Retrospective craft notes / 198 notes
Model releases, tool documentation, guild terms, disclosure rules and the older precedents behind AI filmmaking, each read from the shot outward: the workflow, and what the tool does not change.
Historical event dates and source dates are separate from the preparation date of this local edition. Every note is a retrospective draft prepared 16 September 2026; none was published on its historical date.
THE VISUAL SOURCE INDEX
Film frames, production photographs, equipment and research figures. These images have been checked against their original sources; permission review is separate. Unverified legacy candidates are withheld, not presented as evidence.
198 notes
Georges Méliès ↗Source checked · local review
The Cinémathèque française and the Méliès family's own archive describe the 1902 film and its success without naming a formal patent.
RKO Radio Pictures ↗Source checked · local review
Library of Congress records and a commissioned essay detail which King Kong effects were stop-motion, projection, or full-scale mechanics.
HarshLight ↗Source checked · local review
Disney's own archive and a 1938 trade report credit a studio team led by William Garity, not one inventor, with the multiplane camera.
Linwood G. Dunn and Cecil H. Love ↗Source checked · local review
A 1945 trade report and a later patent document Dunn's optical printer; the Academy's current award records do not reach back that far online.
Petro Vlahos ↗Source checked · local review
A granted 1963 patent and a contemporaneous trade article document Petro Vlahos's sodium-vapor traveling-matte process and its adoption.
VFX Voice / Visual Effects Society; original photographer not identified ↗Source checked · local review
American Cinematographer's 1968 coverage and a National Film Registry essay document Trumbull's own slit-scan rig behind 2001's Star Gate.
Industrial Light & Magic / Lucasfilm ↗Source checked · local review
ILM's and Lucasfilm's own histories agree the effects house was founded in 1975 to close a capability gap for Star Wars.
Garrett W. Brown ↗Source checked · local review
Garrett Brown's 1977 patent documents the Steadicam's design; its specific Academy Award citation could not be independently opened here.
Warner Bros. Pictures ↗Source checked · local review
Library of Congress sources carefully date The Jazz Singer's 1927 premiere and narrow what its synchronized-dialogue first actually covers.
Stéphane Dabrowski ↗Source checked · local review
A 1952 trade account and a National Film Registry essay document Fred Waller's three-camera Cinerama system and its wartime origin.
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OpenAI's own February 2024 page describes a restricted preview for red teamers and invited artists, not a public launch.
Google ↗Source checked · local review
Google's May 2024 announcement shows Veo launched as a waitlisted preview without audio or camera control.
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Meta's own blog post and paper describe Movie Gen as a partnered research release, not a shipped tool.
Stability AI ↗Source checked · local review
Stability AI's arXiv paper documents a training method and data curation, separate from the model's public release.
Tencent Hunyuan team ↗Source checked · local review
Tencent's paper reports a professional-evaluator comparison it designed and ran itself, not an independent ranking.
Wan-Video ↗Source checked · local review
Alibaba's own repository dates Wan2.2's mixture-of-experts upgrade and its unverified Wan-Bench 2.0 claim.
Runway ↗Source checked · local review
Runway's announcement and its own changelog date Gen-3 Alpha's rollout and its staged feature additions.
Genmo ↗Source checked · local review
Genmo's own repository, blog post and model card date Mochi 1's release and disclose its hardware and resolution limits.
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Luma's own product page and news index date Ray2's subscriber-only rollout and its later feature additions.
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ByteDance's Seed team published Seaweed-7B as a research paper and demo page, not a downloadable or licensed product.
Z.ai / CogVideo team ↗Source checked · local review
Zhipu AI's two open CogVideoX tiers carry different licenses, and only the smaller one is unrestricted for commercial use.
HPC-AI Tech ↗Source checked · local review
HPC-AI Tech's Open-Sora documents its own training recipe and benchmarks against open models, not against OpenAI's Sora.
Lightricks ↗Source checked · local review
Lightricks published LTX-Video's weights under a license that requires a paid agreement above a stated revenue threshold.
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Rhymes AI open-sourced Allegro under Apache 2.0 and ranked it against rivals in its own unpublished-methodology user study.
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Meta's Emu Video paper describes a two-step image-then-video method and reports preference results Meta gathered itself.
NVIDIA ↗Source checked · local review
NVIDIA launched Cosmos as openly licensed world-foundation models for robotics and driving, not a filmmaking tool.
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Runway's own research post named what Gen-2 could not yet do and set out a long-term world-model research agenda.
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Shengshu Technology's Vidu paper reports performance on par with Sora using the developer's own comparison, not a third party's.
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MovieLabs's own 2030 Vision materials name founding studios and a technology roadmap, not a certified vendor list.
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SMPTE's own pages describe an AI in Media Task Force and annual journal issues, distinct from a ratified engineering standard.
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The EBU's 2023 briefing and 2024 guide give public broadcasters a coordination vocabulary, which the EBU frames as voluntary.
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NIST AI 100-4 catalogs provenance and detection techniques for synthetic content as guidance, not a binding rule.
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The C2PA's own conformance program and versioned specification define what generators and validators must do, and who has actually passed.
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Stanford's Foundation Model Transparency Index measures company disclosure, and its authors say so explicitly.
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VideoPhy's own 2024 test found generated video followed captions and physics together only 39.6% of the time, with stated limits.
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FaceForensics++ names its four manipulation methods and 1,000-video source, boundaries a citation should preserve.
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DeepMind's own pages describe SynthID watermarking Veo output for detection, distinct from full manifest-based provenance.
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A filmmaking guide's coverage definition and a video vendor's own shot-term glossary show what a generation brief must still specify shot by shot.
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An editing guide's eyeline definition and a vendor's own camera-terms reference show gaze continuity is not the same thing as camera position.
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A shot-reverse-shot guide and two vendors' own consistency documentation show that matching an actor's look across cuts still needs correction, not a switch.
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An editing guide's cross-cutting definition and a scheduling tool's own scene-tracking features show what parallel action still requires before intercutting.
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A long-take guide's editorial function and two vendors' own duration and extend documentation show length is now a stated technical ceiling.
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A shutter-angle guide's own formula and a generation vendor's prompt-level motion-blur language show the physical rule has no generated equivalent yet.
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A rack-focus guide's lens-based definition and a vendor's own prompt-level focus terms show depth of field is described, not computed, in generated shots.
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Two editing guides' J-cut and L-cut definitions and an editor's own split-edit documentation show what generated picture still has to be trimmed to fit.
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A continuity guide's 30-degree rule and a vendor's own angle-changing camera terms show a brief must state the angle change no model tracks on its own.
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A format guide's standard ratios and a vendor's own ratio-expansion documentation show a generated clip's frame needs a declared step to match delivery.
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Foundry's own documentation describes CopyCat as a task-specific trainer, not a generative video model.
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The Academy's own ACES documentation describes a color-management standard, not a claim about generation output.
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OpenEXR's own documentation traces the format from a 2003 ILM release to Academy Software Foundation governance.
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Blackmagic's own manual keeps 'Neural Engine' language to the Color and Edit pages, not to Fusion's Matte Nodes.
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Adobe's own archived pages show the sampling tool shipped before CS6, later extended into video as Project Cloak.
ILM / The Irishman production ↗Source checked · local review
ILM's own case materials describe a markerless capture rig named FLUX, distinct from any generative de-aging model.
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Papercup's own published case studies claim results for Sky News and Bloomberg's dubbed news channels by name.
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Digital Domain's own technology page names Charlatan's method and productions without describing any outside license.
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The Visual Effects Society's Gen AI Resources page assembles panel discussions rather than a single ratified policy on generative tools.
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American Cinema Editors addresses generative AI through public programming, not a written policy, distinct from its bargaining counterpart.
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Motion Picture Sound Editors barred generative AI soundtrack work from Golden Reel eligibility, then wrote narrow exceptions into its rules.
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IATSE's own account of a unanimous 2023 NLRB election led to a first Marvel VFX contract two years later.
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The DGA's own commercial agreement text carries no AI-specific clause, unlike the 2023 Basic Agreement already on file.
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Directors UK's own policy page seeks a statutory AI remuneration right that a March 2026 report has not yet granted.
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The Producers Guild's Code of Credits names no AI-specific credit, even as its own conference addressed AI contract risk.
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La Biennale di Venezia added a single clause on AI to its 2026 festival regulations, absent from the 2025 edition.
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A joint documentary-field update shows applicants asked to describe, not certify, their AI use.
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The European Film Market's own wrap-up names AI programming at its 2026 edition, not a binding rule.
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A 2026 government report responds to a copyright-and-AI consultation without adopting a new audiovisual rule.
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The CNC's own call for projects backed exploratory AI residencies for French screen creators, not a broad AI rule.
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The ACTRA-CMPA-AQPM agreement negotiates Canadian rules for AI-generated performers, distinct from any US contract.
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A live clause in the agency's Terms of Trade requires applicants to follow its AI guidelines, absent from a static PDF copy.
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A Commission call for evidence on AI and culture is linked to Creative Europe but is not a MEDIA funding condition.
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The BFI's own funding guidance sets transparency conditions for AI use, distinct from BAFTA's award-eligibility question.
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Autodesk's own pages frame 2024's ShotGrid-to-Flow Production Tracking switch as continuity, with one new AI scheduling feature layered on top.
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Frame.io's own materials describe Content Credentials as data the platform reads and preserves, not something every connected camera writes.
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StudioBinder's own call sheet and shot list pages describe automatic data population, not any feature the company itself calls AI.
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ftrack's own documentation describes Actions and webhooks as configurable automation, distinct from a competing vendor's AI scheduling claim.
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Yamdu's own disclosure page names the models behind its script-breakdown AI beta and states plainly what those features do not generate.
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Cuebric's launch coverage and its 2026 homepage describe a widening pitch for the same AI environment-generation engine.
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Entertainment Partners's own pages treat generative AI as a compliance and workforce topic, not a feature of its payroll products.
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Move.ai's own documentation describes a multi-camera, GPU-dependent capture system and a self-reported comparison to marker-based rigs.
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Disney's own archive credits MAGI, Triple-I, Robert Abel and Digital Effects, not an in-house unit, for Tron's CGI.
Industrial Light & Magic ↗Source checked · local review
ILM's own history says an animator-built stained-glass knight, not a capture system, drove Young Sherlock Holmes' effect.
Industrial Light & Magic ↗Source checked · local review
ILM's own history credits three named artists with the water-tentacle effect that won The Abyss its 1989 visual effects Oscar.
TriStar Pictures / published by ILM ↗Source checked · local review
ILM's own account of Terminator 2 credits a morph team, a 3D character team and two more for the T-1000's Oscar-winning effect.
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VES's own magazine dates the society's ambitious inception to late 1996, ahead of the founding year most often cited.
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The Academy's own citation credits Stephen Regelous's agent system, not a learned model, for the trilogy's battle scenes.
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Weta's own account describes a viewfinder feed for on-set direction, not an image-generating system, behind Avatar's pipeline.
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The bankruptcy court's own docket dates the Chapter 11 filing to 13 February 2013, eleven days before Life of Pi won its Oscar.
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ILM's own interview says a fully digital Tarkin was chosen because the character was judged too iconic to recast.
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Weta's own case study credits its character pipeline, not ILM's separate de-aging rig, with the fully digital young Will Smith.
Runway ↗Source checked · local review
Runway's announcement and changelog date Frames' research reveal separately from its paid-plan availability.
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Sber's ai-forever released Kandinsky Video's code and weights under Apache 2.0, a fully permissive open license.
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The CAI's 2020 white paper introduced assertions and claims, terms the C2PA later formalized in its own specification.
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Foundry's own documentation and blog describe Cattery as a free model library layered onto CopyCat's training node.
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Weta FX's own technology pages and SIGGRAPH publication list document named tools without a commercial release.
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Equity's own campaign page documents an unresolved fight with producers for AI consent and pay terms, not a settled one.
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Telefilm's four-principle AI policy sets disclosure and IP terms; CMPA offers members resources, not a parallel rule.
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Rokoko's own product pages name Move.ai in a direct comparison while documenting a separate, camera-free wearable capture method.
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Wrapbook's own site separates AI-labeled features from the rules-based payroll automation it does not call AI.
Industrial Light & Magic ↗Source checked · local review
A trade profile and the effects house's own materials describe a motorized rig built to repeat one planned move, not to invent a shot.
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American Cinematographer's own account of the 2000 film shows a full color-timing pass done digitally, not the first attempt at the process.
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The Academy's own record and a cinematography trade account describe a still-camera array, not a claim about any specific present-day technology.
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Max Fleischer's 1917 patent and a Library of Congress record describe a mechanical tracing device, the origin of a name software now borrows.
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Bob Sabiston's own account of the software behind Waking Life describes an interpolation aid, not an automated or intelligent system.
Universal Pictures / published by ILM ↗Source checked · local review
ILM's own account and the Academy's 1994 award record show fewer than 60 fully CG shots working alongside physical creature effects.
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The Academy's 2003 visual-effects award and Weta's own materials name Gollum as a signature performance-driven character, not a solo automated one.
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Avid's own financial history and contemporaneous trade coverage of its 1999 Academy Award frame nonlinear editing as an infrastructure shift.
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Digital Domain's own case study and the Academy's 2009 award record describe a composited head-and-body pipeline, not a single generated actor.
Disney / Pixar ↗Source checked · local review
Pixar's own history page and Academy coverage of the 1996 ceremony credit John Lasseter's leadership for the first full-length CG feature.
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Meta's own paper and blog post document a text-to-video method trained without text-video pairs, framed as research, not a shipped product.
Google Research / Imagen Video authors ↗Source checked · local review
Google's Imagen Video paper and project page detail a cascaded text-to-video method the team states it chose not to release.
Stability AI ↗Source checked · local review
Stability AI's announcement and model card document Stable Video Diffusion as a research preview with named limits, not a commercial tool.
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Pika Labs' own 1.0 announcement documents a product upgrade, funding, and a waitlist, but not technical specifications for the model.
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Runway's help-center documentation scopes Motion Brush to painted regions with directional modifiers, later retired in favor of prompting.
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The Zeroscope model card describes a watermark-free fine-tune of Modelscope, released independently rather than as a company product.
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DAMO Academy's ModelScope model card documents a downloadable research release, with limits the card itself states plainly.
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Deforum's own documentation describes a scripted, frame-by-frame repaint of Stable Diffusion, a precedent still used in node-based pipelines.
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D-ID's own product page and license agreement document a bounded avatar-video tool and a contractual, not technical, consent gate.
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Synthesia's own policy and feature documentation require a recorded consent step before any real person becomes a reusable avatar.
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OpenAI's own December 2024 announcement and system card state Sora Turbo's resolution, duration and safety limits at first public release.
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OpenAI's own announcement separates Sora 2's stated capabilities from the consent and moderation controls built into its new Sora app.
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OpenAI's own support notice states the exact dates and data terms for winding down the Sora web, app and API products.
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Google's own December 2024 posts state Veo 2's benchmark method, resolution, and named limitations at that release.
Google ↗Source checked · local review
Google's own announcement documents Flow's ingredient-to-scene workflow and its stated plan limits, not confirmed film credits.
Runway ↗Source checked · local review
Runway's own help article and pricing page state Gen-4.5's duration cap, cost, and its still-limited input types.
Runway ↗Source checked · local review
Runway's own research page states what Act-One takes as input and what it does not claim to replace.
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Luma's own June 2024 launch page states Dream Machine's generation speed, shot length, and named limitations.
Wan-Video ↗Source checked · local review
Alibaba's own repository states Wan2.1's parameter sizes, hardware needs, and internal benchmark method.
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Runway, Luma, and Veo each document named camera controls for generated video, and Runway's own pages describe where that control still breaks down.
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Runway documents up to three references per generation, and Luma states plainly that a single image leaves identity consistency incomplete.
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Luma and Veo both document a first-and-last-frame feature, and neither vendor's documentation calls the interior motion predictable.
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An ASC visual analysis shows how kept screen direction reads as continuity, a discipline vendor documentation of generated shots does not describe as automatic.
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Runway's own prompting documentation gives a concrete structure for the subject, action, camera, and style fields a shot list already tracks.
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Trade-press accounts of camera matching and CG-to-plate handoffs describe the craft work of cutting a generated shot next to live footage.
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Luma's own production guidance recommends locking wardrobe, geography, and lighting decisions before requesting a shot, framed here as an editorial checklist.
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Vendor documentation on environment and reference conditioning does not claim a generated establishing shot will match a live-action scene filmed later.
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Runway's own Act-Two documentation requires an unbroken view of the face, and an independent study finds pose-transfer models often garble the action anyway.
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A cutaway does not need continuous performance, which is why vendor documentation and an editors' guild account both treat it as lower risk.
Adobe / MythOS and Wink productions ↗Source checked · local review
Adobe's own account of two commissioned shorts names which tasks moved to Firefly and which stayed with the director.
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ComfyUI's own documentation ties reproducibility to saved workflow JSON and seeds, not to the community nodes built on top of it.
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Runway's own developer documentation sets per-second API pricing, moderation rules, and failure handling distinct from its consumer app.
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The Protopica creators' own account ties a Creole-language short to a documented generate-then-curate keeper ratio.
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Boords' own product pages position AI-generated storyboard frames as a draft entry point into an otherwise unchanged sign-off workflow.
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Lightricks' own product page ties LTX Studio's scene generation to a script, concept, image, or video a user supplies first.
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Netflix's own Eyeline announcement credits The Eternaut but does not document the generative workflow behind that claim.
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Wonder Dynamics' 2023 site and pricing page describe an 80-90 percent automation figure alongside scene exports built for further finishing.
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Adobe's help documentation caps Premiere's Generative Extend at seconds and mutes rather than invents spoken dialogue.
Blackmagic Design ↗Source checked · local review
Blackmagic's own pages describe IntelliScript, IntelliSearch, and Magic Mask as assistive tools inside one finishing suite.
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Topaz's documentation distinguishes models that preserve source intent from ones that generate new detail on upscaling.
Adobe ↗Source checked · local review
Adobe's 12 February 2025 announcement states Firefly trains only on licensed and public-domain content, not customer files.
Runway ↗Source checked · local review
Runway's 25 July 2025 research page documents Aleph as an in-context editor for uploaded video, not a text-to-video generator.
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Autodesk acquired Wonder Dynamics in 2024 on undisclosed terms; the tool now ships as Autodesk Flow Studio.
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Runway's help articles trace object isolation and removal from a dedicated Inpainting tool to prompt-driven Edit Studio.
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Adobe's help documentation describes Roto Brush 3's AI tracking model and the manual corrective strokes it still expects.
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Flawless's own pages describe TrueSync's lip-resync process and the consent mechanism it says a production should use.
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ElevenLabs launched automatic AI dubbing in October 2023; its documentation names 90-plus languages and cloning limits.
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The DGA's own 2023 announcements describe AI contract language reached before two allied unions settled their disputes.
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IATSE's own bargaining and ratification statements describe AI displacement protections in its 2024 Basic Agreement.
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SAG-AFTRA's own bulletin sets consent and pay terms for AI and digital replicas under one interactive-media contract tier.
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SAG-AFTRA's own bulletins define a digital replica against a wholly synthetic performer and attach different consent rules.
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The editors guild's own materials describe indemnification and displacement protections for AI in post-production.
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The ASC's own committee materials describe an AI subcommittee built to assist cinematographers, not replace camera-based work.
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The Producers Guild's own one-sheet turns one conference session into ten AI due-diligence questions for producers.
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SAG-AFTRA's own strike order names unenforceable AI language as the reason its video-game performers walked out in 2024.
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The AFM's own releases show AI terms secured in a 2024 film contract and still being sought in 2026 recording talks.
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C2PA's own specification defines what a Content Credentials manifest records and what it does not prove.
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The European Commission's own Article 50 guidance limits AI marking and disclosure duties to specific roles and contexts.
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YouTube's own policy names three triggers for labeling altered or synthetic video and what counts as a minor edit.
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OpenAI's and Scarlett Johansson's own dated statements each document their side of a synthetic-voice dispute.
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The Partnership on AI's own framework names consent and disclosure practices while stating plainly it audits no one.
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Tribeca's own materials credit five named filmmakers for Sora Shorts while leaving its competition status unaddressed.
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The Content Authenticity Initiative's own materials scope its tools to inspecting attached credentials, not detecting missing ones.
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New York Film Academy's own program pages describe generative AI coursework built around traditional directing and editing skills.
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VBench's own paper defines sixteen separately measured dimensions and states what it does not yet cover.
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EvalCrafter's own paper names three limitations in its prompt set, motion metrics, and annotator pool.
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The Frechet Video Distance paper scopes its metric to statistical similarity, not narrative or creative quality.
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The Sora System Card documents red-teaming, mitigations, and physics failures the lab's own technical report admits.
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DeepMind's Veo page names resolution, clip length and example counts for its benchmarks, and one named limitation.
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The DFDC dataset paper reports 2,114 competing teams and states detection remained extremely difficult.
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Artificial Analysis discloses its Elo methodology and vote counts but not how its voters are recruited.
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An editorial checklist for reading vendor comparison claims, built from what named pages disclose or omit.
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Physics-IQ's authors report their best-scoring model reached only 29.5 percent against real-world physical variance.
Andrew Salter / Runway AIF ↗Source checked · local review
Runway's AI Film Festival names credited filmmakers and winners across years, which is public evidence of use, not of tool autonomy.
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A framework for telling a credited production from an artist's account from a vendor's demo reel before drawing conclusions.
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The directors' own statement, per Variety, narrows a viral AI controversy to three brief interstitial images.
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Asteria and Moonvalley's own statements describe licensed data and a hybrid pipeline, ahead of any released feature.
The Coca-Cola Company / campaign production ↗Source checked · local review
Ad Age's reporting and Coca-Cola's own comments detail the studios, models and criticism behind the 2024 AI holiday ads.
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Metaphysic's own account of Here describes a real-time, on-set de-aging system built for one credited production.
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Metaphysic's own materials describe on-set tools and a CAA partnership as company statements, not third-party audits.
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Trade coverage and Vertigo Films' own posts trace Critterz from a 2023 short to a Cannes market pitch.
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An editorial method for comparing video models by fixing prompts, seeds and settings before judging results.
Tencent Hunyuan team ↗Source checked · local review
Tencent's own repository documents HunyuanVideo's parameter count, hardware needs, and its own benchmark method.
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Katalist's own pages describe a script-to-shot engine now marketed chiefly for advertising variants, not film shot lists.
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Entertainment Partners' scheduling tools and a generative script-to-scene feature both document a scene inventory step, but not a link between them.
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Bectu's own 2025 statements pursue AI transparency and consent through consultations rather than a bargained contract clause.
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BAFTA's own film and television rules add a generative AI disclosure clause without setting an eligibility threshold.
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BBC R&D's own report of its Verify team's first C2PA-credentialed article states what the standard does and does not yet do for video.
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Topaz's documentation names specific failure modes of its diffusion-based Starlight video models and a control for it.
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Reporting and the guild's own page show a tracking process running against admitted off-the-record AI use.
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