diff --git a/src/nodes/embedding_dump_node.hpp b/src/nodes/embedding_dump_node.hpp
index 348bf08..2674da8 100644
--- a/src/nodes/embedding_dump_node.hpp
+++ b/src/nodes/embedding_dump_node.hpp
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 #include "gallery/embedder_stamp.hpp"
 
 #include <H5Cpp.h>
+#include <opencv2/imgproc.hpp>   // cv::calcHist for the per-frame RGB histogram
 
 #include <atomic>
 #include <cstdint>
@@ -167,6 +168,12 @@ struct EmbeddingDumpFunc {
         fidx_.push_back(ef.source.frame_idx);
         is_cut_.push_back(ef.source.is_cut ? 1 : 0);
         is_bnd_.push_back(ef.source.is_scene_boundary ? 1 : 0);
+        // Per-frame normalised RGB histogram (kHistBins per channel), for offline
+        // training of a learned scene-boundary detector against X-Ray scene
+        // boundaries — the grayscale-correlation cut detector is blind on
+        // low-contrast grades (Scarface: 1 cut in 10k frames). Cheap and the frame
+        // is already decoded here; empty frame → zeros.
+        append_rgb_hist(ef.source.image);
         face_off_.push_back(static_cast<int64_t>(conf_.size()));
         face_cnt_.push_back(n);
 
@@ -287,6 +294,11 @@ private:
         write_vec(frames, "is_scene_boundary", is_bnd_, H5::PredType::NATIVE_UINT8);
         write_vec(frames, "face_offset",   face_off_, H5::PredType::NATIVE_INT64);
         write_vec(frames, "face_count",    face_cnt_, H5::PredType::NATIVE_INT32);
+        // Per-frame normalised RGB histogram, kHistBins per channel laid out
+        // [R(kHistBins) G(kHistBins) B(kHistBins)] per row. Feeds the learned
+        // scene-boundary detector (see scripts/scene_detector/).
+        write_vec(frames, "rgb_hist", rgb_hist_, H5::PredType::NATIVE_FLOAT,
+                  kHistBins * 3);
 
         H5::Group faces = file.createGroup("faces");
         write_vec(faces, "embedding",  emb_,  H5::PredType::NATIVE_FLOAT, kEmbedDim);
@@ -301,6 +313,29 @@ private:
                   << conf_.size() << " faces → " << path_ << "\n";
     }
 
+    // Per-channel bin count for the RGB histogram. 32 → a 96-float row per frame,
+    // ~40 KB per 10k-frame film: negligible next to the embeddings.
+    static constexpr int kHistBins = 32;
+
+    // Append the frame's normalised per-channel RGB histogram (R,G,B blocks). An
+    // empty frame (EOF sentinels never reach here) yields a zero row so the array
+    // stays parallel to ts_.
+    void append_rgb_hist(const cv::Mat& img) {
+        const size_t base = rgb_hist_.size();
+        rgb_hist_.resize(base + kHistBins * 3, 0.f);
+        if (img.empty() || img.channels() != 3) return;
+        float range[] = {0.f, 256.f};
+        const float* ranges[] = {range};
+        int bins = kHistBins;
+        for (int c = 0; c < 3; ++c) {                 // OpenCV is BGR; store as B,G,R blocks
+            cv::Mat h;
+            cv::calcHist(&img, 1, &c, cv::Mat(), h, 1, &bins, ranges);
+            cv::normalize(h, h, 1.0, 0.0, cv::NORM_L1);
+            for (int b = 0; b < kHistBins; ++b)
+                rgb_hist_[base + c * kHistBins + b] = h.at<float>(b);
+        }
+    }
+
     std::string   path_, movie_;
     EmbedderStamp stamp_;
     DumpProvenance prov_;
@@ -315,4 +350,5 @@ private:
     std::vector<int32_t> face_cnt_;
     std::vector<float>   emb_, bbox_, lmk_, conf_;
     std::vector<float>   sharp_, resid_;   // AR-028 quality vector, parallel to conf_
+    std::vector<float>   rgb_hist_;        // kHistBins*3 per frame, parallel to ts_
 };