Use this reference for precise English Seedance prompt wording. English is the default prompting language and the most heavily moderated surface, and it fails in two ways at once: empty quality words ("cinematic, stunning, 8K") add zero signal, and vague threat-adjacent wording trips false-positive filters. Precision fixes both - concrete production English reads better to the model and to the filter. Keep reference tags unchanged: @Image1, @Video1, and @Audio1 stay literal.
| Function | English wording | What it decides |
|---|---|---|
| Role | @Image1 is the first frame |
locks the opening composition |
| Role | @Image2 is the last frame |
sets the final visual target |
| Role | @Image1 locks character identity |
face, hair, and wardrobe stay stable |
| Role | @Video1 controls camera movement only |
motion donor, no appearance transfer |
| Role | @Video1 controls action rhythm only |
pacing donor, nothing else transfers |
| Role | @Audio1 controls tempo and mood only |
the clock of the edit, not its content |
| FirstLastFrame | keep the first frame unchanged |
anchors the opening state |
| FirstLastFrame | treat the last frame as the final visual target |
endpoint, not mood reference |
| FirstLastFrame | one continuous motion, no jump cut |
forces a single transition path |
| FirstLastFrame | preserve the same character, wardrobe, and layout |
continuity lock across frames |
| Camera | slow push-in |
replaces "cinematic zoom" |
| Camera | pull back to reveal the space |
motivated reveal, not "epic wide" |
| Camera | stable lateral tracking |
clean sideways travel |
| Camera | locked medium shot |
stability for faces and dialogue |
| Camera | macro close-up |
material and product detail |
| Camera | low-angle shot |
stature without the word "epic" |
| Camera | over-the-shoulder shot |
conversation geometry |
| Camera | handheld with slight breathing sway |
documentary energy, controlled |
| Shot | medium close-up |
emotion with context |
| Shot | wide establishing shot |
place before people |
| Shot | three-quarter profile |
dimensional face angle |
| Lens | 24mm wide spatial feel |
space and context |
| Lens | 50mm natural portrait perspective |
honest faces |
| Lens | macro lens on material detail |
texture as the subject |
| Lighting | soft backlight |
separation without glow words |
| Lighting | warm practical light from the left |
sourced, directional warmth |
| Lighting | cool moonlight rim |
night shape without "moody" |
| Lighting | volumetric light through thin mist |
visible beams, physical cause |
| Lighting | wet asphalt reflecting neon |
the reflection is the light |
| Motion | fog parts around the footsteps |
environment reacts to subject |
| Motion | droplets merge and slide down the label |
product motion, physical |
| Motion | a slow head turn that stops |
acting beat with an endpoint |
| Motion | fabric settles after the gesture |
follow-through proves the move |
| VFX | gold particles rise, catch the backlight, and dissipate |
source, path, endpoint |
| VFX | thin electrical arcs crawl along the cable |
effect anchored to an object |
| VFX | cold vapor rolls over the rim and sinks |
density and direction |
| Audio | quiet room tone |
silence with presence |
| Audio | one clear spoken line in quotes |
dialogue the lip-sync can hold |
| Audio | a single soft metallic tick |
one sound, one event |
| Audio | no music until after the line |
mix priority stated plainly |
| Audio | distant traffic bed under rain |
layered ambience, no slop |
| Text | no on-screen text, no watermark |
text belongs in post |
| Editing | match cut on the circular shape |
named transition, not "cool" |
| Editing | hard cut on the downbeat |
edit tied to the sound |
| Constraint | keep the logo, label, and shape unchanged |
product identity lock |
| Constraint | no identity change, no object redesign |
drift guard |
| Constraint | one action, one camera move |
the budget rule in six words |
| Constraint | nothing else moves |
isolates the hero motion |
| Safety | staged confrontation, no graphic injury |
action without harm reading |
| Safety | original character with broad archetype traits |
identity without likeness |
| Safety | prop object handled safely |
objects without threat reading |
Field-observed from 2026 community testing; test per surface, never promise results. English has the second-strongest lip-sync after Mandarin.
- Reliable-sync budget is roughly 16-20 words in a ~15s clip; longer lines compress the mix. Keep each line to 5-10 words.
- The acoustic budget (~35-40 words in 15s at natural pace) is higher than the reliable-sync budget - stay under the sync budget, not the acoustic one.
- A written beat between sentences is field-reported to act as a re-sync anchor:
She pauses, then continues:- test it rather than assume it.
English prompts attract empty evaluation words. Each adds tokens and zero signal; replace with something a camera, microphone, light meter, or stopwatch could detect.
| Slop | Say instead |
|---|---|
| cinematic | name the shot scale, camera move, and light source |
| epic | physical scale: crowd size, lens distance, structure height |
| stunning / breathtaking | the one visible contrast or reveal that earns it |
| beautiful | color, texture, material, light behavior |
| masterpiece / award-winning | delete; quality is not a request |
| 8K / ultra-HD / hyper-detailed | delete; resolution is a render setting, not prose |
| dynamic | the specific movement, its speed, and its endpoint |
| dramatic | blocking, shadow, silence, or camera pressure |
| atmosphere of mystery | what is hidden, by what: doorway, shadow, fog |
| ultra-realistic | material behavior, skin texture, natural motion |
| insanely detailed | the two details that matter, named |
| trending / viral style | the actual format: vertical, fast hook, caption-safe framing |
English carries the heaviest moderation. Use this only for safe prompts being misunderstood - the repair is clarity, not evasion. Genuinely prohibited content routes to a plain refusal via the filter skill.
| Trigger-prone English | Professional clarification |
|---|---|
| shoot the scene / shooting | film the scene, capture the take |
| kill the lights | cut the lights to black |
| gun it / shot after shot | accelerate hard / take after take |
| execution of the move | the move performed cleanly |
| dead silence | held silence, room tone only |
| blow up the image | enlarge the image to full frame |
| fight breaks out | choreographed action beat begins, no graphic injury |
Anything genuinely risky - minors, real-person likeness, sexual or graphic content - is not a wording problem; route it to the filter skill's boundary for a plain refusal.
Load filter-vocab for the full false-positive repair table and anti-slop-lexicon for the core replacement rule.