Thumbnails · Stage 5

DaVinci

The Alchemist. The first frame stops the scroll. Make it count.

DaVinci is Cascade's visual craftsman. He analyzes every clip Iris produces, identifies the most compelling faces and compositions, applies color enhancement, and renders thumbnails sized and formatted for wherever they're going. The result: first frames that earn the click.

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What I Do

Building Thumbnails That Perform

A great thumbnail is engineered, not guessed. DaVinci evaluates keyframes by sharpness, emotion score, and visual composition, runs face enhancement for portrait-style outputs, and applies contrast and color grading before rendering the final asset. Every output is platform-sized and export-ready.

Capabilities

YOLOv11 face and body detection for subject-aware keyframe selection
Keyframe ranking by sharpness, emotion score, and compositional balance
InsightFace face enhancement for portrait and close-up thumbnail styles
Color grading and contrast enhancement for scroll-stopping visual impact
Text overlay rendering for titles and call-to-action elements

Tech Stack

YOLOv11

Drop-in upgrade from YOLOv8 with improved accuracy and inference speed

InsightFace

Face enhancement and alignment for portrait-quality thumbnail output

moviepy

Text overlay, color grading, and final render pipeline

Meet the Team

Full Team