TasteForge Video

TasteForge turns "make it feel like this reference" into a repeatable, inspectable workflow: interview taste, distill it into a structured style pack, validate the pack, apply its measured cadence and look to local media, and export an editable timeline. The canonical implementation is the tasteforge package in the Itô video repository; ECC orchestrates and explains it and does not vendor or duplicate its code.

When to Use

• The user asks to interview for video taste before any footage is made ("ask me about the look", "interview me about aesthetic direction").
• The user wants to distill an aesthetic into structured constraints — a reusable style pack rather than vibes ("turn these references into a pack").
• The user wants to validate a style pack (is the metadata complete, schema-valid, cadence measured, spec distilled?).
• The user wants to apply a style pack to local footage — plan a cut from the pack's measured cadence over local clips, deterministically.
• The user wants to export EDL/FCPXML — an editable, frame-exact handoff to DaVinci Resolve / Premiere / Final Cut.
• The user asks for a **generated-media provenance …