Welcome to the complete Seedance guide. In 30 minutes, you'll learn the core skills for AI director-style video creation with Seedance 2.0 — a professional AI video model that accepts text, images, audio, and video, and generates cinematic multi-shot videos with native audio in about 60 seconds.

Chapter 1: Understanding Seedance

Seedance is built around director-style creation — you're not just typing text and waiting for output. By uploading reference assets and detailed natural-language instructions, you control composition, camera movement, lighting, and sound like a director.

Unlike general-purpose AI such as ChatGPT, Seedance focuses on professional audio-video generation. Its unified multimodal architecture binds visual and audio streams at the model level for precise lip-sync and sound alignment — you get a complete audiovisual work, not just visuals.

Chapter 2: Getting Started

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You need a Seedance account to create. Visit the Seedance app to register and start creating.

Input Limits

Images: up to 9 — reference style, character, or scene in Seedance
Videos: up to 3 — reference motion or camera work in Seedance
Audio: up to 3 — reference sound effects or rhythm in Seedance
Text: natural-language prompts describing visuals and sound for Seedance

Chapter 3: Director-Level Prompts

Strong prompts are the heart of Seedance. Use a five-part structure: scene + action + camera + lighting + sound:

Scene: environment, time, mood (e.g. "sunset beach, golden light")
Action: movement of people or objects (e.g. "a dancer spins slowly")
Camera: shot movement (e.g. "dolly from wide shot to close-up")
Lighting: light effects (e.g. "backlit silhouette, soft bokeh")
Sound: audio atmosphere (e.g. "waves and gentle piano")

Chapter 4: Multimodal References

Seedance 2.0 accepts up to 9 images, 3 videos, and 3 audio clips at once. Combining references wisely greatly improves output quality:

Use images to define character look and scene style
Use videos to reference specific motion or camera moves
Use audio to set music or ambient rhythm
Use text prompts to add detail and tie references together

Chapter 5: Generate & Refine

After you generate, Seedance usually delivers multi-shot video with native audio in about 60 seconds. If results aren't ideal, you can:

Adjust prompts — add or remove detail
Swap or change reference assets
Use video extension to continue the story
Edit specific segments for fine-tuning

Chapter 6: Advanced Tips

Character Consistency

For series work, reuse the same character reference image and keep character descriptions consistent in prompts. Seedance maintains identity, clothing, and appearance across frames.

Physical Realism

Seedance follows real-world physics. For complex interactions (pairs skating, group dance), use accurate motion terms — the model produces natural, coherent movement.

API Integration

Enterprise users can integrate Seedance via the Volcano Engine API. Seedance 2.0 Mini costs as low as ¥0.5/sec — ideal for batch content production.

Summary

Mastering Seedance means understanding multimodal references, writing director-level prompts, and using character consistency plus video extension. Roll camera on your first AI blockbuster in Seedance today.