Production
How a video gets made
ParkourFlux is produced by one person with an in-house publishing tool. The tool handles the repetitive parts — drafting, voicing, timing, rendering, uploading — so the work is a review step rather than an afternoon of editing.
The pipeline
- Write the story A short piece of original fiction, 30–60 seconds when read aloud, structured in short beats that each end on a turn. Longer pieces are split at beat boundaries into a numbered series released over consecutive days.
- Narrate it The script is read by a synthetic voice, which also returns per-word timings used in the next step.
- Time the captions Those word timings are turned into a caption track, so the on-screen text lands exactly with the narration rather than drifting.
- Assemble the video ffmpeg composites the narration, the caption track, a title card and looping gameplay footage into a 1080×1920 vertical video at 30fps.
- Review The finished file is held for approval before anything is published. Nothing is released without a person looking at it.
- Publish Approved videos are uploaded to the channel's own accounts, with a per-platform caption and hashtags. Every attempt — success or failure — is logged.
The footage
Backgrounds are gameplay clips kept in a local library and cut into short segments so no two videos look identical. The footage is visual filler chosen to hold attention on a phone screen; the story carries the video.
Rate limits and safeguards
The tool is deliberately conservative. It produces at most one video per scheduled run, enforces a daily publishing ceiling per platform, refuses to publish two videos under the same story title, and stops and logs on any API failure instead of retrying in a loop.
| Guardrail | Behaviour |
|---|---|
| One video per run | A scheduled run produces a single video, never a batch. |
| Daily ceiling | Publishing stops before the platform's quota is reached. |
| No duplicate titles | The same story is never published twice. |
| Fail closed | An API error is logged and the run stops — no retry storms. |
| Human review | Finished videos are approved before release. |
Content standards
The tool will not produce, and the channel does not publish:
- Content depicting or naming real people.
- Content that sexualises or targets minors.
- Fiction framed deceptively as verified fact. Stories are presented as stories.
Videos are labelled as entertainment. The narration is synthetic and the stories are invented.