Today, the Seedance 2.5 API officially introduced Draft Mode: enterprises and creators can first use 480p to quickly generate a draft, validating ideas at low cost. Once they select a satisfactory shot, they can generate the final version in 1080p. The final video is highly consistent with the draft and retains native 1080p quality, while maximizing cost savings.
Take a 5-second shot generated with Seedance 2.5 1080p as an example. Without input video, assuming four generation attempts are needed to get a satisfactory clip, Draft Mode can save 57% of the cost and nearly double the generation speed. In the complete creative pipeline of enterprises and studios, the harder the shot and the more attempts required, the more Draft Mode saves.
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Starting now, when enterprise users create video generation tasks through the Seedance 2.5 API, they can set the draft parameter to true to enable Draft Mode. For the complete invocation method, click 'Read Original' at the end of this article to view the Volcano Ark Draft Mode API documentation. Consumer creators can experience it directly in Dreamina by setting the model to 'Seedance 2.5 (Draft Mode)'.
Draft and final video are highly consistent
Seedance 2.5 Draft Mode divides video generation into two stages: draft preview and final production.
In the draft preview stage, creators generate 480p video to quickly judge whether the scene, composition, subject action, dialogue and sound effects, camera movement, and pacing meet expectations, then adjust prompts and reference materials accordingly and compare different options.
After selecting a satisfactory draft, users can initiate 1080p final video generation through the draft's corresponding ID. The model associates the draft's generation parameters, reusing the draft's prompt, reference materials, and key parameters such as seed, ratio, and duration. Under these generation constraints, it performs a second inference to ensure that, as much as possible, across the two model calls, the 1080p HD final video remains highly consistent with the draft in structure, composition, action, and overall direction.
Details in the final video, such as local textures, complex patterns, small text, and the number of people in high-density crowds, may change slightly, but the shot structure and movement performance confirmed in the draft can be fully carried over.
In addition, compared with the approach of 'generating a low-resolution video and then applying upscaling,' Seedance 2.5 Draft Mode can directly output a 1080p final video with native quality while keeping the final video basically consistent with the draft. The picture has more and more realistic details, and the lighting layers and color saturation are also more natural.
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After using Seedance 2.5 Draft, they said:
Runway: Through testing Draft Mode, we found that compared with mainstream upscaling strategies, the 1080p final video generated by Seedance Draft Mode has certain changes in details, but the details and results are actually better.
Magnific: Draft is a great feature. After testing, it is very stable, especially in two aspects: fast generation speed, and very good consistency between the 1080p final video and the draft.
Artlist: SUPER impressive! In Draft Mode, the 1080p final video has good motion consistency, without the AI feel common in upscaling algorithms, and the result is more natural. Even slight motion flaws that appear in the 480p preview are repaired after 1080p rendering.
Greatly reduces the cost of multi-round creation
In professional film and television production, creators often repeatedly compare performances, camera movement, and shot pacing before determining a plan that meets narrative requirements. Draft moves these experiments into the draft stage, and after confirmation, high-definition footage is generated. In advertising production, teams can also use drafts to explore multiple sets of creative ideas, complete internal reviews, or confirm results with clients before investing in formal production.
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Draft Mode changes the cost structure of multi-round creation and significantly reduces the cost of repeated video generation attempts.
As shown below, taking text-to-video and image-to-video as examples, you first use low-cost 480p Draft to repeatedly generate attempts and confirm satisfactory clips before generating the high-definition final video. The higher the quality requirements for the final video and the more frequent the attempts, the more obvious Draft's cost advantage. When the attempt ratio reaches 20 to 1, it can save 77% of the cost.
Since its launch one month ago, more and more enterprises have incorporated Seedance 2.5 1080p into their actual creative workflows, and Draft Mode allows 1080p to benefit more creators with a lower barrier to entry. Welcome to experience Draft Mode on Volcano Ark. Starting from your next idea, explore more possibilities in video.