Two engine tests leaned on elapsed time. "It keeps stamping while the
window is in front" slept 300 ms and wanted more than three stamps: a
worker held up on a loaded machine stamps fewer. "Nothing watched,
nothing stamped" slept 60 ms after sending the empty set and then wanted
no stamp at all, but a worker already past its wait with the old set
stamps that round once more, whenever it gets to run.
The first now waits (at most 10 s) until the stamps arrive. The second
checks the invariant instead: after `set_watched(∅)` at most one round of
the old set (one file) can still come, so the count may grow by one and
no more; a worker that ignored the empty set stamps every 20 ms and still
fails it.
Checked with the worker slowed (100 ms after each wait, 50 ms between the
report and the wake): these tests pass; the previous ones fail at
"it keeps stamping while the window is in front".
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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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