FRAME 0x1A
EXP +1.30 EV
CHK 9f·2c·a1·00
CHK · TARGET LOCKED

Keep the night under one quiet file.

Nightwatch crops every frame into a confidential dossier — scan-frame, bounding box, checksum. One surgical magenta strip tells you exactly what is being watched.

DOSSIER · 01HOW IT WATCHES

Footage in. Evidence out.

Frames arrive raw; Nightwatch crops the subject, holds a bounding box, and writes the finding to the file. Nothing decorative — every mark is a piece of evidence.

CHK · TRACKING
PREVIEW · LIVE
FINDING · NW-0xA1

Movement at the north gate, held 41 seconds.

The subject entered frame at 03:14, stayed inside the box for forty-one seconds, then left east. Checksum stable; no ghosts. The night desk gets one line, not a video to scrub.

DOSSIER · 02THE FILE

Three things, kept terse.

01

Scan-frame crops

Every frame is cropped inside a bracket with a floating bounding box — the subject, isolated, nothing else.

02

Checksum strips

A thin magenta tab on the seam carries the state: tracked, clear, on hold. State you can read at a glance.

03

Diagnostic gutter

Exposure, port, ghost count — terminal microtext runs the edge, so the page reads like a real file.

Open a watch before the night does.