The Master Guide / 07 Video with Seedance · Setting up a shot
Platform facts and settings
Set every setting on every job. Several platform defaults are wrong for production.
Set every setting on every job. Several platform defaults are wrong for production.
Setting | Choose |
Mode | Omni-reference. Text-to-video (the platform default, which takes no media) only for an unlocked environment or an exploratory angle. Video edit and extension for their own jobs; a video edit is billed by the source's length and ignores duration and aspect. |
Duration | Whole seconds, 4–30, always set. Unset gives 5 s; an unsupported value is changed, not refused. |
Draft and finish | A 480p draft in Draft Mode, then the 1080p finish of that same draft; 720p only where Draft Mode refuses a job. |
Resolution | Always set on a direct take; the default is 720p. |
Aspect ratio | 21:9, 16:9, 4:3, 1:1, 3:4 or 9:16 (no 4:5); never "auto". Generate each master natively; never crop 9:16 from 16:9. The one exception is the reframed remainder of a feed edit: its opening shots are generated natively in 9:16, and the rest of that version is reframed from the master (see Graphics, captions, versions and delivery → Versions). |
Audio | Always set. On for ordinary shots; off for sound-off speaking plates, video edits, video-to-video, and abstract or graphics plates. |
Media | Up to 30 images (counting frames), 10 videos and 10 audio clips, 50 in all; video and audio clips 2–30 s each, at most 30 s of each in total. An audio reference needs an image or video beside it; an end frame needs a start frame. |
Not available | Seed, negative prompt, genre, camera or multi-shot fields. Write physics and light in words. |
Output and price | 24 fps, no native 4K. 3, 7 and 16 Higgsfield credits (cr) a second at 480p, 720p and 1080p, whatever the references, audio or aspect. |
Checked on the platform in October 2026; check your prices before each take.
Do it yourself
Set up a Seedance job (Higgsfield app)
The app's screens change often, so these steps say what to set, not where each control sits. Find each one on the generation screen before you submit.
Choose Seedance 2.5 by name as the video model.
Choose the mode that takes references (the app labels it References; this Guide calls it omni-reference). A text-only mode takes no media, so any reference you add under it does nothing.
Set the duration in whole seconds, from the shot's row in your plan. Left unset, the job runs 5 s.
For a draft, choose Higgsfield's Draft Mode (480p) where the app offers it; the 480p resolution setting on its own is a direct take, not a draft. For a direct take, set the resolution yourself: left unset, it comes back at 720p.
Choose the master's aspect ratio. Never leave it on "auto".
Set the audio on or off as the table says. Don't trust whatever it was set to on the last job.
Before you submit, read the job's credit cost on the Generate button and check it against the estimate. Expect about the seconds times 3 cr for a draft, 7 for 720p, 16 for 1080p, and twice that for two outputs. If the button shows another figure, the button wins: write it with the date in your price ledger (see Planning, budgets and takes → Costs and the estimate).
After a timeout or an error, check your list of past jobs before you submit again: a blind resubmit can charge twice.