diff --git a/app/service.py b/app/service.py
index e90e7b4..5aca466 100644
--- a/app/service.py
+++ b/app/service.py
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 from __future__ import annotations
 
 import asyncio
+import functools
 import logging
 import os
 import uuid
@@ -12,14 +13,68 @@ import torch
 from ltx_core.loader import LoraPathStrengthAndSDOps
 from ltx_pipelines import DistilledPipeline
 from ltx_pipelines.utils.args import ImageConditioningInput
+from ltx_pipelines.utils.blocks import PromptEncoder as UpstreamPromptEncoder
 from PIL import Image
 
 from app.config import settings
 from app.database import JobDB, JobRecord
+from app.text_encoder import Nf4PromptEncoder
 
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
 
+def _patch_ltx_pipelines() -> None:
+    """Inject our Nf4PromptEncoder and wire DistilledPipeline to accept gemma_quantization."""
+    import types
+
+    import ltx_pipelines.distilled as _distilled_mod
+    import ltx_pipelines.utils.blocks as _blocks_mod
+
+    _blocks_mod.PromptEncoder = Nf4PromptEncoder  # type: ignore[attr-defined]
+
+    original_init = DistilledPipeline.__init__
+
+    @functools.wraps(original_init)
+    def patched_init(
+        self,
+        distilled_checkpoint_path,
+        gemma_root,
+        spatial_upsampler_path,
+        loras,
+        device=None,
+        quantization=None,
+        registry=None,
+        compilation_config=None,
+        offload_mode=None,
+        gemma_quantization=None,
+    ):
+        original_init(
+            self,
+            distilled_checkpoint_path=distilled_checkpoint_path,
+            gemma_root=gemma_root,
+            spatial_upsampler_path=spatial_upsampler_path,
+            loras=loras,
+            device=device,
+            quantization=quantization,
+            registry=registry,
+            compilation_config=compilation_config,
+            offload_mode=offload_mode,
+        )
+        # Rebuild prompt_encoder with gemma_quantization
+        self.prompt_encoder = Nf4PromptEncoder(
+            distilled_checkpoint_path,
+            gemma_root,
+            self.dtype,
+            self.device,
+            registry=registry,
+            offload_mode=offload_mode,
+            gemma_quantization=gemma_quantization,
+        )
+
+    DistilledPipeline.__init__ = patched_init  # type: ignore[method-assign]
+    _distilled_mod.DistilledPipeline.__init__ = patched_init  # type: ignore[method-assign]
+
+
 class LtxService:
     def __init__(self, db: JobDB) -> None:
         self.db = db
@@ -32,6 +87,7 @@ class LtxService:
         async with self._load_lock:
             if self.pipeline is not None:
                 return
+            _patch_ltx_pipelines()
             logger.info("Loading DistilledPipeline...")
             lora_config = self._parse_lora_paths(settings.ltx_loras)
             quantization = self._build_quantization_policy()
diff --git a/app/text_encoder.py b/app/text_encoder.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5ad3526
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/text_encoder.py
@@ -0,0 +1,210 @@
+"""NF4 quantized Gemma prompt encoder – owned by this project, patches ltx_pipelines at runtime."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import logging
+from collections.abc import Iterator
+from contextlib import AbstractContextManager, contextmanager
+
+import torch
+
+from ltx_core.block_streaming import StreamingModelBuilder
+from ltx_core.loader.primitives import BuilderProtocol
+from ltx_core.loader.registry import DummyRegistry, Registry
+from ltx_core.loader.single_gpu_model_builder import SingleGPUModelBuilder as Builder
+from ltx_core.text_encoders.gemma import (
+    EMBEDDINGS_PROCESSOR_KEY_OPS,
+    GEMMA_LLM_KEY_OPS,
+    GEMMA_MODEL_OPS,
+    EmbeddingsProcessorConfigurator,
+    GemmaTextEncoderConfigurator,
+    GemmaTextEncoder,
+    module_ops_from_gemma_root,
+)
+from ltx_core.text_encoders.gemma.embeddings_processor import EmbeddingsProcessor, EmbeddingsProcessorOutput
+from ltx_core.text_encoders.gemma.tokenizer import GemmaTokenizer as LTXVGemmaTokenizer
+from ltx_core.utils import find_matching_file
+from ltx_pipelines.utils.blocks import PromptEncoder as BasePromptEncoder, _streaming_model
+from ltx_pipelines.utils.gpu_model import gpu_model
+from ltx_pipelines.utils.helpers import generate_enhanced_prompt
+from ltx_pipelines.utils.types import OffloadMode
+
+logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+
+class Nf4PromptEncoder(BasePromptEncoder):
+    """PromptEncoder with NF4 quantized Gemma support."""
+
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        checkpoint_path: str,
+        gemma_root: str,
+        dtype: torch.dtype,
+        device: torch.device,
+        registry: Registry | None = None,
+        offload_mode: OffloadMode = OffloadMode.NONE,
+        text_encoder_builder: BuilderProtocol | None = None,
+        gemma_quantization: str | None = None,
+    ) -> None:
+        self._gemma_root = gemma_root
+        self._checkpoint_path = checkpoint_path
+        self._dtype = dtype
+        self._device = device
+        self._offload_mode = offload_mode
+        self._gemma_quantization = gemma_quantization
+        self._cached_quantized_encoder: GemmaTextEncoder | None = None
+        self._processor = None  # type: ignore
+
+        if gemma_quantization == "nf4":
+            self._is_quantized = True
+        elif gemma_quantization is not None and gemma_quantization != "":
+            logger.warning(
+                "Unsupported gemma_quantization '%s', falling back to bf16", gemma_quantization
+            )
+            self._is_quantized = False
+        else:
+            self._is_quantized = False
+
+        if text_encoder_builder is not None:
+            if offload_mode != OffloadMode.NONE:
+                raise ValueError(
+                    "text_encoder_builder cannot be used with offload_mode != OffloadMode.NONE"
+                )
+            self._text_encoder_builder = text_encoder_builder
+            self._streaming_text_encoder_builder = None
+        elif not self._is_quantized:
+            module_ops = module_ops_from_gemma_root(gemma_root)
+            model_folder = find_matching_file(gemma_root, "model*.safetensors").parent
+            weight_paths = [str(p) for p in model_folder.rglob("*.safetensors")]
+            self._text_encoder_builder = Builder(
+                model_path=tuple(weight_paths),
+                model_class_configurator=GemmaTextEncoderConfigurator,
+                model_sd_ops=GEMMA_LLM_KEY_OPS,
+                module_ops=(GEMMA_MODEL_OPS, *module_ops),
+                registry=registry or DummyRegistry(),
+            )
+            self._streaming_text_encoder_builder = StreamingModelBuilder(
+                model_path=tuple(weight_paths),
+                model_class_configurator=GemmaTextEncoderConfigurator,
+                model_sd_ops=GEMMA_LLM_KEY_OPS,
+                module_ops=(GEMMA_MODEL_OPS, *module_ops),
+                registry=registry or DummyRegistry(),
+                blocks_attr="model.model.language_model.layers",
+                blocks_prefix="model.model.language_model.layers",
+            )
+
+        self._embeddings_processor_builder = Builder(
+            model_path=checkpoint_path,
+            model_class_configurator=EmbeddingsProcessorConfigurator,
+            model_sd_ops=EMBEDDINGS_PROCESSOR_KEY_OPS,
+            registry=registry or DummyRegistry(),
+        )
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def _try_import_bitsandbytes() -> None:
+        try:
+            import bitsandbytes  # noqa: F401
+        except ImportError as e:
+            raise RuntimeError(
+                "NF4 Gemma quantization requires bitsandbytes. Install with:\n"
+                "  pip install bitsandbytes\n"
+                "Or disable REVIDS_LTX_GEMMA_QUANTIZATION to use bf16."
+            ) from e
+
+    def _load_quantized_gemma(self) -> GemmaTextEncoder:
+        self._try_import_bitsandbytes()
+        from transformers import (
+            AutoImageProcessor,
+            BitsAndBytesConfig,
+            Gemma3ForConditionalGeneration,
+            Gemma3Processor,
+        )
+
+        gemma_path = str(find_matching_file(self._gemma_root, "model*.safetensors").parent)
+        tokenizer_path = str(find_matching_file(self._gemma_root, "tokenizer.model").parent)
+        processor_path = str(find_matching_file(self._gemma_root, "preprocessor_config.json").parent)
+
+        bnb_config = BitsAndBytesConfig(
+            load_in_4bit=True,
+            bnb_4bit_quant_type="nf4",
+            bnb_4bit_compute_dtype=torch.bfloat16,
+            llm_int8_skip_modules=["lm_head"],
+        )
+
+        with torch.device("meta"):
+            gemma_model = Gemma3ForConditionalGeneration.from_pretrained(
+                gemma_path,
+                quantization_config=bnb_config,
+                torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16,
+                device_map={"": self._device},
+                local_files_only=True,
+            )
+
+        tokenizer = LTXVGemmaTokenizer(tokenizer_path, 1024)
+        image_processor = AutoImageProcessor.from_pretrained(
+            processor_path, local_files_only=True, use_fast=False
+        )
+        self._processor = Gemma3Processor(
+            image_processor=image_processor, tokenizer=tokenizer.tokenizer
+        )
+
+        return GemmaTextEncoder(
+            model=gemma_model, tokenizer=tokenizer, processor=self._processor, dtype=self._dtype
+        )
+
+    def _build_text_encoder(self) -> torch.nn.Module:
+        if self._is_quantized:
+            if self._cached_quantized_encoder is None:
+                logger.info("Loading NF4 quantized Gemma encoder from %s", self._gemma_root)
+                self._cached_quantized_encoder = self._load_quantized_gemma()
+                logger.info("NF4 Gemma encoder loaded and cached")
+            return self._cached_quantized_encoder.eval()
+        return self._text_encoder_builder.build(device=self._device, dtype=self._dtype).eval()
+
+    def _build_embeddings_processor(self) -> EmbeddingsProcessor:
+        return self._embeddings_processor_builder.build(device=self._device, dtype=self._dtype).eval()
+
+    def _text_encoder_ctx(self) -> AbstractContextManager:
+        if self._is_quantized:
+
+            @contextmanager
+            def _cached_ctx() -> Iterator:
+                yield self._build_text_encoder()
+
+            return _cached_ctx()
+        if self._offload_mode != OffloadMode.NONE:
+            return _streaming_model(
+                self._streaming_text_encoder_builder,
+                self._offload_mode,
+                self._device,
+                self._dtype,
+            )
+        return gpu_model(self._build_text_encoder())
+
+    def __call__(
+        self,
+        prompts: list[str],
+        *,
+        enhance_first_prompt: bool = False,
+        enhance_prompt_image: str | None = None,
+        enhance_prompt_seed: int = 42,
+    ) -> list[EmbeddingsProcessorOutput]:
+        logger.info("Building text encoder from %s", self._gemma_root)
+        with self._text_encoder_ctx() as text_encoder:  # type: ignore[var-annotated]
+            if enhance_first_prompt:
+                prompts = list(prompts)
+                prompts[0] = generate_enhanced_prompt(
+                    text_encoder, prompts[0], enhance_prompt_image, seed=enhance_prompt_seed
+                )
+            raw_outputs = [text_encoder.encode(p) for p in prompts]
+        logger.info(
+            "Text encoder done, building embeddings processor from %s", self._checkpoint_path
+        )
+
+        with gpu_model(self._build_embeddings_processor()) as embeddings_processor:
+            result = [
+                embeddings_processor.process_hidden_states(hs, mask)
+                for hs, mask in raw_outputs
+            ]
+        logger.info("Prompt encoding complete")
+        return result