Settings ▸ Import ▸ Reload Footage Changed on Disk used to spawn a stat thread every two seconds
from the UI thread, request a repaint 100 ms later to collect it, and request another repaint every
2 s in between, for every project with items, focused or not: the whole interface redrew on a timer
for footage that hadn't changed.
`footage_reload::Watcher` is one long-lived worker: the interface tells it what to watch (recomputed
when the project revision or the preference changes) and whether the window is in front; it stamps
the files every 2 s while the window is in front, every 10 s while another app has the front, at once
on focus regain and on a new set, and hands the stamps over — calling `ctx.request_repaint()` — only
when one differs from its last look. Nothing watched means the thread sleeps. `apply_stamps` and the
reload semantics are unchanged; `start_scan`/`poll_scan`/`Session::footage_scan` are gone. No new
dependencies: the stat loop is also what footage on a network share relies on, where FSEvents would
not report another machine's writes.
Tests: the watcher wakes the interface for the first stamps and for each change and never for an
unchanged file; behind another app it rests until the window is back; nothing watched is nothing
stamped and a new set is reported whole (and dropping it ends the thread); the host test
`the_watcher_notices_a_footage_file_changed_on_disk` saves a PSD from "another app" and sees it
reloaded once.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A project can name /dev/zero, a FIFO or a folder as footage; reading those whole
never ended (or ran out of memory). The media layer's whole-file reads (probe,
pool, model side files) and the engine's FsServices::read_file now open the file,
refuse a non-regular one, and reserve its length fallibly, so a sparse file that
claims more than memory is an error too.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
file.import without the flag (scripts, agents, files opened from the command line,
the CLI's templates) turned `lockin_line1.png` into a one-frame image sequence.
ImportOptions.sequence defaults to false in After Effects, so picked and dropped files
now import as stills unless `sequence: true`; folders' numbered runs still import as
sequences, and the Import dialog's Sequence checkbox is unchanged.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Settings ▸ Project ▸ Project Files ▸ Save Compact Project Files (off by
default) saves .ecproj files as compact JSON: smaller, faster to save and
open. Off, they stay indented, one value per line, so they read and diff
cleanly in version control. XML copies are not affected; auto-saves were
already compact. The project.ecproj inside exported template and Motion
Graphics template packages is written compact.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A double-click on a creation tool in the Tools bar makes what it draws, as in After Effects: a text layer from the Type tools; from the shape tools a shape that fills the comp - into the selected shape layer's Contents, as a mask on the selected layer (or when Tool Creates Mask is on), or as a new shape layer when neither applies. The shape geometry defaults now match AE: the Rounded Rectangle tool's Roundness is a fixed 20 instead of growing with the drawn size, and the Polygon tool draws five points.
Alt+] (Trim Layer Out Point to Current Time) used to set the Out edge exactly at the playhead; the layer interval is half-open, so the playhead's frame was already gone - nothing showed in the current frame. The edge now lands one frame after the playhead, as in After Effects, so its frame is the layer's last visible one. A layer still keeps at least one frame; Alt+[ (In point) is unchanged.
The fill holds every frame as float RGBA, its hole mask and the filled copy until it
finishes, so a long or large range ran out of memory partway through (22-33 % on the
reports). Planning the fill now compares that lower bound with the system's available
memory and refuses with what it needs and how to shorten the range.
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