"You'll Be Sorry" — Neo-Noir Visual Music Film & Hybrid AI Post-Production
An original neo-noir crime micro-drama and visual music piece directed, edited, and audio-engineered in-house under MetronomiX. Rather than treating generative video as a one-click prompt output, this tightened director's cut was built as a hybrid studio pipeline—pairing human DAW music production with reference-locked multimodal generation and surgical Final Cut Pro editorial pacing.
Key Technical & Editorial Execution
Multi-Angle Identity & Wardrobe Continuity: Engineered structured visual reference plates before motion generation—locking facial geometry, signature noir wardrobe silhouettes, classic vehicle details, and hard key-to-fill lighting ratios across wide establishing frames, inserts, and close-ups.
Multimodal Scene Control (Seedance 2.5 + InVideo): Directed coverage shot-by-shot using image-to-video reference anchoring so eye-lines, staging, and camera movement cut together like single-camera cinema.
Trimming Against Latent Motion Decay: Generative video clips typically hold physical believability for 1.5–3.5 seconds before micro-warping surfaces in hands, facial micro-expressions, or background parallax. Every shot in this cut was trimmed on movement transients in Final Cut Pro—entering late, cutting before temporal decay appears, and using shadow framing and reaction cuts to hold narrative tension.
Audio-First DAW Spine: Composed, mixed, and mastered the original track in Logic Pro, Pro Tools, and Ableton Live using real human vocal stems. Stripped scratch generative audio onto discrete timeline tracks so every cut and camera push locks to the master drum transients and vocal phrasing.
My Role
Showrunner & Director · AI Cinematography & Reference Workflow · NLE Editing & Color · Original Music Composition, Mixing & Mastering
Tools & Stack Used
AI Video & Image: Seedance 2.5, InVideo, Nano Banana, ChatGPT
Video Editing: Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere Pro
Audio Engineering: Logic Pro, Pro Tools, Ableton Live
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pairing human DAW music production with reference-locked multimodal generation.Multi-Angle Identity & Wardrobe Continuity. Multimodal Scene Control.
