Can Sume import my existing YouTube Shorts to reuse in a new episode?

No. The /v1/media-imports route imports TikTok and Instagram links for $0.15 each and rejects YouTube links. For your own Shorts, start from the original master file, not the published URL.

This matters for series because the edit APIs only read Sume-hosted video, so the first step in any recut is getting a file into Sume.

What the edit routes accept

Video trim, video frames, Timeline compose and the other media routes take a workspace media.sume.com artifact or asset. They do not fetch from the open internet. The docs tell you to import the clip first through POST /v1/media-imports.

A video Sume generated is already in that form, so generated episodes can feed the next step directly.

What to do for a recut

Keep the finished masters of every episode. When you want a trailer or a recap, trim from the master as in the trailer post, or pull a still for a thumbnail with video frames.

Video captions are the exception: they accept a public HTTPS video URL, so a master you host yourself can be captioned without an import.

• Store masters with their episode number.
• Treat a published URL as a viewing link, not a source.
• Budget $0.15 per TikTok or Instagram import.

Rights and records

Only import media you have the right to reuse. The import fee is $0.15 per link, but the cost of reusing the wrong clip is not a number the API can tell you.

Keep the source link and the date next to each imported clip.

For a series, the practical rule is simple: make once, keep the master, derive everything else. The derived jobs are cheap, and none of them depends on a published link surviving.