Ride a phoenix out of a thunderstorm with Seedance 2.5
A 15.7-second vertical shot, 1080×1920, 24 fps, silent. A huge crimson-and-gold phoenix climbs through a black thunderstorm above the ocean. Lightning cracks beside it, rain hisses into steam on its smouldering feathers, and the glow at the top of the storm grows into a blinding light. It punches through the cloud ceiling into a golden sunrise, its whole plumage ignites, and it glides out over a sea of cloud with flames trailing from its tail. There are no cuts you can see: it is one 10-second Seedance 2.5 clip plus a 7-second continuation built from that clip's own last frames.
Before you start
Uses paid credits
You’ll need
GeGemini
Higgsfield
FFFFmpeg
What it uses
Paid generationsThe amount depends on your Higgsfield plan and how many takes you try.Higgsfield pricing
The tutorial
Free with an account · 4 steps
Free with an account. Credits are paid to Higgsfield, not DSTACKED.
The recipe
4 steps, from nothing to yours.
Every step gives you the action, the exact input (a prompt, settings or a file) and a check to compare your result against the original.
Step 01
Make the start still
Step 02
Generate the 10-second climb from the start frame only
Step 03
Extend it forward into the ending
YoursStep 04
Trim, join and encode
Exactly what the creator used
Gemini
Any recent version
Higgsfield
Any recent version
FFmpeg
Any recent version
Higgsfield CLI (optional)
Any recent version
Gemini — gemini.google.com image generation (Nano Banana; the app showed version 2.1 in October 2026) — The start still. ChatGPT image generation works the same way
Higgsfield — Plus plan, Seedance 2.5 — Image-to-video (omni reference, start image only) and video extension (forward). About 12 credits per second at 1080p
FFmpeg — 4.4 or newer — Trim, join with a short crossfade, encode. Free
Higgsfield CLI (optional) — @higgsfield/cli 1.1.26 — Lets Claude Code quote, run and download the generations; the web app does the same by hand
Provenance: Recorded October 8, 2026: the start still was generated in Gemini by the Dstacked owner from the prompts above; Claude Code ran Seedance 2.5 on Higgsfield through the official CLI (job 2433f2f9 for the climb, job 0d7f2d61 for the extension, 204 credits) and did the FFmpeg edit.
Ride a phoenix out of a thunderstorm with Seedance 2.5Uses paid credits
Higgsfield