Mara paused the video and zoomed in. Minutes later she realized she could pause forever; the video didn’t age. Every frame was a still that refused to become older than when it was captured. The timestamp in the corner read 00:00:00:00, as if the recording existed outside the march of hours.

[ ] Verify file hash (sha256) [ ] Create a read‑only backup [ ] Run ffprobe → metadata.json [ ] Run exiftool → exif.txt [ ] Generate contact sheet → contact.jpg [ ] Extract keyframes → keyframes_*.jpg [ ] Run frame‑hash script → edits.txt [ ] Transcribe audio (optional) → transcript.txt [ ] Perform reverse‑image search on a few frames [ ] Document every step in a PDF report [ ] Store final hashes of all generated artefacts