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PIPELINE 05 · The master plate

PHANTOM SET

Every frame lit the way you asked for, packaging type still readable at full zoom, and nobody had to book a stylist, a retoucher or a room with a cyclorama.

Mechanism
The master plate
Stages
6
Gates
4 named tests
Reach for it when
Any subject a customer can hold up against the picture: product stills, packaging, food, vehicles, anything with printed type on it.
THE LOOP

Two rounds. Thirty frames for selection, then ninety frames and six clips. Layered files land in two working days.

THE STAGES

Ninety frames before lunch

  1. 01

    Plate

    One clean product frame on a transparent background. Everything downstream references this file, so the bottle keeps its shape.

    TOOLING
    GPT Image 2, or a phone against white
    TYPICAL TIME
    One hour
  2. 02

    Label lock

    Small type, logos and packaging text held through edits as transparent PNGs, so the label stays readable while the set changes around it.

    TOOLING
    GPT Image 2
    TYPICAL TIME
    One hour
  3. 03

    Set

    Surface, backdrop, props and lighting specified once and reused, never improvised per frame: one key, one fill, one practical, one stated colour temperature.

    TOOLING
    Written as a specification
    TYPICAL TIME
    Half a day
  4. 04

    Angles

    Hero three-quarter, macro texture, flat lay, in-hand, lifestyle and splash. One set, one lighting rig, six crops for six placements.

    TOOLING
    Nano Banana Pro, GPT Image 2
    TYPICAL TIME
    One day
  5. 05

    Motion

    Image to video for the pour, the orbit, the lid lift and the cap reveal. Eight seconds each, cut down to two for paid.

    TOOLING
    Kling, Veo 3.1
    TYPICAL TIME
    Half a day
  6. 06

    Formats

    Crop matrix per placement: 1:1 grid, 4:5 feed, 9:16 Reels and TikTok, 16:9 site header, plus the marketplace sizes.

    TOOLING
    Photoshop, Figma Make
    TYPICAL TIME
    Two hours
THE GATES

Every gate has a test two people would run the same way and a stated action on failure. This is the part that makes volume survivable.

Label gate

TEST

Zoom to full resolution and read every word on the packaging.

ON FAIL

Reroll from the master plate. Never retype in post.

Silhouette gate

TEST

Overlay the render on the master plate at forty per cent opacity.

ON FAIL

Any shift in outline kills the frame.

Light gate

TEST

One key direction and one shadow direction across the whole set.

ON FAIL

Regenerate the odd frame so the set stays honest.

Claim gate

TEST

No invented certification marks, awards or ingredient wording.

ON FAIL

Remove it, then render again.

PIPELINE 03
Identity Lock →
PIPELINE 07
Operator Stack →
YOUR MOVE

Run it on your product.

Bring the thing that has to stay identical across forty frames. We will tell you which gate it will fail first and what that costs to prevent.

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