Re-render 15 real_still candidates with the new per-episode p01 GelSight reference (the .gs_ref_{left,right}.png files just shipped). Diff thumbnails now show absolute contact intensity vs the quietest moment of the episode, not change-since-clip-start.
real_still: re-render at 3s window length + 1x (real-time) playback; drop the previous 5x 2s versions. Only 1 candidate meets the strict 3-second still criteria (operator was actively manipulating almost the entire 106 minutes).
Add real_still candidate clips for verification: only 2 windows in the whole dataset meet the strict still criteria (pose<=10mm/s, cam2<2, tac<3) — telling us the operators are actively manipulating almost the entire time. Manifest in candidates.json.
freeze_diagnose threshold: TAU_VIEW_STILL 4.0 -> 2.0 (more aggressive "is the scene really still?" check). Verdicts unchanged for current 41 events because they all trigger ot_loss via other signals.
Drop 11 stale ot_loss MP4s from the pre-opt_gap-fix run (their bad_frames intervals are still valid but the verdict-label numerics in the filename matched the buggy 47-event sampling, not the corrected 41-event sampling).
freeze_diagnose: fix max_opt_gap() returning 0 when OT stream silent; drop events entirely inside trimmed prefix; remove misclassified real_still/ (those were ep_005/017 OT-offline prefixes that shouldnt have appeared at all). Final: 41 events, all ot_loss.
MP4s re-encoded at 5× speed (yuv444p / 8-bit / CRF 20 — sharper text overlays); all 66 GIFs removed from HF (MP4-only going forward). Source 8-bit RGB → 10-bit would be wasted bits; 4:4:4 chroma is the upgrade that actually matters for the text panels.
Trim OT-uninitialized prefixes from 3 .pt files (ep_005/012/017 — see `_contact_meta.trim_offset`); recompute bad_frames + data_quality_breakdown in trimmed coords; ot_loss frame count now reflects real mid-episode mocap dropout only. Recorder-side OT watchdog added to data_collection.py (in twm repo) so future episodes won't repeat the bug.
Re-label freeze classifier: events are OptiTrack track losses (ot_loss), not recorder-pipeline stalls. GelSight stream is healthy throughout; tac_dup was misread (gel only changes under contact deformation).