ByteDance’s Volcano Engine Launches Seedance 2.5 API Draft Mode

The draft-then-render workflow is a cost-control mechanism as much as a creative one: it shifts spending decisions to after a concept is validated, which matters for teams running high volumes of AI video. The pitch rests on drafts reliably predicting final output, and that fidelity claim is the thing worth testing independently. Whether enterprises actually adopt a two-stage pipeline, rather than treating 480P drafts as a throwaway step, is the open question.