The work area bar had no context menu. Right-clicking it now offers the
work area's commands from the menu bar: Trim Comp to Work Area, Lift
Work Area and Extract Work Area (After Effects).
Test: work_area_context_menu_trims_the_comp (ui_timeline_zoom).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Right-clicking imported footage offered no way to change its
interpretation. As in After Effects, right-clicking an item now selects
it, and footage items' menu has the File menu's footage commands:
Interpret Footage (Main, Proxy, Remember / Apply Interpretation),
Replace Footage, Reload Footage and Reveal in Explorer / Finder, with
the menu bar's labels, shortcuts and enabled state
(menus::submenu_at / entry_for). The panel's Interpret Footage button,
which only ever said to select footage, opens the dialog for selected
footage.
Test: footage_context_menu_interprets_the_footage (ui_project_rows).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The label menus listed the labels' names only, so a label couldn't be
picked by its colour. Every place a label is chosen now shows its
colour swatch before its name, as After Effects does: the Timeline's
label swatch (which now opens its menu on a click too, not only a
right-click), the Project panel's label swatch and a new Label submenu
in its item menu, Edit > Label, keyframe Label menus and the marker
dialog. One shared widget (widgets::label_entry / label_popup) draws
them; keyframe labels now show the names set in Settings > Labels.
Tests: label_swatch_opens_the_label_menu (ui_project_rows),
the_label_swatch_menu_shows_the_label_colours (ui_timeline_switches),
edit_label_menu_shows_the_label_colours (ui_panels).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Double-clicking a mask or shape path's point (or segment) put its points
in a free-transform box but left only the clicked point selected, so
once the box was gone a drag moved that one point. As in After Effects,
the double-click now selects all the path's points too: dragging inside
the box, or afterwards any of the points, moves the whole mask.
The test also draws a mask with the Pen, moves a point and undoes: each
undo takes back one action (the move, the closing, the last point).
Test: pen_mask_undoes_step_by_step_and_double_click_moves_the_whole_mask
(ui_viewer).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The Position motion path drew a key's spatial handles only where its
tangent wasn't zero, and auto-Bezier keys have none at the path's ends,
so a two-key path (the usual start) had no handles to pull it into a
curve. Auto-Bezier keys now show a handle on such a side too, pointing
where the path leaves the key, a third of the way to the next key;
dragging it makes the key Bezier with that tangent. Linear keys still
show none.
Keyframe Interpolation > Spatial Bezier copied those zero tangents, so
the keys stayed straight with no handles (and read back as Linear); it
now gives them the same handles. The path keeps its shape and timing.
The handles come from the new keyframe::spatial_handles.
Tests: spatial_bezier_gives_a_straight_path_handles (engine),
a_straight_motion_path_has_handles_to_curve_it (ui_viewer).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The arrow keys did nothing to a selected layer, so it couldn't be lined
up precisely. As in After Effects, over the Composition panel or the
Timeline an arrow key moves the selected layers 1 pixel at the viewer's
magnification (half a comp pixel at 200 %, so sub-pixel steps come from
zooming in) and Shift+arrow 10, one undo step per press; holding the
key repeats. Not while typing or with mask points selected.
The move is the new engine command layer.nudge {x, y (comp pixels),
layers?}: through each layer's parents into Position (or X/Y Position),
a key at the current time when Position is animated, locked layers left
alone. It shares the Align panel's move.
Tests: nudge_moves_layers_by_comp_pixels (engine),
arrow_keys_nudge_the_selected_layer_at_the_viewer_magnification
(ui_viewer).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A footage or precomp layer dragged out past its source's end holds its
last frame, but its bar looked the same all the way, so the source's
end couldn't be seen. That part of the bar (and any part before the
source's start) is now darkened and striped in the label colour, with
an automation id (timeline.layer.<id>.bar.afterSource / beforeSource);
with time remapping on, the remap decides what shows there, so it isn't.
Enable Time Remapping on such a layer put its end key at the extended
out point; it now ends at the source's end, where the last frame starts
to hold (After Effects). Trimmed and reversed layers keep their keys.
Tests: time_remap_on_an_extended_layer_ends_at_the_source_end (engine),
the_bar_past_the_source_end_is_striped (ui_timeline_switches).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Selecting Time Remap in the Timeline (its name, which selects all its
keys) and pressing Delete removed the keys, and a second Delete then
deleted the whole layer. As in After Effects, Edit > Clear with Time
Remap selected now turns time remapping off (Layer > Time > Enable Time
Remapping off), in one undo step, and the layer stays; one selected
Time Remap key on its own is still deleted as a key.
Test: deleting_time_remap_turns_time_remapping_off (engine).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
While a mask was being drawn with the Pen, its open path was filled as
if closed, so the layer went black except inside the points placed so
far, which made rotoscoping by eye impossible. As in After Effects, an
open mask makes no transparency: the layer shows whole until the path
is closed. Effects that take a mask as a path (Stroke and the others)
still get open masks.
Test: open_masks_make_no_transparency (render).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Dragging an expression's pick whip always replaced the whole
expression, also while it was being edited (and the editor then wrote
its old text back over the reference). As in After Effects, a pick
whip pressed while the expression is being edited now puts the
reference at the cursor, replacing the selected text, and the editing
goes on with the cursor after the reference. Without an edit in
progress it replaces the expression as before.
`prop.pickWhip` takes the text being edited (`expression`) and the
selection in it (`range`, in characters) to insert there.
Tests: the_expression_pick_whip_inserts_at_the_cursor_while_editing
(ui_inline_edit), pick_whip_inserts_into_the_expression_being_edited
(engine).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
With a Puppet tool, a click off the pins picked the topmost layer under
the pointer by its own bounds, and selected it. So a click where the
deformation had stretched the mesh past the layer's bounds went to the
layer behind (selecting it and giving it a Puppet effect), and any
click on another layer switched to it.
While selected layers have a Puppet effect, a click (or a press that
might start a pin marquee) now works only on them, as in After
Effects: on the layer whose mesh, as deformed now, is under the
pointer (the pin lands on the deformed shape), else the one whose own
art is (a new mesh); elsewhere nothing happens and the selection
stays. Without a rigged layer selected, the tools pick and rig the
layer under the pointer as before.
`puppet::contains` tests a point against a deformed mesh; `puppet.addPin`
uses it too (its own test only held for one triangle winding).
Test: puppet_pins_go_on_the_deformed_mesh_and_the_tool_stays_on_the_rigged_layer
(ui_viewer).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Effect eyedroppers (other than keyers', which pick from the effect's
input) sample the composite the viewer shows; a test covers that on
main. But they, and the Info panel, read the shown frame as if it
covered the whole comp. With a Region of Interest, or the Extended
Viewer of a 3D view, the frame covers only that area, so they read a
pixel somewhere else. They now map the point through the area the
frame covers (`shown_region`, `frame_pixel`).
Tests: the_eyedropper_samples_under_the_pointer_in_a_region_of_interest
(ui_effect_controls), eyedropper_samples_straight_colour (fx_widgets).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Dragging a Bezier handle in the Graph Editor changed only that key's
ease. As in After Effects, the same side's handles of every selected
key now move with it, by as much as the pointer moved (time and value
or speed alike), in one undo step. Each handle keeps its offset from
where the drag began, so a handle stopped at a limit (100 % influence)
doesn't drag the others on.
Test: a_graph_handle_drag_moves_the_handles_of_every_selected_key
(ui_keyframes).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Each half of a keyframe glyph had a 1 px near-black border, so keys
that overlap read as a tangle of borders. Keys are now flat, as in
After Effects: each half is filled and edged in the key's own colour
(the hairline closes the seam between the halves), so overlapping keys
read as one shape. The Light theme's keyframe grey is darker so
unselected keys still stand out on its light time graph without the
border.
Test: keyframes_are_drawn_without_a_dark_outline (icons).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
As in After Effects, pressing a property's stopwatch toggles it, and
dragging on over the stopwatches above or below gives every property
the pointer passes the state the first one got (animated or not),
whatever its own, in one undo step. Alt+click still adds an
expression.
The gesture is the layer switches' press-and-drag from #238, moved
into `switch_gesture` and shared by both. `prop.toggleAnimation` takes
`merge` so the drag folds into one undo step.
Tests: dragging_over_stopwatches_sets_them_all (ui_timeline_switches),
stopwatch_toggles_with_a_merge_key_are_one_undo_step (engine).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
#284 reported no cache indication in the Timeline. Main has one: a
green line under the work area bar for the frames cached at the
viewer's resolution, view and options (blue for disk-cached frames).
This test pins it down: once the viewer's frame has rendered, the
Timeline paints the green line from the start of the work area.
Test: the_timeline_shows_the_cached_frames_in_green (ui_ram_preview).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Shift-clicking a layer's name selected the layers from the last one
clicked to it, but Shift-clicking a layer bar in the time graph only
added that layer. Bars now select the same range (shared with the
name column: `shift_range`), and a click on a bar becomes where the next
range starts, as a click on a name does.
Test: timeline_shift_click_on_layer_bars_selects_the_range
(ui_workflow_selection).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Scrubbing asks for the viewer frame under the pointer at every step.
Each newer request only demoted the earlier ones to prefetch, so every
frame the pointer passed was still rendered, oldest first, holding the
frame threads the frame under the pointer needed. A newer viewer frame
of a comp now drops that comp's viewer frames that haven't started
(and releases them, so they can be asked for again). Frames already
rendering finish into the cache (rendering can't be interrupted
mid-frame), and the viewer keeps its last frame until the new one is
in. Prefetch frames and other comps' viewer frames stay queued.
Test: a_newer_viewer_frame_drops_the_ones_still_waiting (frames).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The ruler moved the current-time indicator only once the pointer had
dragged past egui's drag threshold, or on release for a click. As in
After Effects, the time now jumps to the pointer as soon as the button
goes down in the ruler, then follows the drag.
Test: a_press_in_the_ruler_moves_the_current_time (ui_timeline_zoom).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Renders on macOS came out as `Comp 1.mov.ecproj`, and an image
sequence's every frame as `Comp 1_00001.png.ecproj`; another output
was `Comp 2.mov.mov`.
Cause: the save dialogs for anything but a project went through the
project dialog hook, which filters to `.ecproj`; macOS's save panel
appends the allowed extension to any other name. 0.4.0's Render Queue
Choose File… used it (#192 moved Output To to its own dialog since),
and Save Frame As, Save Current Preview, Export Lottie, Save a Copy As
XML, Collect Files, Watch Folder and the Premiere export form's Browse
still did. Nothing then fixed the name: Output To kept `.ecproj` (no
format claims it), and changing the format replaced only the last
extension (`Comp 2.mov.ecproj` → `Comp 2.mov.mov`). `[compName]` of a
comp named `Comp 2.mov` also doubled it.
Fix: `Hooks::save_dialog` asks the dialog for the default name's own
extension (`pick_save_file`), the project dialog only for projects or
on hosts without another (the web); the desktop dialog has no filter
for a name without an extension (folders). `OutputFormat::with_extension`
makes an output path end in the format's extension exactly once
(project extensions and repeats of the format's dropped, a missing one
added; `logo.png.mov` kept), used by Output To, format changes and
`resolve_output`, so existing projects and templates render to the
right name too. Output To picks the file type from the extension
before a stray `.ecproj`.
Test: output_names_end_in_the_format_extension_once (project),
output_to_ends_in_the_format_extension_once (engine) and
save_dialogs_offer_the_file_extension (ui); the engine and ui tests
fail with the fix reverted.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A requested rate of 0 would divide by zero in the resampler; it now
reads through the plain path, which returns silence for it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
clippy 1.99 flags chunks_exact_mut with a constant size; the skip offset
was also an unchecked slice.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A filesystem without lock support returned an error from try_lock, which
read as 'held' and disabled crash detection for good.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
On FreeBSD the only adapter is llvmpipe over GL, which GpuContext::new
declines for its backend before checking limits; accept either reason.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Reviewed #321 (the alternative Simplified Chinese catalog) row by row against Adobe's
Simplified Chinese After Effects documentation and kept what the documentation confirms:
- Adobe's "混合模式和图层样式" page names the blend modes verbatim, so 相乘 (Multiply), 相加
(Add), 相减 (Subtract), 相除 (Divide), 动态抖动溶解 (Dancing Dissolve), 模板 Alpha /
模板亮度 / 轮廓 Alpha / 轮廓亮度 (Stencil / Silhouette) and 冷光预乘 (Luminescent Premul)
come from it. 滤色, 深色, 浅色, 实色混合 and 明度 stay, because that page gives those names too.
- "设置、选择和删除关键帧" gives 指数比例 (Exponential Scale), 消隐 (Shy), 对齐 (Snapping) and
the 选定 wording; "预合成、嵌套和预渲染" gives 合成微型流程图; the motion-graphics templates
page uses 基本图形 for the panel but 动态图形模板 for the template; the keyboard-shortcuts
page gives 双立方 (Bicubic sampling), 灰度系数 and 主要.
- The 16 label colours now carry the 色 suffix the Chinese edition uses (浅绿色, 淡紫色, 桃红色,
紫红色, 海泡沫, 深绿色), plus a few Adobe-standard phrasings: 置于顶层 / 置于底层, 与图层相同,
色彩管理, Internet 标准 RGB, 另存为模板, 时间伸缩, 减少项目, 单独尺寸, 倾斜, 关.
- Kept mine where those pages contradict #321 (屏幕 for Screen, 较深的颜色, 较浅的颜色,
纯色混合, 发光度, 资源管理器 for Finder, 整理工程 for Dependencies, 素材 for Material), where
they drop the spaces Adobe's own pages use around Latin text (3D 图层, RPF 摄像机导入,
在 Finder 中显示), and where the sibling apps' catalogs agree with this file.
`TRADITIONAL_CHINESE` mirrors the same changes (37 rows). Credit to @cjcwwww for #321, where
these rows come from.
`effectcraft-cli render --out proj/out/d.mp4 --project proj/x.ecproj` wrote
`proj/proj/out/d.mp4`: the Render Queue resolves a relative output against its own base, while
`--project` and every other CLI path are relative to the working directory. The CLI now makes
`--out` absolute against the working directory before queueing it, so the file lands where the
shell user expects; an absolute path is unchanged, and `rendered[].output` in the JSON result is
the absolute path. Render Queue outputs set inside a project (and `render --queue`) resolve as
before: tokens expanded, then `export.defaultOutputFolder`, the project's folder, the working
directory.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- New TRADITIONAL_CHINESE catalog: the same (command, English label) keys as JAPANESE and
SIMPLIFIED_CHINESE, one entry per fixed menu row (618 rows). The wording follows the
Traditional Chinese catalogs PhotoCraft, PdfCraft, VectorCraft and LightCraft already ship
(`檔案`, `開啟`, `儲存`, `圖層`, `遮色片`, `影格`, `預設集`, `快速鍵`, …).
- Match System maps a Traditional Chinese locale (`zh-TW`, `zh-HK`, `zh-Hant`, `zh_MO`) to
`zh-hant` instead of English, now that there is a catalog for it.
- `simplified()` and `traditional()` replace the Simplified-only `chinese()`; the macOS Services
item is 服务 in Simplified and 服務 in Traditional.
- `general.language` gains 繁體中文; `docs/preferences.md` documents the locale mapping.
- Tests: all three catalogs must cover the same fixed TREE entries; the shape check covers both
Chinese catalogs; label/undo/panel-title/submenu/native-menu behaviour in zh-hant with file and
layer names kept verbatim; the Traditional locale mapping; the preference round-trips.
Face::has_char counted any non-zero cmap entry as coverage. Some fonts map
whole scripts to empty glyphs (a decorative Latin font installed on a Linux
machine maps あ, 水, ア and 。 to glyphs with no contours), so once such a
face was loaded, fallback_for could pick it and Japanese text rendered as
nothing; cjk_falls_back_to_a_system_family failed whenever another test had
loaded that face first.
has_char (and file_covers, used for faces not yet loaded) now also require
the glyph to draw something: an outline with at least one segment, a colour
glyph, or a bitmap in any strike. Characters that are blank by nature
(whitespace, and the default-ignorable code points such as soft hyphen,
joiners and variation selectors) still count as covered by any mapping.
Face::glyph is unchanged, so shaping with the chosen face is as before.
Test: an_empty_glyph_does_not_cover_its_character builds a minimal TrueType
font in code (no font file added to the repo) mapping U+E000 to an empty
glyph and U+E001 to a triangle, and checks has_char and fallback_for.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01K3vVft4VXvvy8SpbbUceTW
- The i18n module now selects a catalog by language code instead of testing for Japanese:
`language(app)` returns the code, `lookup` is shared by every catalog, and the undo/redo
and workspace / 3D-view titles are formatted per language.
- New SIMPLIFIED_CHINESE catalog: the same (command, English label) keys as JAPANESE, one
entry per fixed menu row of the engine tree (618 rows).
- `general.language` gains 简体中文 (`zh-hans`). Match System maps a Simplified Chinese locale
(zh, zh-CN, zh_CN.UTF-8, zh-Hans-CN, zh-SG) to it and a Traditional one (zh-TW, zh-HK,
zh-Hant) to English, which has no catalog of its own yet.
- The macOS Services menu item is 服务 in Chinese.
- Tests: both catalogs must cover the same fixed TREE entries; `...`, brackets and spacing
keep the English shape; label/undo/panel-title/submenu/native-menu behaviour in zh-hans
with file and layer names kept verbatim; the locale mapping; the preference round-trips
through prefs.json.
