AI-Assisted Post (topaz / enhancement)

The post pipeline uses AI enhancement and generation to transform archive material into the film’s on-screen look. The authoritative bible formalizes this as the hybrid pipeline: archive retrieval + AI enhancement + AI generation + human compositing (ai-agent-pipeline).

Evidence on disk

• 121 full-res TIFFs in Scratch/accelerator/topaz/ - topaz Video AI upscale/enhance output (ai-generated-frames)
• 94 proxy clips named chf3_prob4_hyp1 - generative clip family with a parameter suffix (prob4/hyp1 = internal pipeline naming)
• IBC_AI clips 4.x - demo/experiment pieces for the IBC 2026 AI-in-media showcase (ibc-ai-clips)
• CedricTests in ce’s project - experimental AI passes by Cedric Lejeune (cedric-lejeune; alias “ce” on the collaboration tree, see team)

Authoritative framing

• AGT-019 Enhancement Agent performs upscales, stabilization, and inpainting of modern elements; AGT-011 Color Pipeline era-matches archive + AI layers.
• Enhancement ratio (“Ship of Theseus” rule, bible 6.3) tracks how much of an archive frame may be altered.
• Every enhanced asset carries asset_origin: ai_enhanced (naming-schema).

Notes

• prob4_hyp1 naming remains internal-pipeline jargon; the bible does not document it. Keep the convention recorded here.
• See ai-agent-pipeline, archive-footage-reuse, one-small-crawl.