Video

A still may become a shot; a clip may be continued, transformed, or driven by admitted sound. Prism Video binds that generative temporal effect to exact sources, prompts, controls, and clocks, then returns technically validated candidates. Visual direction, structured animation, sound production, final editing, and publication remain separately owned.

Read the operation and compound-facet passage before selecting a model. The candidate study was reviewed on 2026-08-26 and proves no delivered adapter or permitted effect; State owns that boundary.

One temporal job, several proved operations

The inner surface should remain stable while engines and models evolve. A candidate VideoJob@2 names one explicit operation:

Optional material never invents support. Each model profile declares the operations, source kinds, reference counts, controls, output limits, and cancellation behavior that its exact bake proved. First/last-frame control, masks, camera paths, poses, depth, edges, generated sound, interpolation, and upscaling are independent claims rather than implications of generic video support.

Sight may supply source-grounded masks, regions, pose, depth, flow, or tracks as exact controls. Video owns the generative temporal effect; a track remains a bounded estimate with gaps, not subject identity or proof of what happened.

Kinesis owns reusable skeletal, root, hand, face, contact, and transform motion facets. A motion-transfer or audio-driven video may visibly perform while returning pixels only; it does not imply a rig-compatible clip. If one worker returns both pixels and structured motion, the compound result retains separate Video and Kinesis facets, validation, and provenance.

The job carries immutable source and control ArtifactRef values; original and derived prompts; negative prompt; seed policy; width, height, frames, frame rate, duration, and timebase; an immutable preset; deadline and budget; output profile; and a closed engine-extension object. A prompt translator may derive the model-facing prompt from the operator's preferred language, but the receipt preserves both texts, translator revision, and declared loss. Translation never silently replaces visual direction.

VideoJob@2 owns the requested temporal effect, candidate set, technical validation, and result settlement. Creative adoption belongs to Atelier or another consuming Composition; successful custody and probes never accept the work on that owner's behalf. Each concrete execution uses Core's Designed ServiceJobAttempt@1 mechanics. Numeric progress, step progress, previews, cancellation before start, cancellation while running, and cancellation granularity are separate Connector facts. Deleting a provider record is not evidence that a running generation was cancelled; an indeterminate attempt remains contained and is reconciled by the same provider identity.

Every returned file is immediately ingested into Reliquary custody and rehashed. A canonical receipt retains input and output digests; engine, container, model, encoder, decoder, VAE, LoRA, and control revisions and licenses; graph or preset digest; sampler, steps, guidance, seed, dtype, quantization, offload and parallelism; dimensions, frames, rate, timebase, codec, timing, warnings, cost, progress, and cancellation settlement. Provider IDs, filenames, and embedded metadata are evidence inputs, not canonical provenance.

Admit every compound facet

A video request that may return sound crosses a second, explicit admission boundary. Declare its roles before dispatch; after technical settlement, retain each owner's independent judgment. The same compound artifact can therefore be technically valid while one intended use is refused.

Before execution, VideoJob@2 also pins one MediaFacetAuthoritySet@1. It contains one row for every requested output facet: stable facet id; technical kind; exact semantic role; consuming Composition identity and revision; owner request or brief digest; permitted use and audience; source, likeness, voice, rights, and consent evidence; classification, retention, and Portal policy; paid-effect ceiling; required separability; and disposition when that facet cannot be proved. The closed sound-role vocabulary is music, timed_language, picture_sound, and world_sound; a provider's generic audio or sound label is not a semantic role.

A profile may enable native sound only after every requested sound row passes that preflight. When the row entails speech capture, transcription, synthesis, cloning, or voice identity, it also pins the exact eligible Echo contract and profile; the timed-language consumer still owns words, alignment, performance fit, and edition judgment. When a model cannot disable or separate a sound facet, the job either declares and authorizes every possible role before dispatch or selects a different profile. Capability support, payment authority, and semantic acceptance are separate facts.

If a model emits sound with video, Prism records one compound candidate, original container digest, shared timebase, and generation receipt, then separates the returned streams into attributable child artifacts when their rights and formats permit it. Atelier retains visual judgment; Riffmaw musical judgment; Language Edition timed-language judgment; Broadcast picture-sound and final editorial audiovisual judgment; and Foundry world-sound judgment.

Technical settlement does not make any facet usable. Each declared consumer independently issues a SemanticFacetAdmissionReceipt@1 that pins its Composition identity and revision, owner request digest, facet and compound digests, role, use boundary, evidence and findings, decision maker, and one accepted, refused, or quarantined disposition. Prism may link those receipts to the technical result but cannot issue, merge, or upgrade them. The same bytes used in two roles require two receipts. Broadcast's later judgment of the final editorial audiovisual relation cannot substitute for Atelier, Riffmaw, Language Edition, or Foundry admission.

Sound absent from MediaFacetAuthoritySet@1 produces an UnexpectedMediaFacet@1 finding and fails closed for that facet: it is quarantined or deleted under the pinned retention rule, never routed as a usable candidate and never assigned a guessed owner. A provably separable visual child may continue after that disposition; an inseparable compound remains unusable unless every declared facet owner accepts the exact compound digest and use. generate_sound=true, demux, or a provider label cannot transfer an office or launder undeclared sound.

Serving route, workflow route, and deterministic tools

Diffusers remains a model SDK and compatibility substrate, not another connector unless LychD deliberately builds and accepts a durable worker around it. OpenAI Videos is likewise a useful wire dialect, not the inner contract: LychD keeps job identity, authority, custody, retry, cancellation, and recovery.

For a Comfy workflow, select only the preset and parameter openings admitted under the engine contract. Caller-supplied graphs, runtime downloads, ambient custom nodes, and unapproved partner nodes fail closed. The Spell placement retains the surrounding semantic contract.

Prism's Lens may use a pinned FFmpeg revision as deterministic machinery for per-artifact probing, extraction, normalization, interpolation, or encoding with declared loss. Atelier owns creative motion and accepted visual sequences; Broadcast owns the final audiovisual timeline, trim, placement, captions, mix, mux, and editorial render. A generative v2v operation never becomes the final cut merely because its input was already video.

First model profiles

The initial register keeps one permissive routine family and a few materially distinct specialists. These are exact profile candidates, not claims that one family name grants every operation.

Wan TI2V-5B is the first permissive routine default; VACE is the first controlled editor. Animate and S2V remain distinct specialists because a general T2V/I2V checkpoint does not prove motion transfer or audio-driven performance. LTX remains valuable where native joint sound and video outweigh its license and resource burden. Hunyuan is neither globally accepted nor globally banned: it is ineligible where its own territory clause withholds a license.

Profiles, Runes, Covens, and arbitrary iron

Hardware suitability belongs to an exact deployment profile, never to the universal job contract. The same model may be permanently resident on a large-memory workstation, offloaded or quantized on a smaller host, sharded across measured devices, or reached through an explicitly admitted Portal. A personal two-card bake is evidence for that host, not a product ceiling.

Follow Prism's admission route for a grant or handle-free transition and re-dispatch. Declare the concrete service through its Soulstone Rune and Designed capability/profile binding; current [[models]] hints cover only v1 model compatibility. Orchestrator validates placement and declared conflicts; a Coven only groups compatible local services. Any Portal fallback needs its own admission.

A compact Mind and Wan worker may occupy separate consumer GPUs; a high-memory workstation may keep a heavy specialist resident beside a large Mind. Reassigning incompatible devices first requires lease drain and an Orchestrator transition. Two devices do not become pooled memory without exact runtime support; the chosen tensor, pipeline, sequence, or stage topology must prove correctness and benefit.

vLLM-Omni Sleep Mode can release most stage VRAM while retaining process state, making it a strong future runtime transition mechanism. The Run—not the engine—enters Stasis; Orchestrator owns lease drain, transition admission, readiness, restoration, and uncertainty containment.

The proving bake

Promotion is per exact engine, model, dependency, preset, precision, quantization, offload, parallel topology, device class, resolution, frame count, and rate. The matrix includes a bounded 24 GB consumer profile, a single large-memory workstation profile, an explicit multi-device profile, and a Portal profile where policy permits. No universal VRAM formula substitutes for receipts on operator iron.

The corpus covers multilingual and Slovak briefs with preserved prompt derivation; text-to-video; single- and multi-image conditioning; first/last frames; continuation; controlled and masked V2V; identity and character motion; speech, song, and music-driven performance; camera and temporal continuity; subtitles and visible text; adversarial dimensions, codecs, metadata, and durations; cancel before start and during generation; OOM; restart; stasis/wake; and deterministic-seed replay where claimed.

Measure prompt and control adherence, source and identity preservation, temporal coherence, motion quality, lip and audio synchronization, flicker, visible text, accessibility hazards, duration and timebase correctness, output validity, latency, peak VRAM, host RAM, disk traffic, warm-up and wake time, throughput, cancellation settlement, recovery, artifact lineage, and license closure. Promote only the exact profiles whose measured costs and failure behavior remain honest; more powerful iron may admit a broader resident Coven without changing VideoJob@2.