The old file put a screengrab of another man, indoors with two competitor bottles, on screen for one second at 38.2 s, and held the competitor's teal bottle to camera at 3 s. The cause was that screengrab being handed to the model as the man's reference. Chunks 1, 3 and 4 were regenerated with a head crop of our own cap man from chunk 2 as the reference, their captions wiped, and the join rebuilt; chunk 1 also got the locked wording back ("ultralight", which the first run had softened to "lightweight"). The two lines carrying the brand were then re-voiced in the cap man's own cloned voice, spelled "Ab Tonic", and only those two shots were re-synced, on a mouth-only model: the whole-head model redrew his cap badge and both bottle labels on the first attempt, and the reviewer caught it. Scrub to 3 s and 38.8 s on both; both brand lines now read back as "Ab Tonic".
The earlier one-call take carried the donor's captions re-lettered as garbage all over the top of frame, because the donor went in with its captions on and the model copied them. This take starts from the donor with every caption and the sticker wiped first: the OCR masker had filed the running captions as static wall text and left them, so the band was measured by edge density on the wall (rows 204 to 280 for the whole clip) and drawn by hand, three wipe passes in all. The clean donor then went through one 23 s call on the 30-second editor with the product photo as its only reference, under the ruling that the swap takes no face picture and recasts the people from a one-line description; the model drew one man for the whole ad. The take said "Beptonic" on the first brand line and "Abtonic" on the second, so the first line was re-voiced in this man's own cloned voice from his own sentence in the clip and that one 39-frame shot was re-synced on the mouth-only model; every other frame and word is the take untouched. Both lines now read back as "Abtonic", and the caption scan finds no text anywhere (its two small hits are wet hair strands).
The reviewer's list on the finished file has no identity entry and no text entry. Its one fatal is the donor's own cut at 10.5 s, where the donor itself shows only two hands over the hair for four seconds; its one major is the bottle nozzle changing shape at the 20 s cut, which is the bottle class ruled out above.
| video | at | grade | what it saw | in scope |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 02 | 41.0 s | fatal | The closing bottle is our labelled white one; the reviewer flags the change from the blue one before it | bottle — ruled out |
| 02 | 4.0 s | major | The bottle turns unmarked after the hero reveal | bottle — ruled out |
| 02 | 1 / 11 s | major | The man leaves frame across the donor's hard cuts | donor's edit |
| 07 | 10.5 s | fatal | The man's head and body leave frame at the cut and only his hands stay on the hair, as in the donor's own 10.5 to 14.5 s | donor's edit |
| 07 | 20.0 s | major | The bottle's nozzle changes from a push cap to a trigger head across the cut | bottle — ruled out |
Verdicts for every file are in qa/; the finished 07 is 07.clean.redub. The old 07
verdict carried an identity fatal at 19.5 s; the old 02 verdict carried the stranger at 38.0 s. Neither appears on
the new files.
A gate on every generation call now refuses a person reference that is a whole phone frame or carries a burned-in caption, which is the shape of the file that broke both videos. A head-and-shoulders crop passes; a screengrab of someone else's ad does not. Since then the ruling went further: the swap takes no face picture at all, the product photo is the only reference and the people are recast from a one-line description, and a lock in the job runner refuses any swap job carrying a second reference image. 07 is the first take made under it, and the man held for all 23 seconds. Anything under 30 seconds still goes through the single-call editor so there is no chunk seam to cross.
Voices: each chunk in the shipped batch already carried its own generated voice, so 02 keeps a voice change at its seams (134 Hz then 182 Hz measured before this work). 07 as one call has one voice throughout.