AI Got the Seating Wrong So I Drew a Map
2026-10-13 · Short / tip · Adil · recording, 0:49 · watch on YouTube
Topic: Video generation & shot direction · mode: Short tip · tags: cut from a long video, fiction, one creator's experience
A 49-second Short cut from Adil's delivery-app commercial tutorial: Seedance 2.5 set four places for three friends, so Adil drew a colour-coded map in Seedream of the seats, plates and phone and tied each colour to a character in the video prompt.
Part of another source
This recording is almost entirely part of How To Prompt Like a Director Using Opus 5.5 + Seedance 2.5 (Full Workflow) (2026-10-07); what is said in it is covered on that page.
What is said
- 00:00:00 — An extra place setting in Seedance and the colour-coded map that fixed it
Threads in this video
- refine · How do you write a prompt that a video model follows in every detail? — When a video model ignores the prompt, Adil says to stop adding words and draw it a map. (00:00:00)
- restate · How do you keep a location, product or prop the same across shots? — Adil makes the map in Seedream with the seating, the plates and the phone, gives every figure its own colour and maps each colour to a character in the video prompt (orange is Jenny on the left). (00:00:00)
Mentioned
Central: Map technique
Also: Seedance 2.5 · Seedream
Also centred on Map technique: How To Make Cinematic Football Ads With AI (Full Workflow) · I Made a Cinematic Ad Using Claude Fable 5 + Higgsfield AI (Full Workflow) · 3-Step Workflow To Make Ultra-Realistic AI Ads · The 3-Step Realistic AI Ad Workflow: Scene 3 — the street, and the layout map trick · Make a Cinematic Ad End-to-End: Scenes 5-6: The Duel & Round One Loss
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