bytedance/seedance-2.0/text-to-video
ByteDance's most advanced text-to-video model. Cinematic output with native audio, multi-shot editing, real-world physics, and director-level camera control.
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Prompt examples
Examples are generated using the Seedance 2.0 Text to Video API. You can customize them by clicking on the "Playground" button.
Ultra-detailed 4K wildlife macro video of a Bengal tiger resting in golden morning light. The camera begins inches from the tiger’s striped fur, revealing individual hairs, subtle color variation, dust particles, and tiny movements from breathing. Slowly rack focus from the fur texture to the tiger’s amber eye in the background.
Camera: 100mm macro lens, slow lateral slide, shallow depth of field, natural handheld micro-movement.
Lighting: Warm sunrise light, soft shadows, realistic highlights on fur.
Motion: Fur shifts slightly with breathing, whiskers twitch, eye blinks once near the end.
Style: BBC wildlife documentary, photorealistic, no CGI look.
Constraints: No distorted face, no extra eyes, no cartoon fur, no text, no watermark.
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ltra high-end editorial photography, photorealistic, 8K, razor-sharp detail, perfect skin texture with natural pores and subsurface scattering, cinematic lighting, shot on medium format, Portrait: 31-year-old Black British architect in a cream blazer, standing in a brutalist concrete stairwell, soft directional skylight, composed posture, masterful color grading, natural catchlights in eyes, tactile fabric detail, magazine cover quality, no text, no logos, no watermarks
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A shimmering soap film stretches across a circular frame, catching the light. The secrets to achieving a perfectly spherical bubble are unveiled as the surface tension and air pressure work in harmony. This exploration reveals the simple yet elegant physics at play, creating fleeting moments of iridescent beauty.
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FORMAT: 15s / free rhythm / 1 MATCH CUT / CONTINUOUS MOVE UNTIL MATCH CUT + IMMEDIATE ACTION FROM FIRST FRAME
SUBJECTS: A lone sword-bearing woman in weathered fur and leather fights a massive polar bear with desperate, two-handed survival movement. The same woman is later revealed at home in loose indoor clothes, where a VR headset appears only after the match cut and is pulled off in one clear motion.
ENVIRONMENT: Frozen wilderness under hard daylight, wind dragging snow across blue-white ice, then a modest lived-in home reached through a precise visual match. Winter glare and visible breath give way to soft clutter, indoor daylight, and a faint game-lit glow.
MOOD: Visceral survival tension snaps into grounded reality without breaking physical continuity.
COLOR LOGIC: Naturalistic Film Print Emulation
TIMELINE:
0:00-0:07: One unbroken handheld move, WS collapsing into MCU as the woman backpedals across the ice and the bear launches through blowing snow. The camera runs beside the leap at eye level, 28mm shifting to 35mm, slightly unstable and close enough to keep both bodies heavy and readable. The bear closes fast while she plants, recoils, and keeps the blade between them. SFX: (howling wind, boots grinding ice, low animal roar, cloth strain, blade cutting air, snow scrape). Hard winter sun side-lights the ice and throws sharp blue shadows.
0:07-0:11: Same unbroken move, no cut, tightening into a dead-on CU as the bear surges into the last inches, claws near her shoulders, jaws filling the frame edge. Right in the middle of the attack, a man's voice calls, Karla... then sharper, KARLA. She answers with a tired off, and on that reaction the world drops into slow motion. Snow drifts almost still, the bear hangs in its strike, and only she keeps moving at normal speed as the camera orbits into her face. Bored, not afraid, she drops the sword and brings both empty hands toward her temples in one smooth interrupt gesture. No headset, visor, or device is visible in the frozen world. Stay continuous until the match cut, keeping the same face size, hand height, head angle, lens distance, and clockwise drift. SFX: (cloth strain building to near impact, a man's voice calling Karla... KARLA, her tired off, then stretched wind fading toward silence). Hard winter sun catches the slowed snow around her face.
0:11-0:15: MATCH CUT. CU to MS. Seamless mid-motion transition as her rising hands cross the same screen position and the frozen close-up becomes the home interior with the same framing and clockwise drift. The motion continues uninterrupted, and now a VR headset is visibly strapped over her eyes for the first time. She grips both sides, pulls it fully off her face, and the camera opens into a medium shot as she drops it above her forehead and steps into a small living room in loose home clothes. The handheld orbit continues, revealing couch edges, scattered blankets, and cold window light as her posture falls into mild annoyance. She turns toward the voice, rolls her eyes upward, and says, What is it. 35mm natural lens, spherical. SFX: (headset strap stretch, plastic rub, quiet room tone, socked foot scrape, faint game audio, her breath settling, her dry voice saying What is it). Indoor daylight replaces the winter contrast.
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Cinematic night street-racing sequence. A focused driver inside a high-performance [VEHICLE] grips the steering wheel. City lights reflect across the windshield. Tension builds before sudden acceleration.
Camera:
0-3s: Tight close-up on the driver’s eyes in the rearview mirror, neon reflections moving across the face.
3-6s: Interior dashboard shot, hand shifts gear, engine vibration visible.
6-10s: Exterior low-angle tracking shot beside the vehicle as it launches forward, wet asphalt reflecting city lights.
10-13s: Rapid multi-angle sequence: wheel spin, tunnel lights streaking, side mirror reflection, overhead drone pass.
13-15s: The vehicle bursts out of the tunnel into open city streets, camera pulls back to show scale.
Style: Cinematic realism, wet pavement, neon city reflections, controlled motion blur, high contrast, shallow depth of field, fast but readable editing.
Sound suggestion if supported: deep engine rumble, tire hiss on wet road, distant city ambience.
Constraints: No warped wheels, no impossible car shape changes, no unreadable logos, no random text, no watermark, no cartoon look.
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[Style] Cinematic portrait documentary, 4K ultra-HD, photorealistic, shallow depth of field, natural sunlight
[Duration] 8 seconds
[Scene] Desert ridge at sunset, warm dust in the air, golden sunlight cutting through wind, quiet atmosphere
[00:00-00:03] Shot 1: Hair and Dust
Extreme close-up of a weathered traveler’s beard and long hair softly flowing in the wind. Individual hair strands are sharply visible. Dust particles float through sun rays behind the face.
[00:03-00:06] Shot 2: Eye Reveal
The camera slowly pushes in from the beard to the eye. Fine skin pores, eyelashes, dry dust on the cheek, and warm reflections in the iris become visible.
[00:06-00:08] Shot 3: Breath and Stillness
The traveler exhales gently. Dust shifts around the face. Hair continues moving in slow waves as the eye stays fixed on the horizon.
[Constraints] Natural human anatomy, no face warping, no beauty filter, no text, no watermark.
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