Seedance 2.0 Prompt Guide: How to Write Prompts for AI Video

A good AI video prompt reads like a tiny shooting script. The best Seedance 2.0 prompts in our prompt library all share the same structure, and you can reuse it for your own ideas.

1. Start with style and duration

Open with one line that fixes the look: genre, resolution, rendering style and length. For example: [Style] Hollywood fantasy blockbuster, 8K, photorealistic. [Duration] 15 seconds. The model uses this to keep every shot consistent.

2. Describe the scene once

Give the location, lighting, weather and overall colour tone in a sentence or two. Avoid repeating it in every shot.

3. Break the clip into timed shots

Seedance prompts work best when each shot has a time range, a camera position, an action and an effect:

• Time range — [00:00-00:05] Shot 1
• Camera — low-angle tracking shot, extreme close-up, overhead crane
• Action — what the subject does, in one verb-led sentence
• Effect — sound, particles, transitions or physical details

4. Use references when you can

If you have a reference image or clip, add it and point to it with an @ mention, such as “@Image1 as the first frame” or “@Video1 for the camera motion”. References fix the parts words describe poorly.

Common mistakes

• Cramming five unrelated ideas into 5 seconds.
• Using abstract adjectives (“epic”, “beautiful”) instead of visible details.
• Forgetting to name the camera move, so the model chooses a static shot.

Try it

Open any video prompt in the library, press Generate with this prompt, and change only the subject first. Small edits teach you more than rewriting from scratch.