# Free Preview — AI Video & Shortform Production SOP Pack (v1.2) This preview shows the operating style of the full pack without giving away the production system. You get the full table of contents, a one-paragraph summary of the pre-production script gate with **one worked example check**, one complete prompt from the cookbook, and a look at what the paid pack adds. This preview is roughly 8-12% of the pack's total content — enough to judge the voice and rigor, not enough to run a production on. Preview scope: a small slice. The full pack includes the complete SOP (including a worked example that runs one still image through every ffmpeg stage to a shipped clip), setup checklist, full 12-prompt cookbook, QA receipt template, rights/provenance checks, known pitfalls, a runnable ffmpeg toolkit, a ComfyUI image-to-video workflow, and the QA receipts from a real render built with the worked example's workflow. --- ## Full pack table of contents ### README Overview · What you get · Why this instead of a free guide or ChatGPT · Buyer-facing files · Start here · Glossary · Who it's for · What it's not · Prerequisites · Core promise · License notes ### SOP 0. Operating principles 1. Production lanes (cinematic I2V intro · 9:16 narrated short · licensed-footage short · talking-character clip) 2. Pre-production script gate 3. Source image and keyframe rules 4. Image-to-video shot recipe 5. Assembly grammar 6. Audio SOP 7. Subtitle SOP 8. QA gate 9. Delivery receipt template 9.5. Worked example: still image → shipped vertical short (real ffmpeg command lines) 10. Known pitfalls ### Setup Checklist Workstation · CLI tools · ComfyUI / I2V lane · image generation · audio & TTS · fonts & subtitles · rights & provenance · QA readiness · first smoke test ### Prompt Cookbook (12 templates) concept · script rewrite gate · 9:16 hero still · multi-shot consistency · I2V positive · I2V negative · cinematic intro shot list · narration · subtitle chunking · licensed-footage search · QA review · delivery receipt ### ffmpeg toolkit (runnable) loudnorm 2-pass · Ken Burns vertical · blurred-bg 9:16 fit · frame-accurate cut · black/silence QA · subtitle burn-in · drawtext hook/caption ### comfyui/ minimal API-format image-to-video workflow (Wan2.2 I2V + LightX2V 4-step) + setup README ### examples/ QA receipts from a real render built with the SOP's worked example workflow — `ffprobe_receipt.json`, `loudnorm_receipt.json`, `qa_black_silence.txt`. --- ## Sample: the pre-production script gate, and one of its six checks Before rendering anything, a script has to clear a six-check gate — first sentence works without context, conclusion-first structure, an explicit emotional target, a repetition scan, an ending with a point, and an AI-slop blacklist. It ships only if all six pass. Here's the gate's easiest check as an example of the bar the other five hold to: ### Example check — First sentence works without context The first line should make the topic or tension clear within the first few seconds. If a viewer needs a long setup before they know why the video matters, the opening is not ready. > The other five checks — conclusion-first structure, explicit emotional target, a repetition > scan, an ending-with-a-point test, and the AI-slop blacklist — are in `SOP.md` §2 in the paid > pack, each with the failure mode it catches and paired with a rewrite-gate prompt that runs > the whole thing in one paste. They're short. They're also the ones people skip. --- ## Sample: one complete cookbook prompt ### 9:16 hero still prompt ```text A high-quality 9:16 vertical image for a shortform video about [topic]. Subject: [main subject]. Composition: centered readable subject, strong silhouette, no clutter, safe empty space for subtitles in the middle band. Style: [documentary / cinematic / scientific macro / illustrated editorial / premium 3D]. Lighting: [lighting direction and mood]. Color palette: [palette]. Camera: [lens/framing]. No text, no watermark, no logos, no UI, no distorted anatomy, no extra limbs. ``` The other 11 cookbook prompts — script rewrite gate, multi-shot consistency, I2V positive/ negative, cinematic intro shot list, narration, subtitle chunking, licensed-footage search, QA review, and delivery receipt — are in the paid pack. --- ## What the paid pack does that a free blog post won't - The **full six-check script gate** plus a rewrite-gate prompt that returns PASS/FAIL + blockers + a revised script, so the gate runs in one paste instead of by memory. - **Runnable ffmpeg scripts**, not descriptions. Five were checked on ffmpeg 8.1 — e.g. a normalized clip measured back at −13.95 LUFS, and the QA script correctly flagged an injected black + silent gap. - A **worked example** (SOP §9.5) that chains those scripts end-to-end on one still image, with the real command lines, plus the **QA receipts** (`examples/`) from a real render built with that workflow — proof the pipeline was actually exercised, not just described. - The **pitfalls that cost real time**: the `zoompan d=1` one-frame-freeze, keyframe-only cuts landing on the wrong frame, subtitles buried under the app UI, and black/silent tails that pass a casual watch but fail a QA scan. - A **ComfyUI I2V workflow** with the exact model files, download links, VRAM guidance, and a low-spec (SVD) fallback — so setup is a checklist, not a scavenger hunt. --- ## Who this is not for If you only want model weights, a one-click finished result, or sample media to repost, this is not that product. It's a production standard plus the commands, the graph, and the receipts proving the commands were run.