Seedance 2.5 Just Got a Load of Awesome New Features!
Dreamina just rolled out the Seedance features a lot of us have been waiting on. The canvas got a proper overhaul, with an AI agent that will actually plan and organize a shoot for you (with some caveats I'll show you), there's finally an Elements library so your characters — voice included — follow you into any prompt, there's a new set of Skills on the generate side, and, surprisingly, MiniMax H3, GPT Image 2 and Nano Banana Pro are all sitting inside the canvas now. And then the one I think everyone's actually going to use: Seedance 2.5 Preview. Draft a shot at 480p for significantly less, dial in the prompt, then hit generate in full quality and Seedance re-renders that exact same shot at 1080. Not an upscale — a real re-render, same output. It's in preview right now; hopefully it's live for everyone within a week or so. SPONSOR This video is sponsored by Genspark — big thanks to the team for backing this one. ► Try Genspark Design: https://www.genspark.ai/agents?type=design&utm_campaign=TheoreticallyMedia04&utm_source=yt One prompt, any design, and it comes back fully editable — posters, launch kits, thumbnails, video teasers, even a web page for your film. Templates are free, and you get free compute credits every day you log in. WHAT'S IN THIS ONE - The revamped Dreamina canvas and its much-improved AI agent — plus where I'd still take manual control (the actual shot prompt). - Three tests: a PI-office dialogue scene recast with Tuesday Sinclair and James from Death Walks Into a Bar; the flamethrower-girl stress test from the Seedance 2.0 days; and the same test again, this time feeding the agent the original storyboards as inspiration. - The agent that built transparent PNGs of every element on its own, wrote its own brief and asset list, and then named my flamethrower girl Lyra. (That's the barbarian from The Bridge. Nothing conspiratorial — but interesting.) - The new edit-segment feature — and the snootiest possible fix for glowing eyes. - Elements: put a character in once, give her a custom voice, then just @ her in any prompt. - MiniMax H3, GPT Image 2, Nano Banana Pro and Seed Audio 1.0 all available inside the canvas. - PJ Ace's Skyline Heist board — character sheets, a note to the animator, and an acting system worth stealing. - Skills on the generate side: iconic film style, cinematic long takes (past 30 seconds), film storyboard, and micro-expression prompts. - Seedance 2.5 Preview: 480p drafts, then a full-quality re-render of the same shot. - What's coming: BytePlus Dramagic (script analysis, storyboarding and video review — enterprise-side, in beta) and the reports that ByteDance is close to releasing its own world model. LINKS MENTIONED Dreamina: https://dreamina.capcut.com/ai-tool/home?utm_source=Officiaaccount&utm_campaign=sd25&utm_content=25ytb PJ Ace — Skyline Heist (Nexus): https://youtu.be/vvIenAHD41A?si=v6K6oODd5jp3fium Dramagic Beta Signup: https://www.byteplus.com/en/contact-us/dramagic-x Chapters: 00:00 Not Seedance 3.0 — but a big Dreamina update 00:24 The revamped canvas 00:57 The much-improved AI assistant 01:26 GPT Image 2, Nano Banana Pro, Seed Audio 1.0 & MiniMax H3 in the canvas 02:00 Test 1: recasting a scene with Tuesday Sinclair & James 03:00 Test 2: the flamethrower-girl stress test 03:53 Wait, why did it name her Lyra? 04:17 The agent's first three shots (and the jump cuts) 05:25 Test 3: feeding it the original storyboards 06:18 The result, and my notes 07:11 Edit segment: prompting out the glowing eyes 07:45 Verdict: let the agent organize, prompt the shot yourself 08:44 Elements: characters (and voices) you can @ in any prompt 09:21 PJ Ace's Skyline Heist board 10:07 What to steal from PJ's board 11:44 Sponsor: Genspark Design 15:45 Skills on the generate side 16:50 Seedance 2.5 Preview: cheap 480p drafts 17:59 Full quality: the same shot re-rendered at 1080 18:57 Coming up: BytePlus Dramagic and a ByteDance world model? Theoretically News — the weekly newsletter: https://theoreticallymedia.com/newsletter/ CHAPTERS
