Can I use this prompt with ByteDance's own tools directly?

Yes — the prompt follows Seedance 2.0's published grammar, so it works wherever that engine accepts a text prompt, not only inside Scenes AI.

What happens after I get a prompt?

Copy it, or continue straight to the matching generator page to turn it into a real clip with a reference image.

Seedance 2.0 Prompt Generator

Describe your idea in plain language and get a prompt written in Seedance 2.0's exact grammar — the structure, reference-binding and dialogue syntax the engine actually expects, not a generic description. Sign up only when you generate; reading and browsing are free.

Your idea, in plain language0/500

Written in Seedance 2.0's exact prompt grammar.

A real example

What "A quiet moment between a woman and a memory of her father" becomes in Seedance 2.0's grammar.

Image 1 is Maya's character sheet — keep her exact face, freckles, and outfit. Image 2 is the greenhouse — keep its glass panes and hanging ferns. Shot 1: Opens wide from the doorway, Maya@Image 1 small at the potting bench, ferns framing the left edge, the single warm bulb above her. Slow push-in toward her. She presses a seed into soil, breathing steadily. <soft rain on glass> Shot 2: The camera holds still, close on Maya@Image 1 at the bench under the same warm bulb. She hesitates, covers the seed, and says in a low, warm voice, early 30s, unhurried {This one's for you, Dad.} Anamorphic 35mm optics, muted greens against a single warm source, low-key side light, fine film grain.

Why Seedance 2.0 needs its own grammar

Every engine has a genuinely different prompt structure — reusing one engine's format on another degrades output, it doesn't just look different.

Reference binding, multishot syntax and dialogue markup are all specific to Seedance 2.0 — copying a prompt written for a different engine will not transfer cleanly.
The grammar this tool follows is the exact same reference the Scenes AI pipeline itself uses when writing prompts for this engine.
A malformed prompt for a given engine usually doesn't error — it just produces a worse clip, silently.

FAQ

Tool questions

Can't find what you're looking for? Visit help and support or email hello@usescenes.com and a human will reply.

Writing a prompt is a small, real cost (one short model call), so it's billed like any other generation on Scenes AI — you'll need an account, but reading this page and the example above is free.

Your first video starts with one sentence.

Describe what you want. Scenes AI writes the script, generates visuals, adds voiceover, and renders the final cut. You approve at every step, and nothing expensive runs until you have.

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