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Sume guides: the API, Formats, agents, models, media tools and pricing, each answer dated and sourced.
Weekly toolbox talk video with an AI avatar: 52 clips a year, cost
A weekly 30-second avatar safety reminder costs a fixed sum per year at each tier. Script rules, review steps, and what it must not replace.
Keep a 2-minute video long-form on YouTube: render 1920x1080
Timeline 1.0 renders 1080x1920 by default. Set output width 1920 and height 1080 to keep a short video out of the Shorts class. YouTube's rule and the request.
Restore a scratched family photo in three staged edits
Fix creases, then scratches, then fading in separate Ideogram 4.5 passes. Three low-quality passes cost $0.1125 on Sume; a high final pass brings it to $0.35.
Founder story video with an AI avatar: who is on screen?
An About-us video built from an avatar raises one question: whose face. Three Sume avatar inputs for a founder story, a 40-second script, cost, and a label.
Salon or barber intro clip: avatar in front of your own shop photo
Put an AI presenter in front of a photo of your salon with the scene photo input. Script, 9:16 default, what a 20-second clip costs, and a consent warning.
Node 22 script: create a Sume bulk queue and poll it to the end
Dependency-free Node 22 ESM script: POST a bulk queue from items.json, back off the poll, survive 429 and 503, and exit non-zero when any item failed.
Replace the presenter in a 3-minute training video with H3 Max Recast
Recast takes 5 to 30 seconds per job, so a 3-minute video is six chunks. Steps, the 768p cost, and why the original voice track becomes the timeline spine.
Outage status update video with an AI avatar: script and cost
A 20 to 30 second avatar clip can front a status-page update. What to script, what it costs by tier, and why the written update must go out first.
Midday to golden hour in a video: Omni edit or first/last frame
Change the time of day in a clip you already have. When a Gemini Omni Flash edit fits, when first and last frames fit, and what a 6-second pass costs on Sume.
Polling 200 video jobs every 30 s is 400 calls a minute: do this
A poll loop copied to Sume's 30 s example turns 200 open jobs into 400 status calls a minute. Use next_poll_after_seconds, backoff, or a webhook plus sweep.
Seedance 2.5 30-second 720p price by aspect ratio: token counts
On Sume 16:9, 9:16 and 1:1 all cost $17.34 for 30 s at 720p, while 21:9 costs $17.42 and 4:3 $17.45. Frame sizes, token counts and the formula.
Board-game crowdfunding trailer from box, minis and cards, Wan 3.0
Send up to 10 reference images of box, miniatures and cards to wan-3.0 for a 15-second trailer: $1.88 at 720p on Sume, with logo and card-text drift.
Microscope-style science clip with Gemini Omni Flash: prompt and cost
Google's own Omni 1.1 demo prompt is a diatom micrograph. Here is how to write one, draft it at 360p, and what 8 seconds costs on Sume at each resolution.
Add steam to a coffee or food clip with Omni edit, check the sound
Make a plain food or drink clip look hot by editing in steam with Gemini Omni Flash. Prompt wording, 8-second cost at 720p, and why the audio needs a listen.
Bash: split a TSV into 100-row Sume bulk queues with jq and curl
A short shell script that cuts a product TSV into 100-row chunks, builds each bulk body with jq, and posts it under a chunk-named idempotency key.
What Sume's 1.25 margin adds per 100 clips on Omni and Wan
Sume bills provider list times 1.25 on video-router models. 100 Omni 720p clips of 8 s carry $20 of margin; 100 Wan 1080p clips of 30 s carry $150.
Monthly investor update video with an AI avatar: 60 s per job
An avatar update longer than 60 seconds has to be split. How to cut a monthly investor or board update into three jobs, keep one presenter, and price it.
BigQuery product table to Sume bulk queues and a queue map
Read active SKUs from BigQuery, cast columns to plain JSON types, create one Sume bulk queue per 100 rows, and stream queue id, index and SKU to a map table.
Transcribe a file from your own bucket: what Sume STT audio_url needs
Sume speech-to-text takes a public HTTPS audio_url, preferably on media.sume.com. How to get a private recording ready, and what a neighbouring API rejects.
Remove a price sticker from a product photo and check the label
Remove a sticker from a product photo with Ideogram 4.5 on Sume, then check the label text underneath. A small mask on GPT Image 2.5 limits the edit.
Crop a 16:10 MacBook screen recording to 9:16: width 0.3516
A 16:10 recording needs crop width 0.3515625 for 9:16: 900x1600 at 2560x1600, but 674x1200 at 1920x1200 because 675 is odd. The request and the rounding.
Native 4K or 2K image edits: pixel ceilings by model
How many pixels each model reaches: Flux 3 Image near 16.8 MP, GPT Image 2.5 capped at 8,294,400 on Sume, Ideogram 4.5 at 2K. What Sume serves.
Wan 3.0 bumper prices: 2 to 6 seconds at 480p, 720p, 1080p
A 2-second Wan 3.0 bumper costs $0.125 at 480p and $0.50 at 1080p on Sume. A 6-second one costs $0.375 to $1.50.
Route Sume run webhooks by event: format, action and agent terminal
Run webhooks use one terminal event per family: action.run.terminal, format.run.terminal, agent.run.terminal. Route on event, then branch on outcome.
Omni draft grid: four 360p variants, then one final. What it costs
Google's Draft Room idea, run through the Sume API: four 8-second 360p drafts that change one thing each, then a 1080p final. Total $2.70, with a script.
AI avatar vs a paid creator: break-even per 30-second clip
Divide a creator's quote by Sume's price for a 30-second avatar clip. Costs by tier for 1, 10 and 50 clips, with a retake allowance and what an avatar lacks.
Change a person's outfit in a video: Omni edit or H3 Max Recast
Two ways to change what someone wears in a clip on Sume: a text edit with Gemini Omni Flash, or Recast with a photo of the person. Rates for 10 seconds.
Audio detach size for a 180 s Short: 34.56 MB wav, 2.88 MB mp3
The byte arithmetic for a 3-minute track from audio detach: stereo 48 kHz wav, mono 16 kHz wav and 128 kbps mp3, with the fields that set each size.
Cut hold music from a call recording before STT: one concat job
Drop a hold-music stretch with one Sume timeline audio concat job that reuses the file twice via source_in and duration, then send the result to STT.
Sume media tools: which wait for a 200 and which always return 202
Video inspect defaults to sync; trim, filter, detach, compose and timeline to async; frames is always 202. The 30 s wait and where each result is read.
Source too long? The 1800 s and 300 s caps for each Sume media tool
Trim, detach and inspect take sources up to 1800 s; filter, frames and compose stop at 300 s. The error each returns and the order to cut a long file.
Change one of three identical bottles: position words or a mask
Edit one of three identical products in a photo. Flux 3 Image gives each element an id; on Sume, use position words (Ideogram 4.5) or a GPT Image 2.5 mask.
Three-minute YouTube Short from six 30 s AI clips: Wan vs Seedance
YouTube counts square or vertical videos up to three minutes as Shorts. Six 30 s 9:16 clips cost $22.50 on Wan 3.0 at 720p or $104.04 on Seedance 2.5.
Caption design colors: hex, rgb(), rgba() or transparent only
Sume caption design colors take hex, rgb(), rgba() or transparent. Other CSS syntax is rejected at request time, so a bad color costs nothing.
30-second Wan hero plus two 15-second cutdowns: trim, not regenerate
One 30-second Wan 3.0 clip at 720p is $3.75. Two 15-second cutdowns by video trim add $0.04; regenerating them as 15-second clips costs $3.75 more.
Sume status vocab: a job is completed, a resource is ready
Sume lists three status vocabularies: job, resource, webhook delivery. Only jobs say completed; resources say ready, so a check on the wrong one never matches.
Volunteer recruitment video from an AI avatar: 25-second clip
A short avatar clip can ask for volunteers on a page, a newsletter or a social post. Script shape, three-scene option, caption settings and cost by tier.
Music Router prompt limit: 5,000 characters, and what to put in them
Sume Music Router prompts run 1 to 5,000 characters, with no duration field or negative prompt; length goes in the text. A brief budget and a checker.
SHA-256 the batch body into the Sume idempotency key for bulk chunks
Derive each bulk chunk's Idempotency-Key from a hash of its items so replays reuse the queue and edited rows get a new key instead of a 409 conflict.
TypeScript union for Sume bulk queue items, checked with Deno
Model queue items by status so run_id and error are typed per case: null while queued, null for a child that never started, and an exhaustive switch.
Put a new picture on the TV or a frame in a room photo
Swap what is on a TV screen or in a picture frame in a room photo by sending the room first and your artwork second to Ideogram 4.5 on Sume. Cost and checks.
Remove a person or object from a finished clip with Gemini Omni edit
Delete a passer-by, a sign or a cable with one video_url request to Gemini Omni Flash 1.1. There is no mask field, so the prompt does the work. Cost per clip.
Chapter timestamps for narrated audio from concat segment offsets
Join one TTS file per chapter with timeline audio concat, then turn the returned segments[] start offsets into mm:ss chapter lines with a short Python script.
Alt text for a 30-image gallery in one Sume Agent Completion
One Agent Completion call can take up to 30 images and return an alts array under an object schema. Python stdlib script with the cap, poll and limits.
Add an object to a set spot in a photo: box to words in Python
Sume has no bounding-box field. Turn a 0-1000 box into placement words for an Ideogram 4.5 edit, and into pixels for a mask, with a short Python helper.
Investor update deck to a 15-second teaser: ten slides into Wan 3.0
Pick the ten slides that carry numbers and charts, send them to wan-3.0 as reference images, and ask for 15 s. $1.88 at 720p. Why charts need a real overlay.
MiniMax H3 or H3 Max after Sora: native 768p vs latent 1080p prices
On Sume, H3 renders native 480p or 768p and bills 2K/4K upscales; H3 Max adds 1080p as a latent refinement of 768p. 10-second prices side by side.
Ten-episode micro-drama on Wan 3.0: 30 s episodes, cost by tier
Ten 30-second Wan 3.0 episodes cost $18.80 at 480p, $37.50 at 720p and $75.00 at 1080p on Sume. Table, rounding check and a draft-then-final plan.