SEEDANCE 2.0 TEXT TO VIDEO API

Seedance 2.0 Text to Video is ByteDance's most advanced text-to-video model, designed to transform written descriptions into cinematic video content complete with native audio, multi-shot editing, real-world physics, and director-level camera control. Whether you're a filmmaker previewing a scene, an animator exploring new visual ideas, or a content creator producing social media clips, Seedance 2.0 brings your words to life with remarkable fidelity and creative depth.

At its core, Seedance 2.0 takes a text prompt — anything from a simple scene description to a complex, multi-shot narrative — and generates a polished video output. The model is particularly adept at understanding cinematic language: you can describe cut scenes, camera movements, and dramatic beats, and the model will interpret and render them as coherent visual storytelling. This makes it an exceptionally powerful tool for anyone who thinks in terms of shots, sequences, and visual narratives.

One of Seedance 2.0's standout features is its native audio generation. By default, the model produces synchronized audio alongside your video, including sound effects, ambient environmental sounds, and even lip-synced speech. This means you don't need to layer in audio separately — the model creates a complete audiovisual experience from a single text prompt. If you prefer to work with your own audio or plan to add a custom soundtrack, you can easily toggle audio generation off.

The model offers flexible video duration, supporting clips from 4 to 15 seconds in length. You can specify exactly how long you want your video to be, or you can set it to automatic and let the model decide the ideal duration based on the content of your prompt. This is particularly useful when you're not sure how long a scene needs to breathe — the model will read the narrative cues in your text and choose a length that fits naturally.

Seedance 2.0 supports a wide range of aspect ratios to suit virtually any creative context. You can generate landscape videos in 16:9 for traditional cinematic or YouTube content, portrait videos in 9:16 for TikTok, Instagram Reels, and mobile-first formats, square 1:1 videos for social feeds, and even ultrawide 21:9 for a truly cinematic, letterboxed look. Additional ratios of 4:3 and 3:4 are also available, giving you classic and semi-portrait framing options. As with duration, you can also set the aspect ratio to automatic and let the model choose the best fit for your prompt.

Resolution options include 480p for faster generation when you're iterating on ideas or creating quick drafts, and 720p for a balanced combination of quality and speed. The 720p setting is the default and is well-suited for most creative workflows where you want clean, presentable output without extended wait times.

The model's understanding of real-world physics is a key differentiator. When you describe physical interactions — objects falling, water splashing, characters moving through space — Seedance 2.0 renders these with a natural, believable quality. This physics awareness extends to how light behaves, how materials interact, and how motion unfolds over time, giving your generated videos a grounded, realistic feel even in fantastical or stylized scenarios.

For creators who need consistency across iterations, Seedance 2.0 includes a reproducibility seed. By using the same seed value, you can generate similar results from the same prompt, which is invaluable when you're fine-tuning a scene or comparing slight prompt variations. It's worth noting that results may still vary slightly even with the same seed, but the overall composition and feel will remain consistent.

The model's multi-shot editing capability is particularly exciting for storytelling. You can write prompts that describe scene transitions and multiple shots within a single generation. For example, you might describe a character discovering something, then cut to a wider shot of their environment — and the model will handle the transition as a coherent sequence rather than a single static scene. This opens up possibilities for creating mini-narratives, storyboard previews, and conceptual sequences directly from text.

Seedance 2.0 is tagged for stylized content, transformation sequences, and lip-sync capabilities, making it versatile across a range of creative genres. Whether you're producing animated shorts, product visualizations, music video concepts, documentary-style footage, or experimental art films, the model adapts to the tone and style described in your prompt.

Ideal users include filmmakers and directors who want to pre-visualize scenes before committing to production, social media creators who need eye-catching video content at scale, animators and motion designers exploring new visual directions, marketing professionals producing video ads and brand content, and artists pushing the boundaries of AI-assisted creative expression.

In summary, Seedance 2.0 Text to Video represents a significant leap in text-to-video generation, combining cinematic quality, native audio, flexible formatting, real-world physics, and multi-shot narrative understanding into a single, accessible creative tool. It empowers creators to move from idea to polished video with nothing more than a well-crafted text description.