Seedance 2.0 Fast R2V

• - 👁️ Reference-to-video mode of ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 family, speed-optimized tier.
• - 🆕 Mixes text, images, video clips and audio as references in one generation.
• - 🎯 Draws composition, camera language, motion rhythm and sound from references.
• - 📏 Up to 15-second multi-shot output with native, dual-channel audio.
• - 🔧 Also supports targeted clip editing and stable video extension.
• - 📚 Can read text-based storyboards directly as generation input.
• - 🧠 ByteDance describes 2.0 as a major upgrade over Seedance 1.5 Pro.
• - 🏢 Built by ByteDance's Seed research group; released April 2026.

ByteDance

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Seedance 2.0 Fast R2V is the reference-to-video ("R2V") mode of the Fast, speed-optimized tier in ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 video family. Where text-to-video starts from a prompt alone, R2V lets you attach reference material: ByteDance describes combined input of text, images, videos and audio, with the model drawing on visual composition, camera language, motion rhythm and sound characteristics from those inputs, and even reading text-based storyboards directly.

As a tier within the same generation, it shares the Seedance 2.0 feature set documented at launch — text-to-video and image-to-video generation, native audio, plus video editing and extension. It sits alongside Seedance 2.0 R2V for the standard tier, and pairs with Seedance 2.0 Fast for prompt-only and image-driven work in the same speed-optimized line.

Relative to its own predecessors, ByteDance frames Seedance 2.0 as a substantial step up from Seedance 1.5 Pro: fully upgraded instruction-following and subject consistency for complex stories with rich character interaction, stable and controllable video extension and editing, 15-second multi-shot audio-video output, and dual-channel audio generation.

Within this catalog, Seedance 2.0 Fast R2V sits between the smaller Seedance 2.0 Mini R2V and the later Seedance 2.5 R2V in the reference-to-video lineup, with Seedream V5 Pro covering still-image generation from the same research group.