diff --git a/studio/backend/core/inference/video.py b/studio/backend/core/inference/video.py
index 8a405bed64..80feba8a90 100644
--- a/studio/backend/core/inference/video.py
+++ b/studio/backend/core/inference/video.py
@@ -227,6 +227,13 @@ class _SecondDiTView:
         # ``transformer`` / ``_pipe``), so everything else delegates to the real pipe.
         return getattr(object.__getattribute__(self, "_pipe"), name)
 
+    def __setattr__(self, name: str, value: Any) -> None:
+        # Writes must land on the real pipe, or a helper's side effect (for example
+        # reassigning the transformer it optimised) would vanish with the view.
+        # ``transformer`` mirrors the read property onto the second expert.
+        pipe = object.__getattribute__(self, "_pipe")
+        setattr(pipe, "transformer_2" if name == "transformer" else name, value)
+
 
 def _views_for(pipe: Any, fam: VideoFamily) -> tuple[Any, ...]:
     """The pipe view(s) to pass through the ``getattr(pipe, "transformer")`` helpers so
@@ -283,6 +290,14 @@ class VideoBackend:
             )
         if kind in ("gguf", "single_file") and not gguf_filename:
             raise ValueError("A gguf/single_file load needs the checkpoint filename.")
+        if kind in ("gguf", "single_file") and fam.is_moe:
+            # A single checkpoint carries only one expert; the pipeline would then pull
+            # the other expert dense bf16 from the base repo, outside the memory plan.
+            raise ValueError(
+                f"'{fam.name}' is a dual-expert model: a single {kind} file covers only "
+                f"one of its two transformers. Load the diffusers pipeline repo "
+                f"('{fam.base_repo}') instead."
+            )
         # Reject a malformed transformer_quant scheme cheaply, before the GPU handoff
         # (normalize_transformer_quant raises ValueError on an unknown scheme). It applies
         # only on pipeline-kind loads (the dense DiT from the base repo); an ignored value
diff --git a/studio/backend/core/inference/video_families.py b/studio/backend/core/inference/video_families.py
index fde4947d0e..0556fa9f10 100644
--- a/studio/backend/core/inference/video_families.py
+++ b/studio/backend/core/inference/video_families.py
@@ -188,7 +188,8 @@ _FAMILIES: tuple[VideoFamily, ...] = (
         # total ~114.3; UMT5 text encoder 11.4; VAE 0.5. The two-expert DiT total is the
         # memory headline (~114 GB bf16-resident before offload).
         bf16_components_gb = (114.3, 11.4, 0.5),
-        gguf_repo = "QuantStack/Wan2.2-T2V-A14B-GGUF",
+        # No gguf_repo: community GGUFs ship the two experts as separate files, and a
+        # single-file load covers only one (validate_load_request refuses it).
     ),
 )
 
diff --git a/studio/backend/tests/test_video_backend.py b/studio/backend/tests/test_video_backend.py
index 3b46871dc5..a8e70346e1 100644
--- a/studio/backend/tests/test_video_backend.py
+++ b/studio/backend/tests/test_video_backend.py
@@ -774,3 +774,36 @@ def test_wan_validate_trusted_repos(fake_runtime):
             model_kind = "pipeline",
             transformer_quant = "bogus",
         )
+
+
+def test_wan_a14b_refuses_single_file_loads(fake_runtime):
+    # A single gguf/safetensors checkpoint carries only one of the A14B's two experts;
+    # the pipeline would pull the other dense bf16 from the base repo outside the
+    # memory plan, so validate refuses it up front (before any download).
+    backend = VideoBackend()
+    with pytest.raises(ValueError, match = "dual-expert"):
+        backend.validate_load_request(
+            "QuantStack/Wan2.2-T2V-A14B-GGUF",
+            gguf_filename = "HighNoise/Wan2.2-T2V-A14B-HighNoise-Q4_K_M.gguf",
+        )
+    # The single-DiT 5B family still accepts GGUF.
+    fam = backend.validate_load_request(
+        "QuantStack/Wan2.2-TI2V-5B-GGUF",
+        gguf_filename = "Wan2.2-TI2V-5B-Q4_K_M.gguf",
+    )
+    assert fam.name == "wan2.2-ti2v-5b"
+
+
+def test_second_dit_view_write_through():
+    # Attribute writes on the proxy must land on the real pipe (a helper's side
+    # effect would otherwise vanish with the temporary view); a ``transformer``
+    # write mirrors the read property onto the second expert.
+    from core.inference.video import _SecondDiTView
+
+    pipe = types.SimpleNamespace(transformer = "t1", transformer_2 = "t2", flag = None)
+    view = _SecondDiTView(pipe)
+    assert view.transformer == "t2"
+    view.transformer = "t2-compiled"
+    assert pipe.transformer_2 == "t2-compiled" and pipe.transformer == "t1"
+    view.flag = "set"
+    assert pipe.flag == "set"