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Two Finishing Tracks

Retired 2026-09-24 (ledger A12, the second pass). This page described two finishing tracks under names since retired; its prior body is kept whole at 02_Working/Archive/Wiki_pre_second_pass_2026_09/process/two-finishing-tracks.md. What follows is the current chain, from 02_Working/Strategy/Company_Overview/FLUXX_DESCRIPTION_2026_09.md and 02_Working/CLI_Briefs/THE_ANSWER_3.md.

What replaced the two tracks

There is no per-shot track field any more. Every take that closes on the cart has one complete record and a temporary plate, and the finishing runs from that record in three renders, all from the same dataset:

  1. The floor postvis, rendered on the stage’s own machine within minutes of cut at half or quarter resolution, for every take, so the director sees the shot with its world around the actors and decides on the floor: go again, or move on.
  2. A 2K postvis in the cloud, per selected take.
  3. The deliverable, the full-quality render in the cloud with no time constraint, per selected take, from the camera original when Fluxx holds it.

Which takes go forward is decided by the show, never by the cart. Selection has several sources, each a dated record: the script supervisor’s notes, the playback calls made at the monitor, the reference recorder’s marks, the supervisors’ updates, and once it exists, the edit, which is the authority and overrides everything before it. The effective selection is derived from them, and a change re-runs the finishing for the takes it touches. The cart records what was selected and by whom and starts the finishing for those takes.

The temporary plate is ProRes for every take at the cut; OpenEXR is made only for selected takes. An agentic function verifies each render and flags what a person should look at; nothing blocks, and a person’s decision on a flagged render is written down as a decision.

What this page no longer claims

No overnight deliverable for every shot, no reopen semantic on a vault, no track flip. The finishing is the render per selected take, it never gates the stage, and the wall is a light and a reference, never the finished picture, so the world behind the actors can still change in the finishing without shooting again.

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