Make AI video clips with Seedance 2.5
Make Seedance 2.5 video clips in Tella: ask the Tella Agent or use Generate in the Media Library, then place the 1080p clip as b-roll in your video.
Try it in Tella
Paste a prompt into the Tella Agent in the editor, or into Claude or ChatGPT connected to Tella, then ask for changes.
Use Seedance 2.5 to make a 10-second clip of a Brindlewood espresso machine pouring a shot, close-up, warm cafe light, the camera slowly pushing in. Place it as b-roll over the part where I talk about our new machine.
Make a 5-second draft with Seedance 2.0 Mini of rain running down a city window at night with neon reflections and a still camera. If I like it, make it again with Seedance 2.5 at 15 seconds and put it over my intro.
Use the Larkspur sneaker photo I attached as the first frame of a Seedance 2.5 clip: the shoe turns slowly on a white turntable in soft studio light. Keep the photo's aspect ratio and show it as an overlay on my closing line.
How do I use Seedance 2.5 to make an AI video clip?
Tella generates AI video clips with Seedance 2.5 by default, at 1080p and 5 to 30 seconds long. In Tella's editor, ask the Tella Agent for the clip, say what it shows and where it goes, then click Generate clip on the card it shows. To do it yourself, open Generate at the top of the Media Library, switch Generate image to Video, and set Video model and Length in the ⋯ menu.
How to do it
- Open your video in the Tella editor and open the Tella Agent chat.
- Describe the clip: the scene, what moves, the camera, the style, the length and where it goes.
- Attach an image if the clip should start from it.
- Check the AI video clip card, which shows the model, length, resolution and prompt, and click Generate clip.
- When the clip is ready, ask the agent to move, trim or regenerate it.
Good to know
- Needs a paid plan or the 7-day trial. Messages use your workspace's credits.
- Video clips take a few minutes to generate, and each lands in the current video's Video tab in the Media Library.
- A reference image becomes the clip's first frame. Seedance 2.5 keeps the image's aspect ratio; the Seedance 2.0 models crop it to 16:9.
- If a clip is blocked, for example by a copyright check, sending the same prompt or image again fails the same way, so change it first.
Frequently asked questions
Seedance 2.5 is the default and the best quality, at 1080p and up to 30 seconds. Seedance 2.0 Fast is quicker and uses fewer credits, and Seedance 2.0 Mini uses the fewest; both are 720p and up to 15 seconds. Name the model in your message to the Tella Agent.
Only if you made the image with Seedream 5.0 Pro or Seedream 5.0 Flash in Tella in the last 30 days and haven't changed it. Uploaded photos, Sunburst or Flare images and frames taken from a video are refused as reference images when they show a person.
ChatGPT, Claude Code, Cursor and Codex can. Connected to Tella's MCP server, they call generate_video, which uses Seedance 2.5 unless they pick another model, and then place the clip in your video. The Tella connector in Claude's apps doesn't include the generation tools.