52 ready-to-use B-roll prompts for AI-generated stock footage. Organized across 7 categories — nature, urban, tech, food, people, abstract, and travel. Every prompt optimized for Seedance 2.0. Copy, paste, generate.
B-roll differs from hero footage. It supports your narrative without being the focus. These principles will help you generate professional-quality filler footage.
B-roll thrives on slow, steady camera movements. "Gentle dolly forward," "slow pan left," "static wide shot." Avoid fast cuts or complex multi-axis movements — these distract from their supporting role.
Stock B-roll should be generic and reusable. Focus on hands, silhouettes, crowds from a distance, or environments without identifiable people. This maximizes commercial reuse across projects.
Lighting and mood matter more than action in B-roll. Specify "golden hour warmth," "overcast diffused light," "neon-lit rainy street." The atmosphere carries the visual weight.
Most B-roll is used in horizontal video (YouTube, presentations). Generate at 16:9 aspect ratio, 5-10 second duration. This is the standard B-roll clip length used in professional editing.
Sweeping vistas, intimate natural details, and atmospheric environmental shots. The most universally needed B-roll category.
Cityscapes, street scenes, and architectural details. Essential B-roll for tech, business, and lifestyle content.
Clean, modern shots for SaaS landing pages, corporate presentations, and tech content.
Appetizing food shots and cooking processes. Perfect for restaurant marketing, food blogs, and recipe content.
Lifestyle B-roll featuring silhouettes, hands, and anonymous human elements. Focused on mood over identity.
Mesmerizing abstract visuals and macro textures. Ideal for intros, transitions, and background loops.
Wanderlust-inducing shots of destinations, transportation, and exploration. Great for travel vlogs and tourism content.
Use Seedance 2.0 model, 5-10 second duration, 16:9 aspect ratio (1280x720 for drafts, 1920x1080 for finals). Keep camera movements smooth and slow — slow pans, gentle dollies, or static shots with ambient motion. B-roll works best with minimal camera complexity.
Yes, with a paid Dreamina plan. The Standard plan (~$9.60/month) includes commercial licensing for all generated content. Free tier output has watermarks and is personal-use only. For stock footage libraries and client work, the Standard or Enterprise plan is required. See our pricing page for details.
B-roll prompts focus on atmosphere over narrative. They typically avoid specific characters or faces, use smooth/subtle camera movements, emphasize environmental and ambient detail, describe generic/universal scenes, and specify consistent lighting. The goal is reusable support footage, not standalone hero shots.
B-roll costs the same as any Seedance generation: ~30-35 credits for a 5s clip, ~60 credits for 10s. Since B-roll is often short (5s is standard), you get more clips per credit budget. The cost optimization tip: generate all B-roll at 5s 720p first, then only upgrade the keepers to higher resolution.
Seedance does not natively generate seamless loops. However, many of these B-roll prompts (especially abstract, texture, and nature categories) produce clips that can be looped with a simple crossfade transition in your video editor. For best loop results, use static camera shots with ambient motion (flames, water, smoke) rather than moving cameras.
Generate professional stock footage with these prompts. Try Seedance 2 on Dreamina or explore more prompt categories.