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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 and the mistake to avoid. The ready-made prompt lives inside AI Creative OS.
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 a prompt that tells it to follow the red path and erase it, 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".

🔒 DRONE PATH PROMPT pack · members
The exact Seedance flight prompt

This guide is the full process. The ready-made version lives inside AI Creative OS on Skool, next to every other prompt pack I post.

How the prompt is built
  • First, tell the model to remove the red lines and arrows: they are only camera movement guides
  • Then the shot: a first person FPV take, one fast continuous move that follows the red path in the direction of the arrows
  • Lock it to the reference: fly only through the city shown in the references and do not invent landmarks
  • Finish with realism cues: real drone physics, banking turns, depth and parallax, and a no jitter, no warping line
Inside the members pack
  • The exact prompt behind the Bratislava Castle FPV flight
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