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  "id": "encoder-precision",
  "title": "A bigger encoder didn’t fix the face.",
  "date": "October 29, 2026",
  "scope": "Two encoder-only completed comparisons using saved H1 controls; two planned Extend cases did not render and are excluded here.",
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      "Reference encoder",
      "Qwen3-VL NVFP4 AWQ",
      "Official Qwen3-VL INT8"
    ],
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      "Input, prompt and seed",
      "Saved H1 control",
      "Held to the saved case"
    ],
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      "Motion and generation recipe",
      "H1",
      "H1; not a new pose system"
    ],
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      "Observed likeness",
      "Approximate",
      "Still approximate"
    ]
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      "Seed",
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    ],
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      "Delivered frames",
      "96 for Florence; 192 for Zendaya, both at 24fps"
    ],
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      "Execution evidence",
      "Real Studio quote/Start, same-worker handoff, close/return and matching downloaded output hashes"
    ],
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      "Current disposition",
      "Private experiment; not promoted as a quality upgrade"
    ],
    [
      "Hardware and timing limits",
      "New renders used NVIDIA B200 and shared one physical worker. Old and new runtime/cold-warm states differ; the timing table does not establish an encoder-speed improvement."
    ]
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  "configurationFormat": "Study settings summary; not an importable ComfyUI workflow. Requires the private ModelPilot runtime/nodes and separately licensed model weights.",
  "currentAccess": "The INT8 encoder variant is a private research option. Opening Studio does not select it. The existing default remains unchanged.",
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      "author": "Andres Daza",
      "url": "https://www.pexels.com/video/a-woman-in-a-sports-bra-and-shorts-is-dancing-19192491/",
      "license": "https://www.pexels.com/license/",
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    },
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      "author": "Pexels User Flerko",
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      "license": "https://www.pexels.com/license/",
      "changes": "Prepared excerpt; no performer endorsement"
    },
    {
      "label": "Florence Pugh appearance anchor",
      "author": "Frank Sun / WikiPortraits",
      "url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Florence_Pugh_at_the_2024_Toronto_International_Film_Festival_17.jpg",
      "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/",
      "changes": "Original photo; displayed contained"
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      "label": "Zendaya appearance anchor",
      "author": "© Glenn Francis, www.PacificProDigital.com",
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      "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/",
      "changes": "Original photo; displayed contained"
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