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
Shorts under 10M views: YouTube's shopping and brand deal incentives
YouTube's 2027 update says Shorts channels below 10 million views can reach new incentive programs: shopping bonuses, brand deal incentives, trend boosts.
YouTube subtitle files: SRT has no styling, so burn captions with Sume
YouTube accepts SRT with no style info and TTML with styling and positioning. For a look you control, burn captions with Sume and keep a sidecar too.
Zalando bans non-English text on primary views: check AI images
Zalando's guidelines prohibit non-English text on primary views. Generated images can add stray lettering; a check to run on every primary shot.
Zalando designer apparel needs 5 views, shoes 4: a batch grid
Zalando's Premium/Designer guide lists five views for apparel, four for shoes and bags. A per-SKU shot grid, and which views to leave to a photographer.
Zalando Premium/Designer: model views need real models, not AI
Zalando's Premium/Designer image guide says model views need real models, not AI-generated. What that leaves for Sume: packshots, retouching and checks.
Zalando adds light grey behind white packshots: what to upload
Zalando says it applies a light grey background to primary packshots submitted on white. Send pure white, not grey. How to ask Sume for it.
YouTube "Edit into a Short": 60 seconds, public videos only
YouTube's Remix > Edit into a Short takes up to 60 seconds of your own public video. The rules, the music limit, and when to cut the clip with Sume instead.
YouTube Shorts remix: Cut is 1-5 seconds, plus 3 other modes
Shorts Remix offers Cut (1-5 seconds), Green screen, Collab and Template, with audio sampling up to 90 seconds. What each does and where Sume fits.
Remixed Short after the source is deleted: muted or removed
If the original creator deletes or restricts a source, remixed audio is muted, set to unlisted and deleted in 30 days; video remixes are deleted. Plan for it.
Add yourself to an AI video with a reference photo (Gemini Omni)
How to put a real person into a new AI clip from a photo: what YouTube's Shorts Remix offers, and the Sume request with reference_image_urls and IMAGE_REF tags.
AI music video from a song: Flow Music vs Lyria plus Timeline on Sume
Flow Music uses Gemini Omni to direct a music video by conversation. How to build a song with Lyria 3.5 and cut clips to it with Timeline 1.0 on Sume.
AI video with readable on-screen text: Kling 3.0 or Seedance 2.5
Kling pitches native text rendering; Dreamina pitches clean frames for text editing. What each page says and the Sume route that guarantees your exact words.
beehiiv audio block: make the MP3 from a video issue
beehiiv posts take mp3, wav, ogg, flac, aac and webm audio. Pull a 128 kbps MP3 out of your video issue with Sume's audio detach, $0.01 a job.
Canvas upload by URL: send lecture clips cut per module
Canvas can fetch a file from a public URL. Cut a recorded lecture into one clip per module with Sume's video trim, then hand Canvas each clip's URL.
Google Meet speech translation: caption the recording with Sume
Meet translates live speech between English and five languages, one pair per call. Google's pages do not say recordings carry it, so caption the file yourself.
Instagram Reels product tags: five per post and what the API needs
Product tags on a Reel take up to 5 product_ids, need a Business Manager admin role and shop permissions. What to prepare, and where Sume ends.
Instagram trial reels: test three hooks from one source clip
Publish three trial reels that differ only in the opening, graduate the winner by hand. Cut the variants with Sume video trim, one idempotency key each.
Listing photos from a walkthrough video: 24 stills, 300 s
Pull up to 24 full-size stills from a listing walkthrough with Sume's video frames, free, on clips up to 300 seconds. Staging rules stay with your MLS.
Looping AI video: use the same image as first and last frame
Try a seamless loop on Sume by sending one still as both first_frame and last_frame to Seedance or Kling. Request shape, limits and what to check.
Make a Short look like a 1990s home video: a Gemini Omni edit
YouTube's Shorts Remix example turns a scene 1990s. The same restyle on your own clip with Gemini Omni video edit on Sume: prompt wording, request, and limits.
Nano Banana Pro 4:5 is not 1080x1350: crop and resize in Python
On Sume, Nano Banana Pro takes 4:5 at about 928x1152, not exact 1080x1350. Resize to Instagram's size locally with Pillow, with the small crop explained.
News video reaches 77% weekly: cut platform-native versions
Reuters Institute's 2026 report says 77% watch online news video weekly. Cut one finished piece into vertical and landscape versions with Sume's video trim.
Newsletter issue as a 60-second avatar video and MP3
Turn a newsletter summary into a 60-second avatar video, then pull the MP3 for beehiiv's audio block with Sume's audio detach. What fits in a minute.
Online course, 20 three-minute avatar lessons: cost by quality tier
Twenty 3-minute avatar lessons are 3,600 seconds. On Sume that is $662.40 Standard, $882.00 Plus or $1,980.00 Max, plus $0.95 once to create the avatar.
Restaurant daily special video: change the price with cues
Reuse one silent dish clip and burn a new special and price each day with Sume caption cues: $0.20 a job, $1.40 a week, within Google's 30 second limit.
SaaS onboarding videos: one avatar job per checklist step
Each avatar job runs 4 to 60 seconds. Make one short video per onboarding step with a per-step idempotency key and a webhook, instead of one long welcome video.
Shorts Remix opt-out: what YouTube says, and remixing your own
YouTube says creators can opt out of visual remix in Shorts Remix. What the blog confirms, what it leaves open, and how to make an AI variant of your own Short.
Spotify Partner Program in 35 new countries: trailer clips
Spotify's podcast Partner Program reaches 35 more countries this fall. What the thresholds mean, and how Sume cuts the trailer and clips with video trim.
Substack free portion of a video: cut the public teaser clip
Substack lets publishers pick a free portion of an episode. Cut a matching public teaser for social with Sume's video trim and caption it for sound-off feeds.
Substack video in email is a clickable image: pick the still
Substack plays video on the web but shows a clickable image in email. Pull candidate stills from your clip with Sume's video frames: unbilled, up to 24.
TikTok in-feed ad caption rules: no hashtags, @ or clickable links
TikTok non-Spark in-feed ad captions are white in a fixed font, cannot hold links, @ symbols or hashtags. Where a burned-in caption fits instead.
TikTok in-feed ad minimum 516 kbps bitrate: what Sume gives you
TikTok's non-Spark in-feed ad spec asks for 516 kbps or more, 500 MB or less. Sume's trim and filter docs list no bitrate control, so here is the check.
TikTok in-feed ad file types: MP4, MOV, MPEG, 3GP or AVI?
TikTok's non-Spark in-feed ads accept five file types, Spark only .mp4 or .mov. Sume trim returns MP4, so a trimmed AI clip fits both.
TikTok Shop AI video penalties: link removal and Health Rating
TikTok Shop's AI content rules list what happens to violating videos: reduced reach, product links removed and Creator Health Rating points deducted.
TikTok Shop bans fictitious listings and joke videos: AI check
TikTok Shop's March 25, 2026 policy bans fictitious listings and joke or meme content. How to keep AI product videos on the right side of it.
TikTok Shop's 5 non-interactive videos in 7 days limit and AI clips
TikTok Shop caps you at 7 videos for 7 days after 5 non-interactive or misleading ones, and the rule names AI content. What it means for AI product clips.
TikTok Spark Ads limits: 10,000 per account and 20 codes a batch
TikTok Spark Ads allow 10,000 per account, 20 video codes per batch authorization, and Duet or Stitch posts need codes from both creators.
TikTok Spark Ads code: 7, 30, 60 or 365 days, caption locked
TikTok Spark Ads authorization codes last 7, 30, 60 or 365 days and the post caption cannot change once authorized. Prepare an AI video accordingly.
TikTok Spark Ads: no duration limit listed, MP4 or MOV, 4 lines
TikTok's in-feed ads page lists Spark Ads as .mp4 or .mov, no duration restriction, caption taken from the organic post up to four lines.
Turn an Instagram carousel into a Reel with Sume Timeline
A carousel holds up to 10 slides and a Reel cannot sit inside one. Sume Timeline turns the slides into a 1080x1920 Reel: stills hold, silence is allowed.
Which LLM should drive an AI video agent on Sume? A catalog table
Five orchestrator families sit in Sume's Agents catalog. The vendor-page limits that matter for a video agent, and what the LLM does and does not decide.
YouTube's AI Shorts tools are missing in the EU: what to use
YouTube's AI tools for Shorts are unavailable in the EEA, and some in the UK and Switzerland. Where they work, how they auto-label, and a Sume path elsewhere.
YouTube podcast-to-Shorts conversion: four countries, or Sume
YouTube Studio turns podcasts into Shorts only in Australia, Canada, the UK and the US. How to cut podcast clips with Sume video inspect, trim and captions.
YouTube Shorts drafts are stored on your device only
Shorts drafts save locally with no quantity limit and are lost if you delete the app or change devices. How to keep a master file so a Short is never lost.
Add a cold open to a YouTube video: move the best 10 seconds first
Put your best 10 seconds at the start of a video: detach audio once, then one Timeline 1.0 render with audio.parts and source_in. Plan call is free.
AI ambient rain or white noise track: a Lyria prompt and a loop
Sume's music route makes tracks, not sound-effect loops. How to prompt an ambient bed, what to expect, and how to loop it under a long video with Timeline.
Poll sticker on a Short made outside YouTube: what works
Poll and Quiz stickers are YouTube app features, and a poll drawn into the video is just pixels. What the help page says, and what Sume can burn in.
Can you edit an Instagram Reel after posting? Only these four things
After you share a Reel you can change the caption, cover, tags and location, not the video. A pre-post checklist and how to re-cut a clip with Sume.