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    "shape": "Experimental \u2014 not yet wired into the publish pipeline (no cron, no automatic trigger from a published issue). Built and manually run end-to-end once, against one real published issue, producing one short-form and one long-form cut. Each render is reviewed frame-by-frame plus audio by claude-video-vision for two things: relevance (does each visual match its narration beat) and a blink test (would the cut into this beat visually jar a viewer). Catches are pipeline/render bugs, not fact-checking failures.",
    "videos_rendered_count": 2,
    "videos_rendered": [
      {
        "format": "short",
        "duration_seconds": 31.2,
        "size_mb": 13.1
      },
      {
        "format": "long",
        "duration_seconds": 271.7,
        "size_mb": 109.3
      }
    ],
    "review_step_catches": [
      {
        "date": "2026-09-03",
        "format": "long-form",
        "category": "audio",
        "finding": "Rendered output had a fully silent audio track (correct duration and codec, but -91dB \u2014 digital silence) instead of real narration.",
        "root_cause": "A path-resolution bug in the render framework's audio-fetch step failed silently; a duration-matched silent-audio fallback masked the failure instead of erroring out.",
        "status": "fixed",
        "detected_by": "claude-video-vision audio inspection"
      },
      {
        "date": "2026-09-04",
        "format": "long-form",
        "category": "captions",
        "finding": "Caption track was desynchronized from the audio by 24\u201340 seconds partway through the video.",
        "status": "fixed",
        "detected_by": "claude-video-vision frame + audio review"
      },
      {
        "date": "2026-09-04",
        "format": "long-form",
        "category": "captions",
        "finding": "Two visually distinct caption rendering styles appeared mid-video instead of one consistent style.",
        "status": "fixed",
        "detected_by": "claude-video-vision frame review"
      },
      {
        "date": "2026-09-03",
        "format": "short-form",
        "category": "captions",
        "finding": "Caption font styling was inconsistent between the opening hook and the rest of the video.",
        "status": "fixed",
        "detected_by": "claude-video-vision frame review"
      }
    ],
    "render_time": {
      "short_form_seconds": 69,
      "long_form_full_pipeline_seconds": 1112,
      "note": "From the pipeline's documented real end-to-end run (README) \u2014 generation + render, not render-only. Not yet logged with per-run timestamps, so this script reports the last documented measurement rather than a fabricated fresh one."
    },
    "cost_per_video_usd": null,
    "cost_note": "Not instrumented \u2014 the pipeline doesn't currently log real per-run API cost. Excluded rather than estimated."
  }
}