Normalize explicit relink prefixes, compare native paths in portable tests, close fixture sessions before directory moves, and preserve exact GPU effect-source pixel centres. Keep the hardware-dependent mixer benchmark opt-in with its 4x target unchanged.
Shortcut portability changes reused from storytold/filmcraft#37 (bd944ee and f2b36fe). The existing export fix from #282 remains in its original parent commit.
Assisted-by: Codex
`filmcraft-cli commands | head -c 10` panicked with "failed printing to stdout: Broken pipe
(os error 32)". Output now goes through `outln!` / `out!`. When stdout fails, later output is
dropped but the program does not stop: the rest of `exec`, `run` and `import` (later script
lines, `--save`, `--save-as`) still runs and the exit status still reports a failing command.
Exiting at the first failed print would report success while skipping the save, e.g.
`filmcraft-cli run edits.jsonl --project p.fcproj --save | head -1`. A closed pipe is not an
error; any other stdout write error is reported and makes the exit status 1.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- register() asks the HEVC probe on a thread of its own (the first probe is
about half a second: D3D11 device + NVENC session), so the first draw of
Export's format list does not wait for it; tests/nvenc_hevc_warm.rs.
- A machine with no HEVC encoder is not a declined hardware attempt: the
factory returns None without counting `declined`.
- HEVC tests skip only when the probe says there is no HEVC encoder; on a
machine that has one, a configuration NVENC refuses fails the test.
- Wording: NVENC is FilmCraft's only HEVC encoder on Windows (Windows itself
ships others).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
One NVENC session, ring and NV12 path now serve H.264 and HEVC (Codec enum,
Profile::HevcMain). HEVC Main 8-bit 4:2:0 SDR BT.709, MP4/MOV hvc1, parameter
sets only in an hvcC built from the SPS the encoder wrote. The H.265 format is
available through a cached NVENC probe; choosing it is the opt-in, declines are
counted errors. ABI asserts regenerated from nvEncodeAPI.h 12.1 (no drift) and
extended for HEVC; tests, docs and roadmap updated.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Loudness Auto-Match metered every clip as the stereo pair clip_signal
plays, so a mono source (or a mono pick from Modify > Audio Channels /
Breakout to Mono), copied onto both sides, read 3.01 LU louder than the
file and got 3 dB too little gain. BS.1770 and ffmpeg's ebur128 measure
a mono programme as one channel; now so does clip_loudness, through a new
render::audio::clip_is_mono. Stereo and wider sources are unchanged, as
are the export loudness pass and the Meters panel (they measure the real
output mix).
Regression test: the same speech as a 1-channel WAV and as dual-mono
stereo measure 3.01 LU apart, the mono clip agrees with a one-channel
meter over the file within 0.1 LU, and a mono pick counts as mono.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Properties panel: the diamond on a row was the stopwatch (effects.toggleAnimation),
so clicking it on a keyframe dropped every keyframe and kept the value at the
playhead. It is now Add/Remove Keyframe (effects.addKeyframe), as in Premiere:
it turns animation on with a keyframe at the playhead, adds one there, or removes
the one there, and the value falls back to what the remaining keyframes give in
Properties, Effect Controls and the Program monitor. An animated row shows the
navigator (previous / diamond / next); the diamond is filled only while the
playhead is on a keyframe. Crop's diamonds work too (the effect is applied first).
Effect Controls: the keyframe lane has a time ruler (ticks and sequence timecode
over the clip's stretch of the sequence) with the playhead's handle on it; click
or drag the ruler to move the playhead. The playhead is drawn only while it is on
the clip. Both panels share one navigator widget, with automation ids
<panel>.<effect>.<param>.addKeyframe / .prevKeyframe / .nextKeyframe, plus
effectControls.ruler and effectControls.playhead.
Tests: engine add/remove at the playhead with undo, redo and bad parameters;
headless UI tests of the navigator, Crop and the ruler; ruler labels and limits.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
While a value was dragged in Effect Controls or Properties, the Program monitor
kept the picture from before the drag and only caught up when the mouse rested.
Two causes:
- Every step of a drag is a new project revision, so the frame the monitor asks
for is never ready on the refresh that asks for it, and the stand-in lookup
only knew frames of the same revision. The monitor now remembers the frames it
asked for on its latest paused refreshes and, when neither the frame due nor a
cached frame just before it is ready, shows the newest of those that is. A
backward or fast scrub had the same gap and gets the same stand-in. Playback
is unchanged.
- A frame still rendering was cancelled when the same frame was asked for at a
newer revision. With frames slower than a refresh (CPU effects) each one was
thrown away for the next. Such a job now finishes; a request for a different
frame of the view (scrubbing) still cancels it.
perf.stats gains `monitor`: the frame and revision of the picture the Program
monitor shows, against the playhead's frame and the project's revision.
Tests (headless, perf_ui): a parameter changed on every UI pass and a backward
scrub leave the picture at most one step behind; a frame being rendered survives
a request for the same frame at a newer revision.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The export pipeline hands the float image of every frame it converts back to
`filmcraft_frame::pool` (#184), which keeps up to 320 MiB of them, and the decoders' plane shelves
hold up to 192 MiB of each type. An export's images are the size of its frames, which nothing else
asks for, so a finished export left them idle until the next one.
`pool::trim()` frees every idle buffer. `Pipeline` calls it when it is dropped, one place for every
way an export ends (done, failed, cancelled, dropped half way by a host that steps it, as the web
build does) and for every caller of `export` / `Exporter` (previews, proxies and AAF/OMF mixdowns
share the pipeline). A job still rendering at that moment allocates a few images again: the pool is
only a cache.
Measured with a synthetic 3 s 1080p24 matte exported as PNG frames three times in one process
(Apple M1, `footprint`, 10 s after the last export): 575 MB without the trim, the pool holding
332 MB idle, and 258 MB with it. macOS returns the freed pages over a few seconds, not at once.
Tests: `crates/frame/tests/pool_trim.rs` (every shelf emptied, the pool works afterwards) and
`crates/export/tests/pool_trim.rs` (an image sequence, a finished and a cancelled video, an export
that could not start and a stepped export dropped half way each leave nothing idle; without the
trim they fail).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- filmcraft-tts (feature kokoro): Kokoro-82M on candle, implemented from
the StyleTTS 2 / iSTFTNet / ALBERT papers, config.json and the
checkpoint's tensor shapes; official .pth read with candle's restricted
pickle reader; voice packs from their zip. Neural Voice: tts-text
phonemize -> Kokoro per chunk -> pauses -> pitch via audio-dsp.
- catalog: 9 US English voices (model card grade C+ or better) + CMUdict,
every file pinned to a revision and SHA-256 (336 MB).
- speech: generic download_files (same verified downloader).
- engine: tts.render (background synthesis into Session::tts_cache),
tts.downloadVoices (background job, cancellable), voices list with
package state; feature neural-voices (default on in the desktop app).
- ui: natural/basic voice groups, consent box (size, sources, licences),
download progress + Cancel, synthesis never blocks the window;
ui.set {tts:{...}} for agents.
Measured: Whisper-base WER on 50 original sentences 2.1-3.6 % for all 9
voices (built-in robotic voice 96.6 %); 2.2-2.3x real time on CPU.
Gates: fmt, clippy, layers, assets, wasm pass; tests pass except
shortcuts_tests::assign_reassigns_conflicts_and_undoes (fails on main)
and the frame pool test (flaky under load, passes alone).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Write what a narrator says, pick a voice, pitch and pace, and add it to
the timeline. Selecting a narration clip loads it back into the panel;
Save regenerates it in place as one undo step, keeping the clip's start
and length (longer speech kept whole in the file, shorter speech padded
with silence).
- filmcraft-tts (L2): Voice trait, voice catalogue, pause markers
([pause 1s]), and an original formant synthesizer (Basic Female/Male;
robotic placeholder until the neural voices land).
- project: Narration + Project::narrations (schema v13, no-op migration).
- engine: tts.voices/preview/create/edit/inspect; narrations never
overwrite clips (free targeted track, free track, else a new track).
- ui: Text to Speech panel beside Properties, preview playback,
click-to-edit, automation ids.
Gates: fmt, clippy -D warnings, layers, assets and wasm (rustup
toolchain) pass. Tests: all pass except three that fail identically on
main (61238bf) on this machine: shortcuts_tests::assign_reassigns_
conflicts_and_undoes, gpu fx_tests::gpu_effects_match_cpu_exactly, and
the frame pool test, which passes when run alone.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- release.yml: new `flatpak` jobs (x86_64 on ubuntu-24.04, aarch64 on ubuntu-24.04-arm) that
repackage the Linux tarball as filmcraft-<v>-linux-<arch>.flatpak, and a `freebsd` job that
builds filmcraft-<v>-freebsd-x86_64.tar.gz in a FreeBSD 14.3 VM; both feed the draft release.
- AppImages embed gh-releases-zsync update information and ship a .zsync beside them; the
Linux job checks both.
- Jobs that sign nothing (version, Linux, Flatpak, FreeBSD, web) no longer use the `release`
environment, so a dispatch on a branch dry-runs them; the signing jobs and the draft-release
job stay in the environment, so nothing is published from a branch.
- packaging/linux/flatpak-bundle.sh + bundle manifest (same runtime and finish-args as the
Flathub manifest; packaging-lint checks they agree), packaging/freebsd/package.sh (with a
--dry-run that packaging-lint runs), and a nightly FreeBSD build workflow.
- README: Downloads section listing every build; docs/releasing.md updated.
Co-authored-by: Brandon Thomas <shared2@storyteller.ai>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Bindings are written Cmd+… and parse to `command`; egui's matching then
requires `command`. A physical Ctrl press off macOS carries it
(egui-winit sets command = ctrl there), but ui.key built its event from
parse_shortcut, which mapped "Ctrl" to `ctrl` alone, so an injected
Ctrl+Z matched nothing while Cmd+Z worked. ui.click's `ctrl` modifier
had the same gap.
Off macOS "Ctrl" and "Cmd" are one key (the engine's Chord::effective
already says so), so parse_shortcut maps both to `command` there, and
the control channel synthesises presses the way the OS reports them:
a press of either carries both flags. macOS is unchanged.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The desktop app installed no logger, so every log::warn!/log::error! in
the workspace was discarded: GPU compositor fallbacks, audio output
problems, a panicked frame job or audio mixer, container warnings. A
launch from a desktop menu has no terminal either, so there was nothing
to attach to a bug report.
apps/filmcraft/src/logging.rs (no new dependency):
- standard error plus <data dir>/Logs/filmcraft.log, next to the crash
logs (--data-dir / FILMCRAFT_DATA_DIR respected, Help > Reveal Log Files
opens the folder); each launch rotates the previous log to
filmcraft.1.log and .2.log, so the log of a run that crashed survives
the next start; the file is capped at 16 MiB
- records logged before the data directory is known are buffered
(bounded) and written once the file is attached
- default levels: info for filmcraft*, warn for everything else;
RUST_LOG replaces them with env_logger-style directives
- never panics: an unusable directory or a failed write leaves standard
error as the only sink; a poisoned lock is tolerated
- the realtime audio callbacks do not log; a record holds the lock for
one write of an already formatted line
The logger is installed first in main (before the panic hook) and the
file is opened after argument parsing (--help, --version and usage
errors leave no file). The start-up eprintln!s in main (auto-save
unavailable, open/recovery errors, no window) now go through the logger.
Documented in docs/contributing.md (environment variables, Logs).
* About: contributors compiled in from contributors.json (grab bag + table, sortable, name toggle)
Help ▸ About FilmCraft gets tabs About · Contributors · Models, following the craftrules standard
(standards/contributors.md): contributors/contributors.json is generated by
craftrules/scripts/contributors.py and baked into the binary by crates/ui-egui/build.rs as static
tables (nothing read at run time; the web build has them too). Each contributor line: @username,
opt-in display/real name, PRs, commits, lines +/−/Δ, binary assets +/−, first/last commit.
Sortable by every column; alphabetical ignores case and the leading @. Tabs and credits controls
register automation ids (about.tab.*, about.credits.*).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Contributors docs: craftrules is two levels up (../../craftrules)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Contributors: self-submitted names in contributors/people.toml; AGENTS.md credit-yourself section
build.rs reads contributors/people.toml next to the generated contributors.json and shows a name only
for entries the generator verified as written by that person (craftrules standards/contributors.md).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Contributors: regenerate (verified people.toml entries)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Merge origin/main into the NVENC branch. #183 already provides the
HardwareEncoding enum, ExportSettings.hardware_encoding, the
hardwareEncoding export param and the Export > Video > Hardware Encoding
checkbox, so the duplicates from this branch are dropped and NVENC uses
them. filmcraft-export is now an all-platform dependency of
filmcraft-platform (VideoToolbox and NVENC both register encoders).
Never-crash fixes in the NVENC backend:
- submit() rejects a driver input pitch narrower than a row (and unlocks
the buffer); fill_nv12 uses get_mut instead of slicing rows.
- composition offsets use saturating math and i32::try_from; frame-rate,
size and timestamp casts are checked; sizes above u16::MAX decline.
- Annex B scanning and NAL type checks use get()/first().
- A failed nvEncOpenEncodeSessionEx that returns a handle destroys it.
ffi.rs carries NVIDIA's MIT notice for nvEncodeAPI.h, listed in
ATTRIBUTION.md under a new "Third-party source code" section.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds `Format::Hevc` (Export > Format > H.265 (HEVC); `"format": "hevc"` in
`file.exportMedia`): HEVC Main, 8-bit 4:2:0, in MP4 (`hvc1`) or QuickTime, with AAC audio,
encoded by the macOS hardware encoder. There is no built-in H.265 encoder (one in pure Rust
is a project of its own, and x265 is GPL), so the format exists only where the OS has one.
- `videotoolbox_encode`: the session wrapper creates HEVC sessions too (`VtProfile::HevcMain`;
the profile also says which codec). Keyframes are the HEVC random access points (NAL types
16 to 21); the parameter sets are VPS / SPS / PPS; the `hvcC` record in the MP4 sample
entry is the one VideoToolbox writes (sample description extension atoms), so profile,
level and flags are the encoder's own. `VtEncoder::uses_hardware()` asks VideoToolbox
whether the session runs on a hardware encoder (a test checks H.264 and HEVC), so a
requirement dropped by accident could never become a silent software encode.
- `hardware_encode`: one adapter for both codecs. Choosing the format is the opt-in (the
`hardware_encoding` setting is for H.264). `hevc_available()` (one small hardware session,
created once) is registered with the new `filmcraft_export::register_format_probe`, so
`available(Format::Hevc)`, the format list of Export mode and `exportFormats` follow the
machine. `Format::has_builtin_encoder` says which formats need such a probe.
- `export`: `Format::is_h26x` where H.264 and H.265 behave alike (MP4 or QuickTime, AAC, size
estimate, summary line). Two-pass VBR is refused up front ("H.265 export has no two-pass
mode") and HDR sequences export as SDR, because there is no encoder to fall back to.
- Export mode: H.265 shows H.264's multiplexer, audio, metadata and bitrate controls, without
profile, level, two-pass or the hardware checkbox, and says "Encoder: Hardware".
Apple M1 (8 cores), 1080p25, a 9:29 timeline (camera clip, ProRes 4444 overlays, AAC,
loudness): hardware H.265 at 10 Mb/s 195 s, hardware H.264 at 20 Mb/s 204 s (CPU 1029 s and
1042 s; the same H.264 export took 193 s and 200 s on other runs). It is not faster: the codec
that compresses further is the more expensive one (raw encoders: 166 and 189 frames/s), and
the export is bound by the CPU compositor, not by the media engine.
Quality per bit, 30 s of the same timeline against a ProRes 422 HQ export (average PSNR over
the three planes, SSIM): 20 Mb/s 46.88 dB / 0.9902 (H.264) and 46.91 dB / 0.9903 (H.265);
10 Mb/s 44.96 / 0.9863 and 45.09 / 0.9863; 6 Mb/s 43.72 / 0.9833 and 44.31 / 0.9843; 4 Mb/s
42.91 / 0.9807 and 43.64 / 0.9825; 3 Mb/s 42.37 / 0.9786 and 43.05 / 0.9807. The same picture
at 10 Mb/s and above; at 3 to 6 Mb/s H.265 needs 22 to 31 % less bitrate for the same PSNR.
Both formats therefore keep the same default bitrate. Details in docs/performance.md (HW3).
Tests: tests/hardware_encode.rs gets the HEVC counterparts of the H.264 ones (what is taken
and declined, a round trip through our HEVC decoder with luma PSNR above 30 dB, keyframes, MP4
and QuickTime exports with AAC, ffmpeg / ffprobe reading `hevc` / `Main` / `hvc1` /
`yuv420p` / BT.709, exact sizes, hostile configurations, encoders dropped at any point, the
format list agreeing with the probe, sessions on the hardware encoder); settings_tests.rs
checks names, ids, defaults, the summary, two-pass refusal and the probe; export_ui.rs the
controls H.265 shows and hides.
Stacked on the hardware H.264 encoder (the first commit of this branch).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Export mode, the status bar and the Progress panel showed "Encoding 37%" and nothing about how
long the rest would take. They now say "37% · 2:05 left".
- `Progress::eta()` (the new `pace` module) is the time left at the job's speed over the last
15 seconds. Each call is also a reading, so the UI polling on every frame it draws the job
feeds it, and none of the places that advance `done` had to change. A trailing window follows
the real speed changes of an export (an intro, a banner, plain camera footage) where an
average since the start lags; a stall makes the estimate grow instead of freezing it; a long
idle start (the loudness pass) is not counted as the job's speed; nothing is shown until a
second of readings has progress, and nothing once the job is done or finished.
- `format_eta`: `45 s`, `2:05`, `1:02:05`, rounded up.
- Shown in the status bar ("Exporting... 37% · 2:05 left", and the `status.job.progress`
automation label), in the Export queue (on its own line: the column is narrow) and in the
Progress panel. The engine adds `etaSeconds` (null while unknown) to every job of `jobs.list`
and to the encoding items of `export.queue.list`; docs/agents.md says so.
Measured on a whole 9:29 export (193 s, Apple M1), asking every 3 s: the first estimate comes
after 6 s; from 30 s on, the predicted end of the export is on average 1.1 s early and never
more than 14.5 s off (7.5 % of the run). The status bar read "9% · 3:00 left" at 21 s and
"97% · 5 s left" at 184 s.
Tests: `pace` (steady job, speed change, stall, idle start, count going back, bounded history,
extreme values, a whole `Progress`), `format_eta`, the engine (`etaSeconds` of jobs and queue
items), and export_ui (status bar label and queue item).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The CPU compositor, which is what export runs, works on premultiplied linear f32 images,
33 MB each at 1080p, and every layer was one of them. A profile of a 9:29 export with a
hardware H.264 encoder (so the encoder is no longer the bottleneck) put 61-64 % of the busy
CPU in compositing, 12 % in zeroing and copying memory, 8-11 % each in the float -> 8-bit
and RGBA -> Y'CbCr conversions and 4-7 % in decoding the ProRes overlays: a banner that is
transparent except for its bottom 100 rows still cost a whole conversion and a whole mix,
and the bottom layer paid for a zero-filled canvas and a pass that mixes it over that canvas.
Three changes, each of which gives the bits the general path gives:
- The canvas is allocated when a layer needs it, and an opaque first layer (a Y'CbCr frame
without an alpha plane, opacity 100 %, Normal blend, the size of the output) becomes the
canvas instead of being mixed over zeros.
- A clip of plain media whose frame has an alpha plane (a ProRes 4444 banner) is converted
and mixed only inside the rectangle where its alpha is not zero: `VideoFrame::alpha_region`,
`to_linear_f32_region` and `blend::composite_at` (`composite` is `composite_at` at the
origin; Dissolve's pattern follows the pixel's place in the output). A clip with effects,
opacity masks, frame blending, colour management or a picture that is not placed one to
one on the output takes the general path, as before.
- `filmcraft_frame::pool` keeps idle f32 images (320 MiB at most). `take_f32_overwritten`
hands one back with its old contents, which the conversions overwrite whole (so no
zero-fill), and the export pipeline gives each frame's image back after the 8-bit
conversion.
Apple M1 (8 cores), a machine that was not idle, so the two builds alternate and the
median is reported:
- Synthetic 1080p frame (`cargo run --release -p filmcraft-render --example frame_bench`,
5 rounds): camera only 8.9 -> 6.5 ms, camera + banner 16.2 -> 7.8 ms, same picture checksum.
- A real project (1080p25 camera clip, ProRes 4444 banner and subscribe bar), 30 s with the
banner exported with the built-in encoder, which is deterministic: 46.4 -> 36.7 s, and
both exports are the same file (same MD5), so every frame of the real pipeline matches.
- The same project with a hardware encoder, 3 rounds: 30 s with the banner 17.4 -> 11.2 s
(CPU 99 -> 56 s), 30 s of the camera alone 11.4 -> 8.8 s, 20 s with the subscribe bar
11.1 -> 7.0 s.
Tests: `render/src/region_tests.rs` compares each shortcut with the general path bit for bit
(an opaque bottom layer, banners over and under a camera, an 8-bit sticker, every blend mode,
several opacities, moved, scaled and effect clips, a bigger source, reduced-resolution
rendering), each render twice so the second starts from recycled buffers, and checks which
layers take a shortcut; the frame tests check that a region is the crop of the whole
conversion, that `alpha_region` is the box around what is not transparent, and that a buffer
full of NaN never leaks into a conversion, for every pixel format. Breaking a shortcut on
purpose (a region one pixel off, an opaque layer taken as the canvas at half opacity, a
conversion that skips the alpha channel) makes them fail.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Export encodes H.264 on the CPU with the built-in encoder, which is most of the time
of an export (about two thirds of the busy CPU in a profile of a 20 s export). On
macOS the media engine can do it: a VideoToolbox compression session behind
`filmcraft_export::VideoEncoder`, registered by `filmcraft_platform::register()`.
- `ExportSettings::hardware_encoding` (`HardwareEncoding::Off` | `Auto`; Export > Video >
Hardware Encoding, `"hardwareEncoding": "off|auto"` in `file.exportMedia`, a boolean is
understood too), off by default: the built-in encoder's output is byte-identical on
every machine, a hardware encoder's is not.
- `videotoolbox_encode` (FFI, same containment as the decoder: SAFETY comments, no
panic across the callback, safe API) and `hardware_encode` (safe adapter and factory).
- The factory declines, so the built-in encoder is used, for other formats, MXF, two-pass
VBR, HDR, odd sizes, non-square pixels and any configuration VideoToolbox cannot create a
hardware session for. An encoder that fails mid-export stops it with an error: unlike a
decoder, it cannot hand a half-written stream to another one.
- No B-frames: on real 1080p footage the quality is the same with and without them
(+-0.3 dB at equal bitrate) and the bitrate lands closer to the target, and without
them every frame is presented at its decode time (no composition offsets, no edit list).
- `export::register_encoder` ignores a factory registered twice; `encoder_registered`.
Apple M1, 8 cores, single runs: a 9:29 timeline (camera clip, ProRes 4444 overlays with
alpha, AAC, loudness) exports in 311 s instead of 793 s (2.5x faster); its densest 134 s
in 84 s instead of 395 s (4.7x). The outputs compare at SSIM 0.990 / PSNR 46.5 dB. The encoder
alone runs 200 fps at 1080p (docs/performance.md).
Tests (tests/hardware_encode.rs): what is taken and declined, a round trip through our
software decoder, an export that decodes in our decoder and in ffmpeg, the fallback for
everything hardware declines, exact output sizes, an empty range, hostile configurations
and encoders dropped at any point; the engine's `hardwareEncoding` parameter.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Every layer of the selected graphic was outlined on the Program monitor,
so a box stayed after its layer was deselected, and a layer whose
visibility was off kept its box and could still be clicked and dragged.
As in Premiere Pro 26: a layer has a box only while it is selected (or
typed into), and a layer whose visibility is off is not on the monitor
at all: no box, no handles, no click target.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Extends the Windows backend (#141) to VP9 (profiles 0 and 2) and AV1 (main, 8/10-bit), 4:2:0.
- codecs::hw: FrameStreamInfo (vpcC / av1C): profile, bit depth, chroma, picture size and colour as
the software decoders report them (vp9_color / av1_color are now shared with them), random-access
samples, in-band format changes; StreamInfo lets HybridDecoder handle NAL and frame-coded streams.
- platform: media_foundation::stream (what each codec needs: DXVA profile, MFT request, input
format), MfDecoder generalised; VP9 frames / AV1 temporal units go in as they are; the MFT's
declared picture size (display aperture) is checked against the bitstream's.
- Declined up front: VP9 profiles 1/3, AV1 profiles 1/2, 4:2:2/4:4:4, mono, 12-bit, no codec
extension, no DXVA profile. A key frame of another size or a different sequence header falls back
to the software decoder.
- Tests: bit-exact parity (360p / 1080p / 2160p, seeks, resets, flush, hidden frames), forced
failure, damaged samples and av1C, format change fallback, WebM / Matroska through the media stack.
- Bench: AV1 fixtures with libaom when ffmpeg lacks SVT-AV1.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MMorBHwct72udS2LiC3ZHp
- docs/releasing.md (#99): release.yml points readers to it twice and it didn't exist. Written from
the workflow and packaging scripts as they are (macOS, Windows x64/x86/arm64, Linux x86_64/aarch64
with the glibc 2.35 floor, web; draft release, secrets).
- filmcraft-cli help (#86): export lists --scale, --quality, --no-audio and --queue, and apv among
the formats.
- README (#87): more than 650 engine commands (671 today), not about 135.
- README (#88): the web line says the browser app ships with every release and links docs/web.md.
- CLAUDE.md (#85): the Illustrator-class sibling is ../vectorcraft (formerly DrawCraft).
Fixes#85Fixes#86Fixes#87Fixes#88Fixes#99
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file.exportMedia with wait: true was forwarded to the app unchanged. The app then encoded on its UI
thread: it showed no progress and answered no other control request until the encode ended, and the
control server's 60 s reply limit reported "timeout" for any longer export while it went on and
succeeded.
BridgeClient::execute now starts the export without wait and polls jobs.list until the job
finishes, returning the same {job, path, result} (or the export's error). filmcraft-cli --bridge
exec and MCP bridge mode both use it, and MCP command_run in bridge mode now gets the same progress
notifications and cancellation as headless mode.
Tested against a fake app (wait: true never reaches it, one export started, result and error
returned) and end to end against the desktop app: a blocking demo export returned its 642-frame
result with exit 0 while ui.inspect was answered in ~0.05 s throughout.
Fixes#91Fixes#92
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- transcript.generate is enabled only with a recogniser: one installed in
Session::transcriber, or the build's own (feature `whisper`). Otherwise
describe, command_list enabled_only and the menu report it disabled with
"speech-to-text is not available in this build" as the reason (#97).
Transcribe Sequence, which runs it, follows.
- transcript.downloadModel is enabled only with `speech-download` (#98).
- file.import with Automatically transcribe clips on no longer skips
transcription silently when it can't run: the disabled command's reason
lands in the import's errors as "transcription: ..." (#89).
- docs/transcripts.md describes the disabled state.
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Both tools are annotated readOnlyHint, but a call with `seconds` moved the active sequence's
playhead (and, with Selection Follows Playhead on, the selection) to that time, in headless and
bridge mode alike.
- headless: Session::render_program_at renders the frame at `seconds` (frame-snapped, as the
playhead would be) without touching the session.
- bridge: the Program monitor screenshot needs the live playhead there, so the tool records the
playhead and selection, takes the screenshot and puts both back (the selection only if it changed,
since selecting also leaves trim mode).
Regression test: rendering at 5 s and 8 s with Selection Follows Playhead on leaves playhead and
selection unchanged and still renders the requested frame (it moved the playhead to 8 s before).
Fixes#114
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A text layer is now one of two types, each with Premiere Pro 26's handles:
- Point text (Type tool click): every handle scales the layer about its
anchor point, both axes alike; the font size is untouched.
- Paragraph text (Type tool drag): the dragged rectangle is a box the text
wraps in. Handles move that side or corner of the box, the opposite side
stays, the text re-wraps at the same size. Lines below the box are not
shown and the bottom-right handle turns into a red plus.
- The anchor point can be dragged with the Selection tool; the layer stays.
It is picked before anything under it, so a shape dragged by its exact
centre moves its anchor.
- Properties > Text > wrench opens Text Properties, where Text Layer Type
switches a layer between the two (graphics.setTextType); the text stays
where it is.
Shapes keep stretching away from their opposite side.
New: text layer parameter box_height, graphics.newText `box`, and
textType / box / overflow / anchor / scale in graphics.list. A layer saved
before a parameter existed can now be given it with graphics.set.
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Problem: playback decoded and mixed every ~10 ms device buffer inside the
cpal callback (AAC decode, effects, opening a clip's file at a cut, rayon,
locks). On a loaded Mac any stall missed the device deadline: static and
dropouts, different on every play.
Solution: play_ahead mixes on its own thread into a lock-free ring kept
200 ms ahead; the callback only copies. An underrun plays silence, is
counted, and the mixer skips the same span so sound stays locked to the
picture. Any device width plays the channels it shares with the mix.
perf.stats reports playback.audio (callbacks, underruns, missingFrames,
minLeadMs). The program mix moved to playback_mix so bench_audio can play a
real project through a simulated 48 kHz device and count dropouts.
Context: on a real 22-sequence project, load average 38-58, 15 s per cut:
mixing in the callback overran 8-170 times, mixing ahead 0 (ring never
below 149 ms). The web build keeps mixing in its callback (no threads).
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A line that is not a JSON object with a string `method` (an HTTP request
line, other non-JSON text, a JSON array, invalid UTF-8, a line over 4 MiB)
now gets one error reply and the connection is closed, so a browser's
cross-origin fetch can't smuggle a command in its body. Connections are
capped at 16. Same transport as LightCraft (storytold/lightcraft#129).
Fixes#119.
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docs/architecture.md still listed every nested sequence among the things
rendered on the CPU and handed to the GPU as one image. Since NEST11 that
holds only for nests that are not plain.
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