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
How to make an AI documentary video, chapter by chapter
Make an AI documentary video from a researched script: voice it in chapters, make a shot per beat, and assemble up to 30 minutes in one render.
How to make AI history videos from a researched script
Make AI history videos: research the script, make a still or use an archival photo per scene, animate each, narrate, and label AI scenes.
Create motivational videos with AI: voice, shots, and music
Create motivational videos with AI: a slow spoken quote over cinematic shots, a music bed that builds and ducks under the voice, and big captions.
Can you schedule YouTube Shorts? Yes, in Studio or by API
Yes. Upload a Short in YouTube Studio and set a publish time on the Schedule card, or set status.publishAt on a private upload with the Data API.
AI training video generator: from written steps to video
An AI training video generator turns written steps into presenter videos. Build one module from short avatar clips: one clip per step, captioned, joined.
Employee onboarding video: a new-hire series made with AI
An employee onboarding video shows new hires how the company works. Make it as short AI avatar clips, one topic each, so you can replace one at a time.
Customer onboarding video: one short clip per setup step
A customer onboarding video walks a new customer through one step of getting started. Render one short AI avatar clip per step from your backend.
Security awareness training video: short clips made with AI
A security awareness training video teaches staff one security habit per clip. Make each topic a short captioned AI avatar clip and refresh only what changed.
Sales enablement video: short talk-track clips made with AI
A sales enablement video teaches reps one talk track: a pitch, an objection, a release. Make each a short AI avatar clip and re-render it when it goes stale.
Video prospecting with an AI avatar: one clip per prospect
Video prospecting puts a short personal video in a sales outreach message. With an AI avatar, fill one script template per prospect and render each clip.
New product launch video with an AI avatar presenter
A new product launch video names the problem, shows what's new, and ends on one call to action. Make it from launch copy with an AI avatar presenter.
Press release video: an announcement read by an AI avatar
A press release video reads the headline, key facts, and a quote in about a minute, captioned from the release text. How to make one with an AI avatar.
Convert video to SCORM: wrap an MP4 in a SCORM package
A video isn't SCORM by itself. To convert it, put the MP4 in a ZIP with an imsmanifest.xml, as a static asset or inside a page that reports completion.
How to add a video to a Shopify product page
Add a video to a Shopify product page from the product's Media section: upload the file or paste a YouTube or Vimeo link. Your theme must support video.
Shopify video banner: add a looping video made with AI
A Shopify video banner is a video in a theme section on your home page. Upload the MP4 to Files, pick it in the theme editor, and make the loop with AI.
What is a hero video? The website loop and the brand film
A hero video is the short, usually silent, looping clip at the top of a web page. In campaign planning, the hero video is the flagship film instead.
Virtual try-on for Shopify: live AR or try-on videos
Virtual try-on on Shopify comes two ways: a live camera app on the product page, or AI try-on videos you make ahead and add to the product's media.
What is virtual try-on? AR try-on and AI try-on explained
Virtual try-on shows a product on a person who isn't wearing it: live on a camera feed with AR, or in a new AI-generated image or video made from photos.
Arcads alternatives: AI UGC ad tools by plan and API
Arcads alternatives for AI-actor UGC ads: Creatify, HeyGen, Higgsfield and Sume compared on presenters, API, billing and free options, read 2026-09-28.
Creatify alternatives: link, image or script to video ad
Creatify alternatives compared on what they start from (a product link, product images, or a script) and whether batches run over an API. Dated table.
Product URL to video AI: how link-to-video tools work
Product URL to video AI reads a page's title, copy and images, then scripts and renders an ad. How it works, and what to send when a tool can't.
How to make an unboxing video with AI, step by step
An unboxing video shows hands opening the package and revealing the product. How to make one with AI from a box photo and a product photo.
Faceless UGC: what it is and how to make it with AI
Faceless UGC is creator-style content showing hands, the product and text, with a voiceover instead of a face. How to make it with AI in three steps.
Ad variations: how to make many versions of one video ad
Ad variations are versions of one ad that differ in one element. Plan the matrix, make each version once, check stills first, and count the cost.
What is creative automation? Templates, data, and review
Creative automation makes marketing assets by running one template over changing data, with people approving results instead of building each one.
AI jewelry product photography from one real photo
AI jewelry product photography works best as an edit: send a real photo of the piece, change only backdrop and light, then check every stone.
AI model for jewelry: put your piece on a model
To put jewelry on an AI model, send an image model your piece and a model photo, say exactly where it sits, and keep only versions that match.
AI video for jewellery: animate a real jewelry photo
Make an AI jewellery video from a real photo: pin it as the first frame, ask for one slow move, keep it short, and check stones frame by frame.
Relight a photo with AI: change the light, keep the shot
To relight a photo with AI, send it to an image-edit model with a prompt that describes only the new light and says everything else stays the same.
Product shadow: add a natural shadow to a product photo
A product shadow grounds the item on its surface. Cut-outs lose it; add it back with an AI image edit, or keep it by changing only the background.
What is a packshot? Meaning, examples, and use in AI
A packshot is a clean, evenly lit photo of a product, often in its packaging, on a plain background. AI tools use one as the product's reference.
AI clothing model generator: put your garment on a model
An AI clothing model generator dresses a model in your garment: send a flat lay and a model photo to an image model, then check print and color.
AI product photography prompts: a template and 8 examples
A product photo prompt names the shot, the backdrop, the light, and the camera, plus what must not change in your real product. Template and 8 examples.
Cinemagraph AI: make a living photo from a still
A cinemagraph is a still photo where one element moves in a loop. With AI, pin the photo as first and last frame and describe only that motion.
CGI product videos with AI: the 3D ad look from a photo
AI can imitate the CGI product-ad look from a packshot and a scene prompt. You get a generated video clip, not a 3D model you can re-render.
Royalty-free music for YouTube Shorts: what YouTube allows
Use YouTube's Shorts Audio Library or the royalty-free YouTube Audio Library, which YouTube says won't get a Content ID claim. Other music is on you.
YouTube AI content policy: what's allowed, what to disclose
YouTube allows AI videos but requires you to disclose realistic AI-generated or altered content, and won't monetize mass-produced, templated AI videos.
Does TikTok allow AI-generated content? Yes, with a label
Yes. TikTok allows AI-generated content but requires a label on realistic AI images, audio or video. Via the API, is_aigc: true adds the label.
What is AI info on Facebook and Instagram? Meta's AI label
AI info is Meta's label for AI-generated or AI-edited images, video and audio, added when Meta detects AI indicators or when the poster discloses AI.
TikTok Commercial Music Library (CML): what it covers
TikTok's Commercial Music Library is a pre-cleared set of songs businesses may use free, but only on TikTok. What it covers, and music for other uses.
Can you embed a video in an email? What works instead
Mostly no: most email clients strip embedded video. Use a still thumbnail with a play icon that links to the video. How to make one from a video.
What is a video sales letter (VSL)? And making one with AI
A video sales letter (VSL) is a sales pitch delivered as one narrated video, from hook to offer. What goes in one, and how to build it with AI parts.
Can you add videos to Google Business Profile? Rules and tips
Yes. Google Business Profile takes videos up to 30 seconds, up to 75 MB, at 720p or higher, reviewed before they show. How to add one and make one.
Direct response video ads: what they are and how to make them
A direct response video ad asks for one action now, such as buy or sign up, and is judged by that response. Its structure, and how to make variants with AI.
Restaurant video advertising with AI, from your own photos
Restaurant video ads without a shoot: animate your own dish photos into short clips, add a voice-over and music, and export a vertical cut and a loop.
Arcads vs Creatify: AI actor ads or URL-to-video ads
Arcads builds ads from your script and 1,000+ AI actors on monthly plan credits. Creatify turns a product URL into a video ad; API plans start at $99.
How to make an AI voiceover: from script to audio file
Make an AI voiceover in five steps: write the script, pick a voice, generate the speech, check its length, and download the file. The Sume API way.
Text to speech time calculator: estimate, then measure
Estimate speech time as word count divided by a speaking rate, then measure the real file: Sume's TTS reports its duration with word timestamps.