Native 30-Second Takes
Aim for up to 30 seconds in one continuous clip — one prompt, one shot, no forced stitch. Built for story beats, product demos, and cinematic sequences that need room to land.
Reference generation

Generate longer cinematic scenes with native 30-second 4K output, up to 50 multimodal references, stronger shot consistency, and controllable local editing for ads, stories, and product films.
Seedance 2.5 is the upcoming Seedance video model previewed on Grok Imagine. It targets longer one-shot clips, denser multimodal briefs, and post-generation edits that do not force a full restart.
In practice, Seedance 2.5 is aimed at creators who want fewer stitched fragments. A 30-second target gives a scene room to land, while richer references help lock characters, products, locations, style, and motion in one pass.
This Grok Imagine page is a capability preview only. Learn the direction here, then keep generating on Seedance 2.0 until 2.5 access opens.
The upgrade matters when a short loop is not enough — when you need more runtime, denser references, or a cleaner revise path after the first take.
Aim for up to 30 seconds in one continuous clip — one prompt, one shot, no forced stitch. Built for story beats, product demos, and cinematic sequences that need room to land.
Reference generation

Stack up to 50 multimodal references — images, videos, and audio — in a single run. Lock characters, products, motion, style, and sound before the prompt even finishes.
Reference generation

Steer pacing, camera language, and emotional beats second by second. Seedance 2.5 is previewed to hold structure while you shape tone, action rhythm, and look across the full clip.
Reference generation

Keep the strongest parts of a take and refine local details — swap outfits, inpaint objects, or restyle environments without throwing away the whole clip.
Reference generation
Build one continuous shot where language, typography, and locale shift across regions — useful for global campaigns, localized intros, and multilingual brand storytelling.
Reference generation

Browse brand films, surreal worlds, and cinematic shorts shaped for the 2.5 direction. Hover a clip to open the prompt.
Prompt:A highly visually intense 30-second premium brand concept film. Opening uses a surreal inverted perspective. The camera flips with gravity, showing a model's feet in vintage suede boots lightly stepping on rolling red dunes. Macro close-up on the boot surface's suede texture and rough red sand grains. Then cuts to a montage full of weightlessness and dreamlike color: young male and female models falling backward lightly through dark amber sandstorms and cold rim light. Quickly cuts to an ultra-sharp facial close-up-sand blows across lashes dusted with tiny gold grains. The model wears vintage metal-frame sunglasses; curved lenses clearly reflect wild sun and storm. Then fingers wearing heavily aged silver rings gently brush rough, weathered rock and wildly dancing reeds. The film heavily uses expressive camera language: through an extremely low-angle macro lens, shooting up through edge-blurred yet crystal-clear natural mineral crystals at a vast starry sky and roaming explorers. High-quality detail close-ups densely intercut in grand scenes: coarse linen shirt texture fluttering in wind, the model's tense jawline, and sweat glistening on neck skin in backlight. Combined with fisheye lens, fast rotating camera movement, and smooth visual misdirection transitions, creating avant-garde, wild, mysterious energy. At the climax, the camera dramatically pulls back, breaking the fourth wall, revealing this is actually an advanced virtual studio built with a giant LED star-track ring sky and real red sand arrays-colliding wilderness vastness with avant-garde industrial set design. Ending slows down, returning to delicate texture close-ups: a woman with loose hair leans against a vintage off-road vehicle. The camera slowly sweeps over the vehicle's peeling heavy-metal paint. She casually lets fine sand slip through her fingers. Cool, bright moonlight side-light precisely outlines the rugged pores of a distressed leather jacket, cold light refracted from heavy metal zippers, and the woman's sharp facial contours. Overall retro film-grade color aesthetics: deep midnight blue intertwined with blazing mineral orange. Grand, free, full of premium brand tension. Finally, "seedance" text elegantly appears at center.
Prompt:Deep-sea coral reef scene. A tropical underwater world dominated by blue tones. Large areas of healthy, thriving colorful live coral, including branching coral, brain coral, plate coral, and soft sea fan coral. Large schools of tropical fish move naturally through the scene. Foreground is crisp and vivid; distant view gradually shifts bluer and grayer with reduced contrast. Natural light from above filters through seawater to create soft volumetric light. Fine suspended particles and slight water movement in the sea. Soft coral sways gently. Fish movement is smooth and coordinated. Add a group of semi-transparent pale purple glowing jellyfish appearing slowly, 8-12 in total, varied in size. Bell bodies have soft bioluminescence. Tentacles drift gently with the waves. Tentacle tips have faint purple light points. Jellyfish size is proportionate to coral and fish. Glow is soft, not harsh, forming dreamy light spots against the dark water background. Jellyfish movement is natural, in a slow upward spiral. Some jellyfish pass in front of the lens, creating slight lens flare. Maintain underwater blue-tone lighting. Jellyfish glow harmonizes with faint reflections from surrounding coral. As the jellyfish swim, bubbles form, rise, and spell "Seedance" in the water.
Prompt:[Overall style] A highly cinematic, premium 30-second haute-brand visual film. Emphasizes dreamy bokeh, smooth motion-blur transitions, volumetric lighting, and hyper-realistic material detail. [Shot breakdown] [0-5 seconds]: Dreamlike prelude and macro close-up. Ultra-high-quality macro close-up. A slender hand reaches into the air, fingertips touching colorful light spots sparkling like stars. With flowing light, seamlessly transition to an elegant woman in a pure white gauze dress, lost in playing a vintage piano. Shallow depth of field, background blurred into beautiful blue-green tones. [5-15 seconds]: Then cut to smooth follow shot: a woman wearing a French wide-brim straw hat and flowing white dress runs lightly through a dense flower path filled with pink-orange roses and blue hydrangeas. Light filters through leaves creating dappled shadows, perfectly showing gentle breeze, realistic skirt fabric physics, and hyper-realistic petal texture. [15-24 seconds]: Quiet aesthetics and light refraction. Pace slows into extreme slow motion. A young girl sits quietly reading at a black wrought-iron table beside a European vintage gilded fountain. Crystal-clear soap bubbles float through the air, perfectly refracting surrounding flowers and warm sunlight on their surfaces. Water droplet splashes are clearly visible, showcasing top-tier rendering of transparent materials, water refraction, and complex lighting.
Prompt:Cinematic quality, premium feel. A golden desert at early morning. A minimalist white art museum building floats above the dunes, with delicate stone texture and soft reflections on the surface. Sunlight passes through dust to create volumetric light. Distant dunes show clear layering. The camera begins with an ultra-wide desert panorama and slowly pushes forward through flying sand grains into the interior of the floating building. Inside are suspended sculptures, semi-transparent silk installations, and a character in a white robe, fabric moving naturally in the wind. The camera smoothly orbits the character. Finally, the building wall slowly opens to reveal a vast sky and desert. High-end art-ad style, realistic lighting, refined materials, cinematic composition, elegant motion, surreal yet believable.
Prompt:Sinking Theater (Oceanic Civilization) (Epic sci-fi / Dune x Interstellar / no live humans / sculptural lifeforms) [0-5 seconds | Cosmic opening - Ocean as planetary memory] Deep blue ocean fills the panoramic frame. Extremely deep water shows layered structure, like a liquid universe inside the planet. The camera slowly drops vertically from high altitude, passing through clouds and sea mist into the ocean surface. The sea surface ripples like a metal membrane, refracting irregular cracks of sunlight-highly epic volumetric light. [5-10 seconds | Entering the deep-sea civilization fault line] The camera pierces the surface and enters the deep sea. Massive "undersea civilization structures" gradually emerge: broken ring megastructures, sunken stone domes, floating geometric ruin platforms. Structure style blends ancient temple + alien-tech civilization (similar to Dune ruin language). Micro-light particles float in the water like stardust drifting slowly. [10-15 seconds | Sculptural lifeform appears (non-human)] At the center of the theater stands a giant sculptural lifeform: a "humanoid idol" made of white stone and semi-transparent minerals, but without life details (no skin, no true human features). Its posture resembles an ancient ritual structure. The body is segmented in geometric form, like a vessel of civilization memory. The sculpture surface is eroded by long water flow, covered with seaweed and coral crystallization. The camera slowly orbits the sculpture, creating a sense of "divine arrival." [15-20 seconds | Civilization awakened - Light-flow activation] The entire undersea ruin begins to "wake." Faint energy-flow light patterns appear inside the sculpture, lighting up like a neural network. Broken stone pillars slowly rise and reassemble into a ring theater structure. The water begins "ordered flow," as if space is being recalculated. Camera shifts from static orbit to slightly accelerated rotation. [20-24 seconds | Sea-surface reversal - Ascending breakthrough] The camera suddenly accelerates upward and bursts out of the sea surface. The ocean splits to both sides like torn fabric, forming a giant water curtain. An ancient-civilization mega ship / temple hull rises from the seabed: a hybrid of stone temple and sci-fi vessel, surface covered with coral and mineralized structures. The hull rises with water cascading like waterfalls. [24-27 seconds | Epic spiral shot (visual climax)] The camera spirals rapidly upward around the mega ship (spiral orbit shot). Sunlight pierces through cloud gaps, forming a sacred light column. Water is pulled into spiral form by rotation, like a galaxy structure. The hull slowly rotates, revealing its vast structure: more like a "mobile civilization relic" than a vehicle. [27-30 seconds | Ultimate wide shot - Civilization scale revealed] The camera rapidly pulls back to a space-scale view. Ocean, ruins, rising mega ship, and sculptural temple align vertically in one frame, forming a three-tier cosmic structure of "undersea civilization-sea surface-sky light layer." The whole world feels like an awakened ancient planetary memory system. The final image slowly fades to black, leaving only faint residual light points. Epic sci-fi aesthetics / Dune desert-sea civilization structure / Interstellar-scale spatial scope / no human narrative / sculptural civilization ruins / alien temple structures / volumetric light through seawater / megastructure collapse and reassembly / sacred ritual camera language / spiral camera movement / stardust-particle ocean / HDR cinematic realism.
Prompt:Theme: "Mechanical Bloom." The visuals should highlight the video generation model's strengths in lighting, art detail, realism, camera movement, and cinematic character presence. Overall style: high-end tech brand commercial with strong visual impact. The video uses a one-shot macro push-in, starting from a metal flower bud in darkness, gradually entering the precise mechanical structure inside the petals, and ending with the mechanical flower fully blooming and light radiating outward. Requires realistic physical lighting, refined metal and glass materials, delicate mechanical motion, stable composition, cinematic color grading, no subtitles.
When access opens, expect a loop of clear prompts, packed references, full-clip review, and targeted fixes — not endless regenerations.
Write a beat-by-beat scene prompt, then attach the images, motion samples, character looks, product shots, or brand assets that must stay consistent.
Check continuity, framing, color, and motion across the longer result. Seedance 2.5 is previewed for workflows where the whole clip has to hold together.
Use the expected local-edit path when the main take is close. This page stays honest: Seedance 2.5 is a preview on Grok Imagine, not a live generator yet.
Preview this model if your team needs longer moving drafts before heavy edit, reshoot, or client review.
A 30-second AI clip can carry setup, action, reveal, and ending. Preview Seedance 2.5 when a loop or micro-clip is too short for the idea.
Plan demos, teasers, and campaign drafts where product look, logo, palette, and setting must stay on brief across a longer take.
A longer moving draft helps clients feel pacing before production spend. Treat it as a clearer concept — not an unchecked final.
Longer scenes can support process walkthroughs and topic intros — always review accuracy before anything goes public.
Treat 2.5 as the longer-form direction, 2.0 as the model you can run today on Grok Imagine, and general tools as short-clip baselines.
Seedance 2.5
Native ~30s single-segment output in preview
Seedance 2.0
Production-ready generation on Grok Imagine today
General AI video tools
Often optimized for short prompt-to-video clips
Seedance 2.5
Up to 50 multimodal materials announced
Seedance 2.0
Strong multimodal reference workflow
General AI video tools
Fewer anchors or prompt-only inputs
Seedance 2.5
Local, controllable edits without full restart
Seedance 2.0
Generate-and-refine as the main loop
General AI video tools
Often regenerate or jump to another editor
Seedance 2.5
Longer, directed story and campaign drafts
Seedance 2.0
Shipable Seedance videos on Grok Imagine now
General AI video tools
Fast concept tests and micro-clips
Seedance 2.5 is an upgrade path for longer, more directed drafts — not a claim that every workflow should wait. Seedance 2.0 stays the live option for creators who need to generate now.
Watch this model when your hardest problem is keeping a longer result consistent, directed, and easy to revise.
Point 01
A 30-second preview window lets one idea breathe — setup, motion, and payoff — instead of stitching many tiny fragments into a timeline.
Point 02
Up to 50 references help when a prompt alone cannot carry product look, character identity, location, camera language, and style at once.
Point 03
Local edit direction matters because real AI video work is generate → inspect → refine → deliver, not a single lucky pass.
Access timing, references, editing direction, and how 2.5 relates to Seedance 2.0 on Grok Imagine.
Seedance 2.5 is the next Seedance AI video model direction previewed on Grok Imagine — longer single clips, denser multimodal references, and more controllable local edits.
Seedance 2.5 is shaped around 30-second 4K clips, up to 50 multimodal references, tighter scene lock, and controllable local edits. Generation on Grok Imagine is coming soon.