Eidos Video reusable

Keep the shot.

What recapture means

We emptied type.

Same camera. Same objects. type went to []. Recapture, not a generate.

Mark with Eidos AGI titles burned in
type on
Same mark, titles removed
type off

Scene 1 · 0:00–0:16

Aim.

Black. One unmoving lodestar. Camera falls through stacked shells. The star does not drift.

Scene 2 · 0:16–0:34

Hands.

The lodestar becomes the vanishing point of a three-lane night road. Camera already in the cockpit.

Scene 3 · 0:34–0:52

Mind.

The road peels. Nested rooms stack in Z. The loop looking at its own machinery.

Scene 4 · 0:52–1:10

Under the sand.

The stack flattens. Something older moves under the road. The camera cannot command it.

Scene 5 · 1:10–1:28

Skater.

Ribbon gathers onto a contracting shell. What was kept pulls in. Figure-skater into the hit.

Scene 6 · 1:28–1:44

The mark.

Two even, one raised. Face camera. Hold through the decay. No type.

Make your own

Four steps.

A scene pack is a folder with scene.json and renderer.html. Capture is a tool in video-3d-forge, not a prim. Needs Chrome, Playwright, and ffmpeg. Run the commands from the video-3d-forge repo root.

  1. Write camera, objects, and duration in scene.json. This ident lives at prim.scene/examples/eidos-ident.
  2. Capture frames, then assemble:
$ NODE_PATH=$(npm root -g) node bin/capture.mjs ../prim.scene/examples/eidos-ident
$ python3 bin/video-3d-forge assemble ../prim.video/examples/eidos-ident
  1. Change one field. We set type to [] so the titles dropped.
  2. Capture again. Same command. That is the recapture.
{
  "type": []
}

The store

Files, then a tool.

A prim is the file. Capture is a forge that reads it. Start with the scene pack. The rest is optional.

1 · prim.scene

Start here. Camera, objects, duration. Authority is scene.json.

2 · video-3d-forge

Capture and assemble. Not a prim. Writes frames, then an mp4.

3 · prim.video

Later: an ordered list of scenes. Do not copy cameras into it.

Then

prim.opf is the product graph. prim.docket is the board. prim.obf is the mute picture-book (private repo).