AJ360 style edit
Al Jazeera 360, broll-overlay. How it was made with Ice Motion Director, from the prompt to the delivered film.
An unofficial test edit made with Ice Motion Director; not an Al Jazeera or Al Jazeera 360 production. The footage and marks belong to their owners.
تجربة غير رسمية صُنعت بأداة Ice Motion Director، وليست من إنتاج قناة الجزيرة ولا الجزيرة 360. المادة المصوّرة والعلامات ملك أصحابها.
The film
The prompt
/ice-motion-director:ice
Edit the raw video raw.mp4 in exactly the same Al Jazeera 360 editing style as in reference.mp4, with the raw's own content and with Al Jazeera's identity as it is. Look for the latest real, official footage that fits and download it; you're allowed to download any model or tool you need. Don't ask me the starting questions, decide yourself, but show me the preview before you build the video.
Show the original, exactly as typed (Arabic)
Translated from Arabic.
/ice-motion-director:ice
عدّل الفيديو الخام raw.mp4 بنفس أسلوب مونتاج الجزيرة 360 اللي في reference.mp4 بالظبط، بالمحتوى بتاع الخام وبهوية الجزيرة زي ما هي. دوّر على أحدث لقطات حقيقية ورسمية مناسبة ونزّلها، ومسموحلك تنزّل أي موديل أو أداة محتاجها. ما تسألنيش أسئلة البداية وقرر أنت، بس وريني المعاينة قبل ما تبني الفيديو.
- Film type
- Broll-overlay
- Route
edit- How it ran
- One prompt (auto mode)
- Size
- Standard
- Published
- 30 October 2026
Delivered
- Arabic, 16:9, 13.5 seconds
How it was made
- Agent
- Claude Code 2.1.309 (desktop app)
- Model
- claude-opus-5-5
- Effort
- xhigh
- Sub-agents
- A lead session that relayed the prompt and the owner's notes, a footage-search agent, a music and sound-effects search agent, and a fresh cold viewer that read the film blind; the approver and critic roles ran in the main session
- Made on
- 28 October 2026 to 29 October 2026
Before and after
The raw source, cut to the same parts in the same order, plays against the finished edit.
The source: studio take (practice clip shared with an editing tutorial), “RAW.mp4”, published by Ahmed Maher's tutorial assets (YouTube channel "Ahmed Maher", public asset folder of his tutorial); original footage Al Jazeera 360. The person filmed is not named, 0:10 long. Open the source
Ice kept 0:10 of it, in 1 parts:
- 0:00 to 0:10
Why these parts
Nothing was picked out: the whole take was used. The prompt asked for the edit "with the raw's own content", and the whole raw is five spoken sentences in 10 seconds, so the run kept every word, uncut and at its own speed (decision D-07: the speech is never cut, sped up or faded before its last word). Only the last 0.005 s of silence was left out. What the run chose instead was what each sentence carries: the reference move that the same kind of sentence triggers in the Al Jazeera 360 promo, real NASA teams at work under "others" and "solutions" (3.85 to 6.30 s, the raw's sound continues), and the platform's end card after the last word.
How it got here
The run as it happened, draft by draft, with every round of the owner's feedback. Told from the conversation in the case study.
The prompt
One message, relayed by a lead session: edit a 10 second raw studio take in exactly the editing style of an Al Jazeera 360 promo, keep the raw's content and the platform's identity as it is, find the latest real official footage, ask no start questions, but show a preview before building the film. Both files came from the asset folder of a YouTube tutorial on editing in the Al Jazeera style.
Reading the two videos
Ice probed both files, cut the reference into its shots and transcribed the raw word by word with a local Whisper model (large-v3-turbo). The first surprise: the speaker in the raw speaks English, not Arabic: "Leadership is not about having all the answers...". The film would keep his voice untouched and put a faithful Modern Standard Arabic translation on screen.
Measuring the reference
The 60 second promo was measured, not eyeballed: cut rhythm, the red disk and its colours, the glass caption capsule with its red dot, the tinted archive bursts, the end card. The official Al Jazeera 360 logo and the house fonts were taken from the platform's own website, aljazeera360.com.
Cutting out the speaker
The reference slides words and a red disk behind the presenter's head. To do that on the raw, Ice made a person matte for all 240 frames (rembg, u2net_human_seg), so graphics can pass between the speaker and the studio. In parallel, a helper agent searched for recent official footage.
Brief, direction and plan
With the start questions waived, every open choice was decided and logged with its alternatives: a broll-overlay edit, 16:9 at 1920x1080 and 24 fps, 13.5 s (all 10 s of speech plus the platform's end card), no name for the speaker because none was given. Each of the five spoken sentences got the reference move that the same kind of sentence triggers there. The first version of the film page was written at 00:50.
Paused, and three notes from the owner
The session hit its usage limit and waited 1 h 42 min. Meanwhile Omar sent three notes: no music or sound effects made by code, only real library recordings, with three tracks to choose from; every element copied from the reference must have a reason in the speech, and the speaker always stays lit; and the premium finish (motion blur, depth blur, film texture, vignette, glow, grade) must be measured from the reference and applied for the same reasons.
A reason for every element
Ice transcribed the reference too and built a table of what triggers each element there. Anything without a trigger in our speech was dropped: the neon title, the crosshair, the flag, the "now showing" badge. For "others" and "solutions" it chose real teams at work from NASA's 2026 library (an Artemis III countdown simulation and the Orion splashdown room), public domain with NASA credited. A second agent found three music tracks and one recorded effect per move on Pixabay.
The preview
The composition page was rewritten on the new plan, checked on stills and rendered at half resolution with motion blur. At 03:30 the owner received three previews, one per library track, with the reasons table, as the prompt asked: nothing was built at full size before his answer.
The owner's pick
Omar's answer, six minutes later: A and B were both very good, he picked B, "Deep Bass Cinematic Tension Forensic Noir Investigative Pulse" by Jose Luligo.
Full HD build and a cold viewer
The 1080p render started at once, with the final mix at -14 LUFS. It failed once because drive C was full and was rerun on drive D. A fresh agent watched the film cold: it got the idea ("good leaders ask questions and let the team find answers, together") and named Al Jazeera 360 from the logo and end card, but did not know who the people in the archive shots were, so a "المصدر: ناسا" source tag was added. With the logo and name covered, it could not name the platform in any of six frames; for this edit type that test is an extra check, reported as not passed.
Paused again
A second usage limit stopped the run for 3 h 19 min, in the middle of the final assembly.
Gates and the end card
Back on track, the source tag was spliced in and every gate ran on the final file: spec, -14.1 LUFS, no black or white frames, five cuts. The motion check found the end card standing still for about 2.5 s; the reference's end card settles slowly, so a gentle drift that eases to rest was added and the still part fell to 1.4 s.
Delivered
Final film: 13.5 s, 1920x1080, 24 fps, Arabic and English caption files, an EDL and a delivery report with every measured number. 8 h 6 min from the prompt to delivery, of which about 3 h 5 min was work and the rest two usage-limit pauses. The speech was never cut, sped up or changed.
What Ice asked
stage 01 questions
ما تسألنيش أسئلة البداية وقرر أنت، بس وريني المعاينة قبل ما تبني الفيديو.
Answered by the user
What was supplied
Footagecomplete
Referencecomplete
The workflow, stage by stage
All ten stages, from the brief to delivery: what each one decided and why, what it made, the critic rounds and the roles that worked on it.
Stage 01, Brief
Rolesapproverresearcher
brief, compliance, brand sheet, footage ledger, transcripts; approver checks run in this session (sequential pass, not independent)
Decisions
D-02 Goal, D-03 audience and market, D-04 platform and canvas, D-05 length, D-06 language
Why, and its source
the reference is an Arabic platform promo whose on-screen words carry the speech; the raw's speech is English, so the Arabic words must translate it faithfully and the voice stays untouched.
Source: prompt quoted; raw transcript (faster-whisper large-v3-turbo, 2026-10-29); reference analysis
D-07 What to avoid
- no name or title lower third for the speaker (his identity is not given and the raw's face differs from the reference host); no words beyond the speech's own meaning; the speech is never cut, sped up or faded before its last word.Chosen
Source: ice-edit rules section 4; truth rules of ice-assets
D-08 Brand owner status and identity mode
- A not owner, unofficial practice edit using the official files as they are (taken)
- B owner, official
- C not owner, identity recreated in a neutral look
- D no logo at all
the user asked for the identity "as it is" and did not say they are Al Jazeera; the delivery note lists the permissions an owner would need.
Source: prompt quoted; questions.md section 5 waiver
D-09 Versions
- A master 16:9 only (taken)
- B plus a 9:16 reel
- C plus a 6 s cutdown
- D plus an English-caption version
the reference is a single 16:9 promo; nothing in the request asks for other formats.
D-16 Owner's notes, relayed by the lead session on 2026-10-29
D-17 Inserts
- A real NASA teams at work, 2026 (Launch Control Center, Artemis III terminal count simulation, 2026-10-15
- Orion Mission Evaluation Room at splashdown, 2026-04-10) (taken)
- B Artemis II launch and crowd (2026-04-01): fits "future" and "together" but those lines carry their own graphics
- C SLS spacer build (2026-10-13): fits "build" but B4 is a concept label
- D stock footage: not official
"others" and "solutions" are people solving a problem together; the newest official footage that shows exactly that is NASA's 2026 control-room work, public-domain under NASA's media guidelines.
Source: ice/assets/broll/SOURCES.md
Made in this stage
01-COMPLIANCE.mdResearch note COMPLIANCE.md
Read the whole file: 01-COMPLIANCE.mdCompliance: aj360-raw-edit
Date: 2026-10-29 Status: no regulated category
| Item | Finding | Action |
| Category | News and current-affairs platform content; a speaker's quote on leadership. No product, price, health, finance, alcohol, gambling or political ad claim | none |
| Platform | YouTube and social feeds, 16:9 | follow YouTube 16:9 safe areas |
01-BRIEF.mdThe brief: what the user said and every slot with its source
Read the whole file: 01-BRIEF.mdBrief: aj360-raw-edit
Runtime date: 2026-10-29
What the user said
"عدّل الفيديو الخام raw.mp4 بنفس أسلوب مونتاج الجزيرة 360 اللي في reference.mp4 بالظبط، بالمحتوى بتاع الخام وبهوية الجزيرة زي ما هي."
"دوّر على أحدث لقطات حقيقية ورسمية مناسبة ونزّلها، ومسموحلك تنزّل أي موديل أو أداة محتاجها."
Stage 02, Concept
approach section; takeaway in storyboard.md
Decision
D-10 Concept
- each spoken sentence carried by the reference move whose trigger it matches, closed by the platform end card.Chosen
Made in this stage
02-concepts.mdConcepts pitched and the one chosen
Read the whole file: 02-concepts.mdConcept and viewer takeaway (stage 02, edit approach)
Concept: the speaker's five sentences, each carried by the reference move its words trigger, closed by the Al Jazeera 360 end card.
Viewer takeaway
Sells: Al Jazeera 360 (the platform) carrying a short talk on leadership
Offer's job: none (no product; the end card invites the viewer to follow more on the platform)
Stage 03, Script
left out of the stage order
Stage 04, Storyboard
plan table rev 2 tied to sentences
Made in this stage
04-storyboard.mdStoryboard
Read the whole file: 04-storyboard.mdPlan: B-roll, overlays and beats (stage 02 approach, stage 04 plan)
Approach (02)
The raw stays whole: one 10.0 s take, every word kept, no speed change, no grade on the person except the black and white beat the reference itself uses. Each of the five spoken sentences gets one of the reference's signature moves, in the reference's own order: rack-focus open with the red disk and stacked kinetic words behind the head, a punch-in with the glass caption capsule, a quick burst of tinted real footage, the black and white glass-panel word scroll, the neon title. The Al Jazeera 360 bug, the "يعرض الآن" badge and the app capsule stay on top as in the reference, and the platform end card closes the film. Density is heavy (every line carries a graphic), as measured on the reference; cuts sit only between sentences.
Viewer takeaway (for the clarity read): "Leading means asking the right questions and empowering others; it is an Al Jazeera 360 piece."
Clock
Stage 05, Look
Rolesapprover
D-19 grade and caption style; owner approved the preview
Decisions
D-01 Edit type
- AChosen
- - A: broll-overlay (inserts
- kinetic type
- captions and cards over footage that stays) (rests on: prompt
- footage)
the speech is kept whole and the reference's grammar is overlays, inserts and cards on a locked studio shot.
Source: BRIEF route and film_type; prompt quoted; raw probe
D-11 Direction
- "Al Jazeera 360 promo grammar, as it is": reference-locked look (fidelity high), by the user's words "بنفس أسلوب ... بالظبط" and "بهوية الجزيرة زي ما هي".Chosen
D-12 Palette
- measured reference colors only (ice/assets/brand-sheet.json): red disk #DC3641 to #7E1D1F, red dot #FF010A, text white #EDEAEE to grey, end card navy #262636 to teal #263F51, teal planet rim. Default-look gate: passes; no blue or purple dominance outside the platform's own end card.Chosen
D-13 Type
- AlJazeera Bold (and Regular for the app capsule and footer), the font the official site loads; kashida stretching as on the reference.Chosen
D-19 Grade and caption style (stage 05)
Made in this stage
05-DIRECTION.mdDecision log: options, choice, reason and source for every decision
Read the whole file: 05-DIRECTION.mdDirection: aj360-raw-edit
Runtime date: 2026-10-29 Mode: auto, don't ask Tier: light (edit type; the footage fixes the subject) with reference fidelity high Crew: lean
Summary
Concept: the speaker's five sentences, each carried by one of the reference's signature moves, closed by the Al Jazeera 360 end card (D-10)
Direction: "Al Jazeera 360 promo grammar, as it is" (D-11)
Stage 06, Animatic
owner: a و b حلوين جدا بس هختار b
Decision
D-15 Rhythm rule conflict (scoped)
- the reference's measured rhythm wins for this film (the user asked for the reference "بالظبط"); the type's rule is kept for other edits.Chosen
Source: ice/reference/ref01/ANALYSIS.md (inserts at 7.44 to 11.08 s and 16.44 to 20.36 s of the reference, 4 shots each)
Stage 07, Build
1080p, mb 6; source tag and end card settle spliced from targeted renders
Decision
D-14 Engine and tools
- HTML canvas page rendered by the bundled render-html.mjs (engine table row 6: per-pixel matte compositing of the speaker over and under text, every frame from preloaded footage, matte and B-roll stills), FFmpeg for audio and the final mux.Chosen
Stage 08, Sound
-14.1 LUFS, LRA 5.3, peak -0.9
Decision
D-18 Music and effects
Stage 09, Review
clarity read-3 PASS r1; film gate yellow explained; one declared hold
Stage 10, Deliver
The export has no summary for this stage.
Made in this stage
10-NOTE.mdDelivery report with measured numbers
Read the whole file: 10-NOTE.mdaj360-raw-edit: delivery report (2026-10-29)
Status: technical green, creative candidate (the owner approved the preview and picked music B; the final has not been seen by the owner yet)
File: `ice/renders/final/aj360-raw-edit_16x9_1080p.mp4` sha256 b2c1413add0065bec28ef6337918362228acc32910e851c00c391c9d08782042 1920x1080 24 fps 13.50 s h264 / aac 256k 48 kHz
Other deliverables: `ice/renders/final/aj360-raw-edit.ar.srt` (Arabic translation, timed to the speech), `aj360-raw-edit.en.srt` (English as spoken), `aj360-raw-edit.edl.json`, `aj360-raw-edit.transcript.json` (no speech was cut, so film time equals source time). No other ratios or cutdowns (D-09).
The idea
Still from the delivered film at 0.00 s 
Still from the delivered film at 6.75 s 
Still from the delivered film at 13.40 s 
Delivered still preview_contact.jpg
The conversation
Every message between the owner and the agent, in order. The owner's words are verbatim; the agent's replies are summarised by the export.
عدّل الفيديو الخام raw.mp4 بنفس أسلوب مونتاج الجزيرة 360 اللي في reference.mp4 بالظبط، بالمحتوى بتاع الخام وبهوية الجزيرة زي ما هي. دوّر على أحدث لقطات حقيقية ورسمية مناسبة ونزّلها، ومسموحلك تنزّل أي موديل أو أداة محتاجها. ما تسألنيش أسئلة البداية وقرر أنت، بس وريني المعاينة قبل ما تبني الفيديو.
Owner notes relayed by the lead session: real library music (3 candidates mixed with the speech) and real recorded effects, no code audio; a reasons table for every reference element, speaker stays lit; finishing measured from the reference (motion blur, blur, film texture, vignette, glow, grade). Do not build the full video before approval.
Preview sent: three 13.5 s previews (one per library track), the reasons table and a contact sheet; waiting for the owner's pick and approval before the full build.
a و b حلوين جدا بس هختار b
الليمت اتجدد، كمّل من مكان ما وقفت بالظبط بالتراك اللي عمر اختاره، لحد التسليم. القرص C فيه حوالي 3 جيجا بس، فأي رندر جديد تقيل يتعمل على D، وامسح الملفات الوسيطة اللي بتتعمل تاني بعد ما تخلص.
Research, with dates
Compliance: aj360-raw-edit
0 sources
Checks on the delivered file
| Gate | Result | Measured |
|---|---|---|
| Cold-viewer clarity | Pass | Viewer: Sells "Al Jazeera 360, from the corner logo and end card"; idea "Good leaders ask questions and let the team find answers, together"; turn read correctly |
| Brand test | Not passed: 0 of 6 masked frames named | Every masked frame "I can't tell". Not a blocking gate for this edit type (broll-overlay is not in the promotional list of identity-tests.md section 3); run as an extra check. Reason: on this kind of edit the platform's identity lives in its logo, name and end card, which the test covers; an ordinary viewer does not know the promo's graphic grammar |
| Competitor swap | Not run | n/a for this edit type |
| Studio benchmark | Not run | the ice-edit route has no studio benchmark (routes.md) |
| Film gate | Warn | fast in-shot motion 0.059 (yellow line 0.06); near-blank run 0.000 s GREEN; blue-purple share 0.148 (12.5 to 13.5 s); push-ins 8.9 per min reported |
| Richness (no floor for this type) | Reported | hero_share 100 %, frame_fill 16 of 16, empty_half 0 s, in_shot_motion 91.4 %, longest_still 1.08 s |
| Motion and freezes | 1 freeze (declared hold) | cuts 5, freezes 1 (12.04 to 13.46 s, end card), black 0, white 0, end hard black False |
| Loudness | Pass | I -14.1 LUFS, LRA 5.3 LU, peak -0.9 dBFS; target -14 LUFS, true peak -1.0 (two-pass loudnorm on the premaster) |
| Spec | Ok spec | 1920x1080 h264 24 fps 13.50 s |
| G1 proof readable, G4 one hero | By eye | smallest text: app capsule 34 px and source tag 32 px at 1080 (readable at full screen, small on a phone, as the viewer noted); one hero per frame (the speaker, or the insert) |
| Captions and sync | By eye and numbers | Arabic and English SRT timed from the word transcript, no overlaps; on-screen Arabic lands on its English words (timeline.js anchors) |
| Template distance, fingerprint | Not run | a remake of a supplied reference by request (D-11) |
| Field | Viewer answer | Match |
| Sells | "al jazeera 360" | MATCH |
| Offer's job | (takeaway: none) | skipped |
| One-line idea | "good leaders ask questions and let the team find answers, together" | MATCH |
| What happens | No misread of the turn or the hero moment | MATCH |
| Confusions | All minor; fixed: who the people are (source tag added); kept: the red develop flash at 4.5 s and the cut-off panel words at 6.5 to 7.5 s (both are the reference's own moves); the speaker is unnamed by choice (d-07) | no major |
- -14.1LoudnessLUFS
- -1True peakdBTP
- 24Frame rateframes a second
- 1920 x 1080Resolutionpixels
| Language | Aspect | Length | File |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arabic | 16:9 | 13.5 seconds | ice/ |
Credits and tools
- raw.mp4, Speaker footage and speech, 0 to 10 s, supplied by the user, the user's, none
- Al Jazeera 360 logo, Platform bug, phone notification icon, aljazeera360.com header logo file, trademark of Al Jazeera; used as it is by the user's choice (unofficial practice edit, D-08), none
- AlJazeera Bold and Regular fonts, All Arabic text, fonts preloaded by aljazeera360.com, Al Jazeera's own fonts; used by the user's choice, none
- NASA lcc-a, lcc-b, Inserts 1 and 2, NASA, KSC-20261015-MH-JLS01-0001 (NASA/Jonathan Shaban), 2026-10-15, NASA media guidelines, generally not copyrighted in the US; no endorsement implied, "NASA"
All 7 credits
- NASA mer, Insert 3, NASA, jsc2026m000354 (NASA/Rad Sinyak), 2026-04-10, NASA media guidelines, "NASA"
- Music B, Score, "Deep Bass Cinematic Tension Forensic Noir Investigative Pulse", Jose Luligo (Ovrsoull), Pixabay, Pixabay Content License; not in YouTube Content ID; sync check passed (free use in video, attribution optional), "Music by Jose Luligo from Pixabay" (optional)
- Effects, One per move, Pixabay: LordSonny (reverse whoosh), DJARTMUSIC (sub boom), Universfield (swoosh 06, camera shutter, impact boom 05), DRAGON-STUDIO (minimal pop, whoosh cinematic), SoundReality (camera shutter), Kave_msri (digital glitch), Pixabay Content License, optional
film_gate.pymotion_check.pyloudness.mjsprobe-mp4.mjs
What the export could not find
promptno line marked verbatim in BRIEF.md; first line of "What the user said" used
stages[].minutesminutes per stage not recorded in ice/state.json stages
stages[05].artifactsno style frames in ice/plan/style-frames/
stages[06].artifactsno animatic render in the run files
stages[09].criticno critic round files in ice/review/
gates[].thresholdNOTE.md gates table does not separate thresholds; they are inside each value where the report states them
stages[02].rolesno roles recorded for this stage
stages[04].rolesno roles recorded for this stage
stages[06].rolesno roles recorded for this stage
stages[07].rolesno roles recorded for this stage
stages[08].rolesno roles recorded for this stage
stages[09].rolesno roles recorded for this stage
stages[10].summaryno note for this stage in ice/state.json
stages[10].rolesno roles recorded for this stage
run-logmasked in the export: 0 keys or tokens, 0 email addresses, 0 phone numbers, 0 absolute paths (ice/log/conversation.jsonl keeps the verbatim text)
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