Wedding highlight video music: an original score, not a pop song

What music can you put under a wedding highlight video? A commercial recording needs its own licence, so some couples and videographers choose an original instrumental instead. Sume's Music Router writes one from a brief, and the audio comes back as a file you can place under the clips.

This post is about the workflow, not a legal opinion. Check the terms of the platform where the film will be shown and the terms that apply to your use of generated audio.

Write the brief around the day

The Music 1.0 docs recommend a scene-specific brief instead of a generic bed. Use the arc to follow the day: ceremony, vows, first dance. A named moment helps you cut to it.

Generate and ask for length in words

There is no duration field, so say the length in the prompt. sume/music-auto resolves to Lyria 3.5 today; pin lyria-3-pro if you want that engine.

import os
import requests

r = requests.post(
    "https://api.sume.com/v1/music-router/generate",
    headers={"Authorization": "Bearer " + os.environ["SUME_API_KEY"], "Idempotency-Key": "wedding-score-001"},
    json={
        "model": "lyria-3-pro",
        "prompt": "Tender chamber folk, 68 BPM, E major. Fingerpicked guitar, soft cello, light piano. Piano enters at 0:20, cello lifts at 1:20. A 2-minute track. Instrumental, no vocals.",
        "mode": "async",
    },
    timeout=60,
)
print(r.status_code, r.json())

Under the footage

Place the file as the soundtrack bed with a fade-out up to 10 seconds, and lower it under any spoken vows with duck_db, which needs a real audio spine. Keep the vows as the spine and the score as the bed.

Delivery

Fetch the audio artifact from result.artifacts[] and save the media.sume.com URL with the project, so a re-render never depends on a provider link.