Your Chinese factory has approved the latest air purifier grille. The draft commercial still shows an earlier pattern in one close-up. Before you commission a batch of AI variants, give the supplier that single revision and see whether the rest of the approved sequence survives.
A research prototype makes the right question easier to ask
On November 5, 2026, Adobe Research reported that Project Doki received a best paper honorable mention at UIST 2026. The March 10, 2026 arXiv paper describes an experimental text-based interface that brings assets, scenes, shots, refinements and audio into one document. Adobe describes a weeklong study with ten participants. It is useful evidence about an authoring interface; it does not establish commercial revision costs or delivery times.
Give the supplier one change and three acceptance checks
Start with a short approved sequence. In the ONCE revision drill, the test is a new request made after sign-off: update the grille in the close-up using the production reference. First, check the changed frame for the requested pattern. Second, play the joins at normal speed and check whether the adjacent wide shot, reflections and sound still make sense. If the wide shot still shows the old grille, the request has become a multi-shot change.
Third, compare the signed-off sections with the new cut. Ask the supplier to identify footage carried over from the approved export versus footage rebuilt to look similar. Keep the original clips and edit available for rollback. A prompt is a useful record of intent, but it is not a backup of the approved pixels.
Use the drill to set the price of the next round
Have the producer record generation attempts, manual finishing, review of adjoining shots and export time. Quote an editorial change, a contained regeneration and a sequence change separately. State which revisions the batch price includes and who approves scope changes. If the supplier cannot keep the accepted shots intact, preserve the factory-verified hero angle as a replaceable live-action layer and test generated backgrounds or transitions around it. If the issue instead comes from changed delivery requirements, see ONCE’s guide to when a media change needs a new cut.
