Thirty Seconds Stopped on Scene Two

The thirty-second attempt did not produce a thirty-second file. Scene one finished in about four minutes. Scene two hit I/O pressure and the workstation guard killed the run. A five-second preview already exists. That is not the cut.

Nineteen focused checks passed, including a new one that rejects a shot at the wrong resolution. Six reference stills copied and verified. Weights are going into managed storage, not a pile on the floor.

The comparison strip was the quieter cheat. Different aspect ratios got scaled to fill 1920×1080, then cropped. Each model lost a different slice of its picture. The assembly now keeps the native frame, trims each clip to 120 frames, and checks the source hashes before it concatenates. Scene two still has to survive the disk.