Thirty-two published videos were the raw render output. One 20-second catalog
preview was 60 MB at 25 Mbps — Blu-ray bitrate for a screen capture in a docs
page. Nothing autoplays, so no page shipped that silently, but a reader who
pressed play paid for it.
Re-encoded at 1280 wide, CRF 28, faststart, keeping audio where it existed.
Measured PSNR against the originals at ~38.5 dB, which is visually identical —
the first check I ran returned nothing and I mistook that for a pass, so this
number comes from a filter that actually worked.
Worth correcting one thing I said earlier: the catalog is not systemically
over-encoded. 190 videos, 0.36 GB, about 1.9 MB each. Six were over 10 MB. I
found two monsters and generalised from them.
Pages carrying more than 8 MB of video: 26 before, and the heaviest went from
140 MB to under 15 MB.
The durable fix is in generate-catalog-previews.ts, which had no delivery encode
at all — it published the render master directly. It has a web pass now, so the
next preview is born small instead of being cleaned up later.
The capstone and determinism rewrites renamed headings that other pages point at.
Eighteen prompting pages linked to capstone#the-full-prompt-verbatim, which is now
'The prompt, word for word', and the rewritten determinism page invented an anchor
on frame-adapters that was never there.
Moved the links rather than restoring the old headings — 'the full prompt,
verbatim' is exactly the register the rewrite was cleaning up.
Broken anchors site-wide: 0. mint broken-links does not check anchors, so none of
this would have failed CI.
Add entry bridges (each naming a specific Level 1-3 artifact the
capability slots into) and literal exit bridges across the 7 Level 4
Substance pages, per the novice-to-advanced restructure plan.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Five-way review of the section against docs.json, catalog pages, and
skills. Fixes: stale /hyperframes-media skill row (real name /media-use)
plus missing music-to-video and slideshow workflow rows; caption
identity misattributions (keynote/documentary are scene-embedded, stomp
carries no rail); prompts violating the guide's own ambient-idle rule;
grounded keying rationale (u2net_human_seg); broken forward references;
nested-backtick code spans; brand casing and frontmatter dash
consistency throughout.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Moves all 28 example/validation renders to the docs' canonical media
host (s3://heygen-public via scripts/upload-docs-images.sh) and points
every embed at static.heygen.ai instead of HeyGenVerse asset URLs.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Runs validation builds for the primary prompt on every new feature page
(all pass lint/validate/render) and applies the fixes they surfaced:
lower-third exit-length note, block-adaptation framing on the anatomy
technique slot, code-typing per-character wording, caption-component
demo-content note, map determinism/merge-at-source notes, device-mockup
demo-UI expectation, variables img clarification. Embeds 29 unedited
renders next to their prompts (HeyGenVerse-hosted), including a
default-vs-overridden pair demonstrating variables.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds 18 pages completing the Prompt Guide expansion (phases 2-4): six
video-type pages seeded by the verified example prompts, and twelve
feature pages giving prompting guidance for surfaces the docs implied
but never covered (transitions, caption styles, overlays, code blocks,
data/maps, VFX, rendering/output, editing existing videos, media/audio,
variables, runtimes/3D, design systems). All block/component/skill names
grounded against the catalog and skills; render pairing deferred.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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