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ENN Pipeline Session 36 (2026-03-24): First end-to-end short produced and reviewed. Key learnings and decisions: PRODUCTION SPECS LOCKED: - YouTube Shorts target: 40-60 seconds (100-150 word voiceover) - Visual plan per short: 5-7 Flux stills, 1-2 Hailuo video clips (5s each), 3-4 avatar shots - Hedra now generates 2-3 chunks per short with rotating framings (Close > Medium > Wide). Audio split via ffmpeg, separate Hedra generation per chunk. hedra_chunks.json tells Remotion which clip to use at what offset. - Cost per short estimate: ~$3.20-6.44 (Hedra is 90%+ of cost, monitoring credits for real baseline) - NewsTicker component renders on both YouTube and TikTok with platform-specific CTA BUGS FIXED THIS SESSION: - Hedra portrait paths updated from pre-rebrand (hedra_01/02/03.png) to post-rebrand (Desk_Anchor_Front_-_{Close,Medium,Wide}.png) - flux_asset_library.short_id FK made DEFERRABLE, registerAsset checks if short exists before referencing - render-batch asset filter now excludes both final.mp4 and tiktok.mp4 - Remotion redeployed to Railway (was stale, missing ticker) PIPELINE STATUS: Test short "Monks Hacking the Anti-Gravity Field" (Mantis, score 87>92) needs re-render with corrected specs (was 74.9s, needs trimming). 19 scripts from 2 Google Drive docs (religion-fae + nuclear batches) pending processing. Railway Remotion deploy triggered end of session. FUTURE: Build a /process-scripts slash command that auto-searches Drive for new Gemini exports. Could also run as scheduled task so nothing gets missed as long as Dave uploads to Docs from Gemini.