Candidate construction guide · native Resolve not tested

Title scaffold yields to a growing portrait stack

Concrete source-bound vector adaptation. Authoring-time mechanical checks only; no source-quality approval. Parent renders and independent review are separate.

Download and run

Run from the extracted kit root. Required files: guide.json, README.md, handoff.py, controls.csv, overlay-manifest.json, core-publication-v08.zip, active-assets.zip. Optional self-contained test: test_kit.py. No private worker, prepared project, generator, inspection image, sidecar or external helper documentation is required.

Install the accepted core first, then the selected active override. Never substitute legacy assets-001.zip; that historical archive can contain raster media. Start with no project/ directory:

test ! -e project
unzip core-publication-v08.zip
unzip -o active-assets.zip
python3 handoff.py verify --guide guide.json --project project
python3 handoff.py frames --guide guide.json --project project > controls-regenerated.csv
cd project
npm ci

npm ci and movie rendering are reader/parent steps. This builder ran neither. The font and license arrive in the core. From project/:

node --experimental-strip-types scripts/catalog.mjs show character-title-inset --contract
node --experimental-strip-types scripts/render.mjs --help
node --experimental-strip-types scripts/verify.mjs --help
node --experimental-strip-types scripts/render.mjs --recipe character-title-inset --variant default --out out/character-title-inset-default.mp4
node --experimental-strip-types scripts/render.mjs --recipe character-title-inset --variant adaptation --out out/character-title-inset-adaptation.mp4
node --experimental-strip-types scripts/verify.mjs out/character-title-inset-default.mp4
node --experimental-strip-types scripts/verify.mjs out/character-title-inset-adaptation.mp4

For custom content, first create the complete editable file from this selected recipe, then edit only its values (including accurate SVG dimensions and rights):

node --input-type=module -e "import {readFileSync,mkdirSync,writeFileSync} from 'node:fs'; const recipe=JSON.parse(readFileSync('recipes/character-title-inset.json','utf8')); mkdirSync('inputs',{recursive:true}); writeFileSync('inputs/character-title-inset-custom.json',JSON.stringify(recipe.defaults,null,2)+'\n',{flag:'wx'});"

Edit project/inputs/character-title-inset-custom.json from the kit root. Keep field caps and fixed geometry; run the actual font gate when rendering. From project/:

node --experimental-strip-types scripts/render.mjs --recipe character-title-inset --content inputs/character-title-inset-custom.json --out out/character-title-inset-custom.mp4
node --experimental-strip-types scripts/verify.mjs out/character-title-inset-custom.mp4

Do not combine --variant with --content. This archive uses --out, not --output; no --fps or --duration override belongs to this treatment. From the kit root, the optional tests need only the extracted project and downloaded handoff:

python3 test_kit.py --project project

Tests are source/preflight checks, not render or native Resolve approval. controls-regenerated.csv is a generated output, not a missing file.

Exact binding

• Active archive SHA-256: fd7c7d1f58dbdcee2e44dedd4dc9d2fef0a99a9e3c84910029f33d46a57ef4ad
• Accepted core SHA-256: 307fb6b927e35e6d73779652873d994f5c3e36cb7deba65f22fa64748057a0de
• Recipe SHA-256: bf055d640847fd6e345e54f238fc70fa273ee8a07b5f9a052b8e7048bf6214c0
• Queue unit SHA-256: 52032a07aca8f48bbdcf4d8bcd1e3c9c43a0931aefe64eb8e1c0ea91e3634892
• overlay-manifest.json is the complete runtime whitelist with sizes and per-file hashes. Both content variants are embedded in the one selected recipe.

Source and native clock

Official research reference: Character Consistency with 4o Image Generation; source URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFsOUNfBhzI. Published 2025-03-25. Metadata authority, response hash, retrieval date and inherited master hash are pinned separately in guide.json. Exact half-open source bounds: [72,216); 144 selected frames at 24000/1001. All retained excerpt frames are selected; no trim required. Local f maps to source index start+f. Nominal seconds=(start+f)*denominator/numerator.

Not supplied. Nominal frame/rational-FPS seconds are arithmetic labels, not recovered absolute master PTS. Do not silently replace the separately retained rounded samples with nominal times. Fresh decoded excerpt time base: 1/24000. Every integer PTS and duration, independently retained rounded source-relative time, exact source selection and provenance are in guide.json. Excerpt timing does not prove absolute master PTS.

Every selected native index viewed in a static480x270 cell. Four explicitly listed960x540 stills per piece viewed in detail. Not moving review, a master-resolution pass or an output inspection. No external source window or critic findings supplied these controls. The original source media are research only, never active assets.

Source observations versus choices

• One final live-action context frame0 precedes white frames1..2. Three title lines enter at3,4,5 and hold through63. The opening context cannot be discarded as padding. Local indices: 0,1,2,3,4,5,63.
• Small centered portrait cards begin at64 and replace every roughly3frames. At72 the upper two title lines have gone while the bottom remains; at73 it disappears. New top line enters75 and bottom line78. Cards stay above type. Local indices: 64,67,70,72,73,75,76,78.
• Portraits keep replacing, leaving slivers of earlier cards beneath. Stack scales up continuously and increasingly occludes both headings. Last front card switches at133 and remains through143 while scale keeps increasing; no new exit or finished hold is shown. Local indices: 79,82,85,88,91,94,97,100,103,106,109,112,115,118,121,124,127,130,133,143.

Adaptation differences

• Default is a bird-study collection; adaptation a robot-edition collection. A vector workbench replaces the one live-action context frame0. Frames1..2 remain blank.
• Final portrait enters133 and remains through143 while the parent keeps enlarging toward an off-window148 key. Do not create a final hold or remove the remaining word occlusion.
• Eight original SVG styles per variant replace source rendered cat images; material and lighting range is knowingly narrower. The stack uses authored offsets/slivers, not source-extracted imagery.
• 230/224px fixed live type. Top and middle initial lines cut72; bottom cuts73. Replacement top and bottom enter75 and78. Every portrait merges above both title groups.
• All positions, easing and vector material choices are authored approximations, not official measured controls. Source observations and nominal/source PTS authorities remain separate.
• One treatment with two content variants. No source images, logos, brand data, audio or photographic claims.

Editable Remotion construction

Install the selected recipe under project/recipes/. The accepted Treatment framegraph reads groups, text, vector-image slots and native shapes from it. Layer order is back-to-front. Start/end gates use the global local frame, not frame minus layer.start. Edit fields and both embedded content objects; do not alter source bounds or reuse the historical builder timing.

All numeric tracks below are chosen implementation values. Held string prefixes live in the node controls; they do not resize their text boxes. The original SVGs have separate vector elements and local gradients; no image element or linked media is allowed.

Resolve / Fusion manual build

Create1920x1080 at 24000/1001 fps, V1 Fusion composition[0,144), timeline timecode01:00:00:00. No audio. There is no supplied or validated native .setting macro.

Recipe coordinates are top-left pixels, local to parent. For a local domain W,H and pivot ox,oy, place the transform pivot at(ox/W,1-oy/H). Translate by(x/W,-y/H) in that parent domain after local scaling/rotation; use the explicit affine mapping below rather than assuming canvas dimensions for every nested group.

p_parent = (x,y) + origin + R_clockwise(rotation) * diag(scalescaleX,scalescaleY) * (p_local-origin). Merge children before applying this once per group. Convert final top-left pixels to Fusion normalized(x/W,1-y/H). Fusion angle convention must be calibrated against positive clockwise recipe rotation.

Left-key smooth=uu(3-2*u), linear=u, hold until next key. Never Auto. All tracks sampled on global recipe-local time.

Normal Over with transparent outside shape; group opacity after child composition; local clip and SVG clipPath before local transform. No image/video Loader or black/Screen workaround.

1. Create one1920x1080 Fusion Composition on Edit V1, no audio tracks. Set the exact guide rational timeline cadence before insertion. The timeline GUI may label24000/1001 as23.976; keep the rational value in the delivery contract. Set length to the listed nativeFrameCount, local0 through count-1. Do not import the research excerpt.
2. Use one explicit Background_Paper and ordered Over Merge chain. Treat JSON layer IDs as node names and fusionNodes parentLayerId as nesting ownership. A group contains a transparent RGBA local domain, ordered child Merges, then its own Transform and one opacity multiplier. Never apply parent travel separately to already transformed children.
3. Reconstruct each active SVG from svgConstruction in guide.json. Use Background plus Rectangle/Ellipse/Polygon/Bezier masks; preserve viewBox, exact path controls, fill/stroke and gradient stops. Keep separate editable shape nodes in XML order; the orb uses two fills intersected with its circle alpha. No Loader of a bitmap or video. SVG import is optional, not required to obtain editable native nodes.
4. Use bundled Geist for Text+. Enter defaults or adaptation values from contentContract. Text values remain editable, with fixed recipe width/height and no auto-wrap/shrink. Match pixel font size, weight, line height and alignment through a native baseline/width check; no numeric claim that Text+ Size equals CSS px. The supplied source-only browser gate does not certify Fusion typography.
5. Set each layer gate start inclusive and end exclusive. When using clip trims, local Fusion time must still evaluate the global recipe-local clock: add the clip In before sampling. Use held StyledText prefixes for reveal.steps, with no interpolation of glyph counts. A disappearing group cuts all children together.
6. For numeric tracks use controls.csv per-native-frame values, or exact left-key interpolation: linear u; smooth uu(3-2*u); hold returns left value strictly until next key. No Auto spline, overshoot, cross-dissolve or optical-flow interpolation. Evaluate keys beyond duration only to derive the truncated last in-window sample.
7. Keep alpha transparent outside vector shapes. SVG fill/stroke opacity and gradient stop-opacity multiply their own coverage; Merge with Normal/Over, not Screen or black-keying. Clip the final canvas only; explicit inset masks, if present, apply in local pixels before that group transform. Do not shrink live text widths as a reveal mechanism.
8. Use opening-context SVG at[0,1), then white-only[1,3). Put initial-title-1/2/3 at x100,y10/360/710, fixed1720x270 boxes and230px font. Gates3/4/5; first two cut72, third cuts73. Preserve60frames of complete title before the first card64.
9. New headings are siblings below portrait-stack: top x70,y42,1780x270 at75; bottom x60,y768,1800x270 at78; both224px. They never resize, shift or shrink to accommodate cards. Word occlusion is intentional.
10. Build portrait-stack at x840,y360, local240x360, pivot120,180. Each portrait-card is a240x360 original SVG with its own small x/y offset from the exact node controls. Merge them in ordinal order. Every card survives beneath later ones until144; this leaves colored edge slivers rather than a one-slot image swap.
11. Hard replacement gates are64,67,70,73,76,79,82,85,88,91,94,97,100,103,106,109,112,115,118,121,124,127,130,133. Each picks the slot listed in its controls. Eight original styles intentionally consolidate the source material range; their motifs are not new examples.
12. Scale only portrait-stack: .90 at64,1.22 at78,1.52 at100,1.86 at120,2.25 at148, linear segments. Pivot stays centered; previous edges grow with the front. The last front card holds content133..143 but the group is still growing. Stop at143, not at the off-window endpoint.
13. Check every listed source-bound checkpoint and adjacent frames against the scalar contract. Inspect an actual parent render and native Resolve output separately before any fidelity/equivalence claim. Default, adaptation and custom passing here are content/framegraph/font preflights only.

Complete node hierarchy and track ownership

Each row is one authored layer, with its native subgroup tools. Follow the sibling Merge order and parent IDs; guide.json contains full literal controls, local box, effective gates, mask order, text values and SVG construction trees. Child groups are transparent until their active children contribute alpha. A dormant child never makes a parent visible.

Exact numerical controls

Coordinates are local pixels. Keys are frame:value easing; constant values remain held. Whole-group origin and nonnumeric controls are in the adjacent node contract in guide.json. controls.csv enumerates every native value, including inactive rows (see active column).

Original SVG whitelist and construction

These are the complete default+adaptation active image dependencies. Each SVG is supplied in active-assets.zip at project/public/. Rebuild its independent shape elements from the exact svgConstruction XML tree; use the per-element attributes, transforms, gradient stops and clipPath alpha. No generated source or private script is required.

Checkpoints and regression limits

The tests verify installed core/recipe/artifact pins, exact flat ZIP whitelist, active SVG closure, node ownership, every numerical control and CSV row, real archived CLI options and default/adaptation/custom prepareInput bindings. The frozen font receipt checks actual full-text widths; parent renders still need their normal font gate. No passing scalar test establishes visual fidelity.

Largest remaining gap: Original vector bird/robot studies replace diverse rendered cat styles and the live-action context frame. Exact material variation, subtle card offsets and scale acceleration remain unresolved; the final enlargement is intentionally truncated.

• Original vector bird/robot studies replace diverse rendered cat styles and the live-action context frame. Exact material variation, subtle card offsets and scale acceleration remain unresolved; the final enlargement is intentionally truncated.
• Source quality unresolved. No moving, blind-win, native Resolve execution or application-equivalence claim.
• No renderer, encoder, npm install, dependency copy, source-master download or deployment by this builder. Parent work is separate.
• All native indices were statically inspected; fitted sheets are not moving review. Absolute source PTS are unavailable.
• Public files work from the kit download. Private inspection/generator files are not run prerequisites.
• Text length caps are not guaranteed glyph-width bounds; actual full-string font gate must pass without shrink.
• One treatment and two original content variants, not multiple examples.