St Patrick's Day 2027 is a Wednesday: a pub promo from five photos

St Patrick's Day 2027 is Wednesday, 17 March 2027, according to awarenessdays.com (read 2026-10-12). A 20-second promo built from five photos, a generated music bed and caption cues costs $0.425 in Sume rates.

A midweek date means two audiences: the Wednesday itself and the weekend before it, when many venues run their events. Make one clip and swap only the cues for each night.

When should the clips go out?

Work back from the date. The table counts days from today's check date, 2026-10-12, to the date on the source page.

What goes in the five photos and the cues?

Use four seconds per photo: the bar, the special, a staff shot, a table setup, and the address card. Suggested cues: "St Patrick's Day: Wed Mar 17" (0 to 4), "Music from 7pm" (4 to 12), "Kitchen open late" (12 to 16), "Find us on Main St" (16 to 20). Use your own real hours.

How do I build it with the Sume API?

Import the photos first (POST /v1/media-imports), because Timeline only accepts files already hosted on media.sume.com. Each call returns a job: poll GET /v1/jobs/:id/status and read GET /v1/jobs/:id/result for the video_url. POST /v1/timeline-1.0/plan is unbilled and returns the duration and estimated cost before you render. The placeholder URLs below are examples only.

# 1) bed: POST /v1/music-router/generate (prompt: instrumental upbeat folk fiddle bed, 20 seconds, no vocals) -> audio artifact
# 2) five imported photos (media.sume.com URLs) over a silent spine + bed
curl -X POST https://api.sume.com/v1/timeline-1.0/render \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SUME_API_KEY" -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: st-patricks-day-2027-is-a-wedn-timeline-001" \
  -d '{"audio":{"mode":"silence","duration_seconds":20},
       "video":[{"source_url":"https://media.sume.com/artifacts/artf_demo/photo1.jpg","start":0,"duration":4},
                {"source_url":"https://media.sume.com/artifacts/artf_demo/photo2.jpg","start":4,"duration":4,"transition":{"type":"fade","duration":0.5}},
                {"source_url":"https://media.sume.com/artifacts/artf_demo/photo3.jpg","start":8,"duration":4,"transition":{"type":"fade","duration":0.5}},
                {"source_url":"https://media.sume.com/artifacts/artf_demo/photo4.jpg","start":12,"duration":4,"transition":{"type":"fade","duration":0.5}},
                {"source_url":"https://media.sume.com/artifacts/artf_demo/photo5.jpg","start":16,"duration":4,"transition":{"type":"fade","duration":0.5}}],
       "soundtrack":{"url":"https://media.sume.com/artifacts/artf_demo/bed.mp3","gain_db":-6,"fade_out_seconds":2}}'
# 3) burn authored cues on the finished MP4
curl -X POST https://api.sume.com/v1/video-captions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SUME_API_KEY" -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: st-patricks-day-2027-is-a-wedn-captions-001" \
  -d '{"video_url":"https://media.sume.com/artifacts/artf_demo/timeline.mp4","style":"slam","cues":[{"text": "St Patrick's Day: Wed Mar 17", "start": 0, "end": 4}, {"text": "Music from 7pm", "start": 4, "end": 12}, {"text": "Kitchen open late", "start": 12, "end": 16}, {"text": "Find us on Main St", "start": 16, "end": 20}]}'

What does the 20-second version cost on Sume?

The photos are yours, so there is no generation line. Rates come from the Sume docs: Music Router charges $0.125 per generation, Timeline 1.0 charges $0.10 per ceil(output minute), and a standalone caption job is $0.20. Check GET /v1/catalog, the live catalog, before you budget. Four weekly variants that only change cues cost 4 x $0.20 = $0.80 in caption jobs, since you reuse the rendered MP4.

When is this the wrong approach?

A photo slideshow with cues is the cheap, fast option, not the right tool for every job.

• You want footage of the crowd: stills will not carry a party.
• Your event details are not final: do not render dates you may change.
• You need a licensed track by a named artist: the bed is generated and original.