Every film keeps the takes you didn't use.

A generated video is the survivor of a dozen attempts. RizzGen keeps all of them — what you asked for, what came back, and why you turned it down.

Shot 3 She turns toward the window · 4 takes · 1 kept
Take 01 First pass from the shot description. Hands wrong
Take 02 Added a hand position to the prompt. Wrong tone
Take 03 Warmer light, slower push in. Camera drifts
Take 04 Locked the camera, kept the warmer light. In the cut

An illustration of one shot. Each take records the prompt, the model and the result; the three that were turned down keep the reason they were turned down.

Why keep the ones you threw away

The output is the cheap part. The history is the part you cannot rebuild.

Generation tools store outputs. A folder of MP4s tells you what survived and nothing about how you got there — which model, which prompt, which of the eleven attempts, and what was wrong with the other ten.

That missing history is the expensive part. It is what you need to repeat a result next month, to explain a bill, to hand a project to somebody else, or to work out whether a model is actually better or just newer.

A take is one generation attempt — success or failure. A shot is one slot in the finished piece. Many takes compete for one shot, and exactly one ends up in the cut.

How a take is labelled

In the cutThe one take that made the finished film.
NGTurned down, with the reason recorded on it.
ReshotReplaced by a later take of the same shot.

What that gets you

Four marks an editor makes that a folder of finished files can't keep.

Shot 3 as a contact sheet, marked up in grease pencil Takes 01 to 03 are crossed out, each with the reason written under it. Take 04 is circled as the one in the cut. A second strip, cut B, branches off take 03 and leaves cut A as it is. A take Ana published is taped beside them, with an arrow to a remake that starts from her prompt, seed and camera. A bracket over the whole roll reads: all of it, reasons too, shot-3.take. Take 01 Take 02 Take 03 Take 04 Take 05 Take 06 Ana R. · take 04 Your take 01 in the cut hands merge at 0:02 12 Sep too cold, she should look relieved cut B: handheld, night. cut A stays put Ana's published take her prompt, seed and camera, loaded all of it, reasons too: shot-3.take

The file underneath

Your history is not locked in this product.

.take is an open, documented format — the spec and schema are public domain, the tools are MIT — so a graph made here can be read, checked or rebuilt by anything else.

Read the format spec Open a .take file in the viewer

What is in the file

{
      "format":   "take/1.0",
      "project":  { id, title, created_at },
      "shots":    [ one slot in the film ],
      "branches": [ a line of development ],
      "takes":    [ one attempt, kept or not ],
      "timeline": { branch: { shot: take } }
    }