Quickstart

This walks through one text-to-video generation, start to finish.

Open seedance25.video and sign in from the header — email and password, or your Google account. Generating requires an account because every generation is charged against your credit balance and saved to your library.

Once you are signed in, your credit balance appears in the header. If it is empty, pick a plan or a credit pack on the pricing page first.

2. Describe the shot

The prompt box is the first thing on the home page. Write what should be on screen — the subject, what it does, how the camera sees it:

A lone hiker crests a snowy ridge at sunrise, backpack swaying.
Handheld camera follows from behind, low golden light, cold blue shadows,
breath visible in the air.

Prompts can run to 5,000 characters. Longer and more specific generally beats short and vague — Writing prompts covers why.

Not sure what to write? The Inspiration gallery shows real generations with the prompts that produced them; you can open one and edit its prompt instead of starting from a blank box.

3. Set model, length, and quality

Below the prompt box:

Model — Seedance 2.5 by default. Leave it there for your first run.
Length — 4 to 30 seconds. Start at 5 seconds; a shot that fails at 5s will fail at 30s for ten times the credits.
Resolution — 480p, 720p, or 1080p. Draft at 480p, finish at 1080p.
Aspect ratio — 16:9 by default, with 21:9, 4:3, 1:1, 3:4, and 9:16 available.
Audio — on by default. Turn it off if you plan to score the clip yourself.

The credit cost updates as you change these, and the number shown before you submit is the number that gets charged.

4. Generate

Press generate. The task moves into the results panel and keeps running even if you navigate away or close the tab — rendering happens on the server, not in your browser. A 5-second clip typically comes back in a couple of minutes; longer clips and higher resolutions take proportionally longer.

5. Collect the result

Finished clips appear in the results panel and in My Assets, where they stay available for download. From a finished clip you can:

Download the MP4.
Regenerate with the same settings for a different take — every run is a fresh sample, so a prompt that nearly worked often works on the second try.
Reuse it as input — feed the last frame into a new generation to continue the shot.

What next

Text to video — every control, in detail.
Image to video — start from your own frame.
Writing prompts — the part that most affects your results.