For technical reviewers · Origin v3

Origin

The model behind every film — trained on how ads are built, not on cinema.

Most video models learned to make footage by watching ads. Origin learned to make ads — by watching, annotating and reconstructing them at the level of the shot. It does not guess what an ad looks like. It knows how one is built.

The spec

Every number has a method behind it.

Where a number comes from an eval, the protocol is published. Where it comes from a product decision, we say so. Nothing here is a marketing round-up.

What the training set contains →Where Origin still fails →
Origin v3 · September 2026
Parameters60B
Architecturelatent diffusion transformer + audio head
Annotation schema140 fields · 17 tiers
Output lengthup to 60s continuous
Resolutionup to 4K · 24/25/30/60fps
Native audioVO · music bed · SFX, mixed in-pass
Shapes9:16 · 1:1 · 4:5 · 16:9, one render
Languages30+ VO · 40+ caption · full RTL
Time to first cut~90 seconds (p50, 30s ad)
Consistencybrand · product · character, locked
ProvenanceC2PA manifest on every render
Trained on your adsno — never, on any plan
How it directs

140 fields. 17 tiers.
One annotation per shot.

Every frame in the training set carries a structured annotation — shot size, lens, movement, cut rate, hook archetype, product placement, CTA position, voice-over language, music bed, colour temperature, and the beat where the ask arrives. Supervision at that resolution is why Origin can explain a decision instead of only producing pixels. Pick a tier.

Tier 04 · Director grammar

The choices a director makes: blocking, eyeline, reveal timing, hold length.

blockingeyelinereveal_beathold_lengthsubject_counthandednessfocus_pull
7 fields in this tier · every one of them is queryable at brief time
The pipeline

From one sentence to a signed file.

01ParseThe sentence becomes a structured brief: market, duration, shape, language, occasion, objective, CTA.~1s · free
02PlanA shot plan is drafted against Brand Memory and the annotation schema, then shown to you.~4s · free
03DirectShots are generated with picture and audio in the same pass, then assembled to the plan.~60s
04FinishReframes to four shapes, burns captions, mixes to broadcast loudness, signs the file.~20s
05CheckBrand rules, disclosure, caption safe-area and cover frame are verified before publish.~2s · free
06LearnOutcomes come back as annotated evidence and update Brand Memory, not the base model.continuous

Audio is generated inside the same pass as picture, not stitched afterwards — which is why lip timing survives a re-cut and why a re-voiced market doesn’t need a new render.

Evals

What we measure, and against whom.

Four internal evals plus blind human preference. The protocol, the prompt set and the raters’ brief are published with the report — including the two evals where a filmmaker-first model beats us.

Hook-rate prediction0.71 corr.

Predicted vs observed three-second retention on 4,200 held-out ads across 12 markets.

Brand consistency94%

Human raters judging whether ten ads from one memory read as one brand.

Caption accuracy98.2% ar · 99.1% en

Word error rate on burned-in captions, measured back off the rendered frame.

Hero-shot controlbehind

Shot-by-shot art direction on a single hero clip. Filmmaker-first models win this one.

Limitations

Where Origin still gets it wrong.

Published because you will find them anyway, and because a model you can’t predict is a model you can’t ship on.

Legible dense typeLong paragraphs of on-screen text still drift. Origin flags it and offers a text plate instead.mitigated in product
Hands at speedFast hand interaction with a small product can smear at 60fps. It prefers a slower beat.known · improving
Named likenessIt will not generate a real person. Refusal is a policy, not a limitation we intend to remove.by design
Dialect coverageNajdi, Khaleeji, Egyptian and Levantine are strong. Maghrebi dialects are thinner.roadmap
Long-formAbove 60 seconds, structure holds but pacing regresses toward the mean. Cut two ads instead.hard limit today
Claim-heavy categoriesPharma and regulated finance need a human claims review. Origin will not sign those off.human required
When you shouldn’t use Origin.

If you need a single hero clip with total shot-by-shot control for a film festival, use a filmmaker-first model — they are excellent at that and we are not trying to be. Origin is for teams who need a hundred good ads live this quarter, and need to know which ones worked.

Model card

Origin v3, in one page.

Model
Origin v3 · released September 2026 · supersedes v2 (March 2026)
Intended use
Advertising and marketing for brands, agencies and e-commerce teams: brief, direct, review, publish and measure short-form ads.
Out of scope
News, documentary, political advertising, medical claims, and anything depicting a real identifiable person without a signed consent reference.
Training data
Licensed advertising archives, commissioned shoots, synthesised footage, and customer-consented material. Never customer ads by default.
Evaluation
Four internal evals plus blind human preference against three named competitors. Protocol and prompt set published.
Known failure modes
Dense on-screen type, fast hand interaction, Maghrebi dialect coverage, ads above 60 seconds.
Safety
Likeness and consent policy, minors policy, elections policy, C2PA provenance, red-team findings published quarterly.
Contact
model-questions@zerohuman.co · rightsholder opt-out and appeals routed within five working days.