Five video metrics that lied to us (and the one-frame rule that caught them)

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A broken pixel metric does not crash. It keeps returning numbers. The numbers are in range, the table looks consistent, the histogram has a sensible shape, and you write a conclusion under it. We build a tool that reframes landscape video into vertical clips, so we measure a lot of things per frame: where the face is, where the captions sit, whether the frame is empty, who is speaking. Five of those measurements were wrong in ways that no other number could have told us.

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