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+# Editor v2 RFP — FINAL judgment (3 of 4; deepseek a no-show)
+
+deepseek: 5 launch attempts, all died to infra (latest: lease expired at seq 17, no output). Excluded.
+In hand: nemotron (19/25 preliminary), glm53 (24/25 preliminary), qwen38 (scored below).
+
+## qwen38 (qwen3.8-27b) — assessment
+
+Strengths:
+- Landscape-native schema from v1 (`aspect: '16:9' 720p | '9:16' 1080×1920`, `fit: cover|contain`) —
+  satisfies the mandatory amendment glm53 needed, natively.
+- Captions are schema-first: Speaches faster-whisper large-v3-turbo (correct model per research),
+  words JSON as source of truth, SRT/VTT/ASS derived, ASS burn-in re-timed through the EDL.
+- Container generalization is disciplined: the in-flight produce payload becomes a degenerate
+  EdlProject → ONE validator, ONE render path; version discriminator + version-bump policy as the
+  explicit anti-NLE-creep defense.
+- Job model reuses the in-flight producer lease pattern (`kind='assemble'`, SKIP LOCKED).
+- Render: one process / one filter_complex / one encode, measured 1.2× RT; stream-copy honestly
+  rejected inside assemblies; cards as loop-PNG from the existing overlay renderer — no drawtext
+  at all; pre-spawn trim validation against probe durationMs; retry/timeout/scratch-cleanup policy.
+- AI: Speaches + SigLIP + job runner on gpu-01 over Tailscale, worker stays pure FFmpeg; VRAM budget
+  table; license register incl. BLOCKED list (XTTS-v2 CPML, F5-TTS CC-BY-NC, RVM GPL-3, Ultralytics AGPL-3);
+  auto-editor as SUGGESTED cuts with human confirm.
+- UI: only new files, primitives named as reused, mobile single-column with chevron reorder, ≥44 px
+  targets, one-thumb flow, 8 documented shortcuts, exact brand tokens.
+- Risk honesty: 5 risks with mitigations; "preview ≈ final"; measured-vs-EST labeling.
+
+Weaknesses: stale migration number (036 vs actual next); no explicit schema-drift guard; no
+render-CPU-contention semaphore; thinner canvas/revision formalism than glm53.
+
+## Final scoring (1–5 per criterion)
+
+| Criterion | nemotron | glm53 | qwen38 |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| Correctness vs real constraints | 3.5 | 4.5 | 4.5 |
+| Concreteness (files/jobs/models) | 4 | 5 | 5 |
+| Speed-to-value for crews | 4 | 4.5 | 4.5 |
+| Look-and-feel respect | 4 | 5 | 5 |
+| Risk honesty | 3.5 | 5 | 5 |
+| **Total** | **19/25** | **24/25** | **24/25** |
+
+## Verdict
+
+glm53 and qwen38 tie at 24/25. Tie-break on the deltas: glm53's only mandatory amendment was a SCHEMA
+change (portrait-only canvas); qwen38's gaps are ADDITIVE process guards. 
+
+**Decision: adopt qwen38 as the editor-v2 plan base, with two glm53 amendments folded in:**
+1. glm53's mirror-file + mirror-assert convention for the EDL schema (API↔worker drift guard).
+2. glm53's render semaphore (≤2 concurrent niced renders) so batch renders never starve the live compositor.
+
+nemotron: not adopted (wrong transcription stack, captions missing, matting confusion).
+deepseek: no-show; may be re-run later for a second opinion but is not blocking.
+
+## Implementation status
+- S1 EDL schema + /video/edl API + 043 store: SHIPPED (media-control/edl.ts, EdlController, 043)
+- L1 assemble lane: SHIPPED (044 claim widening, runner probe+assemble lanes, assemble-builder,
+  overlay-png cards, ffprobe port) — e2e verified (2 clips + card + overlay → derived asset)
+- M1 editor UI: queued
+- M2 transcription lane: sidecar deployed (Speaches-compatible faster-whisper on moxexleyhp1-1 GPU,
+  http://100.70.240.7:9000) — hub wiring pending
+- v1.5 search (SigLIP): sidecar deferred — TEI 1.8 cannot parse google SigLIP configs; needs a newer
+  TEI or the planned FastAPI wrapper