Weekly Shorts Video Pipeline

The job: Makes a week of short videos: a keyframe image per short, then 6 second talking shots of the studio characters.
Tools: Grok Bot, Grok Imagine image, Grok Imagine video
Monthly cost: Pending verification
Per-item costs (actual): Mice shorts video shot (6 s, 720p): $0.87 per shot. Source: desk/ops/shorts-week-2026-10-11/work/cost-log.txt:18-21
Mice shorts anim clip (10 s): $1.41 per clip. Source: desk/ops/shorts-week-2026-10-11/work/cost-log.txt:22-42
Shorts batch, week of Oct 11: $42.28 for the week ($41.79 from API usage, plus $0.49 keyframes at list price). Source: desk/ops/shorts-week-2026-10-11/work/cost-log.txt
Story videos, Oct 11 story week: about $2.26 a day (days 3 to 8; day 2 has no cost log). Source: desk/ops/stories-week-2026-10-11/video-work/day3.log to day8.log, line 1
Setup time: Pending verification
Review needed: Owner approves scripts before posting.
Actual results: Seven shorts for the week of Oct 11, with 21 anim clips logged. Views: Pending verification.
What broke: The spend log batch total ($12.70) left out the 21 anim lines; the cost log has the full $42.28. The day 8 story video log shows an ffmpeg input error and a Python traceback after generation.