3-minute holiday gift guide Short from six Wan 3.0 clips: $23.06

A 3-minute gift-guide Short built from six 30-second Wan 3.0 clips costs $23.06 on Sume: $22.50 for the clips at 720p, $0.13 for the voice-over, $0.13 for the music bed and $0.30 for the Timeline render. YouTube's help page says Shorts can be up to 3 minutes long.

Wan 3.0 is the practical pick here because it renders up to 30 seconds in one clip, so a 3-minute video needs six clips and five cut points, not eighteen clips and seventeen.

Receipt

Wan 3.0 at 720p lists at $0.10 per second (fal 2026-08-24) and bills at $0.125. A 30-second clip is $3.75 and six are $22.50. A 3-minute script of about 2,700 characters at $0.0475 per 1,000 characters is $0.1283, billed as $0.13. The Music Router track is $0.125, billed as $0.13. Timeline is $0.10 per output minute, and 3 minutes are $0.30.

Structure that holds a viewer for three minutes

Six clips map cleanly to six gift ideas of 30 seconds each. Write the script so each gift gets one hook sentence, one reason, and one price line, and keep the clip prompt for each gift specific to that product category. Timeline places each clip at the start time you declare on the voice spine, so read the script's timing and set the six starts to match, with a 0.25 second fade between clips as in the docs example.

Mixing and limits

Timeline accepts a soundtrack bed with duck_db, so the music drops while the voice speaks. Ducking requires a real audio spine, and every media URL must be a Sume-hosted artifact, so import first. Timeline's maximum is 1,800 seconds, far above this build.

Set generate_audio to false on the clips if you do not want Wan's own sound, since the voice is the spine. Check that the 30-second clips are 9:16 before assembling, because Timeline's default output is 1080×1920 and fit: cover crops anything else.

What to cut if the budget is $15

Whichever you pick, review a 480p draft of the first two clips before you spend on the rest.

• Render the clips at 480p instead: 6 × 30 × $0.0625 = $11.25, which gives a total of $11.81.
• Use four 30-second clips and a 2-minute script: 4 × $3.75 = $15.00 plus about $0.50 of audio and render.
• Cut to 90 seconds with three clips: 3 × $3.75 = $11.25, plus about $0.07 voice (1,350 characters), $0.13 music and $0.20 Timeline, for $11.65.