25 Seedance 2.5 Prompt Examples You Can Copy

These are 25 Seedance 2.5 prompt examples you can paste straight into the VIDEO AI ME editor and run. They are grouped by generation mode, since mode is decided by how many reference images you attach, then by what the shot is for. Each is a complete shot description with subject, setting, camera, lighting and audio, because Seedance 2.5 reasons about the whole clip at once and rewards continuous prose over a pile of keywords.

The video above is one 15 second prompt run through both models, 2.5 on top and 2.0 below: a woman walking on a mirror calm ocean at sunset, a cut to a founder at a laptop, then a brand card.

Durations are 4, 8, 12, 15, 20, 25 and 30 seconds, resolutions are 480p and 720p, and audio is generated with every clip at no extra cost. Test at 480p for 23 credits per second, render the keeper at 720p for 48.

Text to video: ad hooks

Attach nothing and you are in text to video. These five have to survive the first second of a feed, which is the bar TikTok for Business sets in its own creative guidance.

1. Kitchen monologue hook

Handheld medium close up, eye level. A woman in her thirties stands in a bright kitchen holding a steel travel mug, morning light through the window behind her. She looks into the lens: "I gave up on hot coffee somewhere around my second kid," then lifts the lid and steam curls up. Fridge hum, one distant car, no music. Soft shadows, photoreal.

Settings: 8 seconds, 720p, 9:16.

2. Sound first pattern interrupt

Locked off wide in a cluttered garage workshop, snapping into a fast dolly in. A man in a paint stained hoodie drops a heavy toolbox on the bench with a loud metallic clatter, sawdust drifting through late afternoon light. He turns to camera: "Fourth set of clamps. Still cannot get a straight edge." Hard overhead practicals, cool shadows, no music. Photoreal.

Settings: 8 seconds, 720p, 9:16. The clatter is the hook, so keep the first frame quiet.

3. Street question hook

Documentary handheld, medium shot, shallow focus, busy pavement behind. A cyclist in a rain jacket stands beside a locked bike on a wet street at dusk, streetlights reflecting in puddles. She wipes rain off her face: "Ask me how many lights I have lost this winter." Traffic, tyre hiss on wet tarmac, no music. Blue grade with warm sodium highlights, photoreal.

Settings: 8 seconds, 480p for testing, 9:16.

4. Absurd contrast hook

Static wide, symmetrical. A golden retriever sits at a fully set dining table with a linen napkin tucked into its collar, in front of an empty ceramic bowl. Warm candlelight, dark wood. A man off screen says flatly, "He has opinions about dinner now." The dog looks at camera and thumps its tail once. Distant cutlery, no music. Photoreal, shallow focus.

Settings: 8 seconds, 720p, 1:1 or 9:16.

5. Direct instruction hook

Slow push in from medium to medium close up, eye level. A man in his forties sits on an unmade hotel bed at night, laptop beside him, city lights blurred through the window. He rubs his eyes: "Stop taking calls in rooms that sound like this," then knocks twice on the bare wall and the knock rings hollow. Air conditioning hum, no music. Cool tungsten, moody contrast, photoreal.

Settings: 8 seconds, 720p, 9:16.

Text to video: cinematic and brand

For brand films, openers and the spectacle beat of a longer spot.

6. Coastal opener

Aerial drone rising slowly and banking left along a black rock coastline at first light, mist clinging to the water. A lighthouse stands at the end of a spit, its lamp turning once through the mist. Long lens compression, cool blue grade with a warm horizon line, gentle halation. Wind, distant surf, one low foghorn. No music, no dialogue. Photoreal.

Settings: 12 seconds, 720p, 21:9 or 16:9.

7. Desert road

Camera mounted low on the tarmac, moving forward down the centre line of an empty desert highway at midday, heat shimmer distorting the horizon. A single dust devil crosses the road far ahead. Hard overhead sun, bleached highlights, warm sand against hard blue sky, anamorphic flare. Wind buffeting and the low drone of heat, no music. Photoreal.

Settings: 8 seconds, 720p, 21:9.

8. Rain window portrait

Slow lateral dolly right, medium close up through rain streaked glass at night. A young man sits alone in a diner booth, neon outside painting red and green across the wet window. He exhales, fogs a patch of glass and wipes it clear. Rain on glass and muffled city hum only. Teal and magenta grade, deep blacks, soft halation. Photoreal.

Settings: 12 seconds, 720p, 16:9.

9. Kitchen craft

Handheld close up moving along a stainless steel pass in a professional kitchen mid service. A chef in a stained white jacket plates a dish with tweezers, steam rising into the overhead light, cooks in soft focus behind. Warm practicals against cool stainless, high contrast, fine grain. Pan noise, extractor fan, one clipped voice calling an order. No music. Photoreal.

Settings: 12 seconds, 720p, 16:9.

Image to video: bring a still to life

Attach one image and Seedance 2.5 animates it as the start frame. Output follows the input image, so the aspect picker does not apply. Describe the motion, not the thing already in the picture.

10. Packshot turntable

Hold the framing of the still and begin a slow clockwise turntable rotation of the object, about 90 degrees across the shot. A soft key sweeps over the surface as it turns, background dark and even. Faint room tone and one soft whoosh as rotation starts, no music. Keep the object identical to the first frame, no shape or label changes.

Settings: 4 or 8 seconds, 720p, aspect follows the image.

11. Pour

From this still, a slow pour begins: amber liquid falls into the glass from just above frame, filling it two thirds while the camera holds still and one ice cube shifts and settles. Warm low key light from the right, deep shadows, condensation forming toward the end. The pour, the clink of ice, faint room tone. No music.

Settings: 8 seconds, 720p, aspect follows the image.

12. Wearable in motion

Starting from this frame, the wrist turns slowly toward camera and the arm lifts a few centimetres, bringing the watch face into the key light before settling. Very shallow focus, background falling further out. Cool daylight with one warm rim from behind. Fabric movement and quiet room tone, no music. Keep the dial, hands and strap exactly as in the first frame.

Settings: 4 seconds, 720p, aspect follows the image.

13. Growth

Animate this still as a slow time lapse: the plant's leaves lift and unfurl slightly, one new shoot extends, and the light shifts from cool early morning to warm mid morning. Camera locked off, dust drifting through the light beam. Quiet room tone and one distant bird only, no music.

Settings: 12 seconds, 480p, aspect follows the image.

14. Steam and hands

From this frame, two hands enter from the bottom of the shot and wrap around the mug, lifting it toward camera as steam rises and thickens. Camera holds still, shallow focus on the rim. Warm window light from the left, soft shadow on the table. A ceramic scrape on wood, a quiet inhale, room tone. No music.

Settings: 8 seconds, 720p, aspect follows the image.

15. Desk hero

Begin on this still and push in slowly toward the keyboard while the backlighting cycles from cool white to deep amber and one hand enters from the right to press a single key. Room stays dark, screen glow off frame left. The key press and a low fan hum, nothing else. Keep the keycap legends and layout unchanged from the first frame.

Settings: 8 seconds, 720p, aspect follows the image.

16. Campsite dusk

Animate this frame forward into evening: the sky deepens, the tent's interior light comes up warm through the fabric, and thin smoke drifts across from a fire outside frame left. Camera drifts back and up very slightly. Crickets, a crackling fire, wind in trees. No music, no voice.

Settings: 12 seconds, 720p, aspect follows the image.

Reference to video: hold a person and a product together

Attach two to four images and you are in reference to video, addressing them as @Image1 through @Image4. Bind each attribute to a specific image or the model blends them.

17. Creator plus product

Keep the woman from @Image1 exactly: same face, same hair, same grey hoodie. Keep the bottle from @Image2 exactly: same label layout, same cap colour. Handheld medium close up in a sunlit living room, she sits cross legged on a sofa, turns the bottle once to the lens and says, "This is the third one I have bought, which tells you everything." Soft window light camera left, quiet room, no music. Photoreal.

Settings: 8 seconds, 720p, 9:16.

18. Founder plus interface

Keep the man from @Image1: same face, same beard, same navy shirt. Use the screen layout from @Image2 as the interface on his laptop. Medium shot at a standing desk in a small office at night, he glances at the screen, turns to camera and says, "We rebuilt the whole thing in a weekend." Slow handheld drift, warm desk lamp against cool window light, keyboard and street noise, no music. Photoreal.

Settings: 12 seconds, 720p, 16:9.

19. Barista plus packaging

Keep the barista from @Image1, same face and apron. Keep the coffee bag from @Image2, same colour and label. Close up over the counter, he sets the bag beside a portafilter, scoops beans and taps the bag twice with a finger, saying nothing. Warm morning light through a shopfront window. Grinder, milk steamer, low cafe chatter, no music. Photoreal, shallow focus.

Settings: 8 seconds, 720p, 4:3 or 1:1.

20. Athlete plus gear

Keep the runner from @Image1, same face, same braid, same black kit. Keep the bottle from @Image2, same shape and lid. Low angle handheld on an outdoor track at sunrise, she drops to one knee, drinks, screws the lid back on and looks off camera breathing hard: "Second lap is where I usually quit." Long shadows, warm backlight, flare across the frame. Breathing, wind, distant traffic, no music. Photoreal.

Settings: 8 seconds, 720p, 9:16.

21. Pet plus product, three references

Keep the dog from @Image1, same breed and markings. Keep the toy from @Image2, same colour. Use the living room from @Image3 as the setting, matching its furniture and light. Wide static shot, the dog picks up the toy, carries it across the rug and drops it at the feet of someone just out of frame. Late afternoon light through blinds. Claws on wood, a squeak, a short laugh off camera. No music.

Settings: 8 seconds, 720p, 16:9.

Long form Seedance 2.5 prompt examples: 20 to 30 seconds

Anything past about 15 seconds needs a setup, a development, a turn and a resolution, with the transitions named, or it wanders. Thirty seconds is generated in one pass rather than stitched, so write it as one continuous piece. More in our guide to 30 second Seedance 2.5 videos.

22. A day in one shot

One continuous piece in four movements inside a small bakery. It opens in blue pre dawn dark, a woman unlocking the door and switching the lights on one bank at a time. On the light coming up, move to her hands shaping dough on a floured bench. Then a slow pull back as the first customers arrive and the room fills with daylight. It ends late and wide, chairs up, one light on. Handheld, warm practicals. Sound moves with it: silence, an oven fan, overlapping voices, then quiet. No music, no dialogue.

Settings: 25 seconds, 720p, 16:9. At 48 credits per second that is 1,200 credits.

23. Road trip arc

A 20 second piece starting tight on a hand turning a key in an old car ignition in a dark garage, the engine catching on the second try. It widens as the car pulls into grey morning streets, then a long lens shot of the same car small against open country under heavy cloud. The weather breaks midway, sunlight sweeping the hills. It resolves on the car parked at a headland, door open, sea beyond. Sound follows: ignition, road noise, rain on the roof, then wind and surf. No music, cool to warm grade.

Settings: 20 seconds, 720p, 21:9.

24. Empty room to home

A 20 second continuous shot in one apartment, beginning on bare walls and stacked boxes in afternoon light, camera slowly orbiting the room. As it orbits the room fills: a rug, a sofa, a lamp switched on, pictures going up, until the last quarter of the orbit shows the same corner lived in and warm at night. Match the room geometry exactly so it reads as one place. Sound moves from echo and tearing tape to muffled music next door. No dialogue, natural light to warm tungsten.

Settings: 20 seconds, 480p for the test pass at 460 credits, then 720p.

25. Thirty second story arc

A 30 second piece in four movements about a founder shipping something. Setup, 0 to 8 seconds: a woman alone in a dim office at night, three monitors, takeaway containers, slow push in from a wide, only machine hum and typing. Development, 8 to 16 seconds: handheld coverage of the work, hands on a keyboard, a whiteboard covered in arrows, the window behind her turning from black to grey. The turn, 16 to 23 seconds: she stops, sits back, and the room goes silent as she clicks once. Hold on her face for two full seconds. Resolution, 23 to 30 seconds: she walks to the window as dawn light crosses the empty desks behind her, and says quietly, "Okay." Cool fluorescents giving way to warm daylight, ambient sound only, no music.

Settings: 30 seconds, 720p, 16:9. That is 1,440 credits, which is why 30 second 720p work starts on the Pro plan.

How to adapt these Seedance 2.5 prompt examples

Change one variable at a time, keeping the camera and lighting language identical, so you can tell which change moved the result. If a take is close but the performance is flat, edit the dialogue rather than the camera direction.

Two habits matter more than any single phrasing: write the audio, since it is generated whether you specify it or not, and write the shot as one thing that happens rather than a list of adjectives. The full Seedance 2.5 prompt guide covers that structure, the UGC prompt templates turn these into fill in the blank forms, and the product ad prompts go deeper on packshots. The Seedance 2.0 prompt guide explains what carries over from the previous model, and ByteDance's Seed research site documents what 2.5 is built to do.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can I copy these Seedance 2.5 prompt examples exactly?

Yes. Paste one into the prompt box in the VIDEO AI ME editor, pick the duration and resolution from the settings note, and generate. The image to video and reference to video examples need your own images attached first, since the number of images decides the mode.

Why do the prompts specify sound?

Because Seedance 2.5 generates audio with every clip, including sound effects, ambient sound and lip synced speech, and it is included in the price. If you do not write the audio you still get audio, just not the audio you wanted.

How long should a Seedance 2.5 prompt be?

Long enough to describe subject, setting, camera, lighting and sound in continuous prose, usually 60 to 120 words for a short shot. Longer clips need more because they need a story arc. Piling on disconnected keywords past that point tends to make results worse.

What do these prompts cost to run?

Seedance 2.5 costs 23 credits per second at 480p and 48 credits per second at 720p, where one credit is one cent of generation cost. An 8 second test at 480p is 184 credits and the same shot finished at 720p is 384 credits.

How do I address reference images in a prompt?

Attach two to four images and refer to them as @Image1, @Image2, @Image3 and @Image4. Bind each one to a specific attribute, for example "keep the woman from @Image1, same face and hair" and "the bottle from @Image2, same label". Vague references get blended together.

Which examples work for TikTok and Reels?

Anything set to 9:16 at 8 seconds, which is most of the ad hook group. Put the hook line in the first second, keep the subject centred so captions do not cover the face, and test variants at 480p before committing a 720p render.