Costume listing clips: flame-resistant label and reflective tape

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission advises costumes, masks, beards and wigs labeled "Flame Resistant," costumes light and bright enough for drivers to see, reflective trim, and soft or flexible props. A costume listing can show each of those on camera in under 30 seconds. On Sume, three trims, a dim encode and one cue-based caption job cost $0.28, and a free filter check lets you confirm the contrast fix before paying for the encode.

What CPSC says

The commission is careful about wording: a Flame Resistant label does not mean an item cannot catch fire. Any caption you write should not go further than the page does.

Three shots that make the claim visible

For a listing, show the label, show the trim and show the prop. Film the care label close enough to read, then a torch beam across the reflective tape in a dark room, then a hand bending the prop. Each shot is 5 to 8 seconds, silent.

• Label shot caption: "Labeled Flame Resistant. Keep away from open flames."
• Reflective shot caption: "Reflective trim shows in headlights."
• Prop shot caption: "Soft, flexible prop."

Contrast: dim, then caption

A dark room torch shot can be harsh, with bright tape against black. If a caption is unreadable on a bright frame, video filter can dim the whole clip with an ops entry of dim and an amount between 0 and 1. A POST /v1/video-filter/check call tells you whether the program is valid and is free, and the encode is $0.02. Always dim before captions, since burned text would be dimmed too.

Then run video captions with cues. Cues carry your exact text, so the label shot reads as written and no speech-to-text runs.

Say what the label means

Write only what the commission writes. A costume that is labeled Flame Resistant is not fireproof, and a reflective strip is not a replacement for a flashlight. If you cannot show the label on camera, do not caption that the costume has one.

Keep the CPSC page in your listing's notes so a customer who asks can read the source.

Before you publish

Sume tools read media from your workspace, so the recording must already be a media.sume.com artifact or asset; use that URL as the trim source. Off-host URLs are rejected. A trim needs start plus exactly one of end or duration, and precision defaults to exact, which lands on the frame you wrote down.

Captions with cues take your text with start and end seconds and skip speech-to-text, so a clip with no speech never hits caption_no_speech. A caption job covers a video up to 60 seconds, which is why each clip here stays well under that. Because the three shots are separate takes of one session, you can submit the three trims together and caption each shot as its own clip, or join them first in Timeline 1.0 with audio.mode set to silence and caption once.

Check the label shot on a phone at arm's length. If you cannot read the label there, a shopper cannot either, and the card should not claim it.