Script 7 — what the opening reference changed

Same donor, same prompt shape. The only addition is a reference for the opening composition, cropped out of our own frame at 2.0s below the yellow band.

Before

6.2 seconds · one reference, our ENDING composition

competitor stock across the top

0–3.0s a yellow stick with its cap off lies across the top of frame, in focus, with "fresh that lasts" legible on it

After

7.1 seconds · three references, opening and ending composition plus the packshot

one small remnant left

The background stock is now our own blue sticks on the same white fur.
2.5–3.4s a small blue item with a yellow label sits out of focus in the upper left corner for about 0.9 seconds, measured by cropping that corner across six timestamps.
Levelled from −28.6 dB to −19.9 dB.

The three QA findings, and what each one really is

Finding	Verdict
2.8s wrong-product, the yellow-labelled stick in the upper left	Real. Down from about 3 seconds large and sharp to about 0.9 seconds small and blurred.
0s sound, −28.6 dB	Not a generation defect. The donor itself measures −28.0 dB and our clip carried it faithfully at −28.6 dB. Keeping the clip's own sound worked exactly as asked; the clip simply needs a bed or a level pass, which it now has.
0s text, the line "i have dark underarms"	Our own decision. The donor's on-screen line is the ad, and Seedance re-letters it. The QA tool assumes no text was permitted and has no way to be told otherwise.

Cost: $0.45 for this retry. The identity fatal from the first take is gone, because that one came from passing a person reference to a shot that is only hands.

QA verdict: 07-full.qa.md