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
Can I use AI images on Amazon KDP? What you must disclose
Yes, but KDP requires you to disclose AI-generated images, including cover and interior art. AI-assisted edits of your own work need no disclosure.
Podcast cover art size: 3000 × 3000 for Apple Podcasts
Apple Podcasts asks for a 3000 × 3000 px square Show Cover in PNG or JPG; via RSS it accepts 1400 to 3000 px. The rules, and making the art with AI.
AI real estate photo editing: fixes, prompts, and checks
AI real estate photo editing: send each listing photo to an image-edit model with one named fix and a list of what must not change, then check it.
Virtual twilight: turn a daytime exterior into a dusk photo
Virtual twilight turns a daytime house photo into a dusk shot with a sunset sky and lit windows. How to make one with AI, and what to check after.
AI product photo retouching: fix defects, keep the product
AI product photo retouching: send the real photo to an image-edit model, list the defects to fix and what must not change, then check every file.
Car background removal AI: one backdrop for every vehicle
Car background removal AI cuts each car out as a transparent PNG at a flat per-image price, or redraws the setting while the car stays. Steps and cost.
AI text to product image: what a prompt alone can give you
AI text to product image draws a product that fits your words, not your actual product. Use it for concepts; for listing photos, add a real photo.
AI menu generator: make the artwork, type the prices
An AI menu generator works best for the artwork: backgrounds, borders, and dish photos. Type dish names and prices yourself. Sizes, prompts, and cost.
AI stock photo generator: stock-style images made to order
An AI stock photo generator makes the image a stock search would find, at your size, several per call. How to prompt it, what it costs, and the rights.
Car dealership video ads with AI, from your lot photos
Make car dealership video ads from photos of cars on your lot: animate each photo into a clip, add the price and offer as voice-over, check every frame.
Hair salon promo video with AI, from your own photos
Make a hair salon promo video from your own photos: animate the space and real finished looks, add a voiced offer and music, and render it vertical.
Hotel promotional video with AI, from your own photos
A hotel promotional video can be made from the photos you already have: animate each shot, add a voiced welcome and music, render wide and vertical cuts.
Gym promo video with AI: from your own gym photos
Make a gym promo video without a shoot: animate photos of your own floor and classes, add a voiced offer, music and captions, and render a vertical cut.
Skincare video ads with AI: three Formats, one packshot
Skincare video ads can be made with AI from a packshot: a model-and-product studio film, an application or texture demo, or a before-and-after with proof.
AI virtual staging video: from empty room to furnished
An AI virtual staging video stages the empty-room photo first, then animates it or reveals the furniture, with the empty photo first and the staged one last.
AI video generator for business: 5 things to check
An AI video generator for business needs commercial rights, team roles, company billing, spend limits and an API. What to check, and Sume's answers.
Recruitment video ideas you can make with AI, one per role
Recruitment video ideas that need no film crew: a short clip per open role, a why-work-here piece and a hiring-process explainer, made with an AI presenter.
Safety training videos for employees, made with AI
Make safety training videos for employees with an AI presenter: one hazard per clip, your own site photos, captions, and versions in your crew's languages.
Customer service training videos: role-plays made with AI
Customer service training videos as short AI role-plays: which scenarios to script, how to build a two-person scene, captions, and what each clip costs.
Dental marketing videos with AI: what to make, what to skip
Dental marketing videos AI can make without a patient: a meet-the-dentist clip, first-visit and FAQ answers, and office-photo tours. What to skip, and costs.
Law firm video marketing with an AI avatar of the attorney
Law firm video marketing with AI: short attorney intro and practice-area clips from an avatar of the lawyer, what not to generate, how it's made and billed.
Financial advisor video marketing with AI, compliance first
Financial advisor video marketing with AI: short explainers from an avatar, scripts approved before rendering, exact on-screen text, and per-second costs.
Roofing video ads with AI: make them from your job photos
Roofing video ads can be made with AI from your own job photos: animate a finished roof, add a voice-over and your phone number. What not to fake, and costs.
Fundraising video ideas for nonprofits, made with AI
Fundraising video ideas built on real material: one true story, a program update, the ask and the link. Where AI helps, where it must stop, and what it costs.
School promotional video with AI: show the real campus
A school promotional video should show the real campus and programs. Use AI for motion, voice and text on your own photos, not a generated campus. Steps, costs.
How to make a podcast trailer: length, script, AI voice
To make a podcast trailer, script an intro, highlights, a hook and a call to follow, keep it to two minutes or less, and mix the voice over a music bed.
Online course promo video with AI: what to put in it
An online course promo video says who it's for, what they'll learn, what's inside, who teaches it, and where to enroll. How to cut one from AI lessons.
Donor thank you video: one render, each donor's name
A donor thank you video can show each donor's name for the price of one render plus a caption job per name, or say each name aloud at a full render per donor.
AI wedding invitation video maker: art, motion, music, text
An AI wedding invitation video is your invitation art animated into short clips, set to music, with names, date and venue burned on as typed text.
AI Christmas video generator: a greeting that moves
An AI Christmas video is a few animated clips from a photo or a winter scene, an original instrumental, and your greeting burned on as typed text.
How to make AI cat videos: one cat, many shots
To make AI cat videos, approve one still of your cat, start every shot from it, and join the shots under narration. Dancing and talking cats, costs.
AI video generator for church: bumpers, announcements, loops
An AI video generator can make a church's sermon-series bumpers, weekly announcement clips and pre-service loops. How each is made, costs, limits.
AI recipe video generator: step photos, voice, quantities
An AI recipe video turns a photo of each step into a short clip, reads the method aloud, and burns quantities on as text. Steps, costs and limits.
AI fitness video maker: what to generate, what to film
An AI fitness video maker can make the coach, intro, B-roll and on-screen text, but not trustworthy exercise demos. What to film, what to generate.
AI meditation video generator: voice, calm loop, music bed
An AI guided meditation video is a slow narration over a calm visual loop and a soft music bed that dips under the voice. How to build one, and costs.
How to make an AI movie: shot by shot, then the cut
You make an AI movie shot by shot: clips of up to 30 seconds, generated from a shot list, checked, voiced, then cut together. Workflow, limits, costs.
AI movie trailer generator: shots, narration, music, titles
An AI movie trailer is short generated shots, a narrator, music that builds and burned-in title cards, cut together. How to make one, with costs.
AI whiteboard animation generator: blank board to sketch
AI can imitate whiteboard animation: a blank-board first frame, a finished-sketch last frame, the drawing in between. Words go on as captions.
AI product exploded view generator: two frames, real parts
An AI exploded view animation needs two stills: the product assembled and exploded. A video model makes the motion; the parts must come from you.
AI car video generator: from a car photo or a prompt
An AI car video generator animates a photo of your car or invents one from a prompt. How to get a driving shot, what drifts, and what it costs.
AI travel video generator: your trip photos or a prompt
An AI travel video generator either animates your own trip photos or invents a place from a prompt. How each works, what to label, and costs.
1-minute AI video generator: two 30-second clips and a join
No single video request makes 60 seconds. Make two 30-second seedance-2.5 clips and join them with Timeline 1.0 at $0.10 per output minute. Costs and steps.
30-second AI video generator: which models make it in one request
Two models in Sume's catalog generate 30 seconds in one request: seedance-2.5 and wan-3.0. Other text-to-video models top out at 15. Cost at 480p to 1080p.
4:5 or 9:16 for video ads: what each platform's page lists
LinkedIn, Pinterest, TikTok and Meta list different vertical ratios for video ads. No Sume video model lists 4:5, so here is how to crop or size it.
AI avatar for a customer service kiosk: clips, not live chat
A kiosk that answers any question needs a live avatar. A kiosk with known answers can play rendered clips. What Sume's avatar video can and cannot do there.
AI generated video disclosure checklist: TikTok, YouTube, Instagram
A pre-publish checklist for labeling AI video on YouTube and TikTok from their own pages, with a note on Instagram, where no page was read for this post.
AI image for Instagram 4:5 (1080×1350): what the API returns
Instagram portrait is 4:5, 1080×1350, not 4:3. How to ask Sume's image API for 4:5 and why some models return a native size close to it, not exact pixels.
AI music reference artist song blocked: write the brief without one
ElevenLabs blocks downloads of tracks that reference other artists' songs. Describe the sound by emotion, genre, tempo and instruments, as Sume's brief does.