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Viz Cascade

Retired 2026-09-24 (ledger A12, the second pass). This page described the three pre-shoot steps as plumbing for a takeover under a name since retired; its prior body is kept whole at 02_Working/Archive/Wiki_pre_second_pass_2026_09/process/viz-cascade.md. What follows is the current chain, from 00_Canon/Q-G/Q-G56 and Q-G90 as rewritten 2026-09-23, 02_Working/CLI_Briefs/THE_FRAME.md §1 and 02_Working/Strategy/Company_Overview/FLUXX_DESCRIPTION_2026_09.md. Deck copy says “the world is built before the shoot”; the three step names below are internal and appear on no deck and no external surface (Kevin, 2026-09-23).

The scene package, in three steps

The world around the actors is built before the first take, increasingly with generative tools, and delivered as a scene package in a format Fluxx owns and lints, whoever authors it, Fluxx or a vendor. Three bounded steps prepare it, each with an exit condition:

  • TechViz, an industry term applied as a bounded step: geometry alignment. The digital world and the practical set become one and align from the camera’s point of view, in the surveyed stage’s datum.
  • LightViz, Fluxx’s own name: lighting alignment. The digital world’s lights match the practical lights on the set, so the wall lights the actors with the light of the place they are in. The lighting passes are scripted, not hand-set per shot.
  • CompViz, Fluxx’s own name: compositing automation. The compositing script that will assemble the render passes, with everything it needs including mattes, is built and tested before the shoot; on the day it runs on its own when the passes return.

When the steps run

The week before the shoot, structurally aligned with the conventional prelight week. The cinematographer and the gaffer do their conventional prelight work; the three steps align to the same window so the work converges by shoot day. By call time on the first shoot day the geometry is aligned to the surveyed stage, the lighting matches the practical light, and the compositing script is tested. A vendor building worlds for a Fluxx production staffs the three steps to the prelight week.

How the shoot day uses it

When a take closes, Fluxx Automate pairs it to its scene package by the production’s own identifier, bound at production setup and locked, most specific entry wins, a tie or no match a raise, and the stage render node renders the floor postvis within minutes. An unpaired take gets a plate-only postvis; a changed scene package re-pairs only takes that are not yet selected. The wall is a lighting instrument and a backdrop, never the finished picture, so what it shows can be a fraction of the finished quality; the finishing renders the world at full quality afterwards from the record.

Cross-references

  • Capture to Delivery Workflow
  • 04_Fluxx_Shared/00_Canon/Q-G/Q-G56_Scene_Package_And_Chain.md (the steps and the chain on the day; renamed 2026-09-24)
  • 04_Fluxx_Shared/00_Canon/Q-G/Q-G90_Viz_Cascade_Pre_Light_Alignment.md (when the steps run)
  • 02_Working/CLI_Briefs/THE_ANSWER_3.md, scene packages and pairing

Audience visibility

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