Next-Generation AI Video Model — By ByteDance Seed

Seedance 2: Cinematic AI Video Generation

Seedance 2 is the next-generation AI video generation model developed by ByteDance's Seed team. Built on native audio-visual synchronization architecture, Seedance 2 integrates four input modalities — Text, Image, Video, and Audio — to produce multi-shot cinematic narratives with consistent characters, emotion-driven expressions, and phoneme-level lip-sync in over 8 languages. Seedance 2 delivers up to 2K resolution output, 30% faster than its predecessor.

2K Cinema Resolution
8+ Languages Lip-Sync
30% Faster Generation
12 Reference Files Input

Four Pillars Powering Seedance 2 AI Video Generation

Seedance 2 addresses the fundamental challenges in AI video creation — from uncontrollable outputs to inconsistent characters — through four breakthrough capabilities.

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Multimodal Reference Input

Seedance 2 accepts a mixed input of up to 12 files — images, videos, and audio — and accurately understands your creative intent. Use an image to define visual style, a video to specify character motion and camera movement, and audio to drive rhythm. No more struggling with complex text prompts alone.

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Extreme Character Consistency

Seedance 2 significantly enhances understanding of physical laws and instruction following. Facial features, clothing details, and overall visual style maintain high uniformity throughout every clip — enabling reliable character IP continuity for long-form content, brand storytelling, and commercial advertisements.

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Video Editing & Extension

Beyond generation, Seedance 2 supports character replacement, content addition and deletion within existing videos, plus smooth video extension and concatenation based on prompts. Reshoot or tweak individual scenes without regenerating the entire clip — saving rendering time and computing costs.

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Audio-Visual Beat Matching

The model natively supports audio input and generates synchronized visuals driven by rhythm. From complex camera movements hitting each beat to character lip movements matching reference audio, Seedance 2 achieves automated, high-level fusion of sight and sound for music videos and rhythmic ads.

What Defines the Seedance 2 Architecture

Built on ByteDance's Dual-Branch Diffusion Transformer architecture, Seedance 2 simultaneously generates video and audio in a single forward pass.

Text-to-Video
Describe scenes, motion, sound, lighting, and emotional tone in natural language. Seedance 2 accurately parses multi-subject interactions, layered action sequences, and diverse camera movements to generate coherent multi-shot narratives from a single prompt.
Image-to-Video
Animate still images with motion and synchronized audio. Enhanced facial preservation and dynamic motion synthesis transform any photo into video while maintaining identity, composition, and first-frame fidelity across the entire sequence.
Audio-to-Video
Upload custom voiceovers, soundtracks, or narration as a primary control signal. Seedance 2 decodes audio waveforms to drive facial muscle movements and scene dynamics, achieving lip-sync accuracy that rivals professional motion capture systems.
Native Audio Generation
The audio engine separates sound into distinct semantic layers: Dialogue, Foley (action sounds), and Ambience. Footsteps, rustling clothes, impact sounds, and environment-specific noise are intelligently generated and synchronized with visual content.
Multi-Shot Storytelling
Generate coherent multi-scene sequences with automatic camera transitions, persistent character identity, and cinematic continuity — all from a single prompt. Maintains consistency in subject, visual style, and atmosphere across shot transitions and temporal-spatial shifts.
Cinematic Camera Control
Seedance 2 understands professional film grammar: Dolly Zoom, tracking shots, close-ups, wide shots, and dynamic lateral cuts. Camera pans accelerate and decelerate naturally, delivering directed sequences rather than stitched-together frames.

Seedance 2 Output Specifications

Production-ready output across multiple formats, resolutions, and aspect ratios.

2K
Max Resolution
5–12s
Video Duration
6
Aspect Ratios
<60s
Generation Time

Who Uses Seedance 2

From e-commerce product showcases to narrative short films, Seedance 2 empowers creators across industries.

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Marketing & E-Commerce

Generate compelling product promos, A/B test multiple creative variations, and produce localized campaign visuals across 8+ languages — all without a production studio. Seedance 2 accurately renders product textures, brand logos, and lifestyle scenes at broadcast quality.

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Film & Content Creation

Pre-visualize scenes, generate narrative sequences with consistent characters, and produce cinematic clips with director-level camera control. Ideal for short dramas, storyboarding, pitch decks, and social media content that demands professional production value.

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Education & Enterprise

Create animated explainers, training videos, corporate communications, and product demos. Turn complex concepts into engaging visual content with multilingual narration and synchronized lip-sync — no specialized video production software required.

The Seedance Model Family

Developed by ByteDance's Seed team — established in 2023 with labs across China, Singapore, and the United States — the Seedance line represents continuous advancement in AI video generation.

Seedance 1.0
June 2025
Established the foundation with smooth motion generation, native multi-shot storytelling, diverse stylistic expression, and precise prompt following at 1080p resolution.
Seedance 1.5 Pro
December 2025
Introduced joint audio-video generation architecture with precise audio-visual synchronization, multi-language dialect support, and enhanced camera control with dynamic tension.
Seedance 2.0
February 2026
Next-generation model with multimodal reference input (12 files), extreme character consistency, video editing and extension, audio-visual beat matching, and 2K output with 30% faster generation.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Seedance 2?

Seedance 2 is ByteDance's next-generation multimodal AI video generation model developed by the Seed team. It integrates four input modalities — Image, Video, Audio, and Text — to deliver native audio-visual synchronization, multi-shot storytelling, and up to 2K cinematic resolution. It addresses the long-standing "uncontrollability" challenge in AI video generation through precise composition restoration, complex action replication, and high character consistency.

How is Seedance 2 different from Seedance 1.5 Pro?

Seedance 2 builds upon the Seedance 1.5 Pro foundation with four major upgrades: multimodal reference capabilities supporting mixed input of up to 12 files (images, videos, audio); significantly enhanced character consistency across scenes; native video editing and extension features; and audio-visual beat matching for rhythm-driven content. It also delivers 2K resolution output with a 30% improvement in generation speed.

What creative modes does Seedance 2 support?

Seedance 2 supports Text-to-Video (T2V), Image-to-Video (I2V), Audio-to-Video (A2V), video editing and extension, and multi-shot narrative generation from a single prompt with consistent characters and automatic scene transitions. It supports 480p to 2K resolution, multiple aspect ratios (16:9, 9:16, 4:3, 3:4, 21:9, 1:1), and 5–12 second clip durations.

What languages does Seedance 2 support for lip-sync?

Seedance 2 features phoneme-level lip-sync accuracy in over 8 languages including English, Mandarin Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Spanish, Indonesian, and select regional Chinese dialects such as Sichuan and Shaanxi. The model captures subtle vocal prosody and emotional tension in each language, enabling natural-sounding multilingual content production.

Who developed Seedance 2?

Seedance 2 is developed by ByteDance's Seed team, established in 2023 and dedicated to discovering new approaches to general intelligence. The team operates research labs in China, Singapore, and the United States, covering LLM, speech, vision, world models, infrastructure, and next-generation AI interactions. The Seedance model family is part of the team's broader multimodal AI research portfolio.

Experience Seedance 2 AI Video Generation

Begin creating cinematic AI videos with multi-shot narratives, native audio, and consistent characters. Seedance 2 is available through the ByteDance Seed platform and partner cloud services.