MODE P Bake-off — Round 1

SHOT-HARD: hands loading branded wire spool · swap target: MAX TWwire → NDS Black Annealed Tying Wire Coil · all lanes on Higgsfield API · 2026-06-11
NDS reference
The swap target
NDS Black Annealed Tying Wire Coil — the buyer's product reference fed to every lane
ORIGINAL

Creator's footage

Haus Plans UGC, 3.8M views. Silver MAX wire spool, branded label.

LANE 3 — THE WORKING SWAP

Frame surgery (omni → kling3)

Spool now BLACK NDS-style coil. Composition + UGC texture kept. Motion invented (start-frame only — end-pin is round 2). 8.5 credits.

LANE 1 — SWAP NEVER FIRED

draw_to_video (sketch+ref)

Best preservation of all — scene, motion, camera near-identical. But spool stayed original, 3/3 attempts. Sketch-format mystery, round 2.

LANE 2 — RIGHT SWAP, WRONG SHOT

seedance reference-lock

Black coil present, hands fine — but camera pulled back and background invented. Composition lock needed.

Lane 3 edited frame
LANE 3 BASIS — 0.5 CREDITS

The edited frame (kling_omni_image)

Single-frame product swap that seeded Lane 3's video. Half a credit per attempt.

HUMAN GATE VERDICT: ALL LANES 0 — FAIL (full-motion review)

In motion: coil morphs, hands shift unnaturally, no purposeful action. Frame-based scores below kept for the record — they are what a still-image judge sees, and the gap between them and the human verdict is the round's core finding: QC must judge motion, not frames.

Frame-based scores (INVALID for video quality — kept as calibration record)

CriterionL1 drawL2 seedanceL3 frame-surgery
Product matches NDS ref1.544
Scene preservation524
Contact-point integrity43.54
Motion fidelity522.5
Texture continuity (no AI gloss)53.54.5
Passes as creator's footage4.5*2.54

*moot — no swap happened. · motion_control: INAPPLICABLE for products (character-only), $0. · Round-1 failures root cause: non-keyframe clip cuts (-c copy) rejected silently; clean re-encode fixed. · Total burn ≈ 120 credits incl. tuition. · Internal engineering test — third-party footage, not for publication.