Use cases
Worked examples on Sume's catalog Formats and endpoints: product video and photography, try-on, app and product ads, logo animation, and more.
Start with Ready-made Formats for product video: the Sume Format catalog
Will my AI Reel show on Instagram for TV? 13+ ratings, shared screens
Instagram says TV Reels are for shared viewing and follow 13+ ratings. What that means for AI Reels, what the page leaves out, and a frame check before posting.
Instagram for TV timeline: Fire TV test to Google TV, what to do
Reels reached the living-room screen in a US test on Fire TV, then Google TV. The dated facts, what is unknown, and a short checklist for Reel makers.
First Draft cuts one Reel at a time: rough-cut 20 clips by API
Instagram's First Draft runs inside the app on the clips you picked. For a batch of 20 talking clips, trim and join them by API: cost table, steps, one curl.
Trailer Reel for your Instagram Series: 15 seconds from 3 episodes
Cut a 5-second beat from each of the first three episodes, join them with a short fade, and burn one title line. Steps, per-job prices and a curl.
Add old Reels to an Instagram Series: audit the back catalog first
Meta's Series test groups new and old Reels on one profile page. Before picking episodes, check each Reel's length, sound and opening frame with video inspect.
Pick episode one of your Instagram Series from Edits comparison
Compare up to three Reels in Edits, pick the one with the best watch time, then re-cut it as episode one with a clean opener, captions and a next-episode cue.
Native-speaker review for an AI voiceover: a 10-minute checklist
Decagon validates locale voices with native speakers. A checklist to do the same review on any AI voiceover before you publish it in another language.
30-second UGC ad: Avatar 1.0 job or Seedance 2.5 reference job?
A talking-host 30-second ad is $7.35 on Avatar 1.0 at plus. A moving, reference-driven 30-second ad is a seedance-2.5 job (4-30 s). How to choose.
Reference ingest for a 30-second ad: shots, text and audio in one read
Reference ingest reads one clip of up to 300 s into a manifest of shots, OCR text and audio facts. Use it before remaking a winning 30-second ad.
4:5 AI video: HappyHorse lists it, Sume's rows do not. Crop instead.
Alibaba's HappyHorse text-to-video reference lists 4:5, 5:4 and 9:21. None of Sume's H3, Kling or Omni rows takes 4:5, so generate 3:4 or 1:1 and crop.
Render Reels before your followers are active: use the Audience tab
Edits' Audience view shows when followers are active. Work back from that hour: start the Sume render early, use a webhook, and price the job with a plan call.
Gemini Flash-Lite TTS for dubbing: the model is one step of five
Google pitches Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS for audio dubbing. TTS is one step; detach, transcribe, translate and rejoin are the others. Costs per step.
A 150-second Shorts episode from five 30-second AI jobs: cost
A 150-second episode takes five 30-second jobs: $18.75 on Wan 3.0 at 720p and $86.67 on Seedance 2.5 at 720p, before the Timeline join.
Poster still to a 5-second Wan 3.0 clip: cost at 480p, 720p, 1080p
One GPT Image 2.5 still plus a 5-second Wan 3.0 clip costs $0.3530 at 480p, $0.6655 at 720p and $1.29 at 1080p on Sume.
AI microdrama for Instagram Series: plan 30-second episodes
Meta is testing Series for episodic Reels. Plan a microdrama as one 30-second Seedance 2.5 clip per episode on Sume, with job-per-clip retries and continuity.
Twilight edit for 20 listing photos with GPT Image 2.5: what it costs
A twilight sky swap on 20 listing photos costs about $0.27 at medium and $1.03 at high on Sume, one reference each.
Shorts series season of 30-second AI episodes: cost per season
A 10-episode YouTube Shorts series of 30-second AI episodes costs $37.50 on Wan 3.0 at 720p and $80.60 on Seedance 2.5 at 480p, one job each.
Which second caption language for a Reel? Read the Audience tab
Edits shows where followers are and offers bilingual captions in 15 languages. Choose the second language from audience data, and burn cues for the rest.
Podcast episode art for 50 episodes on GPT Image 2.5: medium vs high
Fifty square episode covers on ChatGPT Image 2.5 cost $0.83 at medium or $3.29 at high from text, as read from Sume's estimates.
Two stills into Kling 3: 5-second reveal, silent vs audio cost
Two GPT Image 2.5 stills and a 5-second Kling 3 clip cost $0.73 silent or $1.08 with audio on Sume. How to send both frames.
Will TikTok remove my AI avatar brand account as fake?
TikTok removed 86 million fake accounts in Q1 2026 and bans impersonation. A labeled, invented avatar account is a different case, but TikTok makes no promise.
Baby shower invitation art with an API: watercolor, details in code
Make a soft watercolor invitation border on Sume with an empty center, then add the date, place and host in code so every detail is exact and easy to update.
Coffee shop loyalty card art with an API: stamps drawn in code
Generate 3:2 loyalty card art on Sume with empty stamp spaces, then draw each customer's stamps in code so the count is always right and the art is reused.
Instagram Live ad clip: burn an offer line with caption cues
Add a timed offer line to a Live replay clip with POST /v1/video-captions and cues, no speech needed. Sume bills $0.20 per clip up to 60 seconds.
Instagram Live Ads promo: make a 9:16 teaser clip with Sume
Instagram Live Ads started a general rollout on 2026-09-29. Make the 9:16 teaser that sends people to the stream with POST /v1/videos, 3 to 10 seconds.
An AI series render ledger: job id, key, plan minutes, warnings
TikTok is testing spam detection on AI-content accounts. Keep a CSV of every Sume render: job id, idempotency key, plan minutes, status, file and warnings.
Dark mode hero image: one Ideogram 4.5 edit keeps the text
Make a dark-theme twin of a light hero on Sume with one Ideogram 4.5 edit: the background changes, the headline and layout stay, and the shape matches.
Digital gift card art via API: generate the art, print the code
Make digital gift card artwork with GPT Image 2.5 on Sume, leave a clear text band, then print the amount and code in Pillow so no model ever types a real code.
Product hero video: pin the first frame to your own packshot
Use frame_images with first_frame on sume/auto so a 6-second product video opens on your exact packshot, not a regenerated lookalike.
Graduation announcement card art at 4:5, name and year added in code
Generate graduation card art on Sume at 4:5 with a clear middle, then add the graduate's name and year in code so the details are exact and easy to change.
Homebrew beer label art with an API: the name and ABV added in code
Generate square label art on Sume with no text, then draw the beer name, style and ABV in code so every batch gets exact numbers on the same artwork.
Insert a sponsor read into a podcast: TTS plus one audio concat
Generate the ad read with Sume TTS, then join it into the episode at the second you choose with one Timeline audio concat: sample-exact, $0.01 per join.
LinkedIn video ad: cut a 3-second bumper from a longer video
LinkedIn's Videos API takes MP4 from 3 seconds to 30 minutes. Cut a 3-second bumper from a finished video with POST /v1/video-trim, $0.02 a job.
LinkedIn video ad file check in Python before initializeUpload
Check an MP4 against LinkedIn's Videos API range of 75kb to 500MB before you call initializeUpload, and print the fileSizeBytes the request needs.
LinkedIn video ad thumbnail: pick a still with video frames
LinkedIn's initializeUpload takes an optional thumbnail. Pull up to 24 candidate stills from your MP4 with POST /v1/video-frames and pick one.
Live-commerce clip webhook: verify the Sume signature in Python
Verify a Sume webhook in Python: HMAC SHA256 over timestamp.raw_body, any sume-v1 entry, a 300-second window, and reject an empty secret.
AI video with native audio vs a scripted voiceover: exact words
Seedance 2.5, MiniMax H3 and Kling make sound with the picture. When a line must be word-exact, generate the voiceover with Sume TTS and join it on a timeline.
Photo to watercolor or pencil sketch with an API, composition kept
Turn a photo into a watercolor or pencil drawing on Sume: send it as an input reference to GPT Image 2.5 and say what to keep. There is no strength slider.
Pinterest visual search ads: how many image variants per call?
Sume's image API takes n up to 10 per call, with lower per-model ceilings. Read the n range from the endpoint record before you plan a variant set.
Pinterest visual search ads: a lifestyle scene from one product photo
Pinterest's visual search ads are a planned beta. Generate a lifestyle image from one product photo with POST /v1/images and an input reference, ratio 2:3.
Pinterest visual search ads: a transparent-background product cutout
Visual search ads match your product by its look. Ask for background: transparent on openai/gpt-image-2.5 and keep a clean PNG cutout of each item.
Product video for ecommerce: a white-background photo to 9:16
Turn a white-background product photo into a 5-second vertical scene with POST /v1/videos, seedance-2 and an image_url input reference.
Reddit 15-second ad: join hook, demo and offer, then plan first
Build a 15-second ad from three clips on Timeline 1.0 and check its length and cost with the unbilled /plan call before you pay for a render.
Reddit 15-second engaged views: does your voiceover CTA land?
Reddit's Engaged Video Views beta bills videos over 15 s at 15 s. Use TTS word timestamps to check that your call to action is spoken before second 15.
Reddit 15-second video ad: burn captions so it reads on mute
For a 15-second Reddit video ad, burn captions into the cut with POST /v1/video-captions: one $0.20 job, style slam for English, no new edit.
Reddit 15-second ad: find the best 15 seconds with video frames
Before cutting a long ad to 15 seconds for Reddit, pull up to 24 stills with POST /v1/video-frames, one every two seconds, and choose where the cut starts.
Reddit's 15-second video views: what a 15 s clip costs on Sume models
Reddit bills videos over 15 s at 15 s in its Engaged Video Views beta. A 15-second clip costs $1.88 on Wan 3.0 at 720p or $2.10 on Kling 3 without sound.
Restaurant table tent art: Ideogram 4.5 at 3:4, specials quoted
Make table tent artwork for a restaurant: a 3:4 Ideogram 4.5 image with each special quoted in the prompt, a price check, and the real cost per tent on Sume.