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Vance IngallsandClaude Sonnet 5 99f42be04c feat(engine): render grouped audio through a summed, FX-processed bus (#3289)
* feat(core): route grouped audio through a group bus in preview

An audio element carrying `data-audio-group` no longer lands its gain on
the master bus directly — it feeds a per-group `GainNode` (built lazily on
first use, one per group id) which itself feeds master, so members of the
same group sum before the ear, ready for a group-level FX chain and
volume/mute in later steps. An id with no matching `<hf-audio-group>`
element still gets a plain, unprocessed bus rather than losing the track.

The group's own chain and volume lane are wired through the same
`attachElementFxChain`/`scheduleVolumeLane` every element already uses,
against the group's clock — composition time (design doc §1.3), since a
group has no `data-start` and a missing one parses as 0. The bus persists
across `stopAll()` (mirroring `_masterGain`'s own lifecycle) so replaying a
group does not rebuild its chain; only `destroy()` disposes it.

Render is untouched — stays flat until B4; `audio-groups` is still a 0%
canary so nothing ships this to a real composition without hand-authoring
`data-audio-group`.

Also: `audioGroupOf` (B1) crashed on any element lacking a real `tagName`/
`getAttribute` — exactly the shape of most `HTMLMediaElement` test doubles
in this suite, including this file's own `mockEl`. Made it tolerant, same
style as `readChain`'s existing guard in `runtime/audioFx.ts`.

`schedulePlayback` was already 110 lines pre-existing before this diff;
extracted `resolveDestination` and `handleSourceEnded` to shrink it to 92,
then suppressed the remainder (inherently sequential graph wiring, not a
decision tree) per the same precedent B2 used on `TimelineLogicalRow`.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(studio,lint): carve targets voiceover groups — always, when plural

Plural voiceover carve now targets a group instead of naming each clip:
`resolveCarveSourceIds` (core `audioGroups.ts`) expands a group id to its
current members at analysis time, so a clip added to the group later is
covered without touching `sources`. The picker (`useFxCarve.ts`) offers a
grouped voice as one option instead of one row per member, tests overlap
as a union of member spans (a group overlaps the bed if ANY member does),
and prefers a qualifying group over its individual members in
`autoSourceIds`.

Picking two or more ungrouped voice clips in the carve flow now mints a
group behind them (`mintGroupId`, de-duped against every id in the
document) and writes `data-audio-group` on each picked clip atomically,
one undo entry — `createAudioGroupAndAssignMembers` in
`timelineTrackVisibility.ts` copies `setElementsHidden`'s multi-target
write shape. The DSP is untouched: `mixCarveSources` already sums
multiple sources correctly (verified in the design doc's own
investigation) — this only fixes the picker.

New lint rule `audio_carve_ungrouped_sources` (`packages/lint/src/rules/
media.ts`, alongside `audio_volume_double_automation`) warns when a
`data-fx-carve`'s `sources` names two or more plain clip ids instead of a
group — the shape that silently rots when a clip is added. `/hyperframes-
audio` states the same rule as an invariant, not a tip, with the grouped-
narration HTML example from the design doc.

The group-matching and auto-group logic (`withAutoGroupedSources`,
`collectCarveCandidates`) is split into `useFxCarveGrouping.ts` —
`useFxCarve.ts` was pushing past the 600-line cap. `resolveNextCarveSettings`
is deliberately NOT an `async function`: wrapping it in one would force a
microtask on every call, including the synchronous branch — the exact bug
`withAutoGroupedSources`'s own sync-when-possible contract exists to avoid,
and one caught via `propertyPanelAudioFxGroup.test.tsx` (10 failures)
before fixing it back to a plain function the caller conditionally awaits.

Also extracted `useEffectiveTimelineDuration` out of `App.tsx` and
`useRemoveBackground` out of `StudioRightPanel.tsx` (both pushed past 600
lines from an added prop wire), and decomposed `useFxCarve.ts`'s picker
IIFE to clear fallow's complexity gate.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(engine): render grouped audio through a summed, FX-processed bus

Renders what B3 already routes in preview: a group's members sub-mix into
one PCM WAV at full composition length (adelay already places each member
at its composition position, so the group WAV's t=0 IS composition time),
run through the group's own FX chain and automation via the same
applyAudioFxChain/envelope-bake path a member uses, then fold into the flat
track list as one processed AudioTrack — the final mixAudioTracks call
never has to know groups exist.

Gain law verified against plans/spikes/amix-nesting-spike.sh (brought over
from the plans branch, along with audioMixer.grouping.test.ts, since both
were committed there and never merged to origin/main — every step branch in
this stack descends from origin/main): the sub-mix's own amix prefers
normalize=0 (nulls exactly against a flat mix), falling back to per-node
compensation by the group's OWN member count only when this ffmpeg build's
amix rejects the option. Carrying any other count into a nested amix node
is the exact +2.499 dB silent failure the spike measured — confirmed by a
manual mutation check (wrong-count compensation landed 3.5 dB hot, exactly
20*log10(3/2) for a 2-member group compensated as 3; reverted after
confirming the level test catches it).

A group element carrying data-hidden drops every member before the sub-mix
ever runs (RULES: mute-by-drop, never mute-by-volume-0) — parseAudioElements
now resolves groups once per parse and skips hidden-group members the same
way it already skips data-hidden ancestors.

HfAudioGroup (packages/core/src/audioGroups.ts, from B1) gains fxChain,
automation, volume and hidden, read off the group element the same way
resolveAudioGroups already reads data-label — audioGroups.test.ts updated
for the wider shape plus new coverage for the added reads.

it.todo("mixes a grouped composition at the same level as the ungrouped
one") is now a real, passing test; two more added per the step doc (FX
routing isolation, member-level envelope survives grouping).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-21 09:42:34 -07:00
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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