Tracy Harris Co · video pipeline

reel-captions, test 1

The 2 August pipeline rebuilt as one parameterised command. Raw clip in, branded 1080x1920 captioned reel out, QA gate on the way through.

Download 720x1280

This is the 720p copy, 21 MB. Cloudflare Pages caps a file at 25 MB, so the full 1080x1920 master (120 MB) stays on the box at /home/claude-bot/reel-captions/out/test-1/master.mp4.

Verified

Dimensions	1080 x 1920, 30 fps, 95.23 s
Integrated loudness	-14.2 LUFS, true peak -1.46 dBTP
QA gate	PASS, all five checks
Body font	Poppins Bold, 0.985 shape match to the TTF
Emphasis font	Editors Note Italic, 0.971 shape match
Caption treatment	White, soft shadow, no outline
Cuts	99.28 s down to 91.23 s, 14 jump cuts, 35 shots
Captions	109 chunks, 38 carry a serif emphasis word

The command

python3 /home/claude-bot/reel-captions/reel-captions.py \
  <clip.MOV> --out out/test-1 \
  --hook "There really is|no method|to the madness" \
  --cta "So press record." \
  --emphasis "fear,madness,method"

What it does

Transcribes with word timings, then cuts filler and dead air from the transcript.
Writes every decision to plan.json, a manifest you can edit and re-render.
Burns Poppins captions with Editors Note italic on the emphasis word.
Adds the ivory hook and CTA cards in cream, ink and gold.
Masters to -14 LUFS and fails loudly if anything comes out wrong.

Editing it back

Open plan.json, change a caption, a crop, a shot framing or a card line, then run reel-captions.py --rerender plan.json. No re-transcription.