Suno Hooks 9:16 short from a song vs a Sume Timeline render

Suno Hooks lets you attach a Suno song to a clip you upload and post it inside Suno as a vertical 9:16 short. Sume has no equivalent social feed, but its Timeline render defaults to 1080x1920 MP4, so you can build the same kind of vertical short with a generated track.

What Hooks does

Suno's Hooks page says clips run from 10 seconds to 4 minutes, are adapted to a 9:16 frame, and are posted to a Hooks feed (read 2026-10-02). You pick the song, upload a clip, set the start point, choose whether to use the clip's audio or the Suno track, and add captions or lyrics. It is available on the Basic plan, and commercial use needs Pro or Premier (read 2026-10-02).

The Sume route

Generate the track with the Music Router, then render with Timeline 1.0. Timeline outputs 1080x1920 MP4 by default, takes up to 1800 seconds of output, and lets the music ride as a soundtrack with loop, gain_db and a fade-out up to 10 seconds.

Clips and stills must be Sume-hosted, so import your own footage first. A still placed as a video slot becomes a static hold.

Differences that matter

Hooks is a publishing feature: your short lives in Suno's feed and uses Suno's own songs. Sume returns a file; it does not publish anywhere.

Hooks lets you start the song mid-track with a slider. Timeline's audio.source_in offers an in-point for a single spine, but the soundtrack field has no in-point, so trim the music before using it as a bed or make it the spine instead.

Music Router has no duration field, so ask for a length in the prompt, such as a 30-second track, and let the render fix the final length.