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On-Set Operations

Retired 2026-09-24 (ledger A12, the second pass). This page carried a day rate, a headcount, a compute rig and a render window that are no longer stated, under names since retired; its prior body is kept whole at 02_Working/Archive/Wiki_pre_second_pass_2026_09/process/on-set-operations.md. What follows is the current chain, from 02_Working/Strategy/Company_Overview/FLUXX_DESCRIPTION_2026_09.md §2.2, §3.5 to §3.8, 02_Working/CLI_Briefs/System/UI_AND_FEATURES.md and THE_ANSWER_4.md. No figure from a past deck travels.

The cart

The collector is the unit on the cart. It listens to every device on the set, the camera through the capture card, the lens, the tracker and its verifier registered to the surveyed stage every morning by the floor test, the clock jammed to production sound’s timecode, and keeps one complete record per take with a verdict on whether the data can be trusted, writing the temporary footage beside it. The collector serves the truck panel itself: the source-presence row per device, the state of the embedded data on every frame, the plate writer, the take state with the trigger that fired, and the panel’s own connection state. A default is never shown as a value; the identifier hierarchy is production-defined, bound at setup and locked, and the day’s schedule is re-ingested at every wrap. The reference recorder runs on its own machine as the safety and the reference record, checked against, never depended on. Recordings are triggered by the camera, never by hand; the record button is never the primary control. The plan is two cameras, not three: with an LED wall and inner frustums a third camera cannot be served.

The crew on the day

Visual effects is a department of the show, on the floor. Fluxx brings the software, the hardware on the cart and the people to run it, watching the record rather than the picture, and works with or without the visual effects vendors. Who exactly is on the floor, and which roles are hires, is Kevin’s to name; plans are written as roles, not names, and no job titles are stated here.

The script log has two authors and never a merge: Fluxx’s operator is the guaranteed author, and the production’s script supervisor is offered the same surface at video village. A mark on a take is a rank at a moment with a name on it, never a boolean; a take with no mark is not yet marked. The surface binds nothing and its one write goes through the collector.

The stage used right

The wall is a light and a backdrop, never the finished picture, so it can be small and movable rather than one giant fixed wall. Several sets are built, dressed and prelit in parallel in one large stage; when the unit wraps a set it walks to the next one and the first is struck and rebuilt behind it. The stage is standard infrastructure, not a bespoke build per show. These are stated as principles; no panel, rigging or stage figure and no saving figure is stated.

The director decides on the floor

Within minutes of cut the take plays back with its world around the actors, rendered on the stage’s own machine from the record, rough but true to the shot. The director decides there, with the actors, the set and the crew still in place: go again, or move on. Nothing is locked in the camera; the background is rendered afterwards from the record. Selection stays with the show; the cart records what was selected and by whom and never selects.

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 day’s report at wrap.

Cross-references

  • Capture to Delivery Workflow
  • Two Finishing Tracks (retired, now the three renders)
  • 02_Working/CLI_Briefs/System/UI_AND_FEATURES.md, the surfaces, §3.8 and §4.7 the script supervisor’s surface
  • 02_Working/CLI_Briefs/THE_ANSWER_4.md, the script supervisor’s record decided
  • 04_Fluxx_Shared/00_Canon/Q-G/Q-G51_Stage_Design_Modular.md, Q-G37_Volume_Utilisation_Architecture.md, Q-G3_ComposiTrack_SubFrame_Architecture.md; 04_Fluxx_Shared/Industry_View/Q-G/Q-G53_ICVFX_Two_Failure_Modes.md (industry view, behind the barrier)

Audience visibility

industry, vendor, production, sales, director, investor.