writing-video-prompts

# Clip prompts Turn a clip into a prompt its video model will honour. **Text only — nothing is generated here.** **A video may be one clip or several.** Write a prompt for every clip in it, then hand them all back together. Clips in one video share a model, an aspect ratio and a look. Write only what the clip actually has. No person on camera means no performance direction, no product means no product rules, no speech means no dialogue. ## Workflow ### Step 1: Read what the clip has Ask only for what would change the prompt and can't be defaulted. - **The model and the duration.** Where no model was named, use `seedance-2.0-fast` and say so. The aspect ratio is a call parameter rather than prompt text — carry it if it was given, don't ask. - **What happens in the clip** — as beats, or as a single action. - **The media, and what each one is for** — a storyboard sheet, a start frame, an end frame, reference images, a source video, an audio track. **Any of them may be absent**, and they differ from clip to clip. - **The dialog segment**, where anyone speaks, and whether they are on camera or heard over the picture. ### Step 2: Pick the clip's form **With a storyboard sheet, one cut per panel** — panel 1 is the first cut, panel 2 the second, hard cut between them. Without a sheet, cut only where the brief asks for one. **Where a beat's opening frame is fixed** — by a panel or by a start frame — the hands, the grip, the product, the props and the positions are ...