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Third brand · one pass

A third brand, in one shot: The Website Specification

The studio, pointed at another live product — specification.website, an open-source spec of what a good website does. A light, technical brand this time. We adopted its palette, generated a spec-check leader, drove its real pages, and shipped an English walkthrough in 16:9 and 9:16 — for about $0.61.

✓ Produced in a single pass — no concept round, no reworks

By Theuws Consulting · a making-of · 10 July 2026

"What a good website does" — 30s, 16:9. Generated spec-check leader · real pages · one type system · light-theme grade with white dissolves. Same bar, a very different brand from the last case.

≈ $0.61
Total API generation
One shot
Single pass, no reworks
Light theme
Adopted, not invented
16:9 + 9:16
One build, both ratios
01 · Intake

Adopt the brand — a light, technical one

We read the live site's own tokens: a near-white paper, near-black ink, one emerald-green accent, and a clean system-sans. The film's titles are set to match — heavy, precise, on a light ground. Where the last case was dark and elemental, this one is bright and exact. The studio adopts whatever the brand already is.

Accent · #15803D Ink · #0E0E13 Paper · #F7F7F8 Muted · #6B7280
02 · The signature, proven once

A spec, checking itself

The brand mark is a green checkmark. So the leader is a page wireframe with green check-strokes converging into that mark — the spec's items, validated. One keyframe (nano-banana), checked, then animated (image-to-video) and reversed for the outro. Prove the signature once; scale it for free.

Leader keyframe — a page wireframe with green checkmark strokes converging into the Website Spec mark
03 · Real footage, reproducibly

We drove the real spec

The screens are the live site — home, the topic index, the checklist, and the MCP page — captured deterministically with the same reusable rig. The vertical scrolls through the actual spec: the checkboxes, the "Required" badges, the MCP tools. Capturing real pages is free, and it is why this stays cheap.

Three real pages captured: the home spec, the checklist, and the MCP server page

The spec

160 topics across ten areas — from <title> to security.txt.

The checklist

Every item a yes/no you can audit your own site against.

The MCP server

"For humans and agents" — the spec, queryable by an agent.

04 · Fan-out

Both ratios from one build — for $0 more

The 9:16 reuses every paid asset: the leader is reframed, the pages are re-captured natively on mobile and scroll through real content, the titles re-flow. No new generation — the vertical is free to produce.

The vertical scrolls down each real page — the spec items with their checkboxes and "Required" badges, the MCP tool list — not a stretched desktop grab.

The ruleBuild one master, reframe and re-capture for the cutdown. Generation happens once; every ratio and language after that is free edit work.
05 · The economics

What it cost — and when it costs more

The same headline as always: the money is in AI generation — mainly image-to-video — not the edit. Captures, stills, montage and re-runs are free.

ItemHowCost
Leader keyframenano-banana Pro, 2K
Leader motion (→ reversed for the outro)fal Veo-3-Fast, 1080p, 4s
Outroreversed leader (ffmpeg)$0
4 real pagesPlaywright capture rig$0
Audio bedfal stable-audio
Montage + grade (16:9 and 9:16)ffmpeg + ImageMagick$0
Totalone paid bracket + one bed; the rest free≈ $0.61

It costs more when…

  • more image-to-video shots × more seconds × higher resolution
  • higher-tier models (Pro, Veo-3, 4K) where a cheaper tier would do
  • fanning out to N languages/ratios that each generate instead of reusing one master
  • iterating without a PoC — regenerating a look you never validated
  • the film is fully-AI: many generated shots instead of captured ones

It costs less when…

  • you lean on real captures ($0) — like this walkthrough
  • a still with ffmpeg motion replaces an i2v shot
  • the leader/outro bracket is built once and reused
  • you validate one PoC before fanning out
  • the audio is a generated bed and re-runs stay free
Why one shotThis case took a single pass — no concept round, no font or scroll reworks. Those were one-time lessons on earlier films, now baked into the studio's reusable scripts. A mature, self-maintaining skill spends its interactions once.
Read-out

Dark or light, any brand

Two cases, two opposite looks — an elemental dark SaaS and a bright technical spec — from one studio, each adopted from the brand as it already is, each for under a euro of generation.

See it livespecification.website — the real product. And the studio: the video studio guide.