Recast a 14-second spokesperson clip: $5.25 at 768p, $7.88 at 1080p

A 14-second spokesperson clip costs $5.25 at 768p and $7.88 at 1080p when you swap the speaker with H3 Max Recast on Sume. It is also one second below the 15-second single-shot cap, so a clip filmed as one continuous take of 14 seconds is accepted, while a 16-second take is not.

Price at 14 seconds

Recast lists at $0.30 per second at 768p and $0.45 at 1080p. Sume bills list times 1.25 and rounds the total up to the next cent.

What the shot cap means for a spokesperson

Sume's catalog entry for H3 Max Recast states that the source must run 5 to 30 seconds with no single shot longer than 15 seconds. A spokesperson clip is often one long take, which is the case this rule hits. The rule is about shots, not total length: a 28-second video made of two 14-second shots passes, and a 20-second video that never cuts does not.

If your clip is a single take between 15 and 30 seconds, you have two options. Re-cut it so it has a cut inside every 15 seconds, for example a cutaway or a punch-in, or split it into two files with video trim and recast each part. The second route costs the same per second but the two halves are independent jobs, so check that the new face matches across the seam.

Checks before you submit

The duration you send must be the inspected source length rounded up. A 13.2-second clip is billed as 14 seconds: 14 x $0.375 = $5.25 at 768p. Sending a smaller number to pay less is not a saving to plan on, because the catalog asks for the true rounded-up length.

• Length is between 5 and 30 seconds.
• No single uninterrupted shot is longer than 15 seconds.
• One public HTTPS photo per person being replaced, up to four.
• No aspect ratio, seed, first frame or audio reference in the request.

Choosing the resolution

Recast defaults to 768p on Sume. At 14 seconds the 1080p row adds $2.63. Use 768p for approval rounds and 1080p for the version you publish.

A quick example of the arithmetic in practice

Suppose a clinic films a 14-second doctor introduction as two shots, a 6-second wide and an 8-second close-up. It satisfies the 15-second shot rule. The clinic wants three different doctors from three photos. That is three jobs at 768p, 3 x $5.25 = $15.75. If the clinic runs the first pass at 768p, approves two of the three and re-runs those at 1080p, the extra is 2 x $7.88 = $15.76, for a total of $31.51. The photos were free in every job, and the soundtrack came from the original source each time.

Keep a record of the inspected duration for each file. If you later resubmit a corrected photo, the same duration and resolution give the same price, so the cost of a retry is predictable: $5.25 at 768p, and $7.88 at 1080p. Fourteen seconds is also a comfortable length for a single post on most social platforms.