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Sume guides: the API, Formats, agents, models, media tools and pricing, each answer dated and sourced.
Macro liquid pour video prompt for Gemini Omni and its price
A prompt recipe for a macro pour shot (oil, serum, honey) with Gemini Omni Flash on Sume: camera words, sound line, 5-second cost at 360p, 720p and 1080p.
MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming partials vs Sume STT terminal webhook
MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming sends intermediate and final results as audio streams in. Sume STT sends one signed terminal callback. How to design for each.
Mobile pet groomer reel from one photo: Seedance 2.5 image-to-video
Turn one photo of a groomed dog into a vertical reel clip with Seedance 2.5 on Sume: first-frame input, 4 to 30 seconds, native audio, async job.
Nano Banana 2.1 tracks 4 characters, 10 objects: Sume's cap
Google says Nano Banana 2.1 tracks 4 characters and 10 objects across up to 14 references. Sume's Image API caps input_references at 10, or 16 on GPT.
Gemini Omni 'no dialogue' prompt: steer the audio on Sume
Omni clips always carry sound. Google suggests 'no dialogue' and 'no extra sound effects' in the prompt. How to use that on Sume and what a test costs.
Gemini Omni sound effects prompt: name each sound in 8 seconds
How to prompt footsteps, a door and breaking glass in a Gemini Omni clip: Google says describe audio explicitly. Sume request, timing and cost per take.
Pick an image model by job: product photo, poster text, edit
Five new image releases in a month. A job-first table for Sume: GPT Image 2.5, Ideogram 4.5, Nano Banana 2.1, FLUX.2 and Qwen, with the limits that decide.
Sume job webhook receiver in plain Python, no framework
A 30-line stdlib http.server receiver for Sume job webhooks: raw-body HMAC, 300-second window, rotation-safe header, refuses an empty secret, answers 204.
Qwen Image 2.1 Pro: what exists, and which Qwen ids Sume lists
People search for Qwen Image 2.1 Pro. Its model card lists no Pro variant; Sume's Image API lists qwen/qwen-image and qwen/qwen-image-max.
Read the motion clip length with video inspect before Kling duration
Kling motion control on Sume reserves money from the duration_seconds you declare. Probe the reference clip with video inspect first, so the number is measured.
Restaurant dish reveal video prompt for Gemini Omni, 6 seconds
A six-second plating and steam reveal for a menu item with Gemini Omni Flash on Sume: camera move, audio line, first-frame trick and price at 720p and 1080p.
Retexture a product photo with FLUX.2 pro: prompt and call
Change leather to canvas or oak to walnut while the shape stays put. A FLUX.2 pro reference edit on Sume: one photo in, a preserve clause, aspect_ratio auto.
Runware deliveryMethod async vs Sume mode async: map the fields
Runware returns a taskUUID for async video, with getResponse polling or a webhookURL. Sume's equivalents: a job id, /v1/jobs/:id/status and mode webhook.
Shorts-only YouTube playlists can't be reordered: render in order
YouTube's playlist help says reordering is unavailable for Shorts-only playlists. Fix episode order before upload and render in order with fixed keys.
Turn a shot list into Gemini Omni requests: Python on Sume
Submit every line of a shot list as its own Omni job with stable Idempotency-Keys, then poll them in one pass. Runnable Python and the cost of a 3-shot list.
Skippable in-stream bills at 30 seconds: cut a 30-second version
Google bills skippable in-stream per view at 30 seconds watched, or full length if shorter. Cut a 30-second version of a long master with video-trim.
Slow-motion water splash prompt for Gemini Omni: what 'slow' does
Prompt a slow-motion splash in Gemini Omni: how to word the speed, why a 5-second clip is enough, and what 360p, 720p and 1080p cost on Sume.
Split a 9-minute recording into three Reels under 3 minutes
Instagram's Reels page says Reels over 3 minutes won't be recommended to new audiences. Find sentence ends with video-inspect STT, then cut with video-trim.
No progress percent in Sume job events: what to log and show instead
Sume's job events are a public timeline of eight named events, not a progress feed. What each means, what to log, and what to show a user while a video renders.
Sume music job in Python: 30-second wait, then poll, one paid job
Submit a Lyria track to Sume Music Router with a 30-second sync wait, fall back to polling on timeout, and reuse one Idempotency-Key. Runnable Python.
Sume TTS without a language field: English default, Hangul fallback
What Sume TTS 1.0 does when you leave out language, why a Hangul-only script is the one fallback, and why you should set language yourself on every job.
Sume TTS sentence slices need wav or raw output, not mp3
Sume TTS returns per-sentence audio_url slices only for wav or raw output. With mp3 you get timings but no slices. The request that gets clips.
Sume video mode: async, sync, subscribe or webhook? Cost is the same
Mode only decides how you learn the outcome: all four create the same job at the same price. A decision table for web apps, workers and batch pipelines.
Sume webhook.test has no job_id: keep it out of your job table
The dashboard's Send test posts a signed webhook.test with no job_id. Route on event first, dedupe on job_id second, and no phantom job row appears.
Three-minute Short: songs cap at 90 seconds, so plan the music bed
YouTube says most songs run up to 90 seconds in a 3-minute Short, some 60 or 30. Build the 180-second timeline with a voice spine and a looping, ducked bed.
TikTok non-Spark ad captions: no links, @ or hashtags, lint first
TikTok's auction page says non-Spark captions allow no links, @ symbols, or hashtags; Spark Ads take 4 caption lines. Lint the text in Python before upload.
White backgrounds hide TikTok's ad UI: dim the clip, check for free
TikTok's reservation page warns that white or transparent backgrounds can hide the nickname and captions. Dim with video-filter ops, check first, then re-probe.
TikTok reservation ads must include audio: probe, then add a bed
TikTok's reservation spec says every video creative must include audio. Probe has_audio with video-inspect, then give a silent clip a voice or music spine.
TikTok trending this week: a small shop's research call
Use Sume's trending-videos search with window this-week to see which TikTok videos in your niche are moving before you make one. Fields, price note, limits.
Video generation MCP connector: six questions before you connect
Before you let an agent spend money through any MCP connector, ask six questions. Here are Sume's hosted MCP answers on auth, scopes, idempotency and spend.
Voiceover plus a Lyria bed for a reel in one agent session over MCP
Ask an MCP client to run tts_create and music_create on Sume, then check the take with stt_create. Which tool does which job, and where the agent must wait.
Wedding venue teaser music: write the prompt with section markers
Score a 30-second venue teaser with Sume's Music Router: no duration field, so length goes in the prompt with timed section markers. Example prompt and request.
Hackathon app on the Sume Free plan: 1 seat, 6 accepted jobs
A weekend demo on Free can have one job processing and five queued. How to design the UI, the retries and the demo script around that, with the real limits.
Which Sume speech endpoint: TTS 1.0, TTS Router, STT or Music?
A decision table for Sume's four audio endpoints: TTS 1.0, TTS Router, STT 1.0 and Music Router. Inputs, limits, ids and what each does not do.
Will my upload become a YouTube Short? Check the probe first
YouTube classes square or vertical video up to 3 minutes as a Short; 16:9 stays long-form. Check width, height, rotation, and duration from the probe.
Wine bottle reveal clip: 6 seconds of Wan 3.0 from a label photo
Animate a bottle photo into a 6-second reveal with wan-3.0 on Sume: 38 cents at 480p, 75 cents at 720p, $1.50 at 1080p. Why the label needs checking.
YouTube Shorts max out at 1080p, so don't generate at 4K
YouTube's Shorts help page caps uploads at 1080p. Sume's Gemini Omni Flash 1.1 offers 360p to 4K in 9:16, so request resolution 1080p and skip the higher tier.
Cost of 10, 100 and 1,000 five-second AI clips on Sume
A five-second clip bills 3.75 to 37.5 cents per second on Sume, so $0.19 to $1.88. The budget table for 10, 100 and 1,000 clips on Wan 3.0, H3, H3 Max and Omni.
15-second vertical Seedance ad: 12 prices vs TikTok's 540x960
A 15 s 9:16 Seedance clip costs $1.32 to $21.33 on Sume across four models and three tiers. Only 720p and 1080p clear TikTok's 540x960 minimum.
90-second Shorts ad: the feed plays 60 s; three Sume jobs priced
Google says Shorts feed ads show only the first 60 seconds, with an overlay at 50 seconds. 90 s vertical ad is three 30 s Sume jobs plus Timeline, from $11.45.
AI b-roll instead of stock footage: 50 six-second clips cost
A library of 50 six-second b-roll clips costs $11.50 at Omni 360p, $19 on Wan 480p or $37.50 at 720p on Sume. Per-clip prices, limits and a batch script.
aiohttp web server: verify a Sume webhook with await request.read()
An aiohttp 3.14 web handler that verifies the Sume HMAC on await request.read(), then calls request.json(). Exits on an empty secret and handles webhook.test.
Cline autoApprove for Sume: list only the read-only tools
Cline's remote MCP entry supports an autoApprove array. Put Sume's read tools in it and keep paid creates such as generate_image on manual approval.
Bottle: verify a Sume webhook with request.body.read()
A single-file Bottle 0.13 app that verifies the Sume webhook HMAC with request.body.read(), aborts 401 on a bad signature and exits on an empty secret.
Classroom science explainer clips: six 10-second AI shots, priced
Plan six 10-second text-to-video shots for a lesson on Sume: $6.00 on H3 Max, $7.50 on Wan 3.0 or Omni Flash, $34.68 on Seedance 2.5. Accuracy limits too.
Claude Code routine artifacts: link Sume media, don't paste it
Claude Code 2.1.292 lets Scheduled and Run now routines publish a private artifact without approval. Hand off Sume results as durable media.sume.com links.
Claude Code scheduled task never fired? Compare with a Sume cron run
Claude Code 2.1.292 fixed scheduled tasks that never fired after /resume, /branch or /clear. A Sume schedule runs on Sume's clock, so check it separately.
Codex keeps your computer on reconnect: find Sume jobs first
Codex CLI 0.161.0 keeps a new task on the selected computer while it reconnects or is offline. After a gap, list Sume jobs before you resubmit any paid call.