Re-shooting a person

Every person on screen, speaking or not, is re-shot with HeyGen so the original's face and the text burned over it never ship. What makes a re-shot person match is the original's own clip driving the motion, and one generated shot per original shot. The HyperFrames sign-in is enough; no API key is needed. Only when the person says not to use HeyGen, cut them on their own box instead and say the burned-in text came along.

The recipe

1. One shot per original shot. From measure cuts: a generated shot never spans a cut, jump cuts and punch-ins included. One take across a jump cut deletes the cut; a motion guide that crosses a cut makes HeyGen cut somewhere of its own. HeyGen makes 5–15 s: a shorter shot is asked for at 5 s and trimmed; a longer one is split where the original reframes, else chained: the next part's reference is the last frame of the one before.
2. A plate per shot: a real frame of that shot at the source's aspect, with every drawn thing and every other face (a photo on the wall, a sticker) painted out, since HeyGen may animate the wrong face (cv2.inpaint for small marks, a temporal median where the person moves); it keeps the room sharp and true. Where drawn things are large or cross the person, an image edit cleans better (npx hyperframes media-use generate --type image --reference <frame>, asked to remove the text and keep everything else); check it kept the room sharp.
3. Generate every shot at once, in the background, and build the graphics while they render (each comes back in about a minute):

bash npx hyperframes media-use generate --type video --reference <plate> --motion <the original shot> \ --mask <x,y,w,h,a-b> --audio <the original voice over that shot> --aspect <the source's> --seconds <n> \ --prompt "<who, where, what they do, the camera>" --out <shot>.mp4

--motion is the original shot itself, cut at its cut times: HeyGen follows its body and camera motion and takes the face from the plate. It also copies text burned into the guide, so give one --mask per drawn box in that shot (the clip's pixels and seconds). Mask the text's own box, never a full-width band: a gesture under a mask is lost. A person who does not speak gets no --audio.

A credit limit the person named: price every shot first with --plan, keep the people that fit, pass what is left as --max-credits, and ask before cutting a person to stay under it.

1. Check each shot as it arrives: no cut inside it (generate prints cuts_inside, and refuses a guide with a cut; pass --allow-cuts only when you have read those frames and they are one shot, a whip or a flash), none of the original's text, the face box within 5% of the original's (npx hyperframes measure face). Regenerate a failing shot once; then trim it to its good part. A shot HeyGen refuses or fails (generation_failed) gets one more try, test calls included, in this session or a resumed one; then stop and ask the person whether to keep the original's footage for now or drop the shot. A shot still waiting when generate stops after 30 minutes gets the same command once more (it picks up the same job and is not charged again); still waiting after that, treat it as failed, and build the rest meanwhile.
2. Frame it: scale and move each shot so its face box sits on the original's at the shot's start and end (npx hyperframes measure face <shot> --against <video> --from a --to b prints the scale, x, y to set), tweening between them only where the original's camera moves. The framing jumps at cuts and nowhere else.
3. Text behind the person: where the original's text passes behind them, cut them out of the shot (npx hyperframes remove-background <shot> -o <cutout>.webm) and stack shot, text, cutout.

Keep the original's voice as the soundtrack and the shots muted. Do not clone voices or make avatars for a re-shoot: the original voice drives the lips. The people inside a photo, a collage or a screenshot are sub-assets, cut with it.