Seedance 2.5 from a node on your own fal.ai key. It reads camera direction properly, and Flowgen shows the cost before you commit to a take.
About $0.2205 a second at 480p and $0.4730 at 720p. You pay the provider; Flowgen adds nothing.
Your fal.ai key, or Higgsfield for Seedance 2.0.
A prompt, and a still to animate if you have one.
Camera language. It understands a dolly, a whip pan and a rack focus described in words better than the cheaper models, so a shot list written like a shot list comes back looking like one.
It is the most expensive video model here by some distance. A ten-second 720p take is close to five dollars, so block the shot on something cheap and come here for the final.
The Short drama template already wires it up.