Seedance 2.5
AI Video Generator

Turn a photo, references or an idea into a 30-second video with synced sound in up to 1080p, using the Seedance 2.5 AI video generator.

The Seedance 2.5 AI video generator produces up to 30 seconds of video with synced sound in a single pass, keeping characters, lighting and camera work consistent across every shot.

A small blue elephant hops across a landscape made of pastries and fruit.

Consistent Characters Across Scenes Seedance 2.5 keeps a character's shape, color and expression the same as the scene changes around it.

A young witch with a red bow flies her broom past an airplane window.

Multi-Scene Storytelling Keeps one character and outfit through every scene of a multi-location story.

A lone figure walks a ruined highway beneath a hovering alien ship.

Cinematic Lighting and Scale Fire, haze and beams of light fall the way they would on a real set, and massive structures keep their scale as the camera moves.

A lone traveler stands in silhouette beside a stone marker at dusk.

Directed Camera Language Ask for wide shots, silhouettes and a closing close-up, and Seedance 2.5 frames each one as written while holding one mood and color grade across the whole sequence.

Key Features of Seedance 2.5

Make 30-second videos with native audio and consistent characters in the Seedance 2.5 AI video generator. Start from a prompt, an image or up to 50 references.

30-Second Videos in One Take

Generate up to 30 seconds in a single pass, enough to follow a singer from the dressing room to the stage. The camera stays steady from start to finish.
Generate a 30-second video
A singer in a green sequined dress glances back from a backstage makeup mirror.

Native Audio and Lip Sync

Voice, lip movement, ambience and music are generated with the picture. Put dialogue in quotes, name the speaker, and it syncs in more than ten languages.
Create a video with dialogue
A woman in a brown coat smiles at a uniformed station worker on a subway platform.

Up to 50 References

Combine up to 30 images, 10 videos and 10 audio clips in one generation. Faces, outfits, movement and voices stay true to your references as the camera moves.
Create from references
An animated character in orange gear crouches on a pipe between stacked shipping containers, with reference images lined up below.

Lifelike Faces and Light

Skin, eyes and hair render with natural detail, and light falls the way it does on a real set. Close-ups hold up for short dramas and beauty ads.
Create a cinematic scene
A tearful astronaut in a worn white suit raises a gloved hand in a bright corridor.

Seedance 2.5 Use Cases

Bring the Seedance 2.5 AI video generator into the videos you already make, from ads to short dramas. Longer takes and built-in sound mean less editing after generation.

Product Ads and Ecommerce Videos

Product Ads and Ecommerce Videos

Add your product photos as references, describe a slow pass over the materials and a moment of use, and Seedance 2.5 delivers a 15 or 30-second spot with music, ready for a product page or a paid campaign.

UGC and Social Media Videos

UGC and Social Media Videos

Describe a creator, the product in hand and what they say, and you get a vertical clip with natural speech and matching lip movement for TikTok, Reels and Shorts, without booking talent.

Fashion and Travel Vlogs

Fashion and Travel Vlogs

Start from a portrait and an outfit reference, then plan a day across several locations. The same face and styling carry through every scene, so a lookbook or a travel story stays visually consistent.

Anime and Animated Stories

Anime and Animated Stories

Upload your character art and describe the action beat by beat. Seedance 2.5 keeps the line work and color of your style while it adds motion, effects and a score, turning a single illustration into a finished animated sequence.

Game Trailers and Cinematics

Game Trailers and Cinematics

Upload a character sheet and environment art, then direct an entrance, a fight or a reveal. You get a cinematic that matches your designs, ready for a pitch, a store page or a team review before full production.

Short Dramas and Film Scenes

Short Dramas and Film Scenes

Write a scene with a setup, a turn and a reaction, and put each character's lines in quotes. A 30-second clip fits a full scene, with lip-synced dialogue and detailed close-ups.

Seedance 2.5 Creative Controls

The Seedance 2.5 AI video generator gives you control over each part of a video.

Consistent Characters Across Cuts

Change shots within one video and the same faces, outfits and locations carry through. Give each recurring character a reference image and they stay recognizable from the wide shot to the close-up.

Timed Prompts for Every Beat

Split your prompt by seconds, such as 0-8s for the entrance and 8-20s for the chase. Seedance 2.5 follows the timeline.

Style References

Upload a style frame, a color palette or a mood board image and say what it is for. Seedance 2.5 applies that look to the whole video while your subject stays the same.

Motion and Camera References

Upload a dance, a fight or a camera move you like and point to it in your prompt. Seedance 2.5 borrows the movement and applies it to your own characters and setting.

Audio References for Voice and Rhythm

Add a voice sample to keep a character sounding the same from scene to scene, or a music track to set the pace. Cuts and movement line up with the beat you provide.

Flexible Length, Resolution and Ratio

Choose any length from 4 to 30 seconds and 480p, 720p or 1080p output. Generate vertical for TikTok and Reels, square for feeds or 21:9 for a cinematic trailer.

Made with Seedance 2.5

The Seedance 2.5 AI video generator follows detailed direction, including timed shot changes, camera moves and sound cues.

A man checks his phone on a subway car while a boy chases a soccer ball.

Subway story in one take

0-10s: a man in a light-blue shirt checks his phone on a New York subway car as a small boy clutches a soccer ball behind him. 10-20s: the ball rolls loose down the aisle. 20-30s: the man chases the boy through the empty train.

A young woman goes about her summer morning in a hillside Seoul neighborhood.

Slice-of-life follow shot

Handheld wide-angle follow shot of a young woman on a summer morning in a hillside Seoul neighborhood: she stretches on her doorstep, pets a street cat, sips coffee on a rooftop and hangs laundry. Natural sound, one take.

A man in glasses bites into a crispy chicken burger.

Fast-food commercial

Food commercial in macro close-ups: a crispy chicken burger on a sesame bun, steam rising. A man in glasses and a red jacket takes a big bite and closes his eyes. Cut to a chilled cola bottle beaded with condensation. Crunchy sound effects.

A swordsman in white and a white-haired fighter clash beneath a highway overpass.

2.5D anime duel

2.5D anime at golden hour beneath a highway overpass: a swordsman in white robes charges along the rails, a white-haired fighter in a black hoodie flips over a parked car to meet him, and they trade kicks against the katana. Fast cuts, impact sounds.

A flamenco dancer in a red dress performs inside a ring of fire.

Flamenco in a ring of fire

A flamenco dancer in a red dress performs on a black stage ringed with fire. Close-up through the flames, sweeping arm poses and heel taps, then a top-down shot of her skirt spinning inside a circle of flame. Guitar and palmas.

Peking opera performers in full costume duel on a spotlit stage.

Peking opera battle scene

A Peking opera stage under a single spotlight: a painted-face general with back flags spins his spear, a female lead in a phoenix crown flicks her water sleeves, and a warrior in blue joins the duel. Drums and cymbals.

How to generate

Generate using the most advanced video model

  1. Add an image

    Step 01

    Add an image

    Upload a photo to animate, or add image, video and audio references.

  2. Describe the scene

    Step 02

    Describe the scene

    Write the action, camera movement and sound. Put dialogue in quotes.

  3. Generate and download

    Step 03

    Generate and download

    Set the length, resolution and aspect ratio, then generate and download.

Lanterns glow over a crowded night market in an ancient Chinese city.

Try the Seedance 2.5 AI Video Generator

Start with a photo, a few references or a single idea. Generate a 30-second video with sound, run as many takes as you need and download the one you want in up to 1080p.

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Seedance 2.5 AI Video Generator FAQs

Quick answers about Seedance 2.5, plus the plans, credits and billing behind it on ImgVid.

Seedance 2.5 is ByteDance's newest video model, released on July 31, 2026. It generates up to 30 seconds of video with native audio in a single pass and can follow up to 50 references at once. On ImgVid we've set it up for text to video, image to video, reference to video and first and last frame video, all in the same workspace.

Three things stand out. Videos run twice as long, up to 30 seconds instead of 15. The reference limit grows from 9 images, 3 videos and 3 audio files to 30, 10 and 10. And faces, lighting and motion look more natural, with steadier camera work and smoother shot changes over a long take. For quick 5-second drafts we'd still reach for Seedance 2.0 Fast, which costs fewer credits.

Any length from 4 to 30 seconds, in 480p, 720p or 1080p. Aspect ratios cover 16:9, 9:16, 1:1, 4:3, 3:4 and 21:9, plus Auto, which lets the model pick the best fit. Our tip: draft at 480p or 720p and save 1080p for the take you plan to publish.

Yes. Sound is generated together with the picture, so dialogue, ambience, effects and music line up with what happens on screen. Put spoken lines in quotes and name the speaker, and the lips move with the words. Dialogue works in more than ten languages, including English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Spanish. Prefer a silent clip? Just switch the audio off.

Up to 50 per video: 30 images, 10 video clips and 10 audio files, with each video or audio file up to 60 seconds long. Say in your prompt what each one is for, for example which image is the main character, which clip sets the dance moves and which track sets the rhythm. Only upload material you have the rights to use.

Seedance 2.5 is included in the Plus and Premium plans, which unlock every Seedance model along with every other model on ImgVid. Free and Starter include Seedance 2.0 Fast and Seedance 2.0 Mini, which are a good way to test ideas before you upgrade.

It depends on length and resolution. Per second, Seedance 2.5 uses about 8 credits at 480p, 17 at 720p and 30 at 1080p, so a 5-second 720p clip costs 84 credits and a 30-second 1080p video costs 906. The exact number appears in the generator before you confirm, and if a generation fails the credits go straight back to your balance.

Not on the Free plan itself, since Seedance 2.5 comes with Plus and Premium. What you can do for free is sign up with no credit card, get a monthly batch of credits and try Seedance 2.0 Mini or image models such as GPT Image 2 and Seedream 5 Lite to see how the workspace feels. Free exports carry a watermark. Any paid plan removes it, and everything you generate on a paid plan is yours to use commercially.

Plus comes with 2,000 credits a month, enough for about 23 five-second 720p clips or 6 ten-second 1080p videos with Seedance 2.5. Premium comes with 6,000, three times as much. Subscription credits stay valid for two months, so an unused balance carries into the next cycle. If you run short mid-month, a credit pack tops you up instantly and never expires.

Yes to both. Cancel from the Membership tab in your account settings and you keep every benefit until the end of the period you've paid for, after which the account returns to the Free plan. Refunds are available on monthly and annual orders, based on how much of the plan you've used, and our team handles requests within 24 hours.