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Vendor Integration Path

Retired 2026-09-24 (ledger A12, the second pass). This page described three vendor modes inside a cloud product under a name since retired, and a plugin SDK that is not in the plan; its prior body is kept whole at 02_Working/Archive/Wiki_pre_second_pass_2026_09/process/vendor-integration-path.md. What follows is the current position, from 02_Working/Strategy/Company_Overview/FLUXX_DESCRIPTION_2026_09.md §3.7, 00_Canon/Q-G/Q-G34 and Q-G42 as rewritten 2026-09-23, and 02_Working/CLI_Briefs/THE_ANSWER_3.md.

Vendors change shape

Visual effects stops being a vendor the footage is handed to at the end and becomes a department of the show. The people who build the digital world work with the production before the shoot, not for a vendor after it. Fluxx works with or without the visual effects vendors. Vendors do not disappear: some become asset suppliers, building worlds to the production’s scene-package format, which Fluxx owns and lints; some lend crew to a show the way a gaffer hires a specific electrician. The relationship stops being procurement and starts being staffing. The artists and the craft are never the target.

What a vendor receives

The record, not a login. For a selected take, post receives its full-quality footage as OpenEXR from the camera original when Fluxx holds it, camera.usd in centimetres and lens.nk out to Nuke, never FBX, the per-take record at full precision, and unbaked log dailies with the one-light CDL as a file. The handover to post is run with a real post supervisor at Phase D. The exports for the edit are specified against Avid and Resolve at source. What travels to a partner names the production record and nothing behind it.

The engineering partner

GlassBox is Fluxx’s engineering partner on Fluxx Automate, as a vendor; no joint venture and no title beyond that. Vendors are input sources for cost-line items, not decision owners.

Cross-references

  • Capture to Delivery Workflow
  • Two Finishing Tracks (retired, now the three renders)
  • 04_Fluxx_Shared/00_Canon/Q-G/Q-G34_Crew_Model_Change.md, Q-G42_Team_Why_Build.md; 04_Fluxx_Shared/Industry_View/Q-G/Q-G44_VFX_House_Role_Recast.md (industry view, behind the barrier)
  • 02_Working/CLI_Briefs/THE_ANSWER_3.md, what the on-set side hands over and what post does with it

Audience visibility

industry, vendor, sales, investor, counsel.