A blocked 75-second Short: re-score it for $0.325, not re-shoot it

If a Short over one minute is blocked because of a copyright claim on its music, and you still have the clips and voice, the cheapest repair on Sume is a new generated bed plus one Timeline render. For a 75-second Short that is $0.125 for the track and $0.20 for a render billed as 2 minutes: $0.325 in total, before footage you already own.

YouTube's help page says a Short over one minute with an active copyright claim of any type is blocked globally, is not playable or recommended, and is not eligible for monetization, with no penalty to the channel (read 2026-10-08). It lists two ways out: remove the claimed content, or dispute the claim if you think it is an error.

The repair, step by step

This assumes you kept the source clips, the voice file and the Timeline document. If you kept only the final MP4, you cannot separate the music from the voice with Sume (there is no stem split), so the repair there is a trim, not a re-score.

• Generate a new bed through the Music Router with a brief that avoids named artists. $0.125, flat.
• Re-render with the same document and the new file as soundtrack.url, keeping duck_db if a voice is on the spine. $0.10 per started output minute.
• Upload the new file as a new video. The help page says that once a claim is resolved the old Short becomes viewable again, but a re-score is a new upload, not a resolution of the old claim, so the old Short stays blocked until the claim is resolved or removed.

What it costs at three lengths

The Timeline 1.0 render is $0.10 per output minute, rounded up, so 75 seconds and 120 seconds both bill 2 minutes. The 180-second cap of a Short bills 3.

Trim instead of re-score

A Short shorter than one minute is outside the claim rule: the page says there are no changes in limitations for Shorts under one minute. If the claimed section is the tail, a video trim to 59 seconds is $0.02 per job, cheaper than the $0.225 re-score. But a Short under one minute with a claim can still carry the claim, with the limitations it had before.

So decide by what the viewer needs. If the 75 seconds matter, re-score ($0.325). If the first 59 seconds carry the message, trim ($0.02). If the music is the point of the video, neither helps, and you should change the idea.