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Exporting Final Assets

Once you've picked candidates for every scene and have all the B-roll clips you need, it's time to pull everything out of PatchWork and into a folder you can hand to post-production.

What "final assets" means

A finished workflow's deliverables for one account, ready for the editor:

Asset Where it comes from
Speaking scene clips (one MP4 per scene) Picked Veo3 candidates in PatchWork
B-roll clips The standalone B-roll generation (see Manual B-roll)
Picked stills (optional) The image gens, if needed for thumbnails / cover frames
Storyboard The Visual Planner's output (already saved to Assets/{workflow}/)
Script The Script Writer's output (already saved to Assets/{workflow}/)

How to export from PatchWork

For each picked Veo3 candidate in the Approve gallery:

  1. Click the candidate to make sure it's selected
  2. Right-click → Download (or use the download icon in the candidate's hover menu)
  3. PatchWork pulls the MP4 from R2 and saves it locally

For batch download (all picks in a tab at once), use PatchWork's Export Approved button if available, or download scene-by-scene.

Standard export folder layout

For consistency across the team, save exported assets to a predictable place:

projects/{month}/{brand}/Assets/{workflow}/exports/{account}/
  scene-01.mp4           speaking scene 1
  scene-02.mp4           speaking scene 2
  scene-03.mp4           speaking scene 3
  ...
  broll-01.mp4           B-roll clip 1
  broll-02.mp4           B-roll clip 2
  ...

Use the scene number in the filename so the editor knows the order. Don't rename clips to something descriptive; the numeric order is what matters for assembly.

Handing off to post-production

When the assets are ready, the editor needs:

  • The export folder (above)
  • The storyboard (for assembly reference)
  • The script (for caption timing and on-screen text)
  • The target platform format (TikTok / Reels / Facebook — affects aspect ratio, caption style)
  • The sales channel (TikTok Shop / Amazon keyword / Meta Shop — affects CTA, AI Label Trick requirement)

Share the folder via gdrive skill if the editor needs remote access:

You: upload Assets/XYZG3/exports/Account-A/ to a Drive folder shared
     with the editor (viewer access).

Claude: [creates folder, uploads, returns share link]

Naming the final delivered video

After post-production, the finished video typically gets a name like:

{workflow-code}-{version}-{account}.mp4
e.g. XYZG3-V1-AccountA.mp4

This makes it traceable back to which workflow and which version produced it.

AI Label Trick (TikTok Shop only)

If the sales channel is TikTok Shop, the editor should apply the AI Label Trick during post-production:

  • A 0.01-second flash of a dark screen or an AI-generated face at the very end of the video
  • This triggers TikTok's "AI generated" platform label, which avoids content-violation flags

The trick happens in the editor's timeline, not during generation. The Image Prompter or Veo Prompter doesn't add this — it's a manual post-production step. Detailed in Chapter 7 — Sales Channels (coming soon).

For Amazon and Meta Shop, no AI label is needed.

Final checklist before delivery

  • Every scene has a picked candidate exported as MP4
  • All B-roll clips are exported
  • Files are in Assets/{workflow}/exports/{account}/ with scene numbers in filenames
  • Storyboard and script are accessible
  • Drive share is set up if the editor is remote
  • Sales channel and AI Label Trick requirement is communicated

When you're ready

You've completed your first end-to-end workflow generation. Congrats — that's the easiest task in the pipeline.

→ Next: Chapter 3 — Lvl 1-2 Variants. Take a finished workflow and produce a variation of it — a dialogue swap (Lvl 1) or a wardrobe change (Lvl 2). Low risk, auto-approved.