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
Boutique hotel room reel: three 8 s MiniMax H3 clips at 768p
Three 8-second 9:16 room clips on MiniMax H3 at 768p cost $0.60 each on Sume, $1.80 for the set. Plain H3 against H3 Max, and the reference limits.
Crowdfunding page video: Wan 3.0 hero plus Kling 3 loops, priced
Prototype photos only work as references on Wan 3.0, so it gets the hero. Kling 3 does 1080p feature loops at $0.14 a second. Whole page set: $4.40.
Dental clinic intro reel: one 30 s Wan 3.0 job or three Kling 3 clips
A 30-second waiting-room-to-chair story costs $3.75 as one Wan 3.0 720p job, or $4.20 as two silent Kling 3 clips. Which one to pick and why.
Digital signage loop with Omni: 9:16 at 4K, cost and limits
A 10-second 9:16 loop for a lobby screen with Gemini Omni Flash: $3.75 at 4K on Sume, $1.25 at 720p. Google labels its 4K output as upscaled.
Esports team intro in 21:9: Seedance 2.5 at 720p, 8 s, with cost
Seedance 2.5 on Sume renders 21:9 at 1470 x 630 for 720p. An 8-second stream-banner intro costs $4.65 at 720p, $2.15 at 480p. Rates and limits.
Esports team intro sting: 5 seconds with a logo reference
A 5-second team intro for a stream in 16:9: send the logo as a reference image to Omni Flash, $0.625 at 720p on Sume, and fix the text in a short edit.
Google Ads Shorts previews: render 9:16, 16:9 and 1:1 first
Shorts previews need a Video view or reach campaign with Shorts selected. Render all three Google sizes from one master with Sume Timeline for $0.30.
Google Ads video rejects MP3, WAV and PCM: pair audio with a still
Google Ads video upload does not accept audio files such as MP3, WAV or PCM. Turn a radio spot into an MP4 with a still and your audio using Sume Timeline.
Indie game trailer: one 30 s Seedance 2.5 job, 480p then 720p
A 30-second game trailer on Seedance 2.5 is $8.07 at 480p, $17.34 at 720p and $42.65 at 1080p on Sume. Draft cheap, pay once for the final.
Instagram Reels blurry or low resolution: probe before posting
Instagram lists blurry, low-resolution Reels among those it may show less. Check width, height and fps with Sume video inspect, then look at full-size stills.
Instagram says muted Reels are shown less: check has_audio
Instagram's help page lists muted Reels among those you may see less often. Probe has_audio with Sume video inspect, then add sound with a Timeline render.
Language school promo, 15 s at 9:16: Seedance 2.5, Wan or Kling
A 15-second 9:16 class teaser is $1.88 on Wan 3.0 720p, $3.15 on Kling 3 with sound and $8.67 on Seedance 2.5 720p. What each buys on Sume.
Live webinar captions now, burned-in highlight clips after
Sume has no live captions. Use a live transcriber such as MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming ($0.54/h) for the event, then burned-in highlight clips at $0.20 each.
Festival lineup reel at 9:16: Seedance 2.5, 12 s, audio reference
A 12-second vertical lineup teaser with a track from the festival costs $6.94 at 720p on Sume with Seedance 2.5. Reference audio adds no surcharge.
Nonprofit donation appeal: a 15-second video from two Omni clips
A 15-second appeal in 9:16 is two Omni clips, 10 and 5 seconds, joined on Sume. $1.875 at 720p for both. Where to put captions, and what the watermark means.
Pixel art and isometric video with Omni Flash: prompts
Prompt wording for pixel-art and isometric looks in Gemini Omni Flash, what Google's page says the model cannot control, and the cost of a draft on Sume.
Podcast teaser video: Omni cover-art clip plus your audio
Omni Flash makes its own sound and takes no audio upload. How to make a 9:16 podcast teaser on Sume: animate cover art for $1.00, then bring in your own audio.
Wedding save-the-date video with Omni: 8 seconds, vertical
A 9:16 save-the-date from an engagement photo with Gemini Omni Flash: $1.00 at 720p on Sume, with names and date added as captions, not generated text.
Wine tasting invite video: Wan 3.0, 9:16, 12 s, audio reference
A 12-second vertical invite on Wan 3.0 costs $0.75 at 480p and $1.50 at 720p on Sume, and takes up to 5 audio references. Age gates and limits.
Yoga class promo video: three beats in one 10-second clip
A studio promo in 9:16 with Gemini Omni Flash: three timecoded beats in 10 seconds, calm native sound in the prompt, $1.25 at 720p on Sume.
YouTube AI disclosure: a clip of someone giving advice they never gave
YouTube's disclosure page lists making someone appear to give advice they never gave. Its examples in a table, and what Sume trims and captions change.
Shorts ads: Google says sound lifts conversions 20%+, add a bed
Google's Shorts ad page says sound lifts conversions by over 20%. Add a music bed that ducks under a voiceover with the Sume Timeline soundtrack field.
Fix wrong text on a product label with ideogram-v4.5 and references
ideogram-v4.5 edits the first image and takes up to four more as references, five in total. Send a label photo plus a type sample; cost per edit by quality.
Avatar video for YouTube Shorts: 9:16 or 1:1, up to 60 seconds
Avatar 1.0 makes 9:16 and 1:1 talking videos of up to 60 seconds at 720p, inside the Shorts window. Cost for 30 and 60 seconds, and one request.
Etsy-style listing gallery: 10 images per product, cost by image model
Ten gallery images for one product cost $0.07 to $1.00 on Sume depending on the model; 25 products is 250 images. Table with seedream, flux and gpt-image-2.5.
AI dubbing workflow on Sume: detach, transcribe, TTS, timeline
Sume has no one-call dubbing endpoint. Chain detach, STT, your translation, TTS and a timeline render for a 60-second video at about $0.16 plus translation.
Build a 3-minute vertical Short from 30 s AI clips with Timeline
YouTube lists Shorts up to three minutes; six 30-second Wan 3.0 or Seedance 2.5 clips and one Timeline render make 180 seconds. Cost table at three resolutions.
Product demo from one packshot: Omni Flash first-frame request
Turn a product photo into an 8-second demo clip with sound using Gemini Omni Flash 1.1 on Sume: the frame_images request, 1080p price, prompt tips.
Ad hook test matrix: 4 hooks x 2 ratios on Omni Flash, priced
Four ad hooks in 16:9 and 9:16 as 5-second Omni Flash drafts cost $1.50 at 360p on Sume; re-rendering two winners at 1080p adds $1.875. The full matrix.
Seedance draft to final: Mini 480p drafts, 2.5 1080p finals, priced
Draft 20 shots on Seedance 2 Mini at 480p, then re-render the approved few on 2.5 at 1080p. Total cost for 3, 6 and 10 finals, with the request change.
Clean studio look from a phone photo for a listing: edit cost by model
Turn a cluttered phone photo into a clean listing shot with an image-to-image call. 200 edited photos cost $1.93 to $20.00 on Sume depending on the model row.
A 3-minute YouTube Short from Omni clips: 18 takes, what it costs
YouTube says Shorts can run three minutes. At the 10-second Omni Flash cap that is 18 clips: the 720p and 1080p totals on Sume plus the Timeline join.
A first-frame still plus a 30-second Wan 3.0 clip: the pair's cost
Generate the opening frame with Higgsfield Soul, Seedream 5 Lite or Nano Banana 2.1, then animate it for 30 seconds on Wan 3.0. Totals at 480p to 1080p.
A three-stage video funnel: Grok, MiniMax H3, Seedance 2.5 costs
Screen 20 ideas on Grok Imagine, keep 5 for MiniMax H3 at 768p, finish 1 on Seedance 2.5 at 1080p. All 5-second clips: the funnel costs about $10.23 on Sume.
Upscale old footage past 30 seconds: chunk, upscale, reassemble
Sume video upscale takes up to 30 seconds per call at $0.009 per input second. Chunk a 5-minute tape with video-trim, upscale each piece and join with Timeline.
Podcast sponsor clip: restyle captions without a second transcription
Restyle a captioned podcast clip for each holiday platform with source_caption_id. Sume reuses the stored word timings, so speech-to-text does not run again.
Sound-off holiday video: burn your own text cues with Sume captions
For a silent product clip, send cues with text, start and end to POST /v1/video-captions. No speech-to-text runs. Code sample, $0.20 per job, and the limits.
YouTube Shorts: 3 minutes at 1080p, rendered as 180 s on Sume
YouTube's help page says Shorts run up to 3 minutes at up to 1080p. A 180-second Sume Timeline render bills 3 minutes at $0.10, so $0.30. Settings inside.
Meta's video from static assets: what to prepare in Sume first
Meta made Advantage+ video generation from static assets generally available on Oct 6. What to generate in Sume first, and what stays inside Meta's tools.
Course sale avatar clip in five aspect ratios: five Sume calls
One course-sale script, five aspect ratios: avatar talking-video takes 1:1, 3:4, 9:16, 4:3 and 16:9 per call at 720p, 4 to 60 seconds. Plan five calls, not one.
Allergen line on a holiday menu video: burn it in with caption cues
Add a fixed allergen and price line to a silent holiday menu clip with video-captions cues. No speech-to-text runs, and Sume does not check the allergen text.
LinkedIn video ad length: trim a 90-second cut to 30 s with Sume
LinkedIn allows 3 seconds to 30 minutes and recommends 15 to 30 seconds. Trim a longer cut with Sume video trim at $0.02 a job, then check size before upload.
Adobe's Cyber 5 forecast: plan five daily Sume bulk queues
Adobe projects $47.5B for Cyber 5, 17.3% of holiday online sales. Map the five days to five Sume bulk queues with one idempotency key each and a cap per item.
Product photo to holiday video ad: attach the photo to a Format run
Turn a product photo into a video ad with the sume-product-commercial Format. Attach up to 30 images by URL or asset id; media URLs in input share that budget.
AI avatar disclosure line as the first caption cue on a Sume clip
Tavus says disclosure features are still being worked on for realistic avatars. On a rendered Sume clip you can author the label yourself with caption cues.
Nine Performance Max videos (3 ratios x 3 concepts): Sume cost
Three concepts in 16:9, 1:1 and 9:16 at 10 seconds each is 90 video seconds. At Wan 3.0 720p that is $11.25 on Sume; Seedance 2.5 is about $52.
Test an avatar's look with a 4 second clip before a 60 second run
A 4 second Sume clip costs $0.736 on standard; a 60 second one $11.04. Use the cheap run to check face, voice and framing first. Numbers and checklist.
YouTube end screens need 25 seconds: lengthen a 20 second clip on Sume
YouTube's upload help says a video must be 25 seconds or longer to add an end screen. A 25 second Timeline render with a held still costs $0.10.