Guides
Practical guides to AI video for individuals and small teams: make a personal film, animate a photo, turn text into video, keep characters consistent, add sound, go beyond the 30-second limit.
- How to Make Product Videos with AI (No Studio, No Filming)
Turn product photos into scroll-stopping video ads with AI - slow turns, light sweeps, lifestyle scenes, vertical formats for Reels and Shorts, at under a dollar per draft.
- AI Video for Social Media — Reels, TikTok, Shorts and Feeds
How to generate vertical short-form video with AI - the right formats and lengths per platform, prompts that hold attention, sound on a budget, and a posting workflow that costs under a dollar per clip.
- How to Generate AI Video with Sound, Speech and Dialogue
Seedance generates audio natively - ambience, effects and spoken dialogue. How to prompt for sound, what audio costs on each model, and how to use reference audio for rhythm.
- How to Keep a Character Consistent Across AI Video Shots
The biggest problem in AI filmmaking is that your hero looks different in every shot. Reference images, style notes and last-frame chaining fix it - here's the workflow.
- How Long Can an AI-Generated Video Be? (And How to Make Longer Ones)
Single AI clips cap out at 15-30 seconds. Here's why, what each Seedance model allows, and the shot-by-shot workflow that turns clips into films of any length.
- How to Animate a Photo with AI — Make a Picture Come Alive
Turn a still photo into a moving video clip with AI - what to upload, how to describe the motion, what it costs, and which photos work best (and which are refused).
- How to Make a Film with AI — From One Idea to a Finished Cut
A practical walkthrough of making a personal film with AI video generation - turning an idea into an outline, a script, a shot list, generated shots, and one exported film.
- How to Turn Text into Video with AI — Prompts That Actually Work
Write a sentence, get a video clip. How text-to-video works, how to structure a prompt (subject, motion, camera, light), what it costs, and how to iterate cheaply.