Make super realistic videos with one click (well…, almost).
We use Dreamina Seedance 2.5, the magic movie brain from BytePlus, to turn your words, drawings and photos into beautiful moving videos up to 30 seconds long. This site teaches you everything, from your very first video to spending your funded account like a genius.
A free account unlocks every lesson, the Cost Lab and your own Movie Journal. No card, no spam!
Six stops on the road to movie stardom
Meet the brain
What Seedance 2.5 is, what it can do (30-second movies! 50 reference pictures! audio!), and the three magic ingredients: words, pictures, settings.
2️⃣ 🏰Set up your kingdom
Create your BytePlus account, activate the model, and find your secret API key. We point at every button to press, including the console.
3️⃣ 🐷Your money box
Understand the funded account: Light / Production / Premium packs, tokens, 90-day expiry, and the golden rules to never run out in the middle of a movie.
4️⃣ 🎬First movie!
No code needed. The Playground is a big friendly window: write, click, wait, download. Your first 5-second masterpiece in minutes.
5️⃣ ✨The magic words
How to write prompts that look real enough to touch: lightning, camera, sunset, raindrops, camera moves. Recipe-style, with 20 example prompts.
6️⃣ 🤖Teach robots to make movies
The API: one message to the cloud brain, a secret handshake, and a finished video comes back. With ready-made code in Python, PHP, Node and curl.
Pick a door that sounds fun
Pictures become movies
Give Seedance 2.5 a photo or drawing and it brings it to life. Up to 50 references at once.
✂️🔁Fix & continue
Edit one object inside a video, or stretch the story forwards and backwards.
🧮Cost Lab
Type duration + size, get the price, see how many videos your token pack can make.
🆘Oops-o-meter
Slow? Failed? Link expired? Here is exactly what happened and what to do.
🧸The whole toybox
Same account, many brains: picture makers, story writers, voices and digital people. Prices inside.
For the grown-up in 60 seconds
🧄 The official stack
- Model: Dreamina Seedance 2.5, model ID
dreamina-seedance-2-5-260628. - Makes 4-30 second videos, 480p / 720p / 1080p.
- Inputs: text + up to 30 images, 10 videos, 10 audio (50 references total).
- Ratios: 21:9 / 16:9 / 4:3 / 1:1 / 3:4 / 9:16 / adaptive. Output: mp4 (or mov).
- Modes: text-to-video, image-to-video (first / first+last frame), multimodal, edit, extend.
- API:
POST https://ark.ap-southeast.bytepluses.com/api/v3/contents/generations/tasks(async, poll by id). - Pricing:
$10.70 / M tokenswithout video input,$6.40 / Mwith video (480p/720p); packs at $32/5M, $64/10M, $640/100M, valid 90 days.
🫵 The 3 golden rules for a funded account
- Test at 480p. A test scene costs less than half of the same scene at 720p ($0.10 vs $0.23 per second).
- Download within 24 hours. Result links expire (the signature says
X-Tos-Expires=86400). Save every keeper to your own drive. - Only money wasted counts. Failed generations are not charged, but retries of a bad idea cost tokens. Nail the prompt first, then spend the seconds.
Full details, numbers and links in Plans & Money and Pro Tips.
Official places we talk about
Seedance 2.5 page
Buy plans, watch demos, read the FAQ.
🎨The Playground
Type a prompt and watch the movie get made.
🗺️The Console
Billing, keys, projects, monitoring. Explained here.
💵Official pricing
The price page, straight from BytePlus.
📖Official prompt guide
BytePlus’ own tips for great prompts.
🧪API Docs / Explorer / SDK
BytePlus tools for building things.