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Four minutes or four hours, and the difference is decided before you open the generator. Shot list first, start frame over description, four-part prompts, three attempts per shot, and the finishing that is most of the work.

Several hundred Seedance prompts across two brands. The four-part prompt shape that took me from one usable clip in five to three in four, why start frames beat text prompts, and where the model still breaks.

Four hundred generations across two brands I actually pay for. What an AI video maker is genuinely good at, the working order that stopped wasting credits, and why the scrappy clip returned 3.3 where the cinematic one returned 0.9.