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.
- 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
Miguel Ángel