The place motion check

A place can win as a still and lose in motion. Each candidate place gets one internal Seedance draft before the anchors presentation. It checks one asset, never a method.

The face motion test and the place motion check are the same kind of step: an internal check of one candidate asset, a face or a place, not of a method, made before the client sees it.

The check (decided):

1. When: after the place's master plate passes the full-size check, before the anchors presentation. About 15–27 Higgsfield credits (cr) per place: one 480p draft of 5–9 s. One draft per candidate place; then review all the place drafts together.

2. Write the draft from Template A (see Video with Seedance → Templates A, B and D): the approved master plate as the only image reference, owning architecture, materials and light; your shot plan's first move in that place, with its dose (how much the camera moves; see Camera and lens → The camera dose); the key details with counts; the live motions the place has: 2–4 outdoors or wherever the place has them, 0–1 in a quiet room. No people.

3. Review it at frames every 0.5 s (steps below) and with a tracker on the camera (see Camera and lens → Measuring the dose on the sample batch). Judge motion and geography only; a place draft is never finished at 1080p.

4. Mark every moving background detail (signs, clutter, distant vehicles, water, crowds, lights, foliage):

   • safe: it moves naturally and holds its shape; the shots write it in as live motion;

   • risky: it flickers, morphs or multiplies; the shots keep it small, distant or out of frame, and name it in the locks;

   • unnecessary: it adds nothing and risks the shot; it is removed from the plate by a new still before the presentation, checked at full size.

5. If the set itself morphs, fix the plate first (cleaner geometry, counts, a clearer anchor object), then one more draft in the next batch. Never a draft on the same unresolved problem.

6. File the notes in your take log and the asset list; the draft goes to the round's Archive. It is never cut into the film and never shown to the client.

A face or wardrobe look added after the treatment is checked in its first scene draft after approval, scheduled early. The optional 360° room turn is in Planning, budgets and takes → Choosing each generation's method.

Place motion check: {place}; {date}; draft {job}, {s} s; move: {the plan's first move there}
Set and geography: {holds | morphs at {s}: {what}}
| Detail | What it did | Verdict | What the shots do |
Live motions to write into shots ({2–4 outdoors | 0–1 in a quiet room}): {each with cause, direction and rate}
Room turn: {not made | made: what it showed, used only in the written prompts of {plates}}
Plate change before the presentation: {none | new still: {what is removed}}

Example, the kiosk street. Move: a slow push of 1.2 m over 6 s from the corner toward the counter. Set and geography: holds. The washing on the balconies lifts in the breeze and keeps its count: safe. The kiosk's bulb flickers at 4 s: risky, so it stays steady by a lock line and small in the wides. A shop sign on a far facade crawls with false letters: risky, kept blank and out of frame in close shots. A parked bicycle half dissolves at 3 s: unnecessary, removed by a new still. Live motions: washing lifting in a light breeze from frame right; a far cyclist crossing the street's end left to right every few seconds.

Do it yourself

Export frames every 0.5 s from a place draft (ffmpeg)

1. Export two frames a second from the draft:

ffmpeg -i place.mp4 -vf fps=2 p_%03d.png

1. To export the last frame too, follow The quality bar → Judging motion honestly → Do it yourself. For the tracker, follow Camera and lens → Measuring the dose on the sample batch → Do it yourself.

Sources

• Higgsfield Academy (courses) (faces and places checked in motion before they are locked).