Seedance 2.5
Seedance 2.5 is ByteDance's higher-end multimodal video generation model for production-oriented creative work. It supports native 30-second video generation, larger reference sets across image, video, and audio inputs, and stronger instruction following for complex shots, multilingual prompts, and reference-heavy creative direction. It is especially well suited to branded storytelling, advertising, explainers, and other commercial workflows that need longer continuous scenes, tighter subject and style consistency, and precise edits that preserve the rest of the shot.
Editing video with Seedance 2.5 How to edit an existing clip in place with Seedance 2.5 using inputs.video: remove and replace elements, restyle and relight the frame, swap backgrounds, and edit by timestamp.
Image to video and keyframes with Seedance 2.5 How to turn a still into video with Seedance 2.5: animate a first frame, interpolate a first and last frame, loop a still, and sequence images as keyframes.
Long-form and extension with Seedance 2.5 How to structure a 30-second Seedance 2.5 brief as one continuous take or a multi-shot passage, hold continuity across the runtime, and extend past 30 seconds with inputs.video.
Motion and performance transfer with Seedance 2.5 How to drive Seedance 2.5 with a reference video for motion, camera, and lip-sync while a reference image supplies identity: motion transfer, character swaps, and clay to finished shot.
Multimodal reference with Seedance 2.5 How to compose up to 30 images, 10 videos, and 10 audio clips into one Seedance 2.5 call with typed @-tag addressing, from cast ensembles and product families to audio-driven scenes.
Multilingual video with Seedance 2.5 How to generate video in 10+ languages with Seedance 2.5: native lip-sync from a text prompt, switching languages within one clip, and controlling accent and delivery.
Prompting Seedance 2.5 How to prompt Seedance 2.5 for directed text-to-video: the five-layer shot scaffold, camera vocabulary the model reads directly, second-level timing, and native audio.