Remembrance Day 2026: a 'Thank a Veteran' clip from staff recordings

A business or school in Canada that wants a Remembrance Day message for Wednesday 11 November 2026 can build a "Thank a Veteran" clip from three short staff recordings: trim each to a few seconds ($0.02 per trim), detach each one's audio ($0.01), join them in one Timeline render ($0.10 per output minute, rounded up), then burn speech captions onto the result ($0.20 for a clip up to 60 seconds). That is $0.39 before any retries.

Veterans Affairs Canada's Remembrance Day and Veterans' Week page, read on 2026-10-12, gives the call to action: "Wear a poppy. Attend a ceremony. Thank a Veteran." Sume's side comes from the video trim, Timeline and video captions docs, read the same day.

What does the page say, and what does it not?

The page names the day as 11 November and points organisations to a Remembrance Day toolkit of assets to share on websites, social channels and virtual meetings. It does not say how to use the poppy in a video, so use the official toolkit assets where you want one rather than drawing or generating your own.

How do you cut the recordings?

Record each person saying one sentence, such as "Thank you to the veterans in our community." Import the files with POST /v1/media-imports, then send each to video trim with a start and either end or duration. Trim takes only this workspace's media.sume.com clips, needs an Idempotency-Key, and returns a new MP4 without changing the source.

How do you join and caption them?

Timeline wants one audio spine and ordered video slots. Detach each trimmed clip's audio once with audio detach, which returns a durable wav, and pass the three files as audio.parts[] (gapless slices, up to 20 per render). Set three video slots with matching starts and durations. Plan first: the unbilled /plan call returns duration and estimated cost.

Because this clip has speech, a normal caption job works and you can pass script_text to keep your wording exact, with the speech-to-text timings staying the source of truth for time. If alignment fails, the typed error script_alignment_mismatch tells you to simplify the script or omit it.

What does it cost?

Rates below come from the Sume docs read on 2026-10-12; check GET /v1/catalog before you run.

Keep consent simple: only use people's recordings with their agreement, and let them watch the final cut before you post.