Snow-removal sign-up clip: trim your truck footage, add a voice

For a snow-removal sign-up clip, film 30 to 40 seconds of your truck and crew once, trim the two best moments with Sume's video trim, add a spoken line about the seasonal contract, and render a 20-second vertical clip. The Sume cost is about $0.16. Because the footage is yours, nothing in the clip is invented: your truck, your lot, your logo.

Seasonal contracts are bought before the first storm, so the clip has a window of weeks, not days. Make it once and reuse the cut for every neighborhood. The sign-up line should name the service area, the season price or the per-visit rule, and one way to reply, and nothing else.

What footage do you need?

Two shots carry the clip: the plow clearing a driveway edge or a lot, and a salt spreader pass. Film each for at least eight seconds, because trim takes a start time plus an end or a duration, and a few spare seconds let you choose the cleanest eight. Import the raw file first, since Sume's trim and Timeline read only workspace-hosted media.

How do the trims work?

Video trim cuts a [start, end) range out of one hosted clip into a new MP4 and leaves the source unchanged. You send the clip URL, a start in seconds, and one of end or duration. Each trim is a flat $0.02 job, so two trims are $0.04.

The render's sound comes from the audio spine you supply, here the voice-over, so the engine noise on the raw clip does not reach the result. If you add a music bed as the soundtrack, a duck value lowers it under the voice.

What does the voice say?

Keep to about 350 characters: who you are, the service area, what the seasonal contract includes, and one way to sign up. Voice-over is billed per 1,000 characters at $0.0475, so 350 characters is $0.0166 before rounding. Spaces and punctuation count, so a phone number written as digits and dashes still costs characters. Read the script aloud once before you submit it: a line you stumble on will sound stiff when it is spoken for you.

Can you make a version per neighborhood?

Yes: swap the spoken line and keep the video. Each new voice costs about a cent and a half, and each new render is another $0.10, so ten neighborhood versions cost roughly $1.17 on top of the first. Reuse the same two trims across all of them, since a trim does not change when the voice does.