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Vance IngallsandClaude Sonnet 5.5 4ed7813387 feat(core): capture blur falls back to per-element filters where capture cannot run (#6107)
* 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.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* 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.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@hyperframes/engine

Seekable web-page-to-video rendering engine built on Puppeteer and FFmpeg.

Framework-agnostic: works with GSAP, Lottie, Three.js, CSS animations, or any web content that implements the window.__hf seek protocol.

Install

npm install @hyperframes/engine

Requirements: Node.js >= 22, Chrome/Chromium (auto-downloaded by Puppeteer), FFmpeg

What it does

The engine opens your HTML composition in a headless Chrome instance, seeks frame-by-frame using Chrome's HeadlessExperimental.beginFrame API, captures screenshots, and encodes them into video with FFmpeg.

Key services

Service Description
browserManager Launches and pools headless Chrome instances (chrome-headless-shell)
frameCapture Manages capture sessions — seek, screenshot, buffer lifecycle
screenshotService BeginFrame-based capture with CDP (Chrome DevTools Protocol)
chunkEncoder FFmpeg encoding with chunked concat, GPU detection, faststart
streamingEncoder Pipe frames to FFmpeg in real time (no intermediate PNGs on disk)
audioMixer Parse <audio> elements and mix audio tracks via FFmpeg
videoFrameExtractor Extract frames from <video> elements for compositing
parallelCoordinator Split frame ranges across worker processes
fileServer Serve local HTML files to the browser via Hono

Usage

import {
  acquireBrowser,
  createCaptureSession,
  initializeSession,
  captureFrame,
  closeCaptureSession,
} from "@hyperframes/engine";

// 1. Launch browser
const browserLease = await acquireBrowser({ captureMode: "beginFrame" });

// 2. Open a capture session
const session = createCaptureSession({
  browser: browserLease.browser,
  url: "http://localhost:3000/my-composition.html",
  width: 1920,
  height: 1080,
  fps: 30,
});
await initializeSession(session);

// 3. Capture frames
for (let i = 0; i < totalFrames; i++) {
  await captureFrame(session, i, `/tmp/frames/frame-${i}.png`);
}

// 4. Clean up
await closeCaptureSession(session);
await browserLease.release();

Most users should use @hyperframes/producer or the hyperframes CLI instead of calling the engine directly.

Documentation

Full documentation: hyperframes.heygen.com/packages/engine