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01Make the reference still02Draw the flight path on it03Seedance flies it04The mistake to avoid

The Camera Path Trick

How the Bratislava Castle FPV flight was made: draw a red line on a still image, tell Seedance 2.0 to follow it and erase it. The full method, the exact prompt, and the mistake to avoid.
What you'll make
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01Step 1
Make the reference still
Generate an aerial photo of your location with Nano Banana 2 (16:9, photorealistic, golden hour). Real places work: name the actual landmarks in the prompt so the model gets them right.
02Step 2
Draw the flight path on it
Draw a red line with arrows over the image: where the drone starts, what it loops around, where it exits. Any editor works, even by hand. Loops around landmarks and a low start over water read the most cinematic.
03Step 3
Seedance flies it
Feed BOTH images (clean + annotated) into Seedance 2.0 reference-to-video with the prompt below, audio ON for real wind and city sound. It erases the red line and flies the route with real drone physics.
04Important
The mistake to avoid
On the first try the model drifted to a more famous city on the same river and rendered Budapest instead of Bratislava. Fix: pass the clean still as a second reference, describe each real landmark, and add "do not invent landmarks that are not in the reference image".
The exact Seedance prompt (copy it)
Please remove the red lines and arrows from the final video, they are
only camera movement guides. Create a first-person FPV drone shot,
cinematic ultra-fast single take, closely following the red path in the
direction of the arrows, flying ONLY through the exact city shown in
the reference images. Stay strictly on the reference scene, do not
invent landmarks. Realistic drone physics, natural acceleration, sharp
banking turns, strong depth and parallax, subtle motion blur, high-end
commercial film quality, smooth continuous one-take movement, no jitter,
no warping, no distorted buildings, photorealistic 8K.
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