easton-reellisted

# easton-reel Decoded from the "this is a message to all finance bros" (Easton) reel format. Produces the signature look: **one word at a time, huge red Times-Bold, red glow, punch-scaled to the beat of speech**, over a dim crushed-black warm grade. ## Genre anatomy (what makes it read as "Easton / finance-bro") 1. **War-room shot** — dim room, key-light face only, authority props behind (US map, Steve Jobs poster, monitors). Subject does the alpha finger-pinch. 2. **Red-serif kinetic caption** — ONE word per beat, Times/Trajan bold caps, red fill + red outer glow, punched (scale 78→100%) on the stressed syllable, upper-third. Hook + name-drop in this style. 3. **B-roll cutaways** — Rolex wrist, eye macro, prop gag (cup-noodles "I'm gambling"). Money-aesthetic vs broke-reality contrast = the joke. 4. **Clean white-cyc outro** — full body, yellow CapCut sans subs, CTA "tune in". 5. **Format** = hook → name-brand → story/joke → CTA. Trending audio low under VO. The script does #2 and #3 (grade) automatically from a raw clip. #1/#4/#5 are shooting/scripting choices — see "Shoot checklist" below. ## Pipeline (one command) ``` python easton_reel.py INPUT.mp4 [-o OUT.mp4] [options] ``` Steps: faster-whisper word timestamps → build `.ass` (one-word red-serif punch) → ffmpeg cover-crop 9:16 → grade → burn subs → encode. ### Options - `--text "..."` **manual caption mode** — skips transcription, distributes the words one-per-beat evenly across the clip. Use for