Free Shipping Day Dec 14, 2026: a delivery badge clip for $0.68
Free Shipping Day is Monday Dec 14, 2026. Put a free-shipping badge over a 5-second product clip with Sume for about $0.68: badge image, Wan clip, overlay.
For Free Shipping Day on Monday 14 December 2026, make a 5-second product clip and lay a badge image over it that reads your free-shipping offer. On Sume that is three small jobs: an Ideogram 4.5 badge ($0.0375 at low quality), a Wan 3.0 clip at 720p ($0.625) and a compose overlay ($0.02), about $0.68 in total.
National Today (read 2026-10-11) describes the day as an online shopping event created in 2008 by Luke Knowles, where retailers offer free shipping with delivery guaranteed by Christmas. Only claim the guarantee if your carrier cutoff supports it.
What does the badge say?
Write the exact words before you generate anything, and quote them in the prompt. Short is better: a free-shipping line and your last-order date. The date is your own carrier's cutoff, not the day's date, so read it from your carrier page and enter it yourself.
The Sume image docs describe Ideogram 4.5 as ideogram/ideogram-v4.5 with quality: low|medium|high; low is the cheap tier, and medium is the default if you omit the field. Generate at low first, read the text, and rerun at medium only if letters are wrong.
How does the overlay work?
POST /v1/timeline-1.0/compose with operation: overlay places a still over a video. layout.position takes top, center or bottom, width_ratio runs 0.05 to 1 (default 0.9) and the plate keeps its aspect. The docs price the call at $0.02 flat, and both URLs must already be on media.sume.com, so import external files first.
The clip's length always comes from the video layer. The still stays on screen for the whole clip, which suits a badge that should not blink.
- Badge: a wide aspect ratio from the model list, low quality, text quoted in the prompt
- Clip:
wan-3.0, 5 seconds, 720p, 9:16, product photo as first frame - Overlay:
position: bottom,width_ratio: 0.8
What does the run cost?
All figures are list rates from the repository's pricing fixtures; the badge uses the low-quality Ideogram price.
| Step | Rate | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Badge image, Ideogram 4.5 low | per image | $0.0375 |
| Clip, Wan 3.0 720p, 5 s | $0.125 per second | $0.625 |
| Compose overlay | flat per job | $0.02 |
| Total | $0.6825 |
When should you post it?
Render the week before, so a retry does not land on the day itself. If you run several products, render each clip once and reuse the same badge across all of them: the badge is generated once, and each overlay is another $0.02.
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