Seedance 2.0 Prompting Tutorial

18-min video: a free Claude skill that writes time-coded Seedance 2.0 shot lists

Tier B · UsefulVideoAgent SkillPrompt Packyoutube.com

A YouTube tutorial by Rourke Heath (founder of Gen HQ) on prompting ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 video model through Higgsfield. Its actual deliverable is a free downloadable Claude skill called 'video prompt builder' that turns a one-line idea into a granular, timestamped shot list covering lighting design, hex colour palettes, camera behaviour, particle and atmospheric effects, character presentation and mood. The video demonstrates four workflows: seamless transitions from a live-action start frame, VFX shots, camera-tracked 3D text as an After Effects replacement, and 15-second Meta ad creatives from a single prompt. It also explains Omni reference, where you upload character sheets, location plates and text plates as prompt ingredients instead of a start frame.

For an agent

Reach for this when a user asks you to write a Seedance 2.0 or Higgsfield video prompt and you need the house format: 2-second shot blocks with explicit camera move, lighting, colour hex, and audio layer per block. The two hard operational constraints it states are worth carrying into any prompt you generate — Seedance caps prompts at 4,000 characters and Higgsfield at roughly 3,000, so budget length before you write, and emit only the shot list, not the 'master effects inventory' scaffolding. Do not treat the linked Claude skill as verified: the download sits behind a YouTube description link that was not fetched, and several unaffiliated clones of the same idea exist on GitHub.

Why it is here. It is one of the few Seedance walkthroughs that treats prompt authoring as a structured artifact — a reusable Claude skill — rather than a list of magic words, which is exactly the shape an agent can reuse.

Install command, framework, licence and component list.

Facts

License: Unknown
Pricing: Free, Free but account required
Framework: Not applicable
Styling: Not applicable
Distribution: Article, thread, or post, Agent skill / rules pack
Platform: Web
Content type: Video, Prompts
Agent readiness: Agent skill or rules pack, Ships a ready LLM prompt
Accessibility: Not applicable
Maturity: Stable
Pricing detail: Video is free. The demonstrated generation runs are on Higgsfield (sponsor), which is a paid subscription platform; the Claude skill itself is a free download from the video description.

Notable for

free 'video prompt builder' Claude skill
2-second-block time-coded shot lists
Omni reference vs start-frame explained
camera-tracked 3D text without After Effects
states the 4,000 / 3,000 character prompt caps

Provenance

Verified 2026-08-15. HTTP 200. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYJQusOS2jI (WebFetch returned only footer chrome; full caption transcript retrieved via YouTube captions, 484 segments, ~18 min), https://www.youtube.com/oembed?url=... for the exact title 'Seedance 2.0 Officially Public! Full Prompting Tutorial (Claude + Higgsfield)' and channel 'Rourke Heath'. Description links were not resolvable, so the Claude skill file itself is unverified.

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