One production. Six accountable stages.
Onira coordinates documentary development around a reviewed story and measured audio, then carries accepted evidence, references, and timing into scene production and final render.
Production map
Brief to reviewable master.
- 01
Brief and admission
Define audience, story promise, duration target, format, language, sources, forbidden claims, and review owner.
- 02
Research and blueprint
Classify the subject, assemble research assistance, develop the narrative promise, and open the blueprint review gate.
- 03
Audio architecture
Create the audio script, generate narration or dialogue, check pronunciation, and measure the accepted track.
- 04
Screenplay and references
Assemble scenes and beats, then resolve the authoritative catalog of people, subjects, settings, and visual references.
- 05
Scene production
Generate scene images, motion, and music while carrying continuity memory and preserving accepted parallel work.
- 06
Timeline and render
Build the canonical Remotion timeline, captions, score, and final MP4, then review the complete output before publication.
The brief
Production quality begins before generation.
A useful brief is an editorial contract, not a one-line topic. It names the audience, question, point of view, evidence boundary, target runtime, narrator register, visual approach, forbidden claims, and the person who can approve the result.
For the founding cohort, the brief also records the current workflow, target publication date, source material, sensitive subjects, likeness or archive concerns, and the acceptance test for the film.
- Promise
- What will the viewer understand, feel, or reconsider by the end?
- Evidence
- What is known, disputed, interpretive, reconstructed, or outside scope?
- Audience
- Who is the film for, and what context can the narration assume?
- Acceptance
- What facts, audio, visuals, rights, disclosure, and render checks must pass?
Story gate
Review the promise before buying the expensive shots.
The story blueprint commits to the hook, narrative progression, key moments, people, settings, evidence boundaries, and expected emotional movement before full downstream generation.
Factual cohort work should use REVIEW so a creator can reject a weak thesis or unsupported promise early. AUTO also exists in the product, so the presence of a review gate must never be described as universal approval.
Audio first
The accepted voice track becomes the film's clock.
Text length is only an estimate. Real timing depends on language, names, punctuation, performance, pauses, and pronunciation. Onira generates and measures narration or dialogue before committing to the final visual architecture.
Shots can then be planned against real beats and durations. The image prompt defines what a scene looks like; the video prompt defines what moves; the narration explains why the scene belongs.
References and continuity
Accepted identities and places travel downstream.
The authoritative reference catalog is resolved after screenplay assembly and stamped onto the screenplay. Continuity memory carries accepted characters, subjects, settings, shots, and final-frame dependencies through asset generation.
This is reference-guided continuity, not a guarantee. Generated identity, wardrobe, action, objects, geography, and physics still require complete-film review.
Resumability
A failed department should not erase accepted work.
Durable workflow checkpoints identify completed production units. An eligible resume starts at the earliest failed checkpoint, removes that checkpoint and downstream work, and preserves completed parallel siblings.
This design limits duplicate spending and correction scope, but the authoritative run state and credit outcome remain in the application and operation ledger.
Final review
The MP4 is a candidate for publication, not an automatic publishing decision.
- Editorial
- Does the opening promise lead to a coherent and useful film?
- Factual
- Are claims, dates, quotes, uncertainty, pronunciations, and source notes verified?
- Visual
- Are reconstructions honest, relevant, coherent, and free of unacceptable artifacts or accidental likenesses?
- Rights
- Are source materials, music, trademarks, archive, likenesses, and intended commercial uses cleared?
- Platform
- Are captions, disclosure, title, thumbnail, description, and current YouTube policies reviewed?
- Technical
- Does the complete export play with correct audio, subtitles, aspect ratio, duration, and render integrity?
Review before publication.
Use the factual, rights, disclosure, visual, audio, and render checklist on every complete output.