diff --git a/packages/adapter-hyperframes/package.json b/packages/adapter-hyperframes/package.json
index 488d97c..d4738e5 100644
--- a/packages/adapter-hyperframes/package.json
+++ b/packages/adapter-hyperframes/package.json
@@ -23,11 +23,15 @@
     "playwright": "^1.49.0"
   },
   "peerDependencies": {
-    "hyperframes": "^0.4.0"
+    "hyperframes": "^0.4.0",
+    "@hyperframes/producer": ">=0.7.0"
   },
   "peerDependenciesMeta": {
     "hyperframes": {
       "optional": true
+    },
+    "@hyperframes/producer": {
+      "optional": true
     }
   },
   "devDependencies": {
diff --git a/packages/adapter-hyperframes/src/render.ts b/packages/adapter-hyperframes/src/render.ts
index 1e9db24..4049d5e 100644
--- a/packages/adapter-hyperframes/src/render.ts
+++ b/packages/adapter-hyperframes/src/render.ts
@@ -26,11 +26,27 @@ import type {
   RenderOutput,
 } from '@html-video/core';
 import { HtmlVideoError } from '@html-video/core';
+import { tryDeterministicRender } from './renderDeterministic.js';
 
 const ADAPTER_VERSION = '0.2.0-playwright';
 
 /** Real render: chromium records the page, ffmpeg transcodes to MP4. */
 export async function render(input: RenderInput, ctx: RenderContext): Promise<RenderOutput> {
+  // Prefer the real upstream Hyperframes pipeline (paused timeline, per-frame
+  // seek, BeginFrame capture) when `@hyperframes/producer` is installed and
+  // the template is a Hyperframes composition. Frame-perfect and faster than
+  // realtime; see renderDeterministic.ts. Falls through to the realtime
+  // capture below when the deterministic path doesn't apply or fails.
+  try {
+    const deterministic = await tryDeterministicRender(input, ctx);
+    if (deterministic) return deterministic;
+  } catch (err) {
+    if (ctx.signal?.aborted) throw err;
+    ctx.onProgress?.(
+      5,
+      `deterministic render failed (${err instanceof Error ? err.message : err}) — falling back to realtime capture`,
+    );
+  }
   const t0 = Date.now();
   ctx.onProgress?.(5, 'preparing');
   const outDir = dirname(input.config.outputPath);
diff --git a/packages/adapter-hyperframes/src/renderDeterministic.ts b/packages/adapter-hyperframes/src/renderDeterministic.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a566255
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/adapter-hyperframes/src/renderDeterministic.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,148 @@
+/**
+ * Deterministic Hyperframes render path — real upstream integration.
+ *
+ * Instead of recording the page in wall-clock time (playwright recordVideo →
+ * webm → ffmpeg), this drives the actual Hyperframes render pipeline
+ * (`@hyperframes/producer`): the composition's master timeline is held paused,
+ * seeked frame-by-frame, and each frame is captured via Chrome's BeginFrame
+ * API, then encoded. Consequences vs the realtime capture path:
+ *
+ *   - Frame-perfect: no dropped frames under load, output is bit-identical
+ *     across runs and machines (same-browser).
+ *   - Faster than realtime on most content (parallel workers seek+capture
+ *     concurrently; no need to wait `durationSec` of wall-clock).
+ *   - No freeze/unfreeze + lead-in-trim heuristics: fonts are localized
+ *     deterministically by the producer's compile stage before frame 0.
+ *   - True alpha (webm/mov) and audio muxing come from the same pipeline,
+ *     unlocking the `alpha`/`audio` capabilities this adapter already
+ *     advertises but the realtime path cannot honor.
+ *
+ * The producer is an OPTIONAL dependency (mirroring the existing optional
+ * `hyperframes` peer): when `@hyperframes/producer` is not installed, or the
+ * template does not look like a Hyperframes composition, callers fall back to
+ * the realtime capture path unchanged.
+ */
+
+import { existsSync } from 'node:fs';
+import { readFile, stat } from 'node:fs/promises';
+import { basename, dirname } from 'node:path';
+import type { RenderContext, RenderInput, RenderOutput } from '@html-video/core';
+
+const ADAPTER_VERSION = '0.3.0-producer';
+
+/**
+ * A template qualifies for the deterministic path when it carries Hyperframes
+ * composition markers. Plain single-file CSS-keyframe templates (no timing
+ * contract) stay on the realtime capture path — the producer needs a seekable
+ * timeline (`data-*` timing attributes / registered GSAP timelines / the
+ * window.__hf protocol) to drive frames.
+ */
+export function isHyperframesComposition(html: string): boolean {
+  return (
+    /data-composition-id=/.test(html) ||
+    /data-composition-src=/.test(html) ||
+    /\bdata-duration=/.test(html) ||
+    /window\.__hf\b/.test(html) ||
+    /window\.__timelines\b/.test(html)
+  );
+}
+
+/** Minimal structural types for the producer API so this file typechecks
+ * without `@hyperframes/producer` installed (it is optional). Field shapes
+ * mirror `RenderConfigInput` / `executeRenderJob` in the upstream repo. */
+interface ProducerModule {
+  createRenderJob(config: {
+    fps: number | { num: number; den: number };
+    quality: 'draft' | 'standard' | 'high';
+    format?: 'mp4' | 'webm' | 'mov' | 'png-sequence' | 'gif';
+    entryFile?: string;
+    variables?: Record<string, unknown>;
+    strictness?: string;
+  }): { id: string; warnings: unknown[] };
+  executeRenderJob(
+    job: unknown,
+    projectDir: string,
+    outputPath: string,
+    progressSink?: (progress: number, stage: string) => void,
+    abortSignal?: AbortSignal,
+  ): Promise<void>;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Attempt the deterministic render. Returns null when the path does not
+ * apply (producer not installed / template not a Hyperframes composition) so
+ * the caller can fall back to realtime capture. Throws only for real render
+ * failures once the deterministic path has been entered.
+ */
+export async function tryDeterministicRender(
+  input: RenderInput,
+  ctx: RenderContext,
+): Promise<RenderOutput | null> {
+  const sourcePath = input.template.sourcePath;
+  if (!existsSync(sourcePath)) return null;
+
+  const html = await readFile(sourcePath, 'utf8');
+  if (!isHyperframesComposition(html)) return null;
+
+  let producer: ProducerModule;
+  try {
+    // Specifier via variable: keeps tsc from requiring the optional module's
+    // type declarations at build time (it is an optional peer dependency).
+    const specifier = '@hyperframes/producer';
+    producer = (await import(specifier)) as unknown as ProducerModule;
+  } catch {
+    return null; // optional dep absent — realtime capture handles it
+  }
+
+  const t0 = Date.now();
+  const fps = input.config.fps || 30;
+  ctx.onProgress?.(5, 'deterministic render (hyperframes producer)');
+
+  // Hyperframes projects are directories with an entry HTML; templates already
+  // live in their own directory with sibling assets, so the template dir IS
+  // the project dir and the source file is the entry.
+  const projectDir = dirname(sourcePath);
+  const entryFile = basename(sourcePath);
+
+  const job = producer.createRenderJob({
+    fps,
+    quality: 'standard',
+    format: 'mp4',
+    entryFile,
+    // Hyperframes resolves `data-var` / var() substitutions natively — the
+    // same variables the orchestrator baked into the HTML flow through here
+    // for compositions that declare them.
+    variables: input.variables,
+  });
+
+  // Producer progress arrives as (0-100, stage); reserve the last 5% for stat.
+  await producer.executeRenderJob(
+    job,
+    projectDir,
+    input.config.outputPath,
+    (progress, stage) => ctx.onProgress?.(Math.min(95, Math.max(5, progress)), stage),
+    ctx.signal,
+  );
+
+  const st = await stat(input.config.outputPath);
+  const durationSec =
+    input.config.duration === 'auto' ? undefined : Number(input.config.duration);
+  ctx.onProgress?.(100, 'done');
+  return {
+    outputPath: input.config.outputPath,
+    meta: {
+      // The composition's own data-duration governs length in this path; fall
+      // back to the requested duration for reporting when it was explicit.
+      durationSec: durationSec ?? 0,
+      fileSizeBytes: st.size,
+      actualResolution: input.config.resolution,
+      fps,
+      renderedFrames: durationSec ? Math.round(durationSec * fps) : 0,
+      renderWallClockSec: (Date.now() - t0) / 1000,
+      engineVersion: `hyperframes-producer@${ADAPTER_VERSION}`,
+    },
+    diagnostics: [
+      'rendered deterministically via @hyperframes/producer (paused timeline, per-frame seek + BeginFrame capture)',
+    ],
+  };
+}