The take graph

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.
RejectedTurned down, with the reason recorded on it.
SupersededReplaced by a later take of the same shot.
UnreviewedGenerated, never given a verdict.

What that gets you

Four things a folder of finished files cannot do.

A reason on every cut take

Turn a take down and say why. The note stays attached to it, so next month you still know what was wrong with it.

Branches

Try a different direction for a shot without losing the one you already have. Both lines stay in the graph.

Forking

Start from someone else's published take with the recipe already loaded, instead of a blank prompt. Forking needs an account.

The whole thing as a file

Download a film's history as a .take file and read it anywhere, including outside RizzGen.

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 } }
}