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
Pure-CSS radial darkening overlay that fills its positioned parent and
pulls focus toward the center. Shape, size, and color are exposed as
CSS custom properties (--vignette-shape, --vignette-size,
--vignette-edge, --vignette-color), so a GSAP timeline can animate any
of them — the snippet's header comment shows the pattern for fading
the vignette in.
The Components section currently has four entries; this fills the
cinematic-cinematography gap a video editor expects out of the box
without bundling any asset (the effect is a single radial-gradient).
Default z-index 90 sits below grain-overlay (100) so grain reads on
top of the darkened corners.
Catalog page, registry index, and nav are regenerated via
scripts/generate-catalog-pages.ts.
Miguel Ángel