Pika Camera Director vs a prompted video edit on Sume

Pika's Camera Director reshoots an existing scene from new angles, from extreme wide to close-up, while preserving the scene. Sume has no camera-angle parameter. The closest documented route is a video edit on gemini-omni-flash-1.1: send your clip as video_url and describe the change in the prompt.

Pika's description is from its September 17 post; Sume's edit rules are from Video Router, read 2026-10-01.

What does Camera Director claim?

Only what the post's one-line summary says: reshoot an existing scene from new angles while preserving the scene itself. It gives no limits, input sizes or pricing, so none are compared here.

How does a video edit work on Sume?

Gemini Omni Flash 1.1 is one catalog id that Sume routes by the shape of the request. Sending video_url selects the video_to_video edit: the prompt describes the edit, resolution is optional with a 720p default, and aspect_ratio and duration are not accepted on an edit. video_url is the edit source, not a reference, so it cannot be combined with image_url, end_image_url or reference_*_urls.

Can the prompt ask for a new camera angle?

You can write it, but the docs promise no outcome. They describe the prompt as the description of the edit and make no claim that scene, framing or subject are preserved across a new angle. Run a short test clip and look at the result before you edit footage you care about.

How do I run the edit?

Post to /v1/video-router/generate with an Idempotency-Key and "mode": "async", then poll the job. More prompt patterns are in video edit prompts, and the basic flow is in edit a video with a prompt.