Look in the roll and you will find no universal implement. Each tool does one job and does it narrowly, because narrowness is what makes a tool trustworthy: you know exactly what it will change, and — more valuable still — what it will not. The studio’s eight tools are kept to the same discipline.
The generator makes frames and nothing else; it does not repair. The editor repairs one named fault per pass and does not re-imagine. The swaps carry a proven face and do not invent one. The upscalers raise resolution and — the roll is blunt about this — do not raise fidelity. A brief that asks a tool to do another tool’s job gets another tool’s failure at full price.
The working order follows from the narrowness. Stills prove her against the toolroll card. The editor mends the stills, one fault at a time. Swaps carry the proven face. Video moves the proven still. Upscalers finish what every earlier pocket has passed. Each tool is lifted in turn, used for its one job, and put back.
A roll of narrow tools, honestly kept, outperforms a workshop of clever ones. The bench has tested both and kept the roll.