Accepted delivery
Unreal Engine 5.8 · excerpt from the accepted 65-second master
8 sealed probes passed · £753.12 settled
0fccc970f94fSame product · same 4-second viewing window
The £753.12 accepted delivery beside the synthetic DIY route
The prompts and engines differed. This is an equal-time visual comparison, not a same-prompt experiment.
DIY route · synthetic source
OpenAI Sora 2 · four-second image-conditioned exhibit
$0.40 generation cost · never delivered or accepted
ada80a60b61dBoth windows are immutable derivatives with visible source digests; neither label is inferred from the pixels.
QUARTERDECK — a product film, rendered from code
Receipt-derived 3D inspection
Exact-product keyboard film
Compare the caught state with the accepted delivery. The model is an inspection aid; the gallery and receipt remain the evidence.
The receipt
DIY: OpenAI Sora 2 ≈£4.89 / 65s.
SeaOtter: accepted checks · included rework · usable rights.
The checks refused the first delivery, the work was fixed, then £753.12 was released.
£753.12settled
- cleared
- decided
- on a machine
- badge status
- Historical receipt dated 5 Aug · current typed replay unavailable
- team paid
- £536.61
The exact record
The machine's own identifiers, kept so anyone can re-check this page against the recorded run. Nothing above is missing from here.
- settled
- £753.12
- cleared
- 5 Aug 2026
- badge status
- Historical receipt dated 5 Aug · current typed replay unavailable
- team paid
- £536.61
- refused round
- Rev 1 refused — 52 s with a frozen tail · The first master ran 52.00 seconds — under the 60-second floor — and its last two seconds were frozen frames inside a moving shot. The same probe program that later accepted revision two returned exit 2 on it, and that revision drew nothing. · 52.0 s · £0.00 · The camera move was re-timed from 1,248 to 1,560 frames so the film runs 65.00 seconds and ends while still in motion. The duration band, the freeze scan and every other limit did not move. · REFUSED duration=52.00s (band 60-75); 1 freeze/dup flaw(s)
- receipt
- pi_3U0tLUFFRbB25
- evidence
- Banked evidence record
How the money moved
- saidSix buyer-anchored criteria sealed before the estimator priced the root and both leaves.£753.12
- checkedffmpeg probes, the layout recompute and the render manifest read the delivered bytes; the first master was refused on two unmoved limits.—
- paidTwo leaf draws and the root fee settled; the 10-entry ledger reconciled to zero.£753.12
The catch
Rev 1 refused — 52 s with a frozen tail
The exact record
The machine's own identifiers, kept so anyone can re-check this page against the recorded run. Nothing above is missing from here.
The first master ran 52.00 seconds — under the 60-second floor — and its last two seconds were frozen frames inside a moving shot. The same probe program that later accepted revision two returned exit 2 on it, and that revision drew nothing.
Then: The camera move was re-timed from 1,248 to 1,560 frames so the film runs 65.00 seconds and ends while still in motion. The duration band, the freeze scan and every other limit did not move.
A job like yours
Get a fixed price from your brief. Pay when its checks pass.
Price a job like thisThe machine — every check, run and refusal, on the recordopen ▾close ▴
THE SEALED BASIS
Six criteria, sealed before a frame was rendered
1920×1080 at exactly 24 fps · 60–75 s · one continuous camera move, zero hard cuts · no frozen, duplicated or black frame after the first · −16 LUFS integrated within 1 LU · true peak at or below −1.5 dBTP · a part layout recomputable from source · the render's own MRQ manifest delivered as the receipt.
THE SCENE IS CODE
No editor was opened
Committed Python builds the board: 80 keycaps placed by script, case, plate, PCB and knob, studio rect lighting, a staggered exploded assembly and one 65-second Catmull-Rom camera move. The acceptance recomputed the layout from that source and matched the banked build manifest cap for cap.
- keycaps placed by script
- 80
- layout mismatches
- 0
- frames rendered
- 1,560
- render wall clock
- 149.0 s
THE SAME LIMITS, TWICE
Both masters, measured by the same sealed probes
Every limit was fixed before delivery and none moved between revisions. Revision one failed two rows; revision two passed all eight.
| criterion | sealed limit | rev 1 · refused | rev 2 · accepted |
|---|---|---|---|
| resolution | 1920 × 1080 | 1920 × 1080 | 1920 × 1080 |
| frame rate | exactly 24 fps | 24.00 | 24.00 |
| duration | 60–75 s | 52.00 s — refused | 65.00 s |
| hard cuts | none | 0 | 0 |
| freeze / duplication | none after frame 0 | 1.9 s frozen tail — refused | none found |
| black frames | none | 0/5 sampled | 0/5 sampled |
| integrated loudness | -16 ± 1 LU | -15.90 | -15.90 |
| true peak | ≤ -1.5 dBTP | -6.10 dBTP | -5.50 dBTP |
THE REFUSAL
Revision one really was refused
The first master ran 52.00 seconds — under the 60-second floor — and its last two seconds were frozen frames inside a moving shot. The same probe program that later accepted revision two returned exit 2 on it, and that revision drew nothing.
REFUSED REFUSED duration=52.00s (band 60-75); 1 freeze/dup flaw(s)
What changed
The camera move was re-timed from 1,248 to 1,560 frames so the film runs 65.00 seconds and ends while still in motion. The duration band, the freeze scan and every other limit did not move.
56b84032e949…THE RENDER'S OWN RECEIPT
The manifest the render wrote as it finished
The headless Movie Render Queue executor wrote this manifest itself — a delivery receipt, not a report typed afterwards. The acceptance re-read it and bound it to the master's frame count, resolution and single camera cut.
| engine | 5.8.1-56057345+++UE5+Release-5.8 |
| sequence | /Game/Quarterdeck/Seq/RevealShot |
| preset | /Game/Quarterdeck/MRQ/QuarterdeckPreset |
| frames | 1,560 |
| resolution | 1920 × 1080 |
| camera cuts | 1 |
| temporal samples | 3 |
| wall clock | 149.03 s |
| success | true |
9460635a3ad9…
ONE CONTRACT · TWO PRICED LEAVES
The estimator priced the pipeline and the master apart
The £680 buyer rung sat inside the root band. The sealed six-check contract quoted £753.12; each carved leaf passed its own estimator band gate, and the tree conserved the post-fee package to the penny.
Scene pipeline
Deterministic build scripts · parts manifest · exploded assembly · MRQ preset and executor
- contract leaf
- £429.28
- team drew
- £321.96
- estimator band
- £425.00–£1,385.00
f8233037-88d2-485e-94c5-e1951cc202ccCinematic master
65 s reveal · one camera move · scored, mixed and checked · delivered with its render manifest
- contract leaf
- £286.19
- team drew
- £214.65
- estimator band
- £267.50–£787.50
fafb0c29-b740-430d-8a7c-48f0c80beee5SETTLED IN STRIPE TEST
The checks passed; then the ledger drew
The non-live PaymentIntent funded the hold. Two leaf draws and the root fee settled only after the package recompute passed, and all 10 ledger entries sum to zero with no buyer balance left.
- fixed quote
- £753.12
- Stripe TEST gross
- £903.74
- ledger
- zero-sum · £0.00 buyer balance
pi_3U0tLUFFRbB25fA70hv3nsui · livemode=false
The delivered bytes
The master, the manifest the render wrote, the parts manifest the layout recomputes against — and the refused first master, banked beside them.
- deliverables/QUARTERDECK-rev2.mp414,240,908 bytes11ba5548e3d6…
- deliverables/QUARTERDECK-rev2-mrq-manifest.json780 bytes9460635a3ad9…
- parts-manifest.json15,407 bytes3a3817f291f7…
- deliverables/QUARTERDECK-rev1.mp410,827,350 bytes56b84032e949…
Banked under docs/qa/artifacts/20260805-unreal-viz/