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So fun to see how AI can transform everything around an actor's performance irl! For this hybrid filmmaking test, we took footage of an actress sipping coffee inside a simple greybox shot @promise_ai, then used AI to turn it into a bar scene, complete with a red dress and wine glass. Check out the 🧵 below for the exact steps and prompts we used in this workflow.

Greybox footage of an actress with coffee is turned into a red-dress bar scene using Seedance 2.5.

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