How we QC short videos

Short videos are cheap to make and easy to get wrong. Every one passes a gate before it posts.

• Audio: the first word of every line is measured, so a fade or a clipped onset is caught before render, not after a viewer hears it.
• Text in frame: captions are checked for overflow at phone width.
• Facts: any number on screen must come from that day's data, never typed by hand.
• Posting: an upload that the platform "accepted" is not counted as posted. Only a row on the creator dashboard counts.
• Scoreboard: a weekly scoreboard moves posting slots toward the formats that work and away from the ones that do not.

The lesson: a quality gate that never measures the actual failure will pass everything. Measure the thing a viewer would notice.