Claimed 140-second Short: 59-s cut $0.02 or re-score $0.425

A 140-second Short with an active copyright claim of any type is blocked globally on YouTube, so you have two practical exits besides a dispute: cut a version of 59 seconds or less, or replace the claimed audio and render the full 140 seconds again. On Sume the cut is one Video trim job at $0.02. The re-score is one Music 1.0 generation at $0.125 plus a Timeline render of 140 seconds, which bills 3 minutes at $0.10, so $0.425 in total (as of 2026-10-08).

What YouTube says about the length line

The YouTube Help page says any Short over one minute with an active copyright claim, including manual claims, is blocked globally. It will not be playable or recommended, and it is not eligible for monetization. The page also says there is no penalty to your channel, that you can remove the claimed content or file a dispute, and that the Short is viewable again once the claim is resolved. For Shorts under one minute, it says there are no changes in limitations. A 140-second Short sits well past that line, because Shorts can run up to three minutes for uploads after October 15, 2024.

The two exits priced

The table prices both paths. It assumes that for the re-score path you still hold your voice track and your clips as separate Sume-hosted files, because Timeline takes one audio spine plus ordered video slots.

Choosing between them

Cut when the first minute carries the idea and you are happy to lose the rest. The trim runs on one clip you already imported, returns a new MP4, and never changes the source. Send exact precision (the default) if you want a frame-accurate start and end, and send a duration of 59 rather than 60 because the blocked rule on the page starts above one minute.

Re-score when the full length matters. Timeline accepts a soundtrack with a gain, a loop flag, a fade-out of up to 10 seconds, and a duck setting of 0 to 20 dB under the spine. The render reserves ceil(audio.duration_seconds / 60) minutes, so 140 seconds reserves 3. Sume cannot promise that a new generated bed will never be claimed. YouTube states that royalty-free music from its own Audio Library will not receive a Content ID claim, so that is the one source the page itself vouches for.

• Trim: no provider inference, only worker ffmpeg, so the $0.02 does not change with clip length inside the 900-second output cap.
• Render: the price steps in whole minutes, so a 121-second version also bills 3 minutes; trimming to 120 seconds would bill 2 ($0.20).
• Either path starts with importing the clip to media.sume.com, because both APIs refuse off-host URLs.

A third option nobody should skip

File the dispute first if you believe the claim is wrong. The page says that once the claim is resolved the Short becomes viewable and eligible again, and no Sume job is needed for that. Keep the 59-second cut as a fallback while you wait, since at $0.02 it costs less than one minute of the render path.