Kling vs Seedance: How Their Prompts Differ
Short answer: Seedance wants dense timestamped segments (
[0-3s], [3-8s]) with a big character budget and responds well to Chinese; Kling wants labeled shots (Shot 1, Shot 2) in a tighter limit with explicit camera and dialogue per shot. Same video, two different prompt shapes — OpenRevo analyzes the video once and exports a correctly-formatted prompt for each.The comparison
| Seedance | Kling | |
|---|---|---|
| Prompt structure | Timestamped segments covering the full clip | Numbered shots (Shot 1, Shot 2…) |
| Practical length | Large budget; long clips split into sections | Tighter — prioritize action and dialogue |
| Dialogue | Inline with timestamps, quoted | Per shot, with speaker and tone |
| Language | English or native Chinese (often better) | English |
| Camera language | Tags per segment: (WIDE), (CU), (TRACKING) | Explicit movement sentences per shot |
| Strengths | Long one-take clips, audio sync, fast-cut fidelity | Multi-shot narrative, physics, character acting |
What stays the same on both
- Character consistency comes from repetition: the same name + identity words, verbatim, every time a person appears. Reworded descriptions = drifting faces, on either platform.
- Timing is the content: a prompt that preserves the source video's shot order and beat timing reproduces its feel; a loose summary does not.
- Specifics beat adjectives: "neon cyan spill from the left" outperforms "cool vibes" everywhere.
One video, both prompts
Rather than maintaining two hand-written prompts, analyze the source video once in OpenRevo. The analysis (scenes, verbatim dialogue, camera, lighting, sound) is platform-neutral; the Export tab formats it per generator — Seedance (English or Chinese), Kling, Google Veo, and MiniMax — each within its own limits. Edit once (swap a character, replace a brand name) and every export reflects it.
Which should you use?
If your source is a fast-cut ad or trend clip with audio doing heavy lifting: start with Seedance. If it's a multi-scene mini-story with character acting: start with Kling. Testing both costs one copy-paste each — the analysis is already done.