip is ready, across more than 4,700 text-to-video jobs that finished between September 15 and October 14, 2026. These are real waits, not progress-bar estimates, and every row has at least 30 finished jobs behind it.
| Model | Setting picked most often | Median wait | 3 in 4 done within |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seedance 2.0 Mini | 4 s · 480p | 2 min 22 s | 2 min 52 s |
| Seedance 2.5 | 30 s · 720p | 4 min 42 s | 6 min 30 s |
| Seedance 1.5 Pro | 5 s · 480p | 1 min 20 s | 1 min 44 s |
| SeeDance 1 Pro Fast | 5 s · 480p | 51 s | 1 min 6 s |
| Kling 3.0 | 5 s · 720p | 2 min 36 s | 3 min 10 s |
| Seedance 2.0 | 10 s · 720p | 6 min 53 s | 9 min 52 s |
Worked examples
The first example is the real clip from the demo above with its unedited prompt. The other two are prompt recipes written against the same models and limits, so you can paste them in and compare your result with the brief.
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Before
Nothing but the sentence below. No reference image, no source clip, no style preset: the composer read an empty attachment tray and routed the job to text to video.
After
A low, fast tracking shot over sunset asphalt with heavy motion blur, cars and tyres sweeping past the bee, and an explosion filling the frame behind it, all staged from the words alone. This is the clip that plays in the demo section above.
Prompt
A macro FPV chase shot follows a striped bee skimming inches above a busy highway at sunset, weaving between speeding cars, tires, lane markers, dust, and road debris. The low camera races across the asphalt with intense motion blur and warm golden-hour light. The bee narrowly escapes traffic as a huge explosion erupts behind it, flames and smoke swallowing the road, cinematic high-speed action.
Settings
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Before
A brief for a 9:16 social hook with no footage to start from: a matte black insulated bottle on wet slate, and the wish to test the opening beat before anyone books a studio.
After
A six-second vertical clip: the bottle standing in shallow water as ripples roll toward camera, a slow low-angle push-in, condensation catching a hard side light, no text and no logo. Change one clause per take to compare openings.
Prompt
A matte black insulated bottle stands on wet dark slate, shallow water rippling toward camera. Slow push-in from a low angle, hard side light raking across condensation, deep shadows, vertical 9:16, no text, no logo.
Settings
Prompt recipe: no clip attached, paste it and run it.
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Before
A shot list for a short-film opening that would otherwise need a drone, a coastal location and a dawn call time: a fishing village waking up, told in three connected camera moves.
After
One continuous 30-second clip: a wide aerial drift over the harbour at first light, a descent into a slow dolly along the quay as shutters open, and a final tilt from wet cobbles to the church tower, with generated ambient sound under it.
Prompt
A coastal fishing village at dawn, three connected camera moves. 0–10s: slow aerial drift over a small harbour, boats rocking, mist lifting off the water, pale gold light. 10–20s: descend to a low dolly along the stone quay as wooden shutters open and a baker carries trays past camera. 20–30s: tilt up from wet cobblestones to the church tower as the first bell rings, gulls crossing the frame. Anamorphic look, soft haze, ambient harbour sound.
Settings
Prompt recipe: no clip attached, paste it and run it.
Limits
Knowing the failure modes saves credits and retries. The refusal figures are counted from the jobs run on this site between September 15 and October 14, 2026.
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Most failed jobs here are not technical errors: more than eight in ten were stopped by the model’s content check, and the reason it names most often is copyrighted or trademarked material, such as a brand name, a logo or a well-known film, game or cartoon character. Describe the look instead of naming the brand or the character. A refused job is not charged.
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Faces are fine, and reference photos of people are accepted: refusals for showing a real person were about three in a thousand image jobs here. Naming a celebrity or another public figure in the prompt is a different matter and can be refused, so describe the look you want instead of the person.
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Signs, labels, captions and logos drawn by the model often come out misspelled or warped, especially when they are small or moving. Keep text out of the prompt and add titles in your editor afterwards.
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Fingers, quick hand movements, tangled limbs and dense crowds are where artefacts show up first. One subject with one clear action, and a camera that does not whip around, gives the cleanest result.
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The longer the clip, the more a face, an outfit or a prop can change between the first and the last second. Split a long idea into timed shots on Seedance 2.5, or attach reference images so the identity is held by pictures rather than adjectives.
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Time ranges and shot order in a prompt are followed closely but not to the frame. When a beat has to land on an exact moment, such as a music hit, generate shorter clips and cut them together in an editor.
Why Seedance refuses prompts, counted on 11,168 jobs, with rewrites
Questions
Choosing an entry
The three scene pages share one composer. What you attach decides the entry, and the model you pick decides the ceiling.
Text is the right entry when nothing exists yet and the fastest way forward is to describe it. When you already own the frame, a packshot, a poster, a portrait, switch to image to video, because a still pins identity, palette and composition more tightly than any adjective. When the footage exists but one thing in it has to change, use video to video, where the instruction describes the difference rather than the scene.
The model choice is separate from the entry. Seedance 2.5 is the pick for a single 30-second take, multi-shot structure and reference-heavy jobs; Seedance 2.0 Mini is the pick for cheap volume with purchased credits. Every model in the table accepts a plain prompt, so the same brief can be run through Kling 3.0, Veo 3.1 and MiniMax H3 without rewriting it, and the results compared side by side in the asset library.
Keep going
Text is one of three ways in. Pick the entry that matches what you already have.
Welcome credits
Open the generator, paste a scene, and keep the first take you like. Track progress in your workspace, no watermark, free credits on a new account.
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