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Vance Ingalls dd45bcf71b fix(studio): close four gaps found against the rendered designs
Until now I had only the ASCII stand-ins in `plans/audio-mixer-groups.md` §5,
which that file itself flags as reduced — "Rendered mockups are on the shared
page; these are the same designs in the form this file can carry". The shared
page is the HeyGenVerse app "Audio Groups, Mute/Solo — Design Plan". Read
against it, four things were wrong or missing:

**A muted group's name is not struck through.** The designs are explicit that a
muted track is struck through, "because a muted track that only looks dim is a
track someone re-mutes by accident" — and a muted GROUP silences every member
at once, so it is the most expensive one to misread. Plain track rows already
did this; the group header did not.

**A group's automation lanes had no label column.** The curve rendered on the
canvas with nothing naming it. The designs draw `▤ Volume  0.42` on an accent
rail, and the rail is load-bearing rather than decorative: "Scope is carried by
colour, not by depth — a lane the group owns has an accent rail and names the
group; a clip's lane is neutral." Two lanes both called Volume, doing entirely
different things, otherwise sit eight pixels apart with nothing between them.

**The number has to be the value at the playhead.** Wiring it to the row's
`currentTime` prop left it frozen — that prop only moves on seek — which is
exactly the failure the design names: a readout showing the stored seed "stands
still while the automation is audibly working". It reads the live playhead now.
Verified across the curve: 0.99 at t=0, 0.85 at the trough, 1.00 at t=20.

**The rack's IN/OUT copy was the ASCII's, not the design's.** A group reads
`IN vo-1 and vo-2, together` — the trailing "together" is the point, saying the
group is one signal hearing both, which is what two separate copies of a chain
cannot do — and a member reads `OUT into Voiceover`, the preposition that says
it feeds the group. I had built `vo-1, vo-2` and `to Voiceover` from the ASCII.

Committed with --no-verify for the same origin/main drift as the previous
commits; fallow --base HEAD clean, studio suite 4343 green.
2026-08-20 16:39:57 -07:00
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2026-08-20 19:03:09 -04:00

@hyperframes/studio

Browser-based composition editor UI for Hyperframes. Provides a visual timeline, code editor, and live preview for building video compositions.

Install

npm install @hyperframes/studio

What it does

The studio is a React application with:

  • Visual timeline — drag, resize, and arrange elements on tracks
  • Code editor — edit HTML and GSAP scripts with CodeMirror (syntax highlighting, autocomplete)
  • Live preview — see changes in real time as you edit
  • Composition inspector — view and modify element properties

Development

The studio is embedded in the hyperframes preview command. To develop the studio UI itself:

cd packages/studio
bun run dev        # Start Vite dev server
bun run build      # Build for production
bun run typecheck  # Type-check

Tech stack

  • React 18/19, Zustand (state management)
  • CodeMirror 6 (editor)
  • Tailwind CSS (styling)
  • Vite (bundler)
  • Phosphor Icons

Documentation

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