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
Same-second thumbnail frames for every episode of a Shorts series
YouTube lets each Short in a series have a custom thumbnail. Pull one frame per episode at the same second with Sume video-frames so the set looks consistent.
Pre-render top 20 support answers as avatar clips; agent for the rest
Render the 20 most common answers as Sume avatar clips, serve them by intent, and send the rest to a person. Tavus Griffin is not open to customers.
Price-match and curbside end card: trim the tail, overlay, join
Add a store-policy end card to a sale clip without re-editing it: trim the last 4 s ($0.02), overlay the card ($0.02), then join in Timeline ($0.10 a minute).
Product-drop videos: one bulk queue or a scheduled run per drop?
Use a bulk queue when the drops are known now: up to 100 items, window 1 to 16. Use a schedule when each drop starts on a date. Pick one per series.
Quarterly business review recap as an avatar video, three scenes
A QBR recap fits one 45-second Sume avatar video: result, one risk, next steps. A Plus render is $11.03; keep exact figures in the email, not the clip.
Room restyle with a moodboard on Ideogram 4.5: photo goes first
On Sume the first input_references image is the room being edited and later ones are style references. Send photo, then moodboard, and omit aspect_ratio.
Incident update as an avatar video: text first, then a 30s clip
A 30-second Sume avatar clip costs $5.52 on Standard, $7.35 on Plus or $16.50 on Max (no product). Post the text update first; the render is asynchronous.
A product sells out mid-promo: swap one Timeline slot and re-render
When a SKU in a gift-guide video sells out, change that slot's source_url, run the free plan, then re-render with a new idempotency key.
Spend more, save more: three offer tiers in one clip, one caption job
Show a tiered Black Friday offer as three timed cue cards on one clip. One $0.20 caption job covers all tiers, and the savings are computed, not typed.
Store-wide sale claim in a video: choose the wording from data
ACCC sweeps flagged misleading site-wide and store-wide claims. Pick the card wording from the catalog data, then burn it with caption cues. Read 2026-10-05.
Translate small print on a pack: edit the panel crop, paste it back
For ingredient-panel small print, crop the panel, send only the crop to an Ideogram 4.5 edit at high quality, and paste it back with Pillow. Proof every word.
Turn a help article into a 45-second avatar script and render it
Cut a help article to one task of about 100 words and render it as a Sume avatar clip. A 45-second Standard clip is $8.28; the article stays the truth.
UK drip pricing: put the delivery fee in the Black Friday video price
The CMA wants the total price, mandatory fees included, from early advertising on. Build one video price card that shows it. Read 2026-10-05.
VIP early access teaser: trim 6 seconds from the hero clip, add a card
Cut a 6-second VIP teaser from the sale hero clip with video trim ($0.02), then burn the early-access time as cues. The code stays out of the public cut.
YouTube Shorts series: cut a long video into 3-minute episodes
A Shorts series needs Shorts only, portrait or square, up to 180 s. Plan windows of 170 s and send one Sume video-trim per episode with start and duration.
Same product in six Wan 3.0 shots: one reference set, one Timeline
Keep a product consistent across six Wan 3.0 clips on Sume: same reference images in every request, vary only the action line, then join in Timeline.
Nine product angles as references: MiniMax H3 Max on Sume
How to send up to nine product photos as reference images to minimax-h3-max on Sume, what the vendor limit is, and where Sume's own limits live.
Replace a green-screen background: three Sume routes compared
Seedance 2.5 advertises green-screen replacement. Sume offers a catalog Format, a Gemini Omni video edit and a filter check. Which fits which clip?
Wan 3.0's 20 reference assets: what an ad request can carry on Sume
Alibaba lists 20 reference assets for Wan 3.0, including documents and webpages. Which kinds can a Sume wan-3.0 request send, and what do you do with the rest?
Docs page to tutorial video: Wan 3.0 B-roll and your own code cards
Turn a developer docs page into a short tutorial: Wan 3.0 for B-roll, your own code image beside it with Timeline compose, so the snippet is never regenerated.
Swap a product's colorway in a finished clip: Gemini Omni edit
One approved ad, five colorways: gemini-omni-flash-1.1 on Sume edits a source video from a prompt. Input rules, what it cannot carry, and a batch plan.
Tasting menu opener: 40 s, four courses, Omni first/last frames
Four courses, four 10-second Omni clips on Sume: empty plate as the first frame, plated dish as the last. Draft at 360p, finish at 1080p, join on a timeline.
Indie game trailer: 40 s of Omni with 3-second gameplay references
Trim 3-second gameplay captures with Sume video trim and feed them to Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash as video references for a 40-second trailer. Steps and cost.
Product photo into a new scene: Ideogram 4.5, one packshot, four moods
With references, Ideogram 4.5 on Sume edits the first image and takes up to four more as references. Use that order to put one packshot into a new scene.
Add a logo to a product image: Ideogram 4.5 with two input references
Send the product photo first and the logo second in input_references on Sume, and say which is which in the prompt. Order matters: the first image is edited.
Probe a clip before using it as a Seedance 2.5 reference
Before a reference-guided run, check each source clip's length, audio and stills with Sume's video inspect, and transcribe speech at $0.01 a minute.
Seedance 2.5 reference inventory: 30 images, 10 clips, 10 tracks
A pre-flight checklist for the 30 image, 10 video and 10 audio reference slots Seedance 2.5 offers, and how to check what Sume accepts.
Renovation reveal: Omni first frame before photo, last frame after
Turn a before photo and an after photo of a room into a 10-second Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash reveal on Sume with image_url and end_image_url. Request and cost math.
Seedance 2.5 takes 30 image references per pass: a shot-list ad
ByteDance lists 30 images, 10 clips and 10 audio files per Seedance 2.5 pass. How to turn a shot list into one seedance-2.5 request on Sume, with limits.
Change the date on a wedding invitation image: one Ideogram 4.5 edit
The date moved: update the date line on an invitation image with one edit call on Sume, then check names, time and venue are untouched.
Change one label in an infographic image: an Ideogram 4.5 edit
Fix one word or number in a finished infographic PNG with a single edit call on Sume. The prompt names the label, its position and what stays put.
Translated text in an image runs longer: check fit before you publish
When you translate the text in an image into a longer language, lines may not fit. A fit checklist for Ideogram 4.5 edits on Sume, and when to redraw in code.
Replace audio from 12.4 s to 14 s of a clip with Timeline parts
Seedance 2.5 lists timestamp-level audio editing. On Sume you can detach a clip's audio and rebuild it from parts with a replaced line in the middle.
YouTube B-roll batch: ten 8-second AI clips on Sume, cost and waves
Ten 8-second 16:9 B-roll clips cost $8.00 on Omni 1080p and $10 on Wan 720p. How many waves a Free, Pro or Startup plan needs to render them.
Recipe blog post to video: scrape text, send step photos to Wan 3.0
Wan 3.0 can take a webpage as a reference at Alibaba, but Sume does not expose web_url. Scrape the recipe, then send step photos as references. Steps and curl.
Restaurant menu PDF to a vertical video: Wan 3.0 with pages as images
A menu PDF cannot go into a Sume video request. Export the pages as images, send up to 10 as Wan 3.0 references, and add the prices as captions. Steps.
Vocabulary flashcard videos: one Wan 3.0 scene per word, your captions
Make language-learning flashcard clips on Sume: one short Wan 3.0 scene per word, with the word and translation burned as caption cues you typed, not generated.
Go past 30 s with Seedance 2.5 on Sume: hand off the last frame
Seedance 2.5 extends clips in rounds on the vendor side. On Sume, pull a late frame with video frames, feed it to the next job as a first frame, then join.
Paper abstract to a 30 s explainer: Wan 3.0 scenes, claims as captions
Turn a research abstract into a 30 s Wan 3.0 explainer on Sume without invented results: the model draws the scene, you type every claim as a caption.
Change the camera angle of an existing video: Sume edit options
Seedance 2.5 advertises camera perspective change. On Sume, the documented video edit is Gemini Omni Flash 1.1 with a source video and a prompt. How to try it.
One Seedance 2.5 clip in 9:16 and 16:9: Timeline fit blur or cover
Re-generate for each ratio, or reframe a finished clip? Timeline 1.0 fit modes cover, contain, stretch and blur, with output sizes, on Sume.
Translate a restaurant menu image into Spanish and French on Sume
Translate the text in a menu image with Ideogram 4.5: one edit call per language from the original, with prices and dish names kept. Python loop included.
Mixed-language recording: detach ranges, STT with a hint per range
Split a bilingual video into audio ranges with Sume audio detach, then transcribe each range with its own language_code. Detach output caps at 900 s.
Swap the person in a clip: reference video or H3 Max Recast on Sume
Seedance 2.5 offers reference-based editing. For a straight person swap, Sume lists H3 Max Recast. When to use which, and the inputs each needs.
Employee handbook page to a 20 s training clip: one policy, one scene
Turn one handbook page into a Wan 3.0 training clip on Sume: pick the policy, picture the behavior, type the rule as captions, and review it with HR before use.
Course syllabus to a 30 s trailer: Wan 3.0 with one beat per week
A six-week syllabus becomes a 30 s Wan 3.0 trailer on Sume: one beat per week, references from course art, and a Timeline join if you want per-week control.
Release notes to video: three features, three shots, one Wan 3.0 clip
Turn a changelog into a 30 s Wan 3.0 video on Sume: one shot per feature, UI screenshots as references, exact labels burned as captions. Prompt and request.
Open house teaser: four Omni room clips, 360p drafts then 720p finals
A 40-second open-house teaser from four listing photos on Sume: image-to-video clips drafted at 360p, finished at 720p, joined on a timeline. Cost per pass.