The pipeline is a diagnostic map. Prompt misalignment points to conditioning and guidance. Flicker and identity drift point to temporal attention. Motion blur and warping point to latent compression and resolution. Over-saturation and frozen motion point to excessive guidance. Reading an artifact and naming its stage is the procedure: identify the visible symptom, match it to the mechanism that would produce it, then adjust the setting that governs that mechanism.
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