VEED green screen API per 30 frames: Sume has no video matting

If you need to remove or replace the background of a video, VEED lists a Green Screen API at $0.025 per 30 frames and a Background Removal API at $0.008 to $0.0225 per 30 frames, and Sume has no video background removal. The Sume docs I read describe a video filter route that dims, crops or applies allowlisted ffmpeg filters, and nothing that mattes a subject. This is a clear gap, so use VEED for this job.

What VEED lists

The page offers Background Removal with standard, fast and edge-refinement modes, and Green Screen as background removal with a green screen effect, on a pay-per-use basis with no subscriptions or minimums. Both prices are per 30 frames.

What Sume offers near this need

Sume's video filter takes one clip on media.sume.com and returns a new MP4 after a validated program of dim and crop ops or a filters-only filtergraph. The docs say it does not cut ranges and does not assemble clips. For still images, Sume's image docs say transparent stills are available through Image 1.0 with transparency true, and ChatGPT Image 2.5 supports a background field. That covers generated stills, not cutting a person out of existing footage.

Steps: when you must stay in Sume's stack

• Generate the subject as a transparent still with Image 1.0 if the subject can be synthetic.
• Keep the background as a separate clip and composite them in Timeline only if the layers can be placed as clips.
• Otherwise run the removal step on VEED, import the result into media.sume.com, and continue with trim, caption and timeline there.

What Sume does not do

No chroma key, no matting, no video background replacement and no green screen despill in the docs I checked. Do not plan a pipeline that assumes it.

What to do with the output

After a matting step elsewhere, the result is just a video file. Sume's trim, caption and timeline routes need the clip on media.sume.com, so import it with POST /v1/media-imports first. Check the catalog for the import price and add it to your cost model. Then you can trim a range for $0.02, caption for $0.20 and render a timeline at $0.10 per output minute.

Per-frame billing needs a frame rate

VEED prices matting per 30 frames, so the dollars per second depend on your clip's frame rate. At 24 fps a second is 0.8 units, at 60 fps it is 2. The table above assumes 30 fps because the unit is 30 frames, which makes one second equal one unit. Check your source frame rate before budgeting a long clip, and confirm with a short test.

Verdict

Buy matting where it exists, then import the output. At the lower mode, a 10-second clip is about $0.08 by my 30 fps assumption; confirm VEED's frame rate handling before relying on it.