Attempts and budget per line

A hero speaking shot is high risk. Change one thing per attempt, stop on a repeated failure, and never let a deadline change the route.

• A hero speaking shot is high risk: about 62 Higgsfield credits a second expected and 123 a second at the ceiling, Sync passes included. The ceiling figure comes from creators' reports; adjust it once your own take log shows your real numbers (see Planning, budgets and takes → Costs and the estimate).

• The batch rhythm (decided): a scene's speaking shot is often its sample shot. After it, each production batch makes one new take of each shot, and you review each batch as a whole.

• Change one variable per attempt: the mouth timing against the beats, the beats themselves, the framing, the light on the mouth, or where the Sync audio sits. Note each change in your take log.

• Note when a shot passes its expected figure. Stop when one failure shows up a second time, or at the ceiling. Write down the diagnosis and what you tried, and decide at the batch review.

• Near a deadline (decided): keep making takes, batch by batch, until the deadline, each batch reviewed. A deadline never switches a shot by itself to no lip sync, an off-mouth framing, a locked camera or a re-voiced read. Any such change is your choice.

• Every batch waits for its approved estimate. Route 1, the actor's read and Seedance's own voice each run only when you choose them for the shot or the project and write that choice in the plan. Their generations still wait for the estimate.

• Measure from takes you made anyway, at no extra cost:

  • each draft check's mouth-onset offsets, against the 5-frame working number;

  • the first-plates check on the first speaking plates;

  • each Sync output's offset;

  • where you chose Route 1, its span and pause errors against the gate.

Prices, in Higgsfield credits: Seedance 3, 7 and 16 credits a second at 480p, 720p and 1080p (read Oct 2026). Sync-3 about 3.86 credits a second, from one recorded job (18.15 credits for about 4.7 s, Sep 2026), assumed to scale by the second; confirm it on your first Sync job.

"Typical" is what one keeper usually costs; the budget is the shot's whole allowance, retakes included. Higgsfield credits and US dollars (the ElevenLabs voice, an actor's fee) are never added together.