Imagine
Use image-to-video prompt examples for products, portraits, and landscapes. Define what stays, one action, and a camera move, then check for subject drift.
Let the start image guide appearance
In Start Frame mode, a still guides the opening subject and composition. Use a clear product photo, portrait, or scene, then describe the motion that should follow. The model can still change details after the opening.
Name two or three details you can inspect in the output: bottle shape and label, face and hairstyle, or horizon and building positions. These preservation instructions guide review; they do not lock the source pixels.
Write four specific instructions
Use four parts: details to retain, subject action, environmental movement, and camera direction. For a first attempt, keep one clear idea in each part. This makes it easier to identify which instruction needs revision.
Replace vague requests such as make it dynamic with visible actions: a gentle head turn, leaves swaying, or a slow forward camera push. Avoid contradictory movements and inspect the result before asking for a more complex shot.
EXAMPLE DIRECTIONPreserve the uploaded bottle's shape, frosted glass texture, pale green liquid, and clear label area. Condensation gathers and moves slowly on the glass. Citrus leaves shift in a light breeze. The camera makes a controlled forward push. Keep the bottle centered and do not introduce new products.
Adapt the prompt to a product, portrait, or scene
For a product, name shape and label details before requesting moving light or a restrained reveal. For a portrait, name face, hair, and clothing before one gesture. For a landscape, name stable landmarks before one environmental motion. Review those anchors across the entire output.
- Product: Preserve the packshot; add one material or environmental motion; choose one camera move.
- Portrait: Preserve face, hair, and wardrobe; add one gesture; choose one atmosphere and one framing move.
- Landscape: Preserve the landmark and horizon; add one weather movement; choose a restrained camera path.
Revise the instruction linked to the problem
Compare the full clip with the still. If the subject drifts, simplify movement and clarify the details to retain. If the camera misses, revise the camera sentence. If the setting changes too much, remove a competing instruction. Each retry is a separate generation.
Choose Start & End Frame when you have an approved ending image. Choose Reference Images when sources should guide distinct appearance or style roles on a compatible model. Check the selected mode, available controls, and estimate before submitting.
One room image, two camera directions
Use Image to Video when the scene is already decided and the next choice is camera movement. Both clips below start from the same room image; the camera sentence is the only prompt change.
Seedance 2.0 Mini · Start Frame · requested 5 seconds, 480P, 16:9 · audio off · 48 credits per clip on October 4, 2026.
Slow forward push
The sofa and coffee table grow larger as the camera approaches. The window, door and seating arrangement remain recognizable through the clip.
Prompt used
Preserve the room layout, sofa, windows, table and wall colors from the uploaded start image. No people. The camera makes one slow, smooth forward push toward the seating area. Keep the furniture still and use steady daylight. No cuts, no new furniture, no text.
Small sideways orbit
The sideways move reveals more of the television and changes the overlap between the table and sofa. The room stays recognizable, with small changes to object details.
Prompt used
Preserve the room layout, sofa, windows, table and wall colors from the uploaded start image. No people. The camera makes a small, smooth sideways orbit to the right around the seating area, revealing gentle parallax. Keep the furniture still and use steady daylight. No cuts, no new furniture, no text.
Each downloaded result is 864 × 496 pixels and 5.04 seconds long.
Choose a forward push to emphasize the seating area, or a small orbit to reveal depth and side details. Compare the full clips: the camera instruction changes framing, and furniture details can still shift. If a detail matters, reduce the move or guide the ending with a compatible end frame.
Try these camera directionsUse the finished clip for a separate lighting edit
Once the camera movement works, use the clip in Video to Video to compare lighting directions. Keep the source and movement instructions the same while changing the light sentence.
Use Video to Video when a clip already contains the movement you want to guide a new shot. These two edits use the forward-push clip below and change only the lighting sentence.
Seedance 2.0 Mini · one source video · requested 5 seconds, 480P, 16:9 · audio off · 61 credits per edit on October 4, 2026.
Warm afternoon light
Amber sunlight crosses the sofa and right wall, with stronger window-shaped shadows. The broad forward camera movement remains recognizable.
Prompt used
Edit @Video1. Keep the same room, furniture arrangement, camera path and five-second pacing. Change only the lighting to warm late-afternoon sunlight entering through the existing windows, with soft amber highlights and longer shadows. No new objects, no people, no cuts or text.
Cool overcast daylight
The windows and room take on cooler, more diffuse light. The candle stays warm and the main furniture arrangement remains recognizable.
Prompt used
Edit @Video1. Keep the same room, furniture arrangement, camera path and five-second pacing. Change only the lighting to cool overcast daylight through the existing windows, with soft diffuse blue-gray light and low-contrast shadows. No new objects, no people, no cuts or text.
Each downloaded result is 864 × 496 pixels and 5.04 seconds long.
Keep the same source clip when comparing light. The two edits retain the broad camera path while changing the atmosphere; small object shapes and reflections also change. For a closer revision, name the specific detail to retain and adjust one lighting instruction at a time.
Try a lighting edit