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
Walmart rich media is restricted for alcohol, tobacco and firearms
Walmart Marketplace restricts rich media for alcohol, tobacco and firearms and may unpublish it. A category gate to run before you spend on AI clips.
Skippable YouTube ads: check the first 5 seconds with stills
Skippable in-stream ads can be skipped after 5 seconds and Google recommends under 3 minutes. Sample the pre-skip frames of a Sume clip with video inspect.
EU AI Act Art. 50(4): AI text on public-interest topics and scripts
Article 50(4) asks deployers to disclose AI text on public-interest matters unless a human reviewed it editorially. What it means for video scripts.
Election ads on Google: the synthetic-content checkbox and wording
Google election ads with synthetic or altered content must tick a checkbox, and some formats need written disclosure. What it means for generated video.
SynthID on every Gemini Omni Flash video: check it after you edit
Google says SynthID is applied to all Gemini Omni Flash output. A short plan for confirming the mark and recording it before and after a trim or re-encode.
LinkedIn video ad ratios: 16:9, 1:1, 4:5, 9:16 pixel sizes, one table
LinkedIn video ads accept 16:9, 1:1, 4:5 and 9:16 with different pixel rules and under 30 fps. See the table and how to match each ratio on Sume.
EU AI Act Art. 50(2): providers must mark AI outputs; ask your API
Article 50(2) requires providers of generative systems to mark outputs in machine-readable form. A checklist of what to ask an AI video or image API vendor.
Clean a transcript with a 2,000-character instruction, then caption
ElevenLabs speech to text can edit a transcript from a natural-language instruction up to 2,000 characters. A cleanup then captions workflow with Sume captions.
TikTok Shop Good-tier listings: five images over 600x600, batched
TikTok Shop's listing quality tiers ask for five or more images above 600x600 and a clean main image. How to batch that set on Sume. Read 2026-10-03.
Demand Gen video ads: four ratios, a 5 s floor and the 4:5 gap
Demand Gen video takes 1:1, 16:9, 4:5 and 9:16, from 5 s. How to render the four-ratio set with Sume, including the 4:5 case the video API does not list.
Faire product video: three clips, 2 GB, 1080p
Faire's video rules: 1920x1080 or larger, up to 2 GB, up to three videos. How to batch 16:9 product clips on Sume and check each file.
Yahoo Japan Brand Panel video: 16:9, 200 MB, 5 to 60 seconds
Reported Yahoo Japan Brand Panel video specs and how to hit 16:9 and 5-60 seconds with Sume: pick a 16:9 clip, stitch past the per-job cap, and probe the file.
Xiaohongshu note video: 1:1 or 9:16, 500 MB, 720p
A third-party guide to Xiaohongshu note video specs lists 9:16 or 1:1, up to 15 minutes, up to 500 MB and 720p minimum.
Naver Clip video: a 9:16 Sume clip with Korean captions
Making a vertical 9:16 clip for Naver Clip? Generate it on Sume, then burn Korean captions with the korean-ad style and language ko.
Etsy 'Designed by' AI disclosure: keep a job record per listing
Etsy asks sellers to mark AI-assisted items as designed by the seller and disclose it. Keep the prompt and Sume job id for each listing as your record.
Make 3-minute hold music for a voice agent
ElevenLabs agents can play hold audio up to 180 s and 40 MB. Generate a short loop with Sume music generation and join it into 180 s with timeline audio.
Spotify video podcast bitrate: 25 Mbit/s at 1080p, 35 at 4K
Spotify video podcasts: 25 Mbit/s CBR for 1080p, 35 for 4K, 16:9, under 10 GB and 4 hours recommended. Sume Timeline assembles up to 1800 s of audio per render.
Korea AI Basic Act: 30M won fine and a Korean-ad label
A secondary source says Korea's AI Basic Act grace period runs to Jan 2027 with fines up to KRW 30M. How to burn an authored Korean notice with Sume captions.
Playable AI worlds vs pre-rendered branches on Sume
PixVerse R2 is a real-time world model with WASD. Sume has no live session; pre-render branches with start and end frames and splice them in Timeline.
Voicemail drop: pick immediate or delayed detection
ElevenLabs added voicemail detection for Twilio calls with immediate and delayed modes. Record the message ahead of time with Sume's tts_create and drop it.
Special ad categories: no age targeting, one creative for all
Meta special ad categories drop age, gender and ZIP targeting. Build one broad creative, then queue message variants as Sume bulk runs instead of audiences.
Six-shot character consistency: Kling vs Sume references
Kling is described as keeping a character consistent across up to six shots. On Sume, use reference images or a reusable Avatar handle, and review every shot.
Threads 5 minutes and 1 GB: one render for feed and Threads
Threads video can run up to 5 minutes and 1 GB. Render one vertical master with Timeline 1.0, at $0.10 per output minute, and probe it before you post.
AI animated short film pipeline: shots, Timeline, and a score
Higgsfield published a guide to AI animated shorts. Here is the job as a Sume API pipeline: shots from /v1/videos, a Timeline cut and a Music Router score.
FTC fake followers section: what AI content teams must not buy
FTC rule section 465.8 bars buying or selling fake indicators of social media influence. What it means for AI content teams.
DOOH 1080x1920 10 s master: a render checklist
An example vertical DOOH master (1080x1920, H.264 MP4, 10 s, 25 to 30 fps). What a Sume video request controls and what you must check yourself.
SB video up to 45 s needs two Sume clips
Amazon Sponsored Brands video can run up to 45 seconds. One Sume seedance-2.5 clip tops out at 30 seconds, so join two clips in Timeline.
Midjourney V8.2 edit stills, animated on Sume
Finish a still in Midjourney V8.2, host it at a public HTTPS URL, and use it as the first frame of a Sume video request. Midjourney itself has no video id here.
H3 mixing camera, character and audio from three inputs
MiniMax H3 can mix camera movement from one video, a character from an image and audio from another. Sume's minimax-h3 takes image, video and audio references.
Shopify video limits: 1 GB, 10 min, and a 4K tier on Sume
Shopify product video reportedly allows up to 1 GB, 10 minutes and 4096x2160. Which Sume models reach a 4K tier and how to stay under the size cap.
Zalando PDP video: silent, portrait, no text, AI quality bar
Zalando's PDP video rules: silent, portrait, no text, and no low-quality AI footage. How to check a Sume clip against them before upload.
Arabic AI video: Luma's Arabic UI vs Sume prompts
Luma added an Arabic interface across Luma Agents. Sume docs list ko-KR chrome but no Arabic UI, so verify Arabic speech and text output yourself.
Snapchat Spotlight ads: 32 MB recommended, 1 GB cap
Snapchat Spotlight ads reportedly run 5 to 60 seconds, up to 1 GB with 32 MB recommended. How to produce a 9:16 clip within that on Sume.
Anime series by API: a job-queue pattern on Sume
Pika's API Club spotlights show members making anime and dramas by API. A series needs a queue: idempotent submits, polling, and a webhook as a fast path.
Turn a drawing into an image with GPT Image 2.5
Wikipedia says GPT Image 2.5 added Sketch, which turns drawings into images. Sume exposes GPT Image 2.5 with image references; here is how to send a drawing.
Netflix Ads: 10-75 s at 16:9 1920x1080, render 16:9 native
Netflix Ads video specs: 16:9 at 1920x1080, 10 to 75 seconds, H.264. Render 16:9 natively on Sume and sequence clips for longer spots.
Amazon Posts 9:16 video: render a vertical product clip
Set aspect_ratio 9:16 on a Sume video request and animate a product still as the first frame.
LinkedIn video ad under 30 FPS and 4:5: what to render
LinkedIn video ads want under 30 FPS and allow 4:5. Sume video models list no 4:5, so render 720x900 at 25 fps in Timeline and check it with video inspect.
eBay AI listing photos: the seller owns accuracy
eBay's User Agreement makes sellers responsible for listing accuracy, including generative AI content. Generate 1:1 stills from your real photo and check them.
Avatar script CTA: no click the green button, WCAG 1.3.3
An avatar that says click the green button on the right fails WCAG 1.3.3 for some viewers. How to write the spoken call to action so it still works.
Looping avatar video on a page: WCAG 2.2.2 pause rule
A looping avatar clip beside other content must be pausable under WCAG 2.2.2 once it moves for more than 5 seconds. How to meet it with a Sume MP4.
AI bookmark design via API: the tall 1:3 and 1:4 ratios on Sume
Bookmarks are tall strips. Only Ideogram lists 1:3 and Nano Banana 2 lists 1:4 on Sume's image catalog. A catalog check, a request and a crop to your template.
AI illustrated map poster via API: art first, labels in code
Generate the illustrated map art at 2:3 with Nano Banana 2, leave the lettering out, then draw every place name in Pillow from a list so none are misspelled.
AI embroidery patch design via API: transparent art, fewer colors
Generate flat patch art with a transparent background through GPT Image 2.5, then cut it to a fixed colour count in Pillow before you send it to a digitizer.
AI enamel pin design via API: flat art and a die-line in Pillow
Generate flat enamel-pin art on a transparent background, count the fills, and draw a cut line around the alpha shape in Pillow. Code and checks included.
Shopify Black Friday is 54 days out: a four-phase video budget
Black Friday 2026 is November 27, 54 days after October 4. A four-phase plan of 96 Seedance 2.5 vertical clips costs $381.17469 on Sume.
AI bingo cards: 24 pictures once, unique cards shuffled in code
Generate 24 picture squares with the image API one time, then produce as many unique bingo cards as you need by shuffling in Pillow. Code and a cost check.
AI coaster set: four designs in one call, circle-cropped in Pillow
Generate a four-design coaster set with n=4 at 1:1, then crop each to a circle with a Pillow mask. Request, crop code and a bleed note, with the cost to check.