How the night-stadium flight was made: one Nano Banana Pro still, a red line drawn where the camera should go, and Seedance 2.5 flying that exact line, all through one connector in Claude Code. The exact flight prompt is below, ready to paste.
Open Nano Banana Pro (gemini-3-pro-image) and ask for a real photograph, not a render: name the place, the time of day, the lens and the seat you are shooting from. For the stadium: upper tier behind one goal, night, floodlights, packed stands, 24mm, sensor noise in the dark. Set the aspect on the node (4:3 here, so it fills half of a 9:16 reel). Real places work: name the actual landmarks. This still is the only location the model is allowed to fly through.
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Draw the line
Draw a red line with an arrow over the still: where the camera starts, what it dives over, where it exits. Any editor works, even a finger on a phone. The moves that read best: start high, dive low over something close (the near goal), run the length of the space, curl up at the end. Keep the original still too. You will use both.
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Fly it
In Seedance 2.5, wire BOTH stills into reference_images: the clean still first, the marked still second (the model refuses references together with a start frame, so do not use one). 4:3, 1080p, 10 seconds, audio on. Paste the prompt below: it tells the model the first reference is the opening view, the second carries the path, and the red line must never appear. Audio on gives you crowd, wind and floodlight hum for free.
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The line that stops the drift
Keep the sentence "fly only through the exact place shown in the references, do not invent landmarks". Without it the model drifts to a more famous version of your location. It rendered Budapest instead of Bratislava on my first city flight. If it still drifts, pass the clean still twice and describe the real landmarks by name.
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One connector, then post the comparison
Both models ran inside Claude Code through the ElevenLabs connector (add it with claude mcp add --transport http elevenlabs https://api.elevenlabs.io/v1/mcp), one login for the still and the flight, and you can ask for the credit estimate before the run. Then post the comparison, not just the flight: the marked still on the bottom, the video on top, each with its model name. The drawing is what makes people stop, and for a client the red line is the storyboard.
The exact Seedance 2.5 flight prompt (copy it, change the place)
The red line drawn on the reference image is the camera path. Follow it exactly in the direction of the arrow and do not show the red line in the video.
Cinematic FPV drone shot, one continuous take, starting from the seat in the upper tier where the still was taken. Dive down over the near goal, fly low along the length of the floodlit pitch between the players, then pull up and curl over the far stand into the night sky. Fly ONLY through the exact stadium shown in the references, do not invent landmarks or change the stands, roof or floodlights.
Realistic drone physics, natural acceleration, smooth banking, strong depth and parallax, slight motion blur, real crowd and floodlight glare, night haze. Photorealistic, no jitter, no warping, no distorted people, no text.
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