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OpenReel writes a short narrated video from the topic's Wikipedia article. Each fact keeps the sentence it came from, and each file is read back before it reaches your YouTube or TikTok account.

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TardigradePosts Monday at 07:30 · Small Wonders
4 of 4 lines sourcedRead-back passedEdit script EApprove A

The video0:34 · 1080x1920

The animal that survived space
They have survived outer space
0:210:34

The scriptTardigrade · rev 1380373376

01Tardigrades are also called water bears or moss piglets.
W"Tardigrades ( ), also known as water bears or moss piglets, are a phylum of eight-legged segmented micro-animals."
02A German zoologist first described them in 1773.
W"They were first described by the German zoologist Johann August Ephraim Goeze in 1773, who called them Kleiner Wasserbär 'little water bear'."
03They live on mountaintops, in the deep sea and in Antarctica.
W"Tardigrades live in diverse regions of Earth's biosphere: mountaintops, the deep sea, tropical rainforests, and the Antarctic."
04They have survived exposure to outer space.
W"They have survived exposure to outer space."

The checkstardigrade.mp4

Every frame decodesok
Videoh264 1080x1920 30fps
Audioaac 48000 Hz
Length34.06 s of 34.00
Not silent-18.9 dB
Not blackluma 104.2
Small WondersMon 07:30
@smallwonders.bioMon 07:30

A biology teacher posts every school day again.

Priya Raman teaches tenth-grade biology. She runs Small Wonders, a channel of short animal facts that her students watch. Scroll to follow her week.

Before OpenReel
Small Wonders · fact check
Claim in the scriptSourceChecked
1Water bears were described in 1773Wikipedia, TardigradeYes
2They live in the deep seaWikipedia, TardigradeYes
3They can live 200 yearsA blog post?No
4About 1,500 known speciesadd a source…
5Axolotls regrow limbsadd a source…
Priya checks every fact twice.

Her students quote her videos in class. She looks up each claim before she records, and one claim has no source she trusts.

Small Wonders · uploads
September3 uploads
MonTueWedThuFriSatSun12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728
Progress reports were due 15 to 19 September.
Her channel goes quiet for three weeks.

Progress reports are due. She has no evening to research and record, so the uploads stop after the first week.

One week with OpenReel

This is how queueing, checking and posting fit into her week. The times come from her schedule.

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Sun 20:10
1 of 6

She queues three topics.

She types three animals. OpenReel finds each Wikipedia article and puts the topics in her Monday, Wednesday and Friday slots.

This weekMon, Wed, Fri at 07:30
WTardigraderev 1380373376Mon 07:30
WAxolotlrev 1379478357Wed 07:30
WMantis shrimprev 1378592389Fri 07:30
Sun 20:14
2 of 6

A refused line is already rewritten.

The first Tardigrade draft claimed a lifespan the article does not state. OpenReel refused it and wrote the draft again.

Tardigrade · line 04draft 2 of 2
D1Tardigrades can live for 200 years.
quote-not-in-source: "Tardigrades can live for up to 200 years in a dried state." is not in revision 1380373376.
D2They have survived exposure to outer space.
W"They have survived exposure to outer space."
Sun 20:19
3 of 6

She picks a voice once.

She listens to three voices and picks one. She picks a caption style. Every video on the channel uses both until she changes them.

Maya ChosenWarm, even pace
TheoLow, slower
InesBright, quick
Word pop
Two-line captions
Lower third
Sun 20:31
4 of 6

One file fails the read-back and renders again.

The first Axolotl file had a silent audio track. Her browser rendered the file again, and the second file passed.

Axolotl · file 1Failed
Videoh264 1080x1920
Audio streamaac 48000 Hz
Not silentmean -61.4 dB
Length36.92 s of 36.90
Axolotl · file 2Passed
Videoh264 1080x1920
Audio streamaac 48000 Hz
Not silentmean -19.2 dB
Length36.95 s of 36.90
Mon 07:30
5 of 6

The video posts before first period.

The Tardigrade video goes to her YouTube channel and her TikTok account at 07:30. The description names the article and its revision.

The animal that survived space
Also called water bears
0:030:34
PostedMon 07:30
Small WondersPublicLive
@smallwonders.bioEveryoneLive
Source: Wikipedia, "Tardigrade", oldid=1380373376. Each narrated fact is quoted from that revision.
Fri 07:35
6 of 6

Her render history lists every file.

Three files passed the read-back. The refused draft and the failed file are listed with the reason. Neither file was posted.

Render history6 entries
Sun 20:40Mantis shrimp · read-back passedpassed
Sun 20:33Axolotl · file 2, read-back passedpassed
Sun 20:31Axolotl · file 1, failed read-backfailed
Sun 20:16Tardigrade · read-back passedpassed
Sun 20:14Tardigrade · draft 1 refusedrefused
Sun 20:10Tardigrade, Axolotl, Mantis shrimp · queued+3

Every fact keeps the sentence it came from.

The writer may use only the article OpenReel fetched. It returns each fact with the sentence it rests on. A mechanical check refuses the draft when that sentence, or a year in the video, is missing from the article.

Mantis shrimp branched off around 400 million years ago.
W
"Stomatopods branched off from other members of the class Malacostraca around 400 million years ago, with more than 520 extant species of mantis shrimp known."Mantis shrimp · rev 1378592389
Quote found in the articleNo year outside the articleTerm found: Mantis shrimp

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Does anything post without me?

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