Ben Morse

Systems

Systems that make shots

Each one answers the same four questions: what problem, what method, what it measured, and where it shipped. Every AI entry carries its provenance: model, licence, where the data stayed, whether the output reached final pixels.

  1. 01 Slate.studio A production tracker for the whole show, shots, versions, reviews and due dates, that also catches the AI half: every take made on Fal, Higgsfield, Runway and the rest lands in one inbox, attached to its shot, with the prompt and model that made it. Free beta at slatestudio.online. Recut engine 5 flags, shot ids stable
  2. 02 Slate Nuke plugin suite A Nuke plugin suite that loads the shot, sets its colour contract, caches, bakes card pins, patches with AI and QCs the delivery. Built in 23 verified passes, shipping on real jobs. Release 0.9.3 version
  3. 03 AI matte bench Four soft-matte models times one hero track, scored against a roto vendor's mattes, with a deterministic gate that denies the egregious ones before a person looks. Body agreement with the vendor 0.995 IoU
  4. 04 AI colour round trip Send a plate to an image or video model and get the pixels back in the plate's own colour, with the drift measured, matched and reported inside the comp. Drift after the match pass 13.4 → 2.27 codes RMSE
  5. 05 DepthCrafter depth node Temporally consistent depth from a video diffusion model, as a Slate node: plug the shot in, draft a preview in seconds, run the full pass with a live ETA, and get depth back in the plate's frame numbers. Full run 30 minutes
  6. 06 Agentic pipeline A signed intent queue, a runner that only executes what it can verify, and headless agents with scoped tools. Audited by 49 agents, fixed, and verified end to end. Unsigned intents executed 0 ever
  7. 07 Batch QC-reel builder Headless Nuke builds the review script: every candidate lined up at the same frame, one knob to switch them everywhere, a burn-in that carries the verdict, and a delivery QC that reads the render instead of trusting it. Review script built headless 7 × 372 reels × frames