The image fixes the look
Colour, shape, texture, logo placement, a person’s face — whatever is in the frame stays itself. This is the whole reason to upload rather than describe, and it is where generic video models fail commercial work.
Image to Video
Image to video AI
Upload any photo, illustration, or product shot and let Seedance 2.0 animate it with camera moves, lighting, and synchronized audio — all from a single text prompt.
Pin the opening frame; add a closing frame when this workflow requires one — the model fills the motion between them.
Model
Input modeFirst / Last frame
Pin the opening frame; add a closing frame when this workflow requires one — the model fills the motion between them.
0/2000
4s15s
Outputs
Audio
With audio
Synchronized sound, voice and music
Credits required:36
Your generated video appears here. Describe a shot and hit Generate.
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Generation tips
- - Upload any photo, illustration, or product shot and let Seedance 2.0 animate it with camera moves, lighting, and synchronized audio — all from a single text prompt.
- - Pin the opening frame; add a closing frame when this workflow requires one — the model fills the motion between them.
- - Generation time varies with the model, clip settings, and provider load.
- - Name the subject, the action, and the camera move. Vague prompts give vague shots.
- - Longer clips cost more credits — start at 5s to test a look, then extend.
- - Audio is generated with the picture; describe the sound you want in the prompt.
Image to video — put your own photograph in motion
Image to video solves the problem text alone cannot: getting a *specific* real thing on screen. Upload your product, your artwork, your location or your character, describe what should happen, and Seedance 2.0 animates that exact frame — preserving the subject while adding motion, camera movement and synchronised sound.
This matters commercially more than any other mode. A text prompt will happily invent a plausible sneaker; it will not invent *your* sneaker, with your colourway and your logo placement. Anchoring generation to an uploaded image keeps the thing you are actually selling accurate through every frame. You can attach up to nine reference images in one request, so a product, a face and a palette can all stay locked at the same time, at resolutions up to 4K.
- Your exact subject, not an approximation
- Up to nine reference images per request
- Motion and sound added from the prompt
What the image holds, what the prompt adds
The division of labour is the thing to understand: the picture supplies identity, the text supplies everything that moves.
The prompt supplies the motion
Describe what happens and how the camera behaves: an orbit around the product, wind moving through hair, a slow reveal from shadow. The still becomes a shot without becoming a different object.
Multiple images, one scene
Attach several references at once — the product, the model, the environment — and Seedance 2.0 reconciles them into a single coherent take rather than cutting between them.
Getting the most out of a source image
Input quality sets the ceiling. A sharp, well-lit, reasonably high-resolution image gives the model unambiguous information about form and material; a small, soft or heavily compressed one leaves it guessing, and guesses show up as drift over the clip. Framing matters too — leave a little room around the subject, because a shot cropped tight to the edges gives the camera nowhere to move without inventing what was never in the picture.
Then ask for motion the image can support. A photograph taken straight-on holds up well to a push-in or a gentle orbit; asking to swing fully behind the subject requires the model to invent a back it has never seen, and results get less reliable the further you travel from the original viewpoint. The most dependable pattern for product work is a modest camera move plus environmental motion — steam, light shifting, fabric settling — which reads as expensive footage while keeping the hero object rock solid.
Good source images
Sharp focus, clean lighting, subject not cropped to the frame edge, no heavy JPEG artefacts, no watermarks or overlaid text.
Reliable motion requests
Push-in, gentle orbit, parallax, rack focus, plus atmosphere. Extreme viewpoint changes and full turnarounds ask the model to invent unseen geometry.
Model specifications
What Seedance 2.0 actually delivers on FrameAI
Published limits, not marketing rounding. Every number below is enforced by the generator before your credits are reserved, so a job that would exceed a limit is rejected instead of failing halfway.
- Up to 4K
- Output resolutions — 480p / 720p / 1080p / 4K
- 4–15 sec
- Clip length per generation, at 24 fps
- Native audio
- Sound effects and ambience generated in sync
- 9 + 3
- Reference images plus reference videos, one request
- 7 ratios
- Supported aspect ratios — Auto, 16:9, 4:3, 1:1, 3:4, 9:16, 21:9
- Commercial use on paid plans
- Subject to the Terms of Service
Why creators run Seedance 2.0 on FrameAI
The model is ByteDance’s. What FrameAI adds is the part that decides whether it is usable at work: honest limits, honest billing, and output you are allowed to ship.
Every input in a single pass
Text, up to nine reference images and up to three reference video clips are fused in one generation, not stitched afterwards. There is no separate text-to-video mode to switch into — you add whatever material you have and the model reconciles it.
Sound generated with the picture
Seedance 2.0 writes footsteps, room tone, impacts and score alongside the frames, locked to the action. Most models hand you a silent clip and leave the sound design to you; here the export is already finished.
Seven ratios, up to 4K
One prompt covers a 9:16 vertical cut for Reels, a 16:9 master for YouTube and a 21:9 anamorphic frame for a title sequence. Resolution runs from 480p up to 4K, so the same take can serve a cinema-shaped frame or a phone.
Credits you can predict
The exact credit cost is calculated from your duration, resolution and ratio and shown before you press generate — never after. If a generation fails on the provider side, the reserved credits are returned automatically.
Built for iteration, not for queuing
Seedance 2.0 Fast and Seedance 2.0 Mini exist for the twenty drafts nobody sees. Rough a shot at 480p for a fraction of the credits, then re-run the take that worked at full resolution on the flagship model.
Yours to sell
Paid-plan output may be used commercially under the Terms of Service. Free-credit output is for evaluation only.
Animate an image in three steps
The fastest route from a still you already own to footage you can ship.
- 1
Upload your image
Pick the sharpest version you have. Add more reference images if a second element — a face, a background, a palette — also needs to stay consistent.
- 2
Describe what moves
Say what the subject does and how the camera travels. Describe only the change; you do not need to re-describe what is already visible in the picture.
- 3
Set output and generate
Choose ratio, duration and resolution up to 4K, then generate. Commercial use of paid-plan output is governed by the Terms of Service.
Where image to video pays for itself
Every case here has the same shape: a real asset that has to stay exactly itself.
Product video from catalogue stills
An existing pack shot becomes a rotating hero, a detail pass or a lifestyle scene. No studio time, no reshoot, and the packaging stays accurate down to the logo.
Bringing artwork and design to life
Illustrations, key art, album covers and posters gain motion for social without being redrawn — the original composition survives, it simply starts moving.
Real-estate and location footage
A property photograph becomes a slow parallax walkthrough with light and atmosphere, giving a listing motion without booking a videographer.
Image to video — frequently asked questions
What is image to video?
It generates a video clip from a still image plus a text description of what should happen. The image fixes the subject’s appearance; the prompt supplies motion, camera movement and sound. FrameAI runs this on Seedance 2.0 at up to 4K.
What image formats and sizes work best?
Standard JPEG and PNG files. Favour sharp, well-lit, higher-resolution images, and avoid heavy compression artefacts, watermarks or overlaid text — the model will happily animate those too.
How many images can I upload at once?
Up to nine reference images in a single request, alongside up to three reference video clips. Seedance 2.0 fuses them into one coherent scene rather than cutting between them.
Will my product stay accurate in the video?
That is exactly what image conditioning is for, and it holds up well for modest camera moves. Accuracy degrades as you ask the camera to travel to viewpoints the photograph never showed, so keep moves conservative for commercial work.
Can I animate a photo of a real person?
Technically yes, and Seedance 2.0 holds facial identity well. Legally, you need the depicted person’s consent — generating video of someone without permission is your responsibility, not something the licence covers.
Does image to video generate sound as well?
Yes. Audio is generated in sync with the motion the model creates, and you can steer it by naming the sounds you want in the prompt. It can also be switched off entirely.
Keep going with the rest of the toolkit
Each tool is the same Seedance 2.0 model pointed at a different job. Move between them freely — your credits, history and exports are shared.
Generate your first Seedance 2.0 video now
Write one line, pick a ratio, press generate. No editing suite, no render farm, no post-production pass — a finished clip with sound, ready to download.
- Free credits on sign-up
- Paid commercial use
- Refunded if a generation fails