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When you take the 30-minute pizza guarantee way too seriously 🍕📦
My 2nd entry for the CapCut Seedance 2.5 Challenge: "Express Delivery"!
A continuous 30s one-take action film generated with a single prompt in CapCut.
Really creative concept. This stands out from a lot of the other challenge entries i've seen
Thank you, Guoshuai! Glad you enjoyed it, really appreciate the feedback! 🙌
You are welcome 😉
The “30 minute guarantee” taken this seriously is hilarious 😂 Love that you turned such a simple idea into a full action sequence. Super fun concept, Alexander.
Thanks, Sevki! 😂 Nothing motivates an action hero quite like a 30-minute deadline and a cold pizza. Really appreciate the support! 🍕🚀
A full 30-second continuous take from one single prompt is wild. Did you have to fight CapCut for consistency across the shot, or did it mostly hold together on the first few tries?
Thanks, Diego! 🙌 Breaking the prompt into timed beats was the key. It took a few iterations, but Seedance 2.5 handled the continuity surprisingly well! 🎬🚀
Timed beats makes sense, that's basically giving the model checkpoints instead of hoping it improvises the pacing correctly. With the pizza guy's expression staying so consistent through the chaos, was that character locked in as a reference image, or purely described in the prompt each beat?
Exactly — the timed beats were there to guide the pacing and progression within the single 30-second generation. And no reference image was used for the pizza guy — his face, outfit and appearance were defined entirely through the prompt. I was honestly surprised by how...
Full project details, complete generation prompt, and workflow breakdown: 👇
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Title: Express Delivery WHAT I BUILT: A continuous 30-second photorealistic one-take action-comed...
Title: Express Delivery WHAT I BUILT: A continuous 30-second photorealistic one-take action-comedy created natively with Seedance 2.5 in CapCut Video Studio. A dedicated courier in a red jumpsuit rac…
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