52 weeks of a 59-second Short plus a 15-second teaser: $16.64

A weekly 59-second Short with a 15-second teaser costs $0.32 in finishing jobs on Sume, which is $16.64 for 52 weeks (as of 2026-10-08). That is a Timeline render of 59 seconds ($0.10), one standalone caption job ($0.20) and one Video trim for the teaser ($0.02). It excludes generating the footage or voice, which depends on the models you choose.

Why 59 seconds

YouTube's Shorts page says any Short over one minute with an active copyright claim is blocked globally, with no monetization, while Shorts under a minute see no change in limitations. A weekly show that uses music is better off under that line. Fifty-nine seconds is also inside Sume's caption price window: the docs state the $0.20 caption price for videos of 60 seconds at most, under the current fixed estimate.

The week's order of work

Render the 59-second Short first, since the teaser and the captioned version both start from it. Trim the teaser from the uncaptioned render: set start to the moment of the hook and duration to 15, with exact precision for a frame-accurate cut. Then send the caption job on the full Short. Video captions needs a public HTTPS URL, while Video trim needs a Sume-hosted clip, so keep the render on media.sume.com for the trim and use its public URL for the captions.

Each submit needs an Idempotency-Key, so build the key from the week, such as short-2026-w41-render, short-2026-w41-teaser and short-2026-w41-captions. If a network error hides the response, re-send the same key and the same body and you do not pay twice.

What moves the number

Three things. A Short that grows to 61 seconds bills 2 render minutes, so the render becomes $0.20 and the weekly total $0.42 ($21.84 a year). A caption job on a clip over 60 seconds has no stated price in the docs, so read the live catalog before you plan on $0.20. A music bed adds $0.125 per Music 1.0 generation if you make a new one each week: $6.50 over 52 weeks.

None of these numbers include the cost of the footage. They are the finishing jobs only, and they are flat, so the yearly figure is easy to check: 52 x $0.32 = $16.64.

Three scenarios for the year

Posting cadence changes the total linearly, because every price in the table is flat. Twice a week is 104 x $0.32 = $33.28. Every weekday, 260 x $0.32 = $83.20. If you drop the teaser, the weekly figure is $0.30 and the year is 52 x $0.30 = $15.60. If you skip the stand-alone caption job because your footage already has burned text, it is $0.12 a week and $6.24 a year. Write the cadence into your budget as a count of jobs, and the totals follow from the catalog prices you read on the day.