Volumetric
Each decision is a coordinate, not a preset. Five change levels — baseline, minor, major, structural, paradigm — bound how far an alternative may move from the source, and fourteen lenses measure any change.
LAKA Volumetric Media Grammar · version 1.0.0
Video production, written as grammar.
A tool-agnostic, machine-readable production system for podcast and video work. Every media decision — a shot, a cut, a light, a caption — is a point in a multidimensional space: 989 enumerated states across 62 dimensions, plus 38 continuous dimensions. 196 declarative IF/THEN production rules keep meaning, rights, continuity and quality intact while alternatives are generated at five change levels.
Hard rules block; soft rules advise. Every triggered rule carries its rationale, and the whole engine is public: submit a context and read the trace.
What is in the package
196
Production rules
989
Enumerated states
100
Dimensions
22
Chapters
Counts derive from the corpus at load time: 100 hard and 96 soft rules across 14 production domains, 12 JSON Schemas, 5 change levels, 14 measurement lenses and a complete fictional worked example — all served at /v1.
The shape of the system
Volumetric, grammatical, governed.
Grammatical
Every output is assembled from typed objects and enumerated states: 989 states across shot sizes, cut types, lighting setups, audio repairs, delivery profiles and 57 more dimensions.
Governed
196 declarative production rules — 100 hard, 96 soft — protect meaning, rights, continuity, loudness and accessibility. The reference engine evaluates them in priority order and explains every match.
The pipeline
From transcript to timeline
The grammar covers the full production path. The worked example walks it end to end — every stage of it fictional, every stage of it served by the API.
Understand
Transcript units, speech acts, claims and context dependencies — the semantic source of truth that every later decision cites.
Construct
Clip mining, utility ranking with hard filters first, narrative patterns, promises and payoffs, shot plans and lighting states.
Finish
Edit plans, timelines in open interchange form, color and sound finishing, platform versions, captions and QA gates.
Read this before you use it
A specification, not a studio.
A specification and reference set with a reference rule engine — not an editing application, a rendering pipeline, or a completed production. The worked example is entirely fictional and exists to demonstrate the method.