What the repair engine decided for one take, and why. Every rendered take is watched with its sound after its checks. A cut nobody asked for at the start or end of an otherwise good take is trimmed off first, before any new take: free, frame for frame, only where the cut is measured in the file, outside every spoken line (each kept whole with a breath after it), and only when what is left keeps its chapter or beat within a quarter of its planned length. When the shot's automatic new take is spent and the take it plays still has such a cut outside its line, that end is trimmed as a last resort: past the quarter, as long as the line stays whole, at least 2 seconds are left and the chapter or beat keeps half its planned length. A cut inside a spoken line is never trimmed. A speaker whose lips keep moving past the take's last line, where nothing is heard, is trimmed half a second after the line, free and frame for frame. Lips moving where no line is heard are never retaken on their own: the same staging brings them back, so the shot is offered for restaging (one face, framed closer), a trim, or your call. Any other defect is remedied by rule during processing, at our cost: first a new take told what to avoid; a repair in place when the same problem comes back after a new take, or when the take passed every other check and only something removable (a period anachronism, garbled lettering, a stray or doubled person) or the light is wrong. Camera movement and its speed (a move that rushes, or dies into a hold at the end), timing, cuts and a crowd moving as one (extras in step, everyone turning or looking down at once, repeated faces) are only ever fixed by a new take, or by the free trim when they sit only at an end of the take. A made-up screen or app the shot never had (a display or app window painted into the picture where none was filmed) is only ever fixed by a new take, or by the free trim when it sits only at an end of the take; spoken shots are not repaired in place. A line the speaker's mouth did not speak on two takes is no longer retaken on camera: the next take stages it as a voice-over, the speaker seen from behind, the line heard over the picture. Every take plays its own sound under its own picture, so the lips follow what is heard: a line said in the take's own reading is kept, and only a line not heard, or said in a voice too like another character's, is a defect (a new take). Where a speaker's mouth cannot be measured (or the face is too small to trust a miss), the watcher's own judgment of the lips decides the line: a mouth it saw not speak is a miss, one it saw speak is uncertain. Each shot gets at most one automatic new take, one automatic repair in place and one automatic voice-over re-stage, so a new take whose removable defect came back is repaired in the same pass; a repaired or trimmed take is never remedied again on its own. A repair that fails on the repair service's own side (never one declined at its content check) and cost nothing is sent again once; if that fails too, a new take instead. A repaired take keeps the take's own sound, is judged again, and is kept as a new take linked to the one it repairs; it plays only when it passes. A trimmed take plays over the take it came from when it passes, or when it shows only part of what that take showed, with the same speech and faces: it is judged by time window, so anything seen inside the span it keeps counts as that take's own footage too, and it wins when the trim cut something off.