3,615 video prompts, or: how to talk an AI into directing
A community-curated prompt cookbook for ByteDance's Seedance 2.0, complete with shot lists, lip-sync timing, and sound design.

What it does
This repo collects over 3,600 community-submitted prompts for Seedance 2.0, ByteDance’s video generation model. Each entry is a full creative brief: scene descriptions, camera angles, character blocking, even millisecond-level dialogue pauses. Think of it as a shooting script that happens to be executable by an API call.
The interesting bit
The featured prompts read like obsessive director’s notes. One 15-second romance short specifies “natural short pauses between 200-400 milliseconds” and “the almost inaudible low-frequency pulse of their heartbeats.” The repo also tracks which techniques actually produce consistent characters across frames — a genuine pain point in video generation.
Key highlights
- 3,615 prompts across cinematic, anime, UGC, ads, and meme styles
- Full API guides and workflow documentation for Seedance 2.0
- Multi-modal input coverage: text, image, video, and audio-driven generation
- Character consistency tips and anti-deformation techniques
- CC BY 4.0 license; actively accepting community PRs
- Companion web gallery with full video playback and AI-powered recommendations
Caveats
- README stats vary slightly between snapshots (3,552 vs 3,615 prompts), suggesting rapid growth or inconsistent counting
- Most featured prompts are in Chinese; English translations exist but quality is uneven
- The web gallery is a separate commercial product (YouMind), not open source
Verdict
Grab this if you’re building with Seedance 2.0 or studying how to engineer long-form video prompts. Skip it if you’re looking for model-agnostic techniques — this is deeply tied to one vendor’s quirks.