$npx -y skills add calesthio/OpenMontage --skill seedance-2-0Generate cinematic clips with ByteDance Seedance 2.0 — the preferred premium video model in OpenMontage when a paid gateway is configured. Use when: (1) producing trailers, teasers, hype edits, or premium cinematic clips, (2) needing native synchronized audio (speech, SFX, ambien
| 1 | # Seedance 2.0 (ByteDance) |
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| 3 | Seedance 2.0 is the ByteDance Seed team's unified multimodal video+audio model (released Feb 2026, globally available via partner APIs April 2026). It is the **preferred premium default** for cinematic, trailer, teaser, and motion-led work inside OpenMontage whenever any supporting gateway is configured. OpenMontage wraps four gateways directly (`seedance_video` → fal.ai, `seedance_replicate` → Replicate, `runway_video` with `model="seedance_2.0"` → Runway, `higgsfield_video` with `model="seedance_2.0"` → Higgsfield); BytePlus / Freepik / HeyGen-Video-Agent wrappers are on the roadmap. The scoring engine deduplicates by `provider="seedance"` so whichever gateway the user has configured wins automatically — agents should pass `preferred_provider="seedance"` to `video_selector` (or let the scorer pick) rather than routing to a specific gateway by name. |
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| 5 | ## Why it is the OpenMontage premium default |
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| 7 | | Capability | Seedance 2.0 | Notes | |
| 8 | |---|---|---| |
| 9 | | Single-pass native synced audio | Yes | Speech + SFX + ambience generated jointly, not post-sync | |
| 10 | | Multi-shot inside one generation | Yes | Multiple cuts/shots in a single prompt | |
| 11 | | Director-level camera control | Yes | Camera language (dolly, tilt, arc, crane, handheld) honored | |
| 12 | | Lip-sync from quoted dialogue | Yes | `Character says: "..."` matches mouth shapes | |
| 13 | | Reference conditioning | Up to 9 images + 3 video clips + 3 audio clips | 12-asset multimodal | |
| 14 | | Character identity consistency | Yes | Face/subject stable across shots | |
| 15 | | Max shot duration | 15 s | auto / 4–15 s | |
| 16 | | Resolution ceiling | 1080p on some endpoints (720p default on fal.ai) | Provider-dependent | |
| 17 | | Elo (Artificial Analysis) | 1269 (#1 as of Feb 2026) | Beat Veo 3, Sora 2, Runway Gen-4.5 | |
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| 19 | Switch away only for a specific reason: strict budget (use the `fast` variant or LTX), user-preferred provider (VEO/Sora/Kling), or a stylistic fit that favors another model. |
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| 21 | ## Provider surfaces |
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| 23 | | Surface | Env | OpenMontage tool | Status | Notes | |
| 24 | |---|---|---|---|---| |
| 25 | | **fal.ai** (primary) | `FAL_KEY` | `seedance_video` | ✅ wrapped | Model IDs below. Supports T2V, I2V, reference-to-video; `standard` and `fast` variants. Default in OpenMontage. | |
| 26 | | **Replicate** | `REPLICATE_API_TOKEN` | `seedance_replicate` | ✅ wrapped | `bytedance/seedance-2.0` + `bytedance/seedance-2.0-fast`. Standard Replicate prediction API. | |
| 27 | | **Runway** | `RUNWAY_API_KEY` | `runway_video` (model: `seedance_2.0`) | ✅ wrapped | Third-party Seedance 2.0 model inside Runway. **Unlimited/Enterprise plans, non-US only**. Selected via `model` param. | |
| 28 | | **Higgsfield** | `HIGGSFIELD_API_KEY` + `_SECRET` | `higgsfield_video` (model: `seedance_2.0`) | ✅ wrapped | Seedance 2.0 is the default model on this tool. Emphasis on character identity + long-form chaining. | |
| 29 | | **HeyGen** | `HEYGEN_API_KEY` | `heygen_video` (1.x only) + TODO | ⚠️ 1.x only | The `seedance_pro` / `seedance_lite` workflow provider strings on HeyGen map to Seedance 1.x. 2.0 access flows through Video Agent / Avatar Shots endpoints — a separate `seedance_heygen` tool is on the roadmap. | |
| 30 | | **BytePlus ModelArk / Volcengine** | BytePlus token | not wrapped | 🔜 roadmap | Direct from ByteDance. Pro ~$0.15 / 5 s, Lite ~$0.010/s. Token-based. | |
| 31 | | **Freepik** | Freepik token | not wrapped | 🔜 roadmap | `POST /v1/ai/image-to-video/seedance-pro-1080p` for 1080p I2V | |
| 32 | | **Pollo / PiAPI / Atlas Cloud / AIMLAPI** | various | not wrapped | 🔜 roadmap | Aggregators resell fal.ai or ByteDance endpoints | |
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| 34 | ### fal.ai model IDs (used by `seedance_video`) |
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| 36 | ``` |
| 37 | bytedance/seedance-2.0/text-to-video |
| 38 | bytedance/seedance-2.0/image-to-video |
| 39 | bytedance/seedance-2.0/reference-to-video # 9 img + 3 vid + 3 audio |
| 40 | bytedance/seedance-2.0/fast/text-to-video |
| 41 | bytedance/seedance-2.0/fast/image-to-video |
| 42 | bytedance/seedance-2.0/fast/reference-to-video |
| 43 | ``` |
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| 45 | Pricing (fal.ai, 720p): standard $0.3034 / s (T2V), $0.3024 / s (I2V). Fast $0.2419 / s across endpoints. |
| 46 | The `fast` variant |