Indiegogo video 2-4 min: assemble 30 s clips in Timeline

An Indiegogo main video runs 2-4 minutes. Generated clips top out at 30 s on some Sume models, so assemble them with Timeline 1.0 at $0.10 per output minute.

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An Indiegogo main campaign video is 2 to 4 minutes, per Indiegogo support, as summarized in search results; confirm on the page. A single generated clip is much shorter, so you assemble it: on Sume, seedance-2.5 accepts 4 to 30 seconds per clip, and Timeline 1.0 joins clips and one audio track into one MP4 at $0.10 per output minute.

The arithmetic

Timeline bills per ceil output minute, and reserves ceil(audio duration / 60) minutes. The clip counts below assume full 30 s clips; shorter clips need more of them.

Clip duration limits and the Timeline rate are from the Sume docs; the docs also say to confirm the rate live in the catalog.

Timeline assembly of 30 s clips (Sume docs; Indiegogo length per secondary summary; read 2026-10-03)
Output lengthClips of 30 sTimeline minutes billedTimeline cost
2:00 (120 s)42$0.20
3:00 (180 s)63$0.30
4:00 (240 s)84$0.40

Plan first, render second

Timeline has an unbilled plan route that compiles your document and returns duration, segment count and estimated cost without creating a job. Use it before you spend. Render needs an Idempotency-Key, and every URL must already be a media.sume.com artifact or asset from your workspace; import first.

Declare each slot start on the audio spine. The first start must be 0, later starts must increase, and a transition goes on slots after the first. Slot coverage may trail the spine by at most 0.5 seconds.

curl -X POST https://api.sume.com/v1/timeline-1.0/plan \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SUME_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "audio": { "url": "https://media.sume.com/artifacts/artf_demo/voiceover.wav", "duration_seconds": 120 },
    "video": [
      { "source_url": "https://media.sume.com/artifacts/artf_demo/c1.mp4", "start": 0, "duration": 30 },
      { "source_url": "https://media.sume.com/artifacts/artf_demo/c2.mp4", "start": 30, "duration": 30, "transition": { "type": "fade", "duration": 0.25 } },
      { "source_url": "https://media.sume.com/artifacts/artf_demo/c3.mp4", "start": 60, "duration": 30, "transition": { "type": "fade", "duration": 0.25 } },
      { "source_url": "https://media.sume.com/artifacts/artf_demo/c4.mp4", "start": 90, "duration": 30, "transition": { "type": "fade", "duration": 0.25 } }
    ]
  }'

Limits worth knowing

  • Timeline audio runs 1 to 1800 seconds and video takes 1 to 200 slots.
  • Past 12 segments the default strategy chunks the render; single is refused above 12 slots.
  • Poll GET /v1/jobs/{id}/status and read GET /v1/jobs/{id}/result for the video_url.
  • Check Indiegogo's current page for the file and format requirements, which I did not verify.

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