chat to video workflow - session to video

What is session to video?
a workflow for turning ai chat sessions and other text-based working material into a structured video system.

What it does
it turns chat-based session material into shot lists, review boards, and renderable video output. the repo is the reusable workflow and renderer scaffold. session-specific assets and working files live outside it.

What changed in this version
the repo was cleaned up into a generic scaffold instead of a single-session project dump. session-specific media, generated review artifacts, and tribe-specific render code were removed. the visual model was also simplified into one background visual per beat.

What was hard
the review board, generated preview data, and final render could drift out of sync unless everything was regenerated in the right order. remotion also hit rspack native binding failures under node 24 on this machine, so node 22 became the stable default.

Why it matters
the useful part is not one finished video. it's having a reusable system for turning chat-based work into a video workflow without re-deciding the process every time.