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Seedance 2.5
AI Video Generator

Bring a photo, a few references or a written scene, and the Seedance 2.5 AI video generator returns a 30-second clip with synced sound in 1080p, long enough to carry a hook and a verse.

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One generation from the Seedance 2.5 AI video generator runs as long as 30 seconds with sound, and the same faces, light and camera style hold from the first shot to the last, so a music video sequence cuts together without visual jumps.

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

Mascots That Stay On Model Its shape, color and face stay fixed while the pastry world shifts around it, which keeps a mascot or cartoon artist recognizable from clip to clip.

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

One Character, Many Locations The witch keeps her red bow and outfit as the story moves between locations, the kind of continuity a narrative music video needs.

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

Large-Scale Scenes with Real Light Fire, haze and light beams behave like practical effects, and the ship keeps its size as the camera travels, giving an album trailer or a single teaser real scale.

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

Shot Lists Followed in Order Write a wide shot, a silhouette and a final close-up into the prompt, and Seedance 2.5 frames them in that order under one grade, a setup that works for a slow intro before the beat drops.

Key Features of Seedance 2.5

The Seedance 2.5 AI video generator renders 30 seconds of picture and sound together and keeps your artist the same across every shot. You can start from a written scene, one photo or a stack of 50 references.

30 Seconds in a Single Take

A single pass covers 30 seconds, enough to walk a performer from the makeup mirror out to the stage without a cut. The camera holds steady the whole way, ready for a backstage opener or a tour teaser.
Try a 30-second take
A singer in a green sequined dress glances back from a backstage makeup mirror.

Synced Voice and Lip Movement

Speech, mouth movement, room tone and music come out with the picture. Quote the line, say who delivers it, and the lips match in more than ten languages, which lets a skit or a spoken intro open your video.
Write a scene with dialogue
A woman in a brown coat smiles at a uniformed station worker on a subway platform.

50 References per Video

Load 30 images, 10 videos and 10 audio clips into one generation. Your artist's face, fit, choreography and voice follow those files even as the camera moves around them.
Start from references
An animated character in orange gear crouches on a pipe between stacked shipping containers, with reference images lined up below.

Natural Faces Under Real Light

Skin texture, wet eyes and stray hairs read naturally, and light lands as it would from real fixtures. Tight close-ups survive a full-screen phone view, the framing emotional verses and ballads lean on.
Generate a close-up scene
A tearful astronaut in a worn white suit raises a gloved hand in a bright corridor.

Seedance 2.5 Use Cases

The Seedance 2.5 AI video generator fits the release cycle of an independent artist, from teaser clips to full music video scenes. Clips arrive with sound and run long enough to hold a section of a song, so there's less to rebuild in the edit.

Merch Drops and Brand Spots

Merch Drops and Brand Spots

Upload photos of your merch or a brand partner's product, describe a slow move across the details and a moment of wear, and Seedance 2.5 returns a 15 or 30-second spot with music for a store page or a launch post.

Rap Clips for Short-Form Feeds

Rap Clips for Short-Form Feeds

Describe the artist, where they stand and the line they say to camera, and you get a vertical clip with matching lip movement for TikTok, Reels and Shorts, without organizing a shoot.

Artist Vlogs and Tour Diaries

Artist Vlogs and Tour Diaries

Begin with a portrait and an outfit reference, then plan a day across several locations. The face and styling hold in every scene, so a tour diary or a lifestyle reel looks like one shoot.

Anime Rappers and Animated MVs

Anime Rappers and Animated MVs

Upload your character art and write the action one beat at a time. Seedance 2.5 keeps your line work and colors while adding motion, effects and a score, turning one illustration into an animated music video scene.

Cinematic Intros and Album Trailers

Cinematic Intros and Album Trailers

Upload a character sheet and set art, then call for an entrance, a showdown or a reveal. The result matches your designs, ready as a cinematic intro for a single or a concept pitch to your team.

Story Scenes for Music Videos

Story Scenes for Music Videos

Write a short scene with a setup, a twist and a reaction, with each character's lines in quotes. Thirty seconds holds the whole scene, with lip-synced dialogue and sharp close-ups, ready to open or split a story-driven music video.

Seedance 2.5 Direction Controls

With the Seedance 2.5 AI video generator you direct cast, timing, look, movement, sound and format separately, the way a music video director plans a shoot.

Same Cast in Every Shot

Cut between angles in one video and every face, outfit and location stays put. Attach one reference image per recurring artist or dancer, and they remain the same person from the wide shot to the close-up.

Prompts Timed to the Song

Break the prompt into seconds, for example 0-8s for the hook and 8-20s for the first verse. Seedance 2.5 plays each section at the time you gave it.

Looks Pulled from Your References

Add a style frame, a palette or a mood board and state its job in the prompt. Seedance 2.5 carries that look through the clip while your artist stays unchanged, handy for matching your cover art.

Choreography and Camera References

Upload a dance routine, a fight or a camera move and point to it in the prompt. Seedance 2.5 lifts the movement and puts it on your own characters in your own setting.

Beat and Voice References

Include a voice sample so a character sounds the same in every scene, or drop in your beat to set the tempo. Cuts and movement follow the rhythm of the track you supply.

Length, Resolution and Ratio on Your Terms

Set any length from 4 to 30 seconds and render in 480p, 720p or 1080p. Go vertical for TikTok and Reels, square for feeds or 21:9 for a widescreen music video.

Made with Seedance 2.5

The Seedance 2.5 AI video generator reads a prompt like a shot list, taking second-by-second timing, camera direction and sound cues, the same detail a music video treatment carries.

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

Three beats on the subway

0-10s: on a New York subway car, a man in a light-blue shirt checks his phone while a small boy holds a soccer ball behind him. 10-20s: the ball slips loose and rolls down the aisle. 20-30s: the man runs after the boy through the empty train.

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

Morning routine in Seoul

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

A man in glasses bites into a crispy chicken burger.

Burger spot with crunch

Macro food commercial: steam rises from a crispy chicken burger on a sesame bun. A man in glasses and a red jacket takes a big bite and shuts his eyes. Cut to a cold cola bottle covered in condensation. Crunch sound effects.

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

Overpass anime fight

2.5D anime under a highway overpass at golden hour: a swordsman in white robes runs along the rails, a white-haired fighter in a black hoodie vaults a parked car to meet him, and kicks clash with the katana. Quick cuts, impact sounds.

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

Dance performance in fire

On a black stage circled by fire, a flamenco dancer in a red dress performs. Close-up through the flames, wide arm poses and heel strikes, then an overhead shot of her skirt turning inside the ring of flame. Guitar and palmas.

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

Stage battle with percussion

Peking opera stage lit by one spotlight: a painted-face general with back flags twirls his spear, a female lead in a phoenix crown snaps her water sleeves, and a warrior in blue enters the fight. Drums and cymbals.

How to make a clip

From one photo to a 30-second clip with sound

  1. Upload your references

    Step 01

    Upload your references

    Add the photo you want to animate, or attach image, video and audio references such as your beat.

  2. Write the scene

    Step 02

    Write the scene

    Write the performance, the camera move and the sound. Quote any spoken lines.

  3. Render and download

    Step 03

    Render and download

    Choose length, resolution and aspect ratio, then generate and save the take.

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

Try the Seedance 2.5 AI Video Generator

Start from a photo, a handful of references or one line of an idea. Render 30-second clips with sound as many times as the song needs and download the keeper in 1080p.

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Seedance 2.5 AI Video Generator FAQs

Straight answers about Seedance 2.5 for rap and music video work, along with how plans, credits and billing work on RapVid.

It's ByteDance's newest video model, released on July 31, 2026. One pass produces as much as 30 seconds of video with native audio, guided by as many as 50 references. On RapVid we've wired it for text to video, image to video, reference to video and first and last frame video, all inside one workspace.

Three changes matter most. Clip length doubles from 15 to 30 seconds. References grow from 9 images, 3 videos and 3 audio files to 30, 10 and 10. And faces, light and motion look more natural, with a steadier camera and cleaner shot changes across a long take. When we only need a quick 5-second draft, we still use Seedance 2.0 Fast, since it spends fewer credits.

Anywhere from 4 to 30 seconds, rendered in 480p, 720p or 1080p. You can pick 16:9, 9:16, 1:1, 4:3, 3:4 or 21:9, or leave it on Auto and let the model choose. Our habit is to rough out ideas at 480p or 720p and render only the final take in 1080p.

Yes. Picture and sound are generated together, so speech, ambience, effects and music fall on the matching moments on screen. Quote each spoken line and name who says it, and the mouth follows the words. More than ten languages work, English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Spanish among them. Laying your own track over it later? Turn the audio off and you get a clean silent clip.

50 per video: 30 images, 10 video clips and 10 audio files, and any single video or audio file can run 60 seconds. Tell the prompt what each file does, such as which image is the artist, which clip holds the choreography and which track sets the tempo. Only upload beats, footage and images you have the rights to use.

Plus or Premium. Each includes Seedance 2.5, every other Seedance model and the rest of the models on RapVid. Free and Starter come with Seedance 2.0 Fast and Seedance 2.0 Mini, which work well for testing a concept before you upgrade.

Yes, both. Cancel in the Membership tab of your account settings and every benefit stays active until the paid period ends, then the account moves back to the Free plan. Monthly and annual orders can be refunded according to how much of the plan you've used, and our team answers requests within 24 hours.