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Breakdown Studio v1.0.0 - first packaged Windows build

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@thevfxsupervisor thevfxsupervisor released this 14 Jul 22:58
v1.0.0
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The first packaged release of Breakdown Studio: the no-Python path for producers.

What this is. A portable Windows build of the full app. Unzip it anywhere, double-click BreakdownStudio.exe, and you get the complete pipeline GUI: detect shots, extract frames and thumbnails, QC, cut clips, contact sheets, reference clips, and the live Google Sheet breakdown, with no Python installation on the machine.

Getting started

  1. Download BreakdownStudio-v1.0.0-windows-x64.zip below and unzip it anywhere (a local drive is faster than a network share).
  2. Run BreakdownStudio.exe. The Qt interface opens; Settings are on the toolbar.
  3. Point it at ffmpeg/ffprobe if they are not on your PATH (Settings), pick a movie file and an output folder, and Run.
  4. For the Google Sheet stages, follow SETUP_GOOGLE.md (one-time, about 10 minutes, your own account).
  5. Anything unclear? Run the built-in health check: BreakdownStudio.exe doctor from a terminal prints a PASS/WARN/FAIL table of your setup.

What is deliberately not inside the zip

  • AI features (TransNetV2 shot detection and burn-in OCR). Their torch dependency is a multi-GB payload that does not belong in a portable zip. The app runs fine without them (the Detect stage skips itself with a clear message). To add them, use the from-source install: clone the repo, run install.bat, and answer Y to the one AI-features question. See the README.
  • ffmpeg. Licensing and size. The from-source installer can fetch it for you on Windows; for the zip, grab a build from gyan.dev and point Settings at it.

Quality: this build is cut from the same code as main: 498 unit tests across 9 suites, validated against four successive cuts of a real feature film in production (98% slate-grammar agreement over 9,188 verified reads, ~95% cut-to-master match reproduction, zero uniqueness collisions).

Notes

  • Windows may show a SmartScreen prompt on first run (the build is not code-signed). Click "More info", then "Run anyway". The one-folder layout was chosen over a single self-extracting exe specifically to keep false positives down.
  • macOS and Linux run from source today (install.sh); packaged builds for both are on the roadmap.

SHA-256 of the zip: f78117aa8fd56c9af14f393eecaabfea1c235cb62d7502de2bea05c1353ac5fe

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