Motion study
“A skater practices flat-ground tricks in an empty parking garage at dusk, wheels echoing, the camera circling slowly at knee height.”
Seedance 2.0 Mini prompts that actually ran
Every prompt below was generated with Seedance 2.0 Mini in Made, and the output next to it is what came back — not a curated stock image. Copy a prompt as a starting point, then use the guide underneath to adapt it.
Original results
Seedance 2.0 Mini prompts and their outputs
These examples use media produced for Made. Prompts are included when the production record allows them.
Image-to-video
“Bring the scene to life: fluorescent lights flicker softly, a loose flyer skitters across the concrete, the camera drifts forward slowly.”
Creative scene
“Paper boats drift down a rain-fed gutter stream past reflected shop lights, rain pattering, a low tracking shot following the lead boat.”
Start-frame control
“Use this image as the opening composition.”
Scene brief
“Set the scene as a still before describing its motion.”
Composition brief
“Plan the shot as a still, then hand the motion to the model.”
How to write a Seedance 2.0 Mini prompt
- 1
Choose text or image input
Write a prompt on its own, or add a start image — and optionally an end frame — to anchor the clip.
- 2
Draft loose, iterate fast
Use Mini to explore motion and framing directions cheaply before a flagship pass.
- 3
Set format and length
Pick an aspect ratio and a duration between 4 and 15 seconds; output renders at 720p.
- 4
Upgrade the winner
Re-run the winning brief on Seedance 2.5 or a premium model for the final master.
What Seedance 2.0 Mini responds well to
Prompt for these jobs
- Cheap drafts before a Seedance 2.5 or flagship pass
- High-volume social clip production
- Animating stills with start and end frames
- Six aspect ratios from 21:9 to 9:16
Check the output for
- Fidelity sits below Seedance 2.0 and 2.5 — treat it as the drafting tier of the family.
- Made pins output to 720p, the tier it bills at provider cost.
Iteration is cheap here: Seedance 2.0 Mini costs $0.155 / second at the provider's wholesale rate, so rewriting a prompt and rerunning it is a normal part of the workflow, not a budget decision. See the full Seedance 2.0 Mini pricing breakdown.
It is the fast, low-cost tier of ByteDance’s Seedance 2.0 video model — same 4-to-15-second range, a fraction of the flagship per-second rate.
More tested prompts across all models live in the prompt library, and the full Seedance 2.0 Mini capability rundown is on the model page.