Glossary
Rewritten 2026-09-24 (ledger A12, the second pass). The May 2026 glossary defined a category name and a pipeline product name that are both retired, and a compute rig that is out of the plan; its prior body is kept whole at
02_Working/Archive/Wiki_pre_second_pass_2026_09/company/glossary.md. Terms below come from02_Working/Strategy/Company_Overview/FLUXX_DESCRIPTION_2026_09.md,02_Working/CLI_Briefs/THE_FRAME.mdand the 2026-09-08 to 09-24 documents. Industry background glossaries live separately at04_Fluxx_Shared/Reference/Glossaries/.
Current terms
Fluxx
The company, Fluxx Virtual Production Inc., Vancouver, BC. Standalone company, standalone process. A lean platform for the shooting stage, built for an AI world; not a visual effects company. Brand meaning: continuous forward motion; the double X reinforces the push (S81 lock).
the Fluxx platform
The placeholder for the whole product, lower case, until a name is locked (Kevin, 2026-09-16, A12 call 5). Six candidates sit in the description §6, none checked for trademark, none locked. Off the table: any spelling of the retired timing term, the two names retired as trademark risks, and any collision with ComposiTrack, Automate or Velvet.
the chain
THE_FRAME’s word for what the product is: one automated pipeline from the moment a take is captured through to a finished, integrated render. Capture, pairing, lighting, render. Not the capture, not the tracker, not the interface. The chain.
the collector
The unit on the cart, built by Fluxx. It listens to every device on the set, keeps one complete record per take with a verdict on whether the data can be trusted, writes the temporary footage, and serves the truck panel. Specified in COLLECTOR_SPEC.md, R-1 to R-92.
the record
What the collector writes: one immutable take directory closed by one rename, with the manifest, the identity, the verdict, camera.usd, lens.nk, the OpenTrackIO archive and every device’s native bytes. Files are truth; databases are views. Anything that travels to a partner says “the production record”.
the verdict
The collector’s one statement per take of whether the data can be trusted. A raise is a named problem on the panel; nothing blocks on it.
the truck panel
The surface the collector serves itself: source presence, the state of the embedded data on every frame, the plate writer, the take state, the raise line, the panel’s own connection state. Judged by whether it shows on the day what would otherwise be found in post.
the stage manager’s day view
What the floor sees of the day’s plan against what has actually been shot; the 1st AD’s schedule as the guide, the next day at wrap.
the script supervisor’s surface
The seventh surface: the script log with two authors and never a merge, Fluxx’s operator guaranteed and the production’s script supervisor offered the surface at video village. A mark is a rank at a moment with a name on it, never a boolean; a take with no mark is not yet marked.
Fluxx Automate
The engine that runs the second half of the chain: a browser-based visual graph that is both the design of the pipeline and the thing executing it, with a hub on the stage, a hub in the studio, service agents and bridge services. Running code today. The subject of the first provisional filing.
the scene package
The world built before the shoot, in a format Fluxx owns and lints, whoever authors it: geometry aligned to the surveyed stage, lit to match the practical light, the compositing script prepared. Prepared the week before the shoot, aligned with the prelight week. Its three steps carry internal names only, TechViz, LightViz and CompViz, off every deck and external surface.
pairing
Automate matching a closed take to its scene package by the production’s own identifier, most specific entry wins, a tie or no match a raise.
the floor postvis
The rough render of a take with its world around the actors, on the stage’s own render node, within minutes of cut, at half or quarter resolution, so the director decides on the floor. Deck copy says “the postvis on the floor” and “minutes after the cut”.
the render deadline
The time within which the floor render returns after cut, the figure the first job is sold on: minutes, on Automate’s chain, until BT-4 measures it on the bench (THE_ANSWER_3, BK-14). Deck and site copy: every take gets a render deadline; the final render follows on a deadline, not months after the wrap.
selection
Which takes go forward, decided by the show and never by the cart, from several dated sources: the script supervisor’s notes, the playback calls at the monitor, the reference recorder’s marks, the supervisors’ updates, and once it exists the edit, which is the authority. Replaces “approval”.
the agent
The agentic function that verifies each render and flags what a person should look at, with a reason. No human gate on the production path; a person’s decision on a flagged render is written as a decision.
the identifier
Production-defined at setup from the shooting schedule, anything from Sequence_Scene_Shot_Take to Shot_Take plus a camera axis on multi-cam, bound at production setup and locked. The product ships with no hierarchy of its own. A default is not a value.
the wall
A lighting instrument and a backdrop, never the finished picture. Small and movable rather than one giant fixed wall; the movable wall’s internal name is RapidWall, off every deck.
ComposiTrack
The canonical name of the wall method, the subject of the second provisional filing (Q-G88). ChromaTrack is the filing’s working name and appears only there.
Velvet
The UI library, the cover of the software (Q-G71, Q-G72). Surfaces are built in Claude Design against the Brand Master, never hand-rendered in Cowork.
the reference recorder
QTake on the stage: the safety and the reference record, checked against, never depended on. The product is not built around another product.
the last test
A full dress rehearsal of the whole chain at the close of Phase E, run as a shooting day at two cameras, not three (Kevin, 2026-09-20).
The Third Path
The pitch project, Projects/Pitch_2026/: one master document, the description as its overview, every deck a cut of it. Tagline: Real actors. Real craft. A fraction of the cost.
Retired terms
- The timing term (“near” plus “time”, in any spelling). Describes when something happens, was never a product or brand name, and is off every external surface (Mo-Sys is seeking a trademark on it). Replacement wording: the postvis on the floor, minutes after the cut, the render deadline.
- The two product names retired as trademark risks (Kevin, 2026-09-16): the earlier name of the render pipeline and the earlier name of the joint-venture offering. Neither appears in new text.
- Warp, the on-set compute rig: out of the plan. The floor postvis renders on one stage render node.
- The Vault, the two finishing tracks, the VM lifecycle, per-tenant cost attribution: out of the plan; see the retired pages under Process and Technology.
- Track A, Track B, Track C: the Company Overview voice tiers of the seven-deck family; superseded by The Third Path, where every deck is a cut of the master, named by its job.
Pairs with
- What is Fluxx
02_Working/Strategy/Company_Overview/FLUXX_DESCRIPTION_2026_09.md§6, the name candidates00_Context/Glossary.md(operational)