MARIGOLD & RYE

The full cut — 40 seconds, picture only. No voiceover, no music, no end card yet.

Your three notes are done. The beans/grinder shot, the second pastry shot and the communal table (people and food popping into existence) are all removed. A comprehensive wide of the room now sits second-to-last, which the original brief asked for and nothing in the cut delivered.

Still missing: a coffee close-up to replace the beans. That generation hit Flow's "unusual activity" warning and produced nothing, so it is parked rather than retried — the warning has appeared three times today and hammering it is how a soft warning turns into a real block. No credits were charged for it.

Nine shots, nine separate generations, cut together. The thing to watch for is whether it holds as ONE cafe across all of them — that is what fell apart last time.

What changed since the version you rejected

The light is now a decision rather than a setting. Every shot is exposed for the windows and the sunlit surfaces, so the depth of the room falls into warm shadow instead of everything being lifted flat. That is the difference between reading as a photograph and reading as an advert.

The world and lighting descriptions are byte-identical across all nine prompts, which is what stops the cafe changing between shots. Every camera move is one a prompt cannot hold on its own — two orbits, two cranes into macro, a rise between the pendant lamps, and the spiral in the courtyard.

Defects found and fixed

ShotWasNow
Food macrojug floating in mid-air, pouring itselfplate alone, only the light moves
Food macrointernal cut at 4.5strimmed to the clean 4s before it
Counter skimgibberish chalk writingblank slate boards
Atrium herocame back as more cafea real courtyard

Still missing, deliberately

No voiceover, no music, no sound design, no end card, no colour grade. You asked for the picture assembled first, so that is what this is.

~134 of 350 credits. 1,142 frames, every segment re-encoded to one identical signature before joining, so there is no format mismatch hiding in the file.