AI backdrops for TikTok Shop: staging must match what you sell

One line of the TikTok Shop page is easy to miss in a generated scene: for LIVE, "Your LIVE background and staging must reflect the products you are actually selling." That sentence is under the LIVE-specific rules, so apply it as written to LIVE and as a sensible check on posted videos.

A review pass

• Is every prop in frame something you sell or normal context for it?
• Does the backdrop imply a feature the product lacks?
• Is the product the sharpest, brightest thing in frame?

Cheap pixel fixes

The video filter API has a dim op that multiplies luma by an amount in (0, 1], so 0.45 makes the clip darker, and a crop op with fractions of the frame. Both return a new MP4. The check route validates the program for free first, and an encode costs $0.02 per job.

Free check

The dry run: no job is created.

import json, os, urllib.request

body = {
    "video_url": "https://media.sume.com/artifacts/example/shot.mp4",
    "ops": [{"op": "dim", "amount": 0.6}],
}
req = urllib.request.Request(
    "https://api.sume.com/v1/video-filter/check",
    data=json.dumps(body).encode(),
    headers={
        "Authorization": "Bearer " + os.environ["SUME_API_KEY"],
        "Content-Type": "application/json",
    },
    method="POST",
)
print(urllib.request.urlopen(req).read().decode())

Limit

Filters adjust pixels. They cannot make a mismatched prop honest; regenerate the scene instead.