Workflow Index

Recipes, not announcements

Every workflow published in a briefing, kept in one place: what to install, why it is worth the afternoon, and exactly where it falls over. Nothing here ships without the second half.

8 workflows indexed 2 briefings mined Updated with every edition

Generate video on a Mac in three passes instead of fifty

August 28, 2026 briefing recipe read the briefing →

Start at the FastMetal collection and pick the tier your machine can hold.

Why it is good

Video generation on a Mac has been an emulation story until now. This is a native path under Apache 2.0, which means output goes into client work without a license review.

Where it breaks

Apple Silicon and Python 3.11+ only, so no Windows and no Intel Macs. The 14B is locked to 448 by 832 and 77 frames with no audio track. Its weights are about 15GB, so a 16GB Mac will not hold it no matter how patient you are. These have been public since…

FastMetal collection ↗

Run LTX-2.5 in ComfyUI using the community workflow pack

August 28, 2026 briefing recipe read the briefing →

The files live at RuneXX/LTX-2.3-Workflows, which despite the name now covers 2.5.

Why it is good

LTX-2.5 generates picture and sound in one pass, so footsteps in the shot are the footsteps in the audio. This is the shortest route from download to a working graph, and the models stay compatible with most LTX-2.3 adapters.

Where it breaks

The author has not shipped dedicated 2.5 workflows yet and tells you to reuse the 2.3 ones, so expect to fix a node or two. Both custom node packs must be on their latest versions for LTX-2 support, and a stale install fails in confusing ways. Commercial use…

RuneXX/LTX-2.3-Workflows ↗

Put an image model on a phone

August 28, 2026 briefing recipe read the briefing →

The conversion recipe is public at john-rocky/hf-to-litertlm, and the finished graphs are at litert-community.

Why it is good

No network, no account, no per-image cost, and output bit-identical to a desktop run. For anyone building a creative app, this is the difference between a server bill and a download.

Where it breaks

Slow. Bonsai takes about 64 seconds on an iPhone 17 Pro, klein five minutes on a Pixel 8a. Klein is fixed at 256 by 256 with one reference image, and changing either means re-exporting. Two settings silently corrupt output: compute must be FP32, since the…

john-rocky/hf-to-litertlm ↗

FastMetal-QAD: Local Video Generation on a Mac, and Why the Biggest Model Is the Wrong Pick

August 28, 2026 deep dive read the piece →

FastMetal-QAD makes five-second video generation practical on a 16GB Mac, and the workflow that works inverts two instincts: take the 5B over the 14B, and treat prompt caching as the main speed lever rather than model size.

Add sound to silent footage

August 27, 2026 briefing recipe read the briefing →

ControlFoley ComfyUI nodes

Why it is good

It produces a WAV and a finished MP4 with the audio muxed in, so a silent generated clip becomes a deliverable in one pass. Defaults are tuned for mid-range GPUs at 25 steps.

Where it breaks

NVIDIA GPU only, no Mac support. First run downloads several dependency models and can take minutes. Weights are non-commercial, so this is a personal or spec-work tool until the license changes.

ControlFoley ComfyUI nodes ↗

Fast video with matching audio

August 27, 2026 briefing recipe read the briefing →

MiniMax H3 Turbo workflow

Why it is good

Preview speed changes how you work. You stop composing one careful prompt and start trying twelve.

Where it breaks

The audio. Video and sound run on separate schedules, and a wrong audio sigma shift setting produces noise rather than sound. Start at 4 to 6, keep video sigma shift at 12, and if audio blows out, suspect the scheduler config before blaming the model. You can…

MiniMax H3 Turbo workflow ↗

Score a video without a subscription

August 27, 2026 briefing recipe read the briefing →

ACE-Step on mlx-serve

Why it is good

Unlimited generation at zero marginal cost, nothing leaves your machine, and the license permits commercial release. For anyone scoring short pieces or building temp tracks, that removes an entire line item.

Where it breaks

The 4-bit build is slightly softer than 8-bit, most noticeable on dense vocal mixes. Take the 8-bit if you have the disk. No stems, no arrangement control, so this composes cues rather than replacing a DAW.

ACE-Step on mlx-serve ↗

Shrink Your LoRA Adapters by 80 Percent With an SVD Rank Resize

August 27, 2026 deep dive read the piece →

Rank resizing turns oversized LoRA adapters into small ones with a documented, reproducible loss, and the fidelity numbers printed on model cards measure weight reconstruction rather than anything you can see.

Method: recipes are parsed from the “Creative workflows” section of every briefing, plus any analysis piece filed as a workflow. Links point at the original model card, repo, or workflow file — not at a mirror.