Replace opaque backgrounds (#0a0a0a, #000, #000000) with transparent
on both html/body and the composition root div for all 15 caption
components. Captions are overlays — opaque backgrounds cover the
underlying video when loaded as sub-compositions.
Timeline locking:
- Add data-timeline-locked attribute support — fully disables move,
trim-start, and trim-end in Studio for clips that carry this attr
- Runtime propagates the attribute from inner composition root to host
element so component authors control it from their HTML
- All 15 caption components in the registry now carry the attribute
Font fix:
- Extract <link rel="stylesheet"> and <link rel="preconnect"> from
sub-composition <head> alongside existing <style>/<script> extraction
- Fixes caption components (and any sub-comp using Google Fonts via
<link> tags) losing their font-family when loaded as sub-compositions
- Applied in both runtime (compositionLoader) and compiler
(inlineSubCompositions) paths
Adds a Blocks tab to the Studio left sidebar with the full 78-item registry
catalog (58 blocks + 20 components). Users can browse by category, search by
title/description, preview CDN-hosted poster thumbnails with video-on-hover,
and install items on-demand with one click or drag-to-timeline.
Core changes:
- BlockCategory type + resolveBlockCategory() for 7 categories (Captions, VFX,
Transitions, Effects, Social, Data, Scenes)
- Registry API routes: GET /api/registry/blocks (catalog) + POST install
- StudioApiAdapter extended with listRegistryCatalog + installRegistryBlock
- Vite adapter reads from disk; CLI adapter fetches from GitHub (24h cache)
- BlockParam interface + params on 6 blocks for future parameter controls
Studio UI:
- 4th sidebar tab "Blocks" with responsive grid, category pills, search bar
- BlockCard: CDN poster thumbnail, video autoplay on hover, duration + WebGL badges
- On-demand install: blocks append as sub-compositions on timeline; components
overlay at start=0 spanning full duration with transparent background patching
- TIMELINE_BLOCK_MIME drag-and-drop to timeline
- BlockParamsPanel (Phase 3 scaffold) auto-opens for parameterized blocks
Registry manifests:
- All 58 blocks backfilled with preview: { video, poster } CDN URLs
- All 20 components normalized to object format + poster URLs added
- 6 blocks annotated with params (Liquid Glass/Background, Portal, Chart,
Logo Outro, Magnetic)
- flowchart-vertical preview generated and uploaded to CDN
Upload re-rendered videos with -v2 filenames to bypass CloudFront
immutable cache. Replace gradient-fill with improved version from
sandbox composition.
The deterministic font system now supplements its embedded font bundle
with Google Fonts fetches for any weights not in the pre-bundled set.
This fixes compositions that request font weights (e.g. Montserrat 300)
not included in the CANONICAL_FONTS faces array — previously those
weights were silently dropped, causing invisible text in renders.
Also replaces caption-glitch-rgb and caption-weight-shift with improved
versions from avatar preview compositions, adapted to 1920x1080 with
standard demo transcript.
- clip-wipe: slower reveal (0.3s), longer hold, smoother exit
- glitch-rgb: 2.5x larger RGB split, stronger scanlines, more dramatic jitter
- gradient-fill: smoother word transitions (0.15s), longer exit
- typewriter: extended group hold times so text lingers on screen
- weight-shift: per-word font-weight animation (200→900), was broken
with only line-level shift that never triggered on single-line groups
- Add caption-highlight: red background sweep behind active word (TikTok-style)
- Re-rendered and uploaded preview videos for all 6 components
- Fix timeline_id_mismatch on all 15 caption components: __timelines key
now matches data-composition-id (e.g. "caption-clip-wipe" not "clip-wipe")
- Regenerate docs/public/catalog-index.json with 15 new caption entries
- Add "Captions" group mapping to generate-catalog-pages.ts (priority 0)
- Regenerate docs.json nav and mdx pages via the catalog script
- Upload docs preview videos to docs/images CDN path
- Add 15 .mdx doc pages under docs/catalog/components/ for all caption styles
- Add "Captions" group as first section in the Catalog tab navigation
- Add canvas-based fitFontSize to 14 caption components to prevent text overflow
- Fix parallax-layers vertical clipping by repositioning the behind safe zone
- Re-render all 15 preview videos at high quality and upload to CDN
Miguel Ángel