47 minutes of footage in 30 s chunks: upscale, trim and join $31.96

Upscaling 47 minutes of footage on Sume costs $31.96 when you cut it into 94 chunks of 30 seconds, upscale each chunk, and join them back into two timeline renders. The upscale itself is 2,820 seconds x $0.009 = $25.38. The trims add $1.88 and the renders add $4.70.

Why chunks

Video upscale accepts at most 30 seconds of input per job. A 47-minute file is 2,820 seconds, so you need 2,820 / 30 = 94 jobs. Trim cuts a range out of a Sume-hosted clip into a new MP4, at a flat $0.02 per trim job. Those 94 trims cost 94 x $0.02 = $1.88.

Joining is a timeline render. A render is $0.10 per output minute, rounded up, with a one-minute minimum and a 30-minute maximum per render. 47 minutes does not fit in one, so split it: 60 chunks make a 30-minute render ($3.00) and the remaining 34 chunks make a 17-minute render ($1.70).

What this total leaves out

The list above assumes the footage already sits in your Sume workspace as a hosted clip, because trim reads a media.sume.com artifact and does not fetch from the open internet. Importing the file first is a separate step. Check the media import docs for its cost before you quote a customer.

It also assumes you want every second. If only 12 minutes are worth upscaling, the upscale line is 720 x $0.009 = $6.48 and you save the other trims and renders too.

Cut points and checks

Cut on scene changes where you can. A hard 30-second cut in the middle of a shot can leave a visible step where two upscaled chunks meet. Trim accepts a start and either an end or a duration, so you can shift each boundary a second or two to land on a cut.

Keep a table of chunk index, start, end, trim job id and upscale job id. A job that fails costs you a retry of one chunk, not 47 minutes. The 30-second cap post shows the pattern at smaller scale.

Cheaper variants

If you can skip the join, you save $4.70. Delivering 94 separate 30-second files is rarely what an archive client wants, but delivering one file per scene is. In that case trim on scene boundaries instead of every 30 seconds and upscale each scene up to its own length, so long as no scene runs over 30 seconds.

If some footage is already high resolution, leave it out. A short list of what to upscale is the biggest lever: every 10 minutes you remove takes off 600 x $0.009 = $5.40.