DramaPilot

Adapting a Chinese short drama for US audiences is far more than slapping on subtitles. Character wardrobe, cultural gestures, the rejection at an ancestral hall gate, English dialogue that runs long and breaks lip-sync — all of it must be reworked together. DramaPilot gives short-drama creators a structured adaptation pipeline: from video understanding and source-asset extraction, through target-market cultural rewriting, per-shot production, synthesis and review, each step carries an explicit data contract and version tracking so a revision traces back to the exact dependency it touches rather than forcing a full re-do.

The current release is a runnable offline engineering prototype. It already ships the adaptation data structures, a local mock vendor with persistent state, budget reservation and fault recovery, FFmpeg-based test-film stitching with an HTML review report, and plugin protocol checks built on the DeepSeek Harness runtime. Every demo run uses pre-written fixtures, needs no API key, and calls no paid models. Real character reshaping, English dubbing, lip-sync, and automatic video comprehension are on the roadmap but not yet active.

It is aimed at short-drama creators and technical developers exploring cross-market localisation. If you already have scripts, SRT files, or base assets and want to dry-run the planning, budgeting, and local-revision engineering loop before wiring up real generation models, DramaPilot offers a transparent, auditable, shot-granular starting point.