The guides were previewing five-second catalog snippets - a chart block standing in
for an explainer, a caption component standing in for a recut. Each now opens with a
cut from an actual film made through that workflow: the Huly launch for product
videos, a SpaceX valuation piece for explainers, one shoot cut three ways for
captions and recuts, a real pull request for PR videos, a per-listener year in
review for motion graphics, a beat-analysed track for music, and a timeline-editing
film for the custom path. Captions name what each clip is from instead of implying
it is a finished film for that page.
music-to-video had no media at all and now does, because the honest asset existed
all along: a 90-second film built from an analysed track.
slideshow still has none. Nothing on disk honestly shows a navigable deck, and a
stand-in on a page about that specific output would be a small lie.
Re-rendering these projects was tried first and rejected. Fresh renders regressed:
variables-launch lost its centre creator clip and rendered white where footage
should be, and the pull-request and cloud films came out two to three seconds short.
The projects reference media that has moved since they were made, so the existing
exports are the better source until each project's paths are repaired.
All eight guides opened with prose and contained no images and no video, which is
the main reason the pages read flat: they are the destination of the "I need a
specific thing" journey, and they never showed what the thing looks like. Six now
open with a real scene playing, captioned with exactly what the clip is rather
than implying it is a finished film.
The previews were re-encoded rather than reused as-is. The catalog originals run
127KB to 1.3MB and these autoplay on load, so each is trimmed to its most legible
five seconds at 960x540 and lands between 16KB and 90KB on the docs CDN.
music-to-video and slideshow are deliberately still without media. Nothing in the
catalog honestly represents a beat-synced cut or a navigable deck, and a
decorative stand-in on a page about a specific output would be a small lie. Those
two need a purpose-rendered clip each.
ukimsanov