How to Get a Seedance Prompt from a Real Video
Short answer: upload the video to OpenRevo and it writes the Seedance prompt for you — timestamped segments covering the full clip, dialogue quoted word for word, camera tags per shot, and continuity locks that keep characters consistent across scenes. Export in English or native Chinese, sized to Seedance's limits.
What a good Seedance prompt needs
Seedance rewards dense, structured prompts. The ones that reproduce a video reliably share five traits:
- Timestamped segments —
[0-3s],[3-8s]— covering the whole clip in order, no gaps, no restarts - One subject anchor up top: who/what the video is about, its style, mood, palette
- Consistent character tokens — the same name and identity words repeated verbatim every time a person appears (wording drift causes face drift)
- Dialogue inline with its timestamp, quoted exactly
- Camera and sound per segment, not as an afterthought
Writing that by hand for a 30-second, 14-shot video is an afternoon of scrubbing. Extracting it automatically is the point of a video-to-prompt tool.
The workflow
- Upload your clip or paste a TikTok/YouTube/Instagram link into OpenRevo.
- It analyzes the video frame by frame and builds the full breakdown: scenes with timestamps, verbatim speech, camera angle and movement, lighting, color, and sound effects.
- Open the Export tab and choose Seedance. The prompt arrives already segmented, anchored, and inside the character limit — longer videos are split into sections, each with its own full budget, timestamps running continuously.
- Need Chinese? One click translates the entire prompt one-to-one while keeping quoted dialogue in its original language — Seedance responds well to native-Chinese prompts.
Editing before you generate
The prompt is one editable window: brief header, locks, and every segment. Find & Replace sweeps any word across all of it. Character Swap recasts any person — including you, via "Make me the star" with a selfie. Scene text is plain language; change anything.
Common Seedance prompt mistakes this avoids
- Restarting timestamps mid-prompt (two different "[0-4s]" blocks confuse pacing) — OpenRevo keeps one continuous timeline
- Describing a character differently per scene — identity tokens are locked and repeated
- Summarizing speech — dialogue is captured verbatim, because the script is usually the point
- Blowing the character limit — exports are fitted to Seedance's budget automatically