Holiday party booking promo: a menu plate over a clip for $0.02
Timeline compose overlays one still, such as a menu card, on a video for a flat $0.02 and up to 300 seconds. Here is the recipe for a party-booking promo.
To promote holiday party bookings, put a menu card over a clip of your dining room. Sume's Timeline compose does that for a flat $0.02 per job, with a ceiling of 300 seconds of output.
The Timeline compose docs describe two operations selected by the operation field: stack tiles the still and the video as two regions of one frame, and overlay places the still on top of the video as a plate.
The overlay settings
For a plate on a vertical clip, send operation: overlay with image.url (your menu card) and video.url (the clip). Both must already be hosted in your workspace. The layout keys for overlay are position (top, center or bottom), width_ratio (0.05 to 1, default 0.9) and margin_ratio (default 0.05). The plate keeps its aspect ratio.
| Key | Values | Default |
|---|---|---|
| position | top, center, bottom | not listed in the docs excerpt |
| width_ratio | 0.05 to 1 of frame width | 0.9 |
| margin_ratio | 0 to 0.45 of frame height | 0.05 |
The sequence
- Import the menu card and the clip with media imports.
- Compose the overlay: $0.02.
- Optionally burn the booking line with a caption job using authored
cues: $0.20. - Total: $0.22 for the finished promo.
What the still does
The still stays on screen for the whole clip and cannot make it longer; the output length comes from the video. Make the menu card readable at phone size: a few short lines and a date, not the full menu.
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