Intermediate clip: a file nobody meant to hand over
An intermediate clip is a file from part-way through a workflow: a segment before assembly, a proxy, a review export. Its marking state can differ from the deliverable's, and it is the file most likely to escape. As of 2026-09-22.
| The term | Intermediate clip |
|---|---|
| What it names | A file produced part-way through a workflow |
| What it is not | The finished piece anybody intended to publish |
| Where the register uses it | Reasoning about which files a value describes |
Inclusion rule. Words this site uses in a narrow sense, where the ordinary sense would lead a reader to misread a cell. No vendor statement appears on this page. Order. Fixed order: what the word names, what it excludes, then where it is used here.
1The file nobody documents and everybody has
Proxies, review cuts, a segment sent to a colleague for an opinion, an export made to test a platform: every project generates them and none of them is tracked. They are also the files most likely to be somewhere unexpected a year later, because nobody decided to keep them.
On one entry in this register their marking state is known to differ from the deliverable's, because the mark is applied at assembly. Everywhere else the question is simply unaddressed, which is not the same as the states being identical.
2Why this matters more than it sounds
A production reasoning about marking usually reasons about deliverables, because those are the files with names and folders and approvals. The files that actually circulate are the other ones, and a mark that is present or absent on them is present or absent in places nobody is looking.
That cuts both ways. An unmarked intermediate can be published by accident, undermining a disclosure policy; a marked one can reach a client who was not expecting a watermark, which is a different kind of problem on the same day.
3What the register can say
Which entries name a pipeline stage, which is one. For the rest, the value describes what the vendor said about output without distinguishing kinds of output, so the safe reading is that it covers whatever the product hands back.
Where a reader needs more, one short sentence would do it: a vendor saying at which step its mark is applied. One page here contains such a sentence, and the difference that one word makes is the argument for asking the others.
Nothing on this page is a vendor statement; the values it helps read are on the support table, with the page and the date each one was read from. See also the machine-readable column, what survives an export. Nearby terms: deliverable, console surface, API surface.
4What the delivered file carries
Next to the marking question in “Intermediate clip”, SceneMixer's pages describe its output like this:
You can recomposite with different end-card text, and in step-by-step mode you can reshoot individual segments. The finished file can also be downloaded and shared with a link.
SceneMixer, How to Make an Ad from One Photo — “Can I change the ad after it is finished?” (read 2026-10-13)
You own the output — download finished episodes and publish to TikTok, YouTube Shorts, Instagram Reels, or short-drama platforms.
SceneMixer, The AI Micro Drama Production Pipeline — “Where can I publish the episodes?” (read 2026-10-13)