Fieldnotes · first 20Published for review · 0 completed examples

Proposed coverage for the consolidated review

These are production targets, not completed examples or a claim that 210 distinct treatments have already been measured. A source-discovery candidate does not enter the completed catalog until it satisfies CONTRACT.md.

Primary family Proposed distinct examples What must differ
Openings 16 Construction, emphasis, hold and handoff into the next shot
Typography 24 Grouping, anchoring, reflow, replacement and departure
Camera moves 22 Path, focal target, blur, settle and camera/content separation
Interface interactions 24 Intent, state construction, timing and readable outcome
Masks 12 Reveal geometry, clipping relationship and boundary motion
Selection/highlighting 16 Region, drag order, persistent selection and emphasis transfer
Overlays 12 Screen/scene anchoring, construction, stacking and exit
Lower thirds 10 Spatial fields, onset relationship and removal mechanism
Layered compositions 14 Density, depth, trajectories, occlusion and foreground handoff
Montage 10 Rhythm, image relationships, field occupancy and pacing
Transitions 14 Source-visible mechanism and exact entry/exit relationship
Shot continuity 12 Preserved anchors, scale, object state and attention across edits
Logo reveals 12 Original identity construction, order, material and settling
Endings 12 Exit cadence, retained information, mark and final hold
Primary-family total 210 Ten above the required 200; no duplicate counting

At least 30 of these should be multi-shot passages. That is a cross-cutting tag, not 30 additional entries. A passage qualifies only when its coordination is materially distinct from the isolated recipes already counted.

The first 20 are a breadth-and-contract review batch, selected from actual downloaded OpenAI footage. Research scouts are re-inspecting source frames rather than promoting sampled historical notes into measurements. The five approved benchmark treatments remain a separate preserved reference; they are not automatically credited toward the new completion test.

Source discovery starts with the 100-film corpus and its shot/motion/opening, logo and overlay studies, then expands through the official-channel inventory where coverage is thin. Multiple URLs for the same creative execution do not yield additional treatments. Repeated stock wordmarks/lower thirds with only different copy are consolidated. A family target can be revised at the review if the actual source evidence does not support that many distinct mechanisms.

Scalability choices to review

One typed layer/timeline engine plus source-specific recipes keeps edits reusable. The alternative, one bespoke component per example, duplicates timing and asset handling and makes independent adaptation harder to audit. The opposite extreme, one generic animation preset with 200 cosmetic variations, fails the distinctness requirement. Each recipe therefore retains measured native timing and geometry while sharing the mechanisms that render them.

The site loads a compact searchable index, then only the selected recipe and video. Full-resolution consecutive frames remain in downloadable evidence packages; the browsing UI uses contact sheets and a single synchronized video. Package splitting and a file-budget check will precede publication. Cloudflare's documented Pages ceiling is 25 MiB per asset and 20,000 files on the free plan (official developers.cloudflare.com/pages/platform/limits/, checked September 5, 2026). Do not assume a paid-plan upgrade or move files to another host.

The measured first-batch sizing and explicitly hypothetical 200-treatment projection are in PUBLICATION_PLAN.md. They support testing split archives, not a claim that the unbuilt 200-treatment release fits or is deployable.

Evidence-backed assumptions

Claim Basis Status / consequence
The existing benchmark is approved, not a blank slate ../remotion-fidelity/publication/APPROVAL.md and the live benchmark Preserve bytes and disclosed limitations
The local public build is stale relative to live Local manifest has 3,886 entries; the fetched live manifest has 4,962 at task start Rebase against the latest live manifest before approved deployment
The current toolkit dependency versions can install evidence/clean-install.log Pinned to benchmark versions; new code still requires its own checks
The corpus can support every proposed family budget Existing research inventory, not yet a 210-treatment census Unverified; never backfill this gap with cosmetic duplicates
A declarative engine can express the first 20 faithfully Source inspection and prototype rendering underway Reject unsupported source mechanisms rather than simplify them

Independent reuse trials will include at least 20 unseen briefs, cover all major families, and include several sequences. Trial agents receive the frozen toolkit and original asset packs, not builders' notes. They choose recipes themselves; implementation edits and undocumented help invalidate the trial. Render validity, fidelity, timing, continuity, readability and substitution are separate checks.