A Kling-generated shot, evaluated as source and again after a manual restoration pass. CTAME registered both files, compared them, and reported the result below. CTAME did not perform the restoration and did not mark it ready.
Readiness
The restored pass looked cleaner but measured a five-fold rise in edge sharpness against the source, an oversharpening and halo risk, with up to 21% of pixels crushed to black. CTAME routed the asset to a human instead of marking it ready.
| container / essence | PASS |
| signal / levels | WARN black crush up to 21.4% |
| detail / halo | REVIEW sharpness ×5.14 vs source |
| compression | PASS blocking reduced vs source |
| temporal | PASS no flicker on sampled set |
| geometry / scaling | PASS |
| metric color reliability | NOT TRUSTED color-space not explicit |
Scope: this is a technical validation aid produced by CTAME. It documents integrity and process and flags production risk. Untrusted metrics are reported as untrusted and are not used to claim improvement. This record is not certification, not final approval, and not a delivery decision. Manual QC by a qualified operator is required before any delivery decision.