Use cases
Worked examples on Sume's catalog Formats and endpoints: product video and photography, try-on, app and product ads, logo animation, and more.
Start with Ready-made Formats for product video: the Sume Format catalog
Tour Operator Trip Teaser: 30 Seconds in One Job, and Kling 4.0?
Kling 4.0 is listed with 3 to 30 second clips, but Sume lists Kling 3 at 15 s. For a 30-second teaser in one job, Sume offers Wan 3.0 and Seedance 2.5.
Pickleball winter league signup: schedule card over court footage
Pin a schedule card on top of court footage with Sume timeline compose overlay for $0.02. A 6 s Omni Flash clip at 720p is $0.75. Card text stays yours.
Giving Tuesday volunteer call for a food drive: one avatar clip
A small group running a food drive can make an English volunteer-call clip for Giving Tuesday (Dec 1, 2026) with Avatar 1.0 from $3.68 for 20 seconds.
Pizzeria holiday catering clip with native audio: H3 Max prices
A pizzeria can promote office catering orders with a MiniMax H3 Max clip that has native stereo audio. 8 s at 768p is $0.80. Price table and caveats.
One packshot to twelve lifestyle scenes: input_references recipe
Turn a single product packshot into lifestyle scenes with the Sume Image API: which models take it as a reference, the request body, and cost per twelve scenes.
Martial arts school belt-test notice: avatar clip with silent beats
A dojo can announce belt-test day with one Avatar 1.0 clip built from spoken scenes and a silence beat. A 24-second clip is $5.88 at plus tier.
YouTube Shorts ads: 10-30 second vertical cuts from a longer clip
Google says action-oriented Shorts ads use 10-30 second vertical videos and add under 60-second ads. Cut a longer Sume clip to size with one trim.
Consistent character in 3 steps: anchor, sheet, scenes on Sume
Keep one character across many AI images without a seed: make an anchor, build a reference sheet, then reuse both as input_references. Limits and cost.
Home-exercise reminder clips for a PT clinic: English avatar, cost
A small PT or chiropractic clinic can make short English home-exercise reminder clips with an Avatar 1.0 presenter. Per-second prices and what to keep out.
Record store Black Friday drop: original music bed, no sound-alikes
A record store can make four original instrumental beds for $0.50 with the Sume Music Router. Why prompts should never name artists, and how to set length.
AI music for Reels, TikTok and Shorts: what Sume's Terms say
Can you post a Sume Music track on Reels, TikTok or Shorts? Sume's Terms claim no ownership and paid plans include commercial use. Platform rules are separate.
YouTube AI disclosure for AI music and voiceover: what to keep
YouTube asks creators to disclose meaningfully altered or synthetic realistic content. What to keep from Sume music and TTS jobs, and what Sume cannot decide.
Thrift and resale listing videos from one flat-lay photo
A reseller can turn a flat-lay photo into a 6-second listing clip with Wan 3.0 first-frame video for $0.38 at 480p. Rules for honest motion and a batch run.
Detach 13 seconds of speech from a clip and lip-sync it on H3 Max
Sume can detach audio from a hosted clip by time range, then drive a talking face with H3 Max lip-sync. $1.31 for 13 seconds; rights and limits explained.
Live-sale replay to 10 highlight clips: import, trim, caption
Cut ten highlight clips from one TikTok live replay with Sume: $0.15 import, ten $0.02 trims, ten $0.20 captions. Total $2.35. Limits stated plainly.
Bike shop Black Friday clip: dim the footage so price text reads
A bike shop can darken a generated clip with Sume video filter dim, then burn price cues on it for $0.20. One 5 s clip at 720p is $0.85.
YouTube AI label: in the player or the description?
YouTube shows its altered-content label in the player for photorealistic AI and in the expanded description for animated or non-photorealistic AI.
Pressure-wash and gutter reminder: one clip, six neighborhood captions
Burn a different neighborhood name into one silent clip with Sume video captions cues, $0.20 per version. Six versions cost $1.20 on top of the base clip.
Descript-style delete-a-word editing with Sume STT and video trim
Descript edits video by editing its transcript. Sume has no such editor, but STT word timings, video trim at $0.02 a cut and Timeline can rebuild the result.
Twelve colourways times three takes: n=3 versus 36 calls on Sume
For 12 colourways with 3 takes each, use 12 calls with n=3, not 36 calls with n=1. Same cost, fewer requests. Totals on FLUX.2 Pro and Seedream 4.5 inside.
Q4 gift guide video: five picks, five stills, price cues
Build a five-pick holiday gift guide video on Sume: five stills, 400 characters of TTS, a Timeline render and one cue caption job for prices. Read 2026-10-10.
Q4 holiday campaign budget: 34 posts priced from Sume endpoint rates
Price a Q4 holiday campaign on Sume: 28 daily stills with voice, 4 weekly 720p clips and 2 gift guides. Endpoints and totals, read 2026-10-10.
Family holiday greeting: a 10-second Omni Flash card with music
Make a 10-second holiday greeting with Gemini Omni Flash 1.1 at 720p, a Lyria 3.5 music bed and a caption cue for the message. Chain and cost, read 2026-10-10.
Product video from four reference photos with Omni Flash 1080p
Give Gemini Omni Flash 1.1 up to 10 reference images; a 6-second 1080p product video is $1.125 on Sume. Reference limits and costs, read 2026-10-10.
ElevenLabs dubbing editor in maintenance mode: redo one line on Sume
ElevenLabs says its dubbing editor gets critical fixes only. If you need per-line regeneration, a Sume TTS job per sentence gives you one retry per line.
Pop-up shop teasers: one still, three 5-second videos, dated cues
Plan a three-day pop-up shop teaser series on Sume: one Nano Banana 2.1 still, three Wan 3.0 jobs, three caption cue jobs. Chain and limits, read 2026-10-10.
Launch teaser: one Seedance 2.5 hero shot plus two Wan fillers
Spend on one 5-second Seedance 2.5 hero shot at 720p ($2.889) and fill the rest with cheap Wan 3.0 480p. Timeline chain and a $3.69 total, read 2026-10-10.
German voice-over on Sume: TTS language field plus cue captions
Localize a 300-character promo into German with Sume TTS and cue captions for $0.31. What the language field covers, read 2026-10-10.
New-hire welcome video: 30-second avatar with auto captions
A 30-second welcome video from an Avatar 1.0 talking video plus speech captions costs $5.72 on Sume. Chain, limits and English-only caveat, read 2026-10-10.
TikTok Spark Ads: 10,000 per account cap, un-authorize before delete
TikTok's Spark Ads page caps an Ads Manager account at 10,000 Spark Ads and says to un-authorize a video before deleting it. A rule for batches of Sume renders.
Music teacher intro video: an avatar, cutaways and a 480p b-roll
Build a 20-second music lesson intro: one Avatar 1.0 talking video, audio detach as the spine, a Wan 3.0 cutaway and Timeline. Chain and cost, read 2026-10-10.
One 30-second Wan take cut into three variants with Video trim
Generate one 30-second Wan 3.0 take at 480p, then cut three variants with Video trim at $0.02 each. Chain, cost and limits, read 2026-10-10.
Gym class schedule promo: a silent Wan clip and three timed cues
A gym class schedule video on Sume: one 6-second Wan 3.0 480p clip and one caption job with three timed cues. $0.575, no speech-to-text, read 2026-10-10.
Coworking day-pass promo: a price card stacked over a room video
Stack a still price card over a 6-second room video with Timeline compose: Omni Flash 720p, one Nano Banana 2.1 card, 87 cents in total (read 2026-10-10).
Gift box insert: a QR code to a setup video you can swap later
Put a QR code on a gift-box insert that opens a setup video. Make the clip on Sume, caption it for sound-off, draw the QR in code, and point it at a redirect.
Referral program launch video: avatar above the share screen
Explain a refer-a-friend offer in 30 seconds: an avatar script with a silent beat, the share screen stacked below it, and a plan check before you pay.
Clinic flu-shot reminder video: four 20-second avatar clips
Make a flu-shot reminder video for a clinic or pharmacy with a Sume avatar: what four 20-second clips cost at each quality tier, plus captions.
Google Discover and Article schema image sizes (16:9, 4:3, 1:1)
Google Discover wants 1200 px wide, 16:9 images; Article schema wants 16:9, 4:3 and 1:1. Here is how to generate all three ratios through the Sume image API.
How many words fit in a 30-second voiceover, and what it costs
A 30-second voiceover is about 75 words or 450 characters at a planning pace of 150 wpm. Sume TTS bills characters, so here is the length-to-cost table.
Audio version of an article with TTS: cost and the 20,000-char split
A 6,000-character article is one Sume TTS job at 29 cents. A 30,000-character one is two jobs plus a 1-cent concat, $1.45 total. Steps and code included.
Edit a 20-second AI video: Luma, Aleph 2 or Omni's 10-second input?
Omni edits clips of 10 seconds or less; Runway Aleph 2.0 edits 2 to 30 seconds; Luma lists video-to-video at 10, 15 or 20. Editing longer clips on Sume.
Event recap videos: one bulk queue, one run per session
Queue one recap per conference session with POST bulk-runs: concurrency window, per-item caps, how to read the queue, and why completed does not mean success.
App demo video through the sume-mobile-app-ugc Format: what to send
Call a catalog Format at the sume handle for an app demo video. Read its io profile first, send screens and copy, cap the spend, and test the receipt.
Restaurant promo video for TikTok Ads: check size before upload
A restaurant promo made with a Sume Format can fail TikTok's non-Spark minimums. Read width, height and size_bytes from the run receipt before you upload.
Seasonal sale video: re-skin your own footage with sume-restyle
Reuse one product clip for a holiday sale by calling sume-restyle, which keeps motion, timing and cuts and rewrites the look. Inputs, limits and checks.
Podcast trailer: redo one part with previous_run_id, not a full rerun
Fix one weak scene in a podcast trailer by continuing the Format run with previous_run_id, so the agent keeps the rest. Rules, refusals and cost.
Real estate walkthrough video from listing photos: the 30-image limit
A Sume Format run accepts up to 30 images as attachments. How to send listing photos, keep room order, set a cap and read the walkthrough back.
Make a three-minute YouTube Short with a Format and check duration_ms
YouTube counts square or vertical uploads up to three minutes as Shorts. Call a Sume Format, then test duration_ms and aspect ratio on the receipt first.