Comment by yencabulator
10 hours ago
> This will sound absolutely insane, but maybe the source code for the video should be a script? Then the process of building produces a video which is a release artifact?
It already kinda is, but that just means you now need access to all the raw footage, and rendering a video file in high quality & good compression takes a long time.
I see, I think in that case the raw video format would still be the source code along with the EDL. What I'm suggesting is that the raw footage would still be an output from the source code that would be the script and the filming plans.
Silly idea, but it's worth thinking about this stuff in an era where the line between source code and target code is being blurred with prompts.
Which is the problem only if you see of "building" as something that should be instantaneous or take a couple of hours tops.
This is similar to replicability in science, there's some experiments that are inmensely expensive to replicate, like LHC, but it still IS replicable technically.