* fix(engine): h265 renders no longer fail on hosts with more than 16 cores
libx265 rejects more than 16 frame threads, so the thread count taken from the
CPU quota is now capped at 16 for x265. x264 is unchanged.
* fix(engine): pass the encoder to the thread cap in the CFR re-encode
* perf(producer): the audio task probes each video for sound instead of extracting its frames
* test(producer): the audio task finds a video's sound from a probe, with no frames extracted
* perf(engine): the audio mix reads clips held at a URL many at a time
* style(engine): format the remote clip slot choice
* fix(producer): the audio task places a video's sound in the window extraction would give it
* style(producer): format the slot cases of the script-src audio test
* perf(engine): remote sources of a site keep their probe results for the whole render
* test(engine): probe a content-addressed URL once per render
* style(engine): format the audio probe split
The serial guard in captureFrameSurface, which segmented capture reaches, threw on any frame under the
size floor. It now draws the frame once more and keeps a byte-identical redraw, as the streaming drain
guard does, so a flat frame no longer fails a segmented render.
Fixes#5685
The isolation CSS re-showed every descendant of a mover, so a child the
author hid with visibility:hidden was cropped and smeared into the trail
(240 green px in the repro; 0 in the sharp frame). The hide rule now skips
the mover subtree and the mover alone is made visible, so its descendants
inherit and keep their own visibility.
Found by review of #6106.
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* perf(aws-lambda): a render reads a video's audio from a small file stored beside it
A video's audio is interleaved with its pictures, so mixing it from the cloud read the whole video (2.5 GB for a 20-minute 4K film) at the Lambda's network speed. lambda sites create now stores each large video's audio packets as a separate object keyed by the video's hash; the audio task reads that when it exists.
* chore(producer): shorten the audio sidecar header comment
* fix(aws-lambda): no audio sidecar for a video whose audio starts late or that has several tracks
* test(producer): format the audio sidecar tests and end their ffprobe options with --
* fix(engine): a composition whose script throws is skipped with a warning, not waited on and refused
A script that threw before registering its timeline kept the capture waiting the full 45 s readiness timeout, then the render was refused. After a page error with timelines still missing the wait now ends after a short grace, each such composition gets an empty paused timeline of its authored length, and a script_error_isolated warning names the element. The render goes on without that animation.
* test(engine): memo test expects a script failure, format the browser test
* style(engine): shorten a doc comment to the line limit
* fix(engine): isolate only nested compositions that threw, never load failures or a root
* fix(engine): a thrown composition script fails fast and names the composition, not a load error
* fix(engine): the page-error grace starts at the first error, not at the start of the wait
* fix(engine): a nested throw is skipped only while another nested timeline is live
* feat: check names the filter fallback, the render log names the tier, Studio stops opting out
hyperframes check reports motion_blur_filter_fallback (info) with the reason capture could not
run and the way back to it. The engine's per-session log line gains tier=, and its pixel test
covers the fallback over a WebGL page. Studio no longer sends previewMotionBlur: every Chrome
can preview blur now, through the fallback where it lacks html-in-canvas; the server still
accepts false from an older Studio.
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* feat(core): blur picks the cheaper filter tier when every mover only translates
The scan now notes whether any mover turns or scales (the linear part of its transform chain
changes) and whether it already forms a stacking context while it moves. When every mover only
translates, the filter tier draws as well as capture and costs about what no blur costs: on an
8 s bench shot a render took 7.0 s against 9.9 s with capture and 7.3 s with no blur. Anything
that turns or scales, or moves without a transform, stays on capture.
data-motion-blur-tier="capture" or "filter" forces a tier. The report says which one drew
and why (translation-only, tier-attribute); hyperframes check stays quiet for those two, which
are choices, not fallbacks. The pixel tests run the shared assertions through both tiers.
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* docs(motion-blur): the two tiers, the tier attribute, and what changed in limits
The guide described blur turning off for WebGL, a root transform and similar. It now says the
filter tier draws instead, how the tier is chosen and forced, what each does with a turn or a
zoom, the measured cost of each, and which findings check emits. The skill note drops the
off-for-WebGL advice and the 1.7x figure.
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* feat(core): blur defaults match a 240 degree shutter and at least 32 samples
The shutter opens 240 degrees by default (was 180) and each mover gets at least 32 taps (was
sized to the smear alone, down to 2), growing with the smear as before. These are the settings
the shutter blur Jake built uses; on the card whip the default render is now 51 dB from his
(34.6 dB at the old defaults). The guide's attribute table says so.
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* chore(core): trim tier.ts comments to the ratchet
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* chore: allow deleting the Studio previewMotionBlur render test
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* fix(producer): a chunk with mixed capture modes retries whole in screenshot mode
* fix(producer): format the mixed capture mode change
* fix(engine): the BeginFrame start-up check waits for the first frame up to its deadline
* style(engine): format the probe tests
* fix(engine): drop a comment from the probe loop
* fix(engine): a render no longer decodes the videos it replaces with extracted frames
* fix(engine): shorten the render-frame video hold comment
* fix(engine): keep the render-frame video hold comment under the line limit
* fix(engine): hold only the videos whose render id is replaced by extracted frames
Two scenes can share a video id. The render id tells them apart, so a live video is no longer held.
* feat(core): capture blur falls back to per-element filters where capture cannot run
html-in-canvas cannot capture a WebGL canvas, an iframe or a transform on the root, and some
browsers lack it. Blur used to turn off for the whole composition. Now the runtime hands the
composition to a filter tier: an SVG filter on each mover, 32 offset copies averaged along its
sampled path, softened along the motion so long smears do not step. It filters the live DOM,
so it works over a WebGL canvas, in any Chrome, and leaves glows and shadows on the element.
Turn and scale only soften; capture draws those truthfully, so it stays the first choice and
a scene re-init tries it again.
Capture turning itself off for a defect or three failed captures hands over; the renderer's
explicit off (HDR, distributed, engine blur) stays off. The report names the tier. Core's
unpacked size budget goes to 3,965,000 for the tier.
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* test(engine): the backface pages now take the filter tier
The two backface tests still expected blur off; with the filter tier a
backface page reports tier filter. Fails on CI without this.
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* test(engine): the URL-read audio mix test stops its mix before cleanup and is not timed
* test(studio): bank the open-film thumbnail counts on the CI Chrome
The CI Chrome moved to 155 and renders one thumbnail fewer: 13 renders, 14 requests.
* fix(engine): a long audio mix prepares its clips a few at a time
A 200-clip mix started 200 ffmpeg at once and starved the host.
* chore(engine): trim the long comments in the audio mixer
Reasoning moved to the PR.
* test(engine): the mix order test starts every preparation at once
The mixer prepares clips in a core-sized pool; the test now sets enough cores.
* fix(engine): an opaque ProRes clip extracts to jpg frames, only ProRes with alpha stays png
ProRes was always cached as lossless PNG in case a missed tag hid alpha. ProRes alpha shows in its pixel format (yuva444p), so the guess only costs size: a 4K 4:2:2 clip wrote about 17 MB a frame, 18 GB for 36 s. VP8 and VP9 keep PNG because their alpha rides a side channel ffprobe can miss.
* test(engine): ProRes extraction format follows the alpha plane
* chore(engine): format the ProRes extraction change
* fix(engine): encode with the same x264 and x265 thread count on any host size
libx264 and libx265 pick their thread count from the host core count when
ffmpeg is not told one, and the bitstream depends on it, so the same frames
encoded to different bytes on 8, 16 and 32 vCPU nodes and chunks of one
render could differ. Both encoders now pass the thread count from the CPU
quota (Node reads the container limit), which is fixed per pod.
* chore(engine): raise the packed size budget for the encoder thread module
One ffmpeg graph held every clip of a group (or of the whole film) as its own
input, so a long project ran into the open-file and input limits and the
export failed. Past 96 clips the mixer now folds slices into one running
float sum, with no cap on the total; mixes of 96 clips or fewer take the same
single-graph path as before.
A mix process now also gets a deadline that grows with the film length, and a
failed ffmpeg run keeps how long it ran and the last lines of its stderr.
* fix(engine): render into a folder whose name holds a percent sign
ffmpeg reads an image sequence path as a printf template, so a folder like
"12% Up" was parsed as a format code and every video render failed. The
folder part of each frame-sequence path now goes through one helper that
doubles the percent sign.
* fix(engine): drop the helper doc line the comment ratchet rejects
* fix(core): capture blur sizes its taps to the smear and weights them exactly
A fast move strobed at the default 16 taps (8 px steps on a 1560 px whip). With no
data-motion-blur-samples set, taps are now about one per 2 px of travel (2 to 128); an
explicit samples count still wins.
Canvas quantizes image globalAlpha to 1/255, so 1/n weights left coverage short (n = 104
summed to 0.81, a lighter card body). Each tap now carries a whole number of 1/255 units
that sum to exactly 255.
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* feat(core): capture blur draws the movers from their own transparent layer
The crop came from a capture of the whole scene, so the backdrop under a see-through mover
smeared with it (a lighter box with the dotted background erased) and a glow or shadow
outside the mover's box was cut off, leaving a hard-edged box.
Each frame now captures the movers alone, everything else visibility:hidden, so a mover's
pixels carry their true alpha and no backdrop; the background capture is unchanged. The crop
grows by the mover's ink reach (box-shadow, text-shadow, filter, outline, measured during the
scan), so glows travel with it. Two paints per frame, as before.
The output is cleared on wrap instead of showing the previous wrap's last frame, since the
first paint is no longer a drawable sharp frame. Core's unpacked size budget goes to 3,950,000
for the new module.
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* fix(core): capture blur finds callback-driven movers when events are on
The mover scan seeked with callbacks suppressed even where the root allows them, so a
composition whose motion lives in a timeline callback (a render(t) driven from onUpdate)
reported 0 movers and rendered sharp. With data-motion-blur-events="on" the scan now seeks
the way the frame reads do. Without it nothing changes: callbacks stay suppressed.
The no-movers finding in hyperframes check now names the attribute.
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* fix(engine): hundreds of effects in one audio group mix in time, and a mix timeout is named
* refactor(engine): name the group mix's single pad instead of commenting it
* fix(cli): preserve video frames when scenes reuse element IDs
* chore(core): keep media identity comments within the ratchet
* test(core): update page-build goldens for distinct media ids across repeated scenes
* fix(audio): fit PCM to video frames before AAC delivery
* fix(audio): migrate the CLI diagnostic stage fixture
* fix(test): measure the whole unscaled audio residual
* test(audio): refresh the speed-ramp delivery golden
* fix: data-volume multiplies the volume lane in preview and render
* fix: a clip's data-volume plays ahead of its audio effects, in preview and render
* feat(studio): the media panel shows a clip's Gain beside its Volume level
* fix(audio): cap gain times volume lanes through each ramp
* chore(core): account for shared volume envelopes in package budget
* fix(core): restore static gain when a playing lane is removed
Tooling and logs need more than "off". Give the runtime's report a reason
code for every way blur can be off (renderer-off, unsupported-browser, each
html-in-canvas defect, capture-failures), and two calls for tooling:
probe() runs the same scan a render would, without painting, and suspend()
stops all painting for the rest of a session without changing the reported
decision.
The engine prints one line per session from what the page reports:
`[motion-blur] on reasonCode=null movers=N failedFrames=K`. The first-frame
line cannot know about later failures, so the session end prints the same
line with "(session end)" when any frame fell back to plain DOM; a clean
session stays quiet. A render where every capture failed no longer reads as
"on" with nothing else.
Add the first test that reads blurred pixels: real Chrome with
html-in-canvas, the engine's frame order (seek, wait, composite, screenshot).
It checks the trail along the motion line, that what does not move matches
the sharp frame, that a box centered with translate is blurred where it
really is, and that a flipped backface card renders the plain frame. It
skips when Chrome or html-in-canvas is missing.
Folded review fixes: R13 (runtime half), R17 (engine half), T1 (the guards
that need reason codes), T3 (log-line and pixel tests).
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Decide the html-in-canvas defects once for the whole timeline instead of at
the frame being drawn. The mover scan already seeks the timeline, so the
defect scan samples along it and a defect that only appears mid-timeline (a
rotated root, a flipped card) turns blur off from frame 0. Defects now block
on every Chrome version, so a render matches the preview it came from, and
GSAP's identity transform on the root no longer counts as one.
A per-frame check stays as a backstop for what scripts add later, and it
costs only that frame: a defect the scan missed (a short root shake, a
backface flip between samples) renders that frame sharp and logs once, and
blur resumes when the defect is gone. A block raised by the scan is lifted
when its cause is removed or the timeline changes; a capture failure stays
for the life of the instance.
The candidates a scan checks include faces whose backface-visibility: hidden
arrives through an animation. Each rescan adds to them and the per-frame
backstop reads the same set, so an animated-only flip card is caught by both.
Look for WebGL canvases in the whole document: a render's shader-transition
compositor appends its canvas to body, while preview puts it inside the root.
Turn page blur off on routes that cannot host it. The HDR and layered
compositors screenshot each DOM layer after hiding the others, which does
not reach blur's canvases, and a distributed (cloud or Lambda) chunk render
has no Studio preview to match and no guarantee of html-in-canvas in the
worker's Chrome. The producer sets pageMotionBlur to hdr-render,
layered-composite or distributed-render there, the distributed plan's
compile-time hint no longer forces screenshot capture, and the runtime says
which route turned it off.
Find the same movers whatever time a scan starts: the baseline is read at
t=0, so each worker of a parallel render picks the same set. An ancestor's
pan is not counted as its child's move.
Folded review fixes: R5, R10, R15, R19.
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html-in-canvas captures a WebGL or WebGPU canvas frozen or black, so the
runtime turns blur off when the composition draws one. Two cases slipped
past the tracker that spots them: a canvas handed to
transferControlToOffscreen (its context is created out of reach) and a
context made by an author script that runs before the runtime.
- The tracker is a self-contained function that also wraps
transferControlToOffscreen (a transferred canvas counts as accelerated)
and keeps its registry on window so independent installs agree.
- The engine evaluates it on every new document, ahead of any page script.
- insertRuntimeTag (bundler and Studio preview) puts it at the very start of
<head> for pages that opt into blur; the runtime install is idempotent
with it.
- report() carries failedFrames, the cumulative count of frames that
rendered plain DOM because their capture failed or timed out.
failures keeps its streak meaning.
Core's unpacked size budget rises from 3903211 to 3930000 bytes: the runtime
lifecycle, the compositor and the tracker together pass the old ceiling.
Folded review fixes: R6, R17 (the report counter; the engine log line lands
with the runtime's reason codes).
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Carry the runtime's blur through the render pipeline and the Studio render
panel.
- engine: installPageMotionBlur sets the page-side off switch and the render's
device scale before any author script runs; CaptureOptions.pageMotionBlur
lets a caller stand the page blur down.
- producer: a composition that asks for data-motion-blur on the root the
runtime would pick forces screenshot capture, because html-in-canvas needs
a real paint; the probe session carries the request's pageMotionBlur like
every other session.
- studio-server and Studio: the render panel sends previewMotionBlur, the
render route turns "off" into pageMotionBlur once, and the Studio dev server
and the CLI server both receive the final value.
- mover scan: a large element that is see-through while it moves (a sweep, a
light leak) is no mover, including a large image or canvas with alpha; the
scan skips elements moved by a 3D individual transform property.
- cli snapshot injects video frames before the seek settles, matching the
engine's order.
Folded review fixes: R1, R2, R3 (scan half), R7, R16, R18, T3 (render
adapters).
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* refactor(skills): fold six domain skills into hyperframes and media-use guides
hyperframes-core, -animation, -keyframes, -creative and -studio move to
skills/hyperframes/{core,animation,keyframes,creative,studio}/, and
hyperframes-audio moves to skills/media-use/mix/. Each moved SKILL.md becomes
a frontmatter-free GUIDE.md so installers that scan recursively for SKILL.md
no longer see them as skills; the published list goes from 21 to 15.
Relative links, code paths and skill-name mentions are rewritten to the new
locations, the catalog surfaces, marketplace core-skills list, fallback core
set, module-copy targets and skills-manifest.json follow, and
`hyperframes skills update` now removes the retired skills (RETIRED_SKILLS)
when they are still installed.
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* feat(skills): slim the core entries and give media-use a HeyGen and a free path
The four entries every run opens are rewritten to what an agent cannot infer:
hyperframes 21.8 KB to 7.7 KB, hyperframes-cli 24.8 KB to 6.9 KB,
hyperframes-registry 9.9 KB to 4.3 KB, media-use 9.7 KB to 4.9 KB. Detail moved
whole into references (routing close calls and creator edits, CLI pin upgrades,
catalog search tiers, CLI conventions and feedback reports).
- hyperframes: state table, routing, the render contract, a terminal work loop
(check, snapshot, preview before render), the desktop-app hand-off, and a
table of the folded guides.
- media-use: one table of HeyGen versus free local tools per need; HeyGen
sign-in, credits and the CLI's video-agent, avatar, clone, lipsync, translate
and clipping commands; every free path works with no account.
- scripts/check-core-skills.mjs holds entries and descriptions to budget and
checks every taught `npx hyperframes` command and path; runs in lint.
- Core entries are exempt from the formatter: its table padding cost ~1.5 KB
per entry on every run.
- Content tests follow the text to its new home.
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* fix(skills): plugin runs skip skills update; media-use explains HeyGen sign-in and TTS setup
The smoke eval showed a presenter request never reaching media-use and the
free voiceover failing on a missing kokoro-onnx; plugin runs also ran the
skills update the plugin rules forbid.
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* chore(skills): drop a committed Python bytecode file and ignore bytecode
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* feat(skills): align the entry with the Studio skills and keep the workflows' measured facts
The entry drops routing and the intent interview and carries the contract, the
editable-project rules and the work loop. Studio's format, runtimes, motion,
look and captions references come over for terminal use, frame presets move to
assets/, media-use gains Studio's mixing and local-command references, and
film.md and overlays.md keep what the workflow skills measured.
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* feat(skills)!: retire the workflow skills and folded guides; publish seven knowledge skills
The skill pack now publishes exactly seven skills - hyperframes,
hyperframes-cli, hyperframes-registry, media-use, figma, slideshow and
remotion-to-hyperframes - carrying knowledge, not process. The eight
workflow skills, the folded domain guides and the routing/interview
references are deleted; their measured facts already live in the
hyperframes references (format, runtimes, motion, look, captions, film,
overlays) and media-use's mixing reference.
- bake-basemap.mjs and locate.mjs move to skills/hyperframes/scripts/
(bake-basemap gains --help); extract-audio-data.py moves to
media-use/audio/scripts/ for the caption motion reference.
- skills update: the eight workflows join RETIRED_SKILLS so existing
installs prune them (by lock attribution only, since their names are
generic); naming a retired skill reports where its knowledge went and
succeeds instead of failing as unknown.
- Capture prompts point at the hyperframes skill's references/film.md;
the live-map warning names the new bake-basemap path.
- Content tests that pinned knowledge are retargeted to the kept
references; tests of deleted workflows, scripts and process go.
- Catalog surfaces, templates and docs describe the seven skills.
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* fix(skills): resolve the local.md captions link and allow capture's output files in citations
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* fix(skills): regenerate the skills manifest from tracked files only
The committed media-use hash included an ignored __pycache__ bytecode file present
in the local checkout, so CI's clean checkout hashed differently.
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* fix(docs): restore generated catalog pages and docs navigation to main
Catalog PRs commit item sources only; CI regenerates the pages from the edited
registry sources. docs/docs.json is catalog navigation, so its Workflows group
rename is left for a non-catalog PR.
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* build(cli): raise the CLI size budget for the skill references it bundles
The CLI bundles skills/hyperframes, which now carries the folded domain guides and
frame presets (155 KB to 1.08 MB in git). Budgets are the CI-measured size plus 5%:
packed 7526634, unpacked 22593213.
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* test: keep repo-sweep guards meaningful after the workflow skills left
The last shell ffprobe caller and most root index.html examples lived in retired
skills. The shell detector is now pinned on a literal command line, and the
structure-rule sweep needs more than 5 roots (11 remain) rather than 30.
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* feat(skills): slim figma, slideshow and remotion to the Studio shape; restore the storyboard board
slideshow 33.5 KB to 4.9, figma 18.2 to 6.2, remotion-to-hyperframes 11.0 to
4.9, each keeping the facts only it holds (the figma motion helpers, verify gate,
storyboard decoding and usage beacons; present and hand-off; the Remotion lint,
SSIM check and API map). The board page format from the storyboard recipe comes
back as hyperframes/references/storyboard.md: the desktop app's Storyboard tab
reads boards/storyboard.html by its frame, title and time classes. The entry and
the init template now say to snapshot the moments an edit changed before
replying, which the terminal eval found skipped in 22 of 38 runs.
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* fix(skills): manifest without local bytecode; Studio's edit prompt names kept files
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* fix(skills): render when the person asks for the file or for no stops, not only after approval
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* fix(skills): keep the voiceover carve in media-use; presets stage their own fonts
Review follow-ups on #5651:
- carve.mjs and its tests move to skills/media-use/audio/scripts; the audio
docs, mixing.md and two Studio comments point there.
- code-editorial's FRAME.md says to copy its bundled WOFF2s and add the
@font-face blocks, instead of promising the retired build-frame.mjs.
- media-use states the host rule before the HeyGen sign-in steps.
- storyboard-format marks transition_in as a note the agent builds itself.
- Two stale citations (creator-editing-recipes.md, sub-compositions.md).
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* chore(skills): regenerate the manifest without local bytecode
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* fix(skills): the CLI render step follows step 4's rule, not approval alone
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* fix(ci): run the core-skills check from lint again after the main merge
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* feat(skills): films that tell a story start from three storylines; maps use real imagery
Opus 5.5 arm D read motion.md and applied it, but its launch film was a
feature list (pain, three feature cards, proof, logo): film.md left story
to the model. And the map case never opened film.md, so it drew Natural
Earth outlines instead of baking satellite tiles.
- references/story.md: the generic half of Studio's moment-film story and
craft (one thing, three storylines with world and device, the hook,
beats, worlds, copy, brand, tells of a generated film). The person picks
a storyline, or the agent takes its recommendation when asked for the
file or for no stops.
- The entry's work loop names the storyline step for films over ~15 s; the
references table routes stories to story.md and maps to film.md.
- film.md points at story.md and gives maps and real places a section.
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* fix(skills): story.md follows the entry: no voiceover unless asked
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* fix(skills): bake-basemap starts from a globe and stops waiting out its idle timeout
The Opus 5.5 map run spent 13 of its 38 minutes on parallel bakes that
stalled and 15 more recording 300 frames, after rewriting the script because
it could only start on a flat map.
- PROJECTION=globe with a seeded starfield and atmosphere, and FROM/PAN to
turn the globe to CENTER before the dive.
- Each frame polls for loaded tiles instead of waiting for an "idle" event
that had often already fired: 30 frames went from 198-219 s to 10-13 s
locally with byte-identical frames.
- Progress prints seconds a frame and minutes left; film.md shows the globe
call and says to run one bake at a time.
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* fix(skills): render in the foreground; wait on a detached render's log, never pgrep -f
Both Opus 5.5 explainer runs started a detached render, then waited with
`until ! pgrep -f "hyperframes render"`, which matches its own loop: each
render took 88-117 s and the wait sat for the tool's full 10 minutes.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(skills): route each kind of film; storylines carry look and sound; add review and sound
The entry routes by request (launch, explainer, music, data, vertical, 3D,
character) to a self-contained file under references/types/, and a film
over ~15 s now gets music and sounds on its visible actions unless the
person asked for silence. Each storyline names its look and its sound, so
picking one picks both; STORYBOARD.md frames carry `reads` and `sound`.
review.md is the whole-film pass: the check warnings, the review sheets,
seven questions to look for, P0/P1/P2 notes and REVIEW.md. motion.md gains
eases by role, six title entrances, a reading-time rule and nine measured
transitions; look.md a design plan before the first scene, with presets
kept for decks and named picks. story.md adds the second default that
generated design falls into, with what to do instead.
The blank template and format.md no longer teach the fade-and-slide-up
entrance on a dark canvas.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(cli): check warns on unread lines, dead stretches, small type, empty frame 0 and silence
A coding agent cannot watch its film, so check now measures what a viewer
notices over time. A new `craft` section holds warnings only (exit 0
unless --strict), sampled on the dense 8 fps grid the overlap pass
already seeks, skipped for --range checks:
- line_unread: a reading-size line (>= 30 px tall at 1080) on screen
under 0.4 s for 1-2 words, else under 3/4 of 0.5 s + 0.3 s a word;
the film's last line needs 2 s. Short lines are re-measured between
samples to ~0.01 s before judging. Captions-track and
data-layout-ignore text are exempt.
- dead_stretch: more than 3 s where the keepsMoving liveness signature
does not change, outside the final 3 s and any data-hold element;
quiet when sweep_static fires or a whole-composition keepsMoving
assertion owns the limit.
- text_below_floor: text under 2.6% of the short side (28 px on 1080)
held 0.5 s, one finding per file listing every element.
- first_frame_empty: frame 0 paints only the background.
- film_silent: over 15 s with no unmuted audio or audible video.
Each message names the fix and the skill reference to read. keepsMoving
now also leaves the film's last 3 s (a still end card) out of its
static runs, so the two agree.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(cli): snapshot --review captures a beat sheet, seam strips and a phone sheet
snapshot --review picks the frames that show a film over time instead of
evenly spaced ones, in the same single browser session:
- review-beats.jpg: one settled frame per scene at its start + 0.3 s,
plus one per timed data-beat="name" element, labelled time and id.
Scenes are the composition's top-level timed clips and sub-composition
hosts, read like `timeline` reads rows (captions and audio excluded)
and timed by the runtime's start resolver over the live page.
- review-seam-NN.jpg: frames at -0.2, -0.1, 0, +0.1, +0.2 s around
every cut (each scene start, and any scene end no scene starts at).
- review-phone.jpg: the beat frames at 360 px wide.
--composition scopes the review to one sub-composition; with fewer than
two scenes the beats spread evenly and a note says so. snapshot also
gains --json: one envelope with every frame's path and time and, under
--review, the scenes, beats and seams behind the sheets; progress moves
to stderr.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(cli): craft warnings stay out of --strict; a hold gets a real next action, not a caret
Craft findings (unread lines, dead stretches, small type, an empty first
frame, silence) are judgment calls a film may break on purpose, so
--strict keeps gating defects only. The check reference no longer
suggests a blinking caret to keep a still frame moving.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(cli): review spreads beats when every scene starts together; map credits skip the type floor
A map film whose basemap and overlay both start at 0 s got one beat
frame; the even spread now keys on distinct scene starts. film.md tells
agents to mark the imagery credit data-layout-ignore and back it, since
the new type floor flagged it on the first real run.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(cli): review frames each scene at its middle too, not only 0.3 s in
On the first real explainer, 0.3 s into a scene showed a bare colour
field before its title entered. Each scene longer than about a second
and a half now adds a frame at its middle, so the sheet shows what the
scene builds.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(skills): a film is built from a numeric SPEC.md, with defaults banned by name and a look test
Studied in full: flxrnc's Motion Lab (vague vs directed prompt), 0xMovez's
course, EianLu's riso skill, agentchengfeng's style samples and the two
Opus 5.5 guides. Their common point: adjectives are where the default look
lives, so the agent now writes SPEC.md before any scene (GOAL, OUTPUT,
TIME, LOOK, MOTION, SHOTS, BANNED, QA), with a number for every adjective.
spec.md bans the defaults by name, unless the brand or reference uses
them (a dark void with small things floating, glow and particles, the
cream-serif-mono-label look, fade-and-slide-up, corner brackets), and
grows that list after the first render. Each storyline gets a 3 s test of
its hero shot before the pick; a look is written as the rules of one
medium. Composition numbers: the hero fills 40% of the frame, one hero
move per shot, the shot's information in within 2.5 s then a held poster.
motion.md adds springs by damping ratio, shorter exits, overlap, stagger
and the beat grid; review.md reviews as a harsh director and grows BANNED;
vertical.md takes the riso skill's measured safe band; explainer.md the
shapes of information.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(skills): story before look; every object reads as itself; posters only for info cards
The first spec-driven C02 swapped the dark default for a flat Swiss
poster, and the story went with it: two black bars nobody read as mirrors,
slogans instead of cause and effect, a storyline picked for its picture.
The spec now serves the story: a storyline is picked for the story a
stranger would follow, the look test asks first whether a stranger
understands what they see, and SPEC.md gains an OBJECTS line giving each
thing the material and details that make it read without a label. The
2.5 s held-poster rule is limited to information cards; in a story film
every shot causes the next. Explainers start from a person or situation
the viewer knows. Review names every object as a stranger would and
treats one that needs explaining as a P0.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(skills): storylines are three films in words, each with a device and a form
The three storylines are pitched as text and the person picks from them;
nothing is built for a storyline before the pick, so the 3 s hero-shot
look test is gone. Ideas pair a device with a form, five or more first,
keeping the three that differ most, and the one stop states the rest in
an assumption line that names every paid item beside its free option.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* ci: list main's new embedded-captions hf-cli test among the retired workflow files
The merge with main removed it with the rest of the retired skill, and the
deletion guard rejects any removal it has not been told about.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(core): keep the audio preset comment within core's size budget
The comment's new citation to media-use's mixing reference made the published
package 14 bytes larger than its budget, which sits at main's exact size.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(cli): craft keeps its own 8 fps grid; comments back within the checks
Review on #5651 found that the merge moved craft onto the overlap pass's
times, which main caps at 180, so a brief line in a long film fell between
samples and line_unread missed it. Craft now builds its own grid at 8 fps up to
600 samples, as before the merge, and a 60 s film with a line shown for 0.2 s
pins it.
The Comments check passes again: REVIEW.md and STORYLINES.md join the files a
skill writes into a project, the comment lines this branch added come back
under each file's share at the merge-base, and the audio preset comment drops
a word the check reads as history.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(engine): a muted video no longer plays at full volume in renders that skip the browser probe
A <video data-has-audio="true" muted> with an audio stream is silent in
preview and in renders that run the browser probe, but a render that
skipped the probe mixed it at volume 1.0, ignoring data-volume. The audio
parser drops muted videos; the video parser kept hasAudio from
data-has-audio alone, so the auto-detect fallback re-added the sound.
The video parser now asks the same isAudibleVideoElement check.
* style(producer): format the muted-video parity test
* perf(producer): multi-worker mp4 renders start encoding while frames are still being captured
On the multi-worker disk capture path the encoder used to start only after
every worker had finished. It now starts with capture and is fed frame 0, 1,
2... in order as each frame file lands, with the same encoder arguments, so
the output is byte-identical and the encode left after capture is shorter.
Off for drawElement capture (a failed self-check discards every frame) and
for png/gif/webm/mov/HDR/GPU/chunked/HLS output. If the overlapped encode
fails, the frames are encoded after capture exactly as before.
* perf(producer): encode during capture only when a core is spare for the encoder
With every core busy capturing, the encoder only slowed capture down, so the
overlap now runs only when the render uses fewer workers than the CPU count
worker sizing sees. Also pins the reviewed producer test-lane source hash and
drops an added comment line.
* refactor(producer): shorter comments on the encode-while-capturing helpers
* fix(studio-server): keep transparency in proxies of VP8/VP9 alpha webm
A webm whose alpha lives in the VP8/VP9 side channel (alpha_mode=1,
pix_fmt yuv420p) was proxied to opaque H.264, and the VP8 proxy path
decoded it with ffmpeg's native decoder, which drops alpha. The alpha
rule and the alpha-reading decoder now live once in
@hyperframes/parsers/media-alpha, used by engine and studio-server.
* build(parsers): raise the packed size budget for the media-alpha subpath
parsers already sat at its packed budget on main; the shared alpha rule
adds 676 B of JS and 803 B of declarations (190958 B packed in CI).
Diego López