Thoughts

UFO Pipeline Session 25: Phase 6 complete. All 43 shorts rendered via Railway (0 failures, 1.73GB, ~59 min). Caption issues identified for fixing: (1) Word timing off - words appear on screen before being spoken, especially after commas/periods where there's a natural pause. The Caption component groups 3 words in a sliding window but doesn't respect pause boundaries. (2) Active word highlight (yellow + scale to 1.1 + fontSize 72 vs 64) eliminates visual spacing between words, making 3 words look like one blob. (3) Only one caption style exists - need variety matching popular YouTube/TikTok/Reels styles: single word pop, 2-3 word karaoke highlight, bottom-third subtitle bar, Mr Beast bold centered, etc. Caption style field already exists in manifest (visual_plan.caption_style) but isn't used. (4) Scripts written from human perspective but characters are non-human - disarming mismatch. Future Gemini prompt fix, not worth regenerating existing batch. (5) Phase 7 YouTube publishing needs custom thumbnail support (API supports it via thumbnails.set) and best practices for titles/metadata/hashtags. Caption fixes are Remotion-only changes - no ElevenLabs or Hedra cost. Just re-render with --force flag (~59 min, ~$0).