Can AI make a music video for my song? Yes, clip by clip

Yes, AI can make the visuals for a music video for your song, but not the whole video in one generation. A video model makes one short clip at a time, at most 30 seconds on Sume and 15 on most models, so a full song becomes a series of shots, one or more per section, cut together over your track.

The limits below come from Sume's Video generation, Models, and Timeline 1.0 docs and the Sume API reference, read on 2026-09-27. Anything described as current behavior is read from Sume's API code.

How do I make a music video for my song with AI?

Plan the shots against the song first, then generate them one by one:

• Map the song: where each verse, chorus, and bridge starts and ends. Plan a shot per section, or several short ones if you want more cuts.
• Pick a model whose lengths fit the shots. seedance-2.5 takes 4–30 seconds and wan-3.0 2–30; minimax-h3 takes 5–15, and no other catalog model goes past 15.
• Generate each shot with POST /v1/videos. To bring back the same singer or place, send the same still as the first_frame of each related shot; the docs promise no identical look, so review every shot.
• Ask for silent clips where the model allows it, with generate_audio: false, because your song is the soundtrack. gemini-omni-flash-1.1 always makes audio and refuses that value, as do minimax-h3 and minimax-h3-max in current code, so mute those clips in the edit.
• Download each clip from its media.sume.com URL in GET /v1/jobs/{id}/result and cut the clips to the song in your video editor. You choose every cut point: neither the video generation nor the Timeline docs describe cutting to the beat.

Can Sume put the clips over my song for me?

Not over the public API, for a track you already have. Timeline 1.0 renders one audio spine under ordered clips into one MP4, but every URL must be this workspace's media.sume.com file, and off-host URLs are refused when you submit. Sume's public API documents no route for uploading an audio file you already have, so the final cut of your own song happens in your editor.

A song made with Sume is different. Music Router results are Sume-hosted audio artifacts, so a generated track can be the spine of a Timeline render. Music generation API covers the track, and How to assemble a long-form video covers the render.

Can the clips follow the music?

Only as a reference for one shot at a time, and only on the models the docs say honor audio references: Seedance 2.x, Wan 3.0, MiniMax H3, and MiniMax H3 Max. Send a public HTTPS excerpt of the song as an audio_url entry in input_references. The docs don't say how a model uses the audio or that the clip plays it back, so keep your song as the soundtrack either way. Current caps, from the catalog and the API's checks:

• wan-3.0: up to 5 audio references, 15 seconds in total.
• minimax-h3 and minimax-h3-max: up to 3, each 2–15 seconds and 15 seconds combined, and audio cannot be the only reference.
• Seedance 2.x: up to 12 references of all types per request.

Can an AI singer lip-sync to my song?

Not from a video model. Sume's model docs say video models do not lip-sync to generated TTS or to a later voice-over, so a clip generated first will not mouth lyrics laid under it afterwards. VEED Fabric 1.0 turns a still plus audio into a talking clip, but the API reference describes talking clips, not singing, and its audio must be on Sume's media host: other hosts are rejected. Lip sync API covers the request.

What does it cost?

Each clip is its own job, reserved when you submit at its model's provider list price × 1.25, plus a 5.5% agent fee by default. GET /v1/videos/models lists every model's pricing_skus, and API pricing lists the rest. A longer song means more clips, and a regenerated shot is billed again.