feat(editor): add webcam crop, output gain, and Add to timeline by vitaligusatinsky · Pull Request #344 · getopenscreen/openscreen

vitaligusatinsky · 2026-08-11T13:59:29Z

Summary

Finishing controls for the editor, from @vitaligusatinsky's original PR, narrowed to what the preview and the native export can both honour.

Webcam crop — zoom 100–300% plus horizontal and vertical pan, authored in the editor and applied identically in the preview and in the native export on macOS, Windows and Linux. webcam_source_rect preserves the authored rectangle before aspect-ratio fitting, and croppedWebcamSize feeds computeCompositeLayout, so the two sides lay the frame out from the same numbers rather than from two derivations of them.
Output gain — a ±12 dB trim. The same 10 ** (dB / 20) scalar drives a GainNode in the preview and a per-sample multiply in finish_audio, so the two agree by construction rather than by care.
Add to timeline — dropping a media asset onto the timeline already worked; this puts the same action on a button in the media stage, for anyone who cannot or would rather not drag. The insertion is serialised onto the timeline’s operation queue, because adding the button is what made the race reachable: it has no pending state, so a double-click sent two adds that both read the pre-insert document and the second save clobbered the first — a lost clip, not a mis-ordered one.
The preview’s audio routes through the gain node. The <video> is muted and its audio runs through <audio> elements summed into a GainNode, because element.volume cannot boost past 0 dB — without the node the trim could only ever attenuate. It also wires up prepare-preview-audio-track, which had been sitting in the main process with nothing calling it: on a macOS .mp4 carrying two audio tracks it extracts the second so both are audible. That is a legacy-file path, not a current fix — every platform has muxed one mixed track since 31 July (Linux e1123e1b, macOS efe5accc) and Windows never wrote two, so on any recent recording the handler reports no supplemental track and the primary element carries the audio.

Scene settings are persisted, clamped to one shared bound (AUDIO_GAIN_DB_LIMIT), serialised to the native export, and localised across all 13 locales.

What came out along the way

The PR originally also carried a waveform, an audio sync offset and voice auto-mastering. All three are gone:

Waveform — already on main since 29 July. git diff main...HEAD on this branch contains no waveform code; the original description double-counted it.
Auto-mastering (high-pass, compression, RMS normalisation, limiting) — not reproducible between preview and export with this architecture. The whole-programme RMS makeup is measured over the assembled timeline; the preview plays the untouched source file, seeked, and never holds that programme. Removed rather than shipped as "consistent". Full reasoning: comment.
Sync offset — the same problem, one round quieter. finish_audio runs after speed stretching and clip concatenation, so it shifts by timeline seconds; the preview subtracted it from an element running at the active speed region's rate, so it shifted by source seconds. Inside a 2× region a +500 ms authored offset was 500 ms in the export and 250 ms in the preview. Full reasoning: comment.

Both are welcome back as their own PRs on the terms set out in those comments. SceneAudio carries gainDb and nothing else, and the tests assert the payload's key set, so a further stage can't slip back in without someone deciding this question on purpose.

Related issue

None — no tracking issue.

Type of change

Bug fix
Feature
Refactor / maintenance

Release impact

Minor

Desktop impact

Windows
macOS
Linux

Screenshots / video

Webcam crop and the audio pane are in the editor's right-hand inspector; Add to timeline is on the media stage's selection toolbar.

Testing

tsc, tsc -p tsconfig.test.json, biome check . and npm run i18n:check (12 locales against en) all pass.
Full Vitest suite: 156 files, 1818 passed, 5 skipped. Of note:
- sceneDescription.test.ts — the serialised audio payload exposes gainDb and nothing else.
- useSequentialTimelineOps.test.ts — a queued clip insertion runs after the timeline op ahead of it has committed, and a throwing insertion doesn't stall the queue.
- VirtualPreview.audio.test.ts — a zero-length supplemental track reads as ended instead of being seeked and replayed for the whole timeline.
- MediaStage.test.ts — the success toast fires after the insertion resolves, not before.
The Rust crate can't be built locally here (no vendored ffmpeg), so the three Rust CI jobs are the real check on audio.rs, scene.rs and frame_geometry.rs. Workflow runs need re-approving after each push, since this is a fork PR.

Summary by CodeRabbit

New Features
- Added output gain controls for audio previews and exported videos.
- Added webcam crop and framing controls with zoom and pan adjustments.
- Added an “Add to timeline” action for selected media assets.
- Improved preview audio synchronization, including supplemental audio tracks.
Bug Fixes
- Corrected browser-based media URL handling.
- Improved webcam cropping consistency across platforms.
- Reduced clipping and unwanted noise in processed audio.
Localization
- Added translated labels and messages across supported languages.

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Walkthrough

The change adds scene-level audio gain processing, authored webcam cropping, editor controls, synchronized audio preview, and asynchronous media-stage timeline insertion across the Rust compositor and TypeScript editor.

Changes

Scene media controls

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Scene settings contracts and serialization `crates/compositor/src/scene.rs`, `src/lib/ai-edition/store/editorSettings.ts`, `src/native/sceneDescription.ts`, `src/native/sceneDescription.test.ts`	Scene and editor settings now store webcam crop regions and audio gain. Scene serialization carries these values into compositor inputs.
Authored webcam cropping `crates/compositor/src/frame_geometry.rs`, `crates/compositor/src/compositor_.rs`, `src/components/ai-edition/RightPanes.tsx`, `src/i18n/locales//settings.json`	Compositor source rectangles preserve authored webcam crops before aspect-ratio fitting. The editor provides zoom and pan controls with localized labels.
Audio finalization and export `crates/compositor/src/audio.rs`, `crates/compositor/src/pipeline_*.rs`	PCM finalization normalizes channels, applies bounded gain and clipping, and runs before AAC encoding on Linux, macOS, and Windows.
Audio controls and synchronized preview `src/components/ai-edition/RightPanes.tsx`, `src/components/ai-edition/VirtualPreview.tsx`, `src/components/ai-edition/v4/FloatingInspector.tsx`, `src/components/ai-edition/VirtualPreview.audio.test.ts`	The editor exposes audio settings. Preview playback synchronizes primary and supplemental audio through Web Audio processing.

Media timeline insertion

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Serialized timeline insertion `src/lib/ai-edition/store/useSequentialTimelineOps.ts`, `src/components/ai-edition/NewEditorShell.tsx`, `src/components/ai-edition/v4/V4Timeline.tsx`	The shared queue serializes document mutations and timeline operations. Asset insertion reads the current append position inside the queued task.
Add selected media to timeline `src/components/ai-edition/v4/MediaStage.tsx`, `src/components/ai-edition/NewEditorShell.module.css`, `src/i18n/locales/*/editor.json`	Selected media can be added to the timeline through an asynchronous editor callback. The action includes localized labels, success feedback, error propagation, and tests.

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~120 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to f4be8

The new audio sync controls can produce exported audio that differs from the editor preview after speed changes or at clip boundaries. This correctness risk should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merge.

Possibly related PRs

getopenscreen/openscreen#66: The webcam crop and compositor geometry changes use the same webcam rendering and layout paths.
getopenscreen/openscreen#176: The audio finalization and scene audio settings overlap with the CLI export and voiceover audio-processing pipeline.

Suggested reviewers: etiennelescot

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant EditorSettings
  participant SceneDescription
  participant Compositor
  participant AudioPreview
  participant AACEncoder
  EditorSettings->>SceneDescription: serialize audio and webcam crop settings
  SceneDescription->>Compositor: provide scene media settings
  Compositor->>AudioPreview: synchronize preview audio
  Compositor->>AACEncoder: provide finalized PCM
  AACEncoder->>AACEncoder: encode AAC track

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vitaligusatinsky · 2026-08-11T14:48:14Z

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src/components/ai-edition/VirtualPreview.audio.test.ts (1)

14-19: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add a case for an unknown duration.

src/components/ai-edition/VirtualPreview.tsx passes audio.duration, which is NaN until the media metadata loads. resolveAudioPreviewTime handles that through the Number.isFinite fallback, but no test covers it. A NaN case pins the "play while the duration is still unknown" behavior.

Attribution: the coding guidelines require "Add a test for every new behavior in the same package as the code under test."
💚 Proposed additional test
 	it("stops instead of seeking past the track", () => {
 		expect(resolveAudioPreviewTime(9.9, -160, 10)).toEqual({
 			targetTimeSec: 10,
 			shouldPlay: false,
 		});
 	});
+
+	it("plays while the duration is still unknown", () => {
+		expect(resolveAudioPreviewTime(1, 0, Number.NaN)).toEqual({
+			targetTimeSec: 1,
+			shouldPlay: true,
+		});
+	});
 });
🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

In `@src/components/ai-edition/VirtualPreview.audio.test.ts` around lines 14 - 19,
Add a test case alongside the existing resolveAudioPreviewTime tests for an
unknown duration represented by NaN, asserting the fallback behavior allows
playback while metadata is unavailable. Use the existing test structure and
resolveAudioPreviewTime symbol, without changing production logic.
Source: Coding guidelines

crates/compositor/src/audio.rs (1)

120-135: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Shift the PCM in place to avoid a second full-length buffer.

shifted allocates a complete copy of the PCM. For a long export the assembled PCM is already large (48 kHz × channels × duration), so this doubles peak audio memory for the whole finalization step. copy_within plus a zero fill of the vacated region gives the same result without the extra allocation.

♻️ Proposed in-place shift

-    let mut shifted = vec![vec![0.0f32; samples]; pcm.len()];
     if shift > 0 {
         let destination = (shift as usize).min(samples);
         let count = samples - destination;
-        for channel in 0..pcm.len() {
-            shifted[channel][destination..destination + count]
-                .copy_from_slice(&pcm[channel][..count]);
+        for channel in pcm.iter_mut() {
+            channel.copy_within(..count, destination);
+            channel[..destination].fill(0.0);
         }
     } else {
         let source = ((-shift) as usize).min(samples);
         let count = samples - source;
-        for channel in 0..pcm.len() {
-            shifted[channel][..count].copy_from_slice(&pcm[channel][source..source + count]);
+        for channel in pcm.iter_mut() {
+            channel.copy_within(source.., 0);
+            channel[count..].fill(0.0);
         }
     }
-    shifted
+    pcm

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In `@crates/compositor/src/audio.rs` around lines 120 - 135, Update the PCM shift
logic to operate directly on the existing pcm buffer instead of allocating
shifted in the relevant audio-processing function. Use in-place slice movement
such as copy_within for both shift directions, then zero-fill the vacated
region, while preserving the current clamping and output behavior.

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Inline comments:
In `@src/components/ai-edition/v4/MediaStage.tsx`:
- Around line 98-102: add colocated Vitest coverage for MediaStage’s
addSelectedToTimeline action, verifying the selected asset ID is forwarded to
onAddToTimeline and that no call occurs when selected is absent; if rendering
MediaStage, use the jsdom environment directive, otherwise keep the default Node
environment.
- Around line 98-101: Update addSelectedToTimeline so the success toast uses the
displayed asset name, falling back to basename(selected.originalPath) when
selected.label is empty, matching the media card’s existing name-resolution
behavior.

In `@src/components/ai-edition/VirtualPreview.tsx`:
- Around line 188-216: Update the WebAudio setup effect around audioGraphRef and
createMediaElementSource to cache one MediaElementAudioSourceNode per
HTMLAudioElement in a WeakMap and reuse it across effect reruns, including
StrictMode remounts. Ensure cached nodes remain connected to the active
processing graph without recreating them or leaving elements attached to closed
contexts; preserve the existing cleanup and fallback behavior.
- Around line 175-179: Update the preparePreviewAudioTrack flow in
VirtualPreview so rejected IPC calls are handled and still mark audio probing
complete. Add a rejection path alongside the existing success handler that
clears or preserves the appropriate supplemental audio source, calls
setAudioProbeComplete(true), and prevents an unhandled promise rejection.
- Around line 218-237: Ensure the mastering-parameter effect also runs after the
audio graph is created, rather than relying on the ref update to trigger it.
Track graph creation with state and include that state in the effect
dependencies, or extract the parameter assignments from the effect and invoke
that function immediately after graph creation while preserving the existing
settings behavior.
- Around line 757-780: Stabilize the audio element ref callbacks in
VirtualPreview by wrapping the primary and supplemental ref handlers with
useCallback. Preserve assigning both the corresponding audio ref and state
setter, and ensure dependencies include the referenced setters and refs so
callbacks do not change on each render.

In `@src/i18n/locales/ar/settings.json`:
- Around line 56-59: Translate the English values for layout.webcamFraming,
layout.webcamCropZoom, layout.webcamCropX, layout.webcamCropY, and every entry
in the audio group within the Arabic settings locale, while preserving valid
JSON and the existing key structure. Verify all 13 settings locale files contain
these keys and run the provided i18n check to confirm no required values are
missing or unintentionally untranslated.

In `@src/i18n/locales/es/settings.json`:
- Around line 56-59: Translate the new user-visible webcam framing labels and
audio labels/help text, replacing the English fallback values while preserving
the existing JSON keys. Update src/i18n/locales/es/settings.json at lines 56-59
and 305-311 in Spanish, src/i18n/locales/fr/settings.json at lines 56-59 and
305-311 in French, src/i18n/locales/it/settings.json at lines 56-59 and 305-311
in Italian, src/i18n/locales/ja-JP/settings.json at lines 56-59 and 305-311 in
Japanese, src/i18n/locales/ko-KR/settings.json at lines 56-59 and 305-311 in
Korean, and src/i18n/locales/pt-BR/settings.json at lines 56-59 and 305-311 in
Brazilian Portuguese.

In `@src/i18n/locales/ru/settings.json`:
- Around line 56-59: Translate the new webcam framing/crop labels and audio
labels/help text in all affected locale files: src/i18n/locales/ru/settings.json
lines 56-59 and 304-311, src/i18n/locales/tr/settings.json lines 56-59 and
304-311, src/i18n/locales/vi/settings.json lines 56-59 and 304-311,
src/i18n/locales/zh-CN/settings.json lines 56-59 and 304-311, and
src/i18n/locales/zh-TW/settings.json lines 57-60 and 305-312. Use accurate
Russian, Turkish, Vietnamese, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese
translations, preserve JSON validity across all 13 locale files, and run the
i18n check.

In `@src/lib/ai-edition/store/editorSettings.ts`:
- Around line 258-269: Update normaliseCropRegion so x and y are clamped to 1 -
MIN_CROP_SIZE instead of 1 before width and height are calculated, preserving
the minimum crop size at the edges. Keep the existing dimension clamping and
fallback behavior unchanged.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@crates/compositor/src/audio.rs`:
- Around line 120-135: Update the PCM shift logic to operate directly on the
existing pcm buffer instead of allocating shifted in the relevant
audio-processing function. Use in-place slice movement such as copy_within for
both shift directions, then zero-fill the vacated region, while preserving the
current clamping and output behavior.

In `@src/components/ai-edition/VirtualPreview.audio.test.ts`:
- Around line 14-19: Add a test case alongside the existing
resolveAudioPreviewTime tests for an unknown duration represented by NaN,
asserting the fallback behavior allows playback while metadata is unavailable.
Use the existing test structure and resolveAudioPreviewTime symbol, without
changing production logic.

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crates/compositor/src/frame_geometry.rs
crates/compositor/src/pipeline_linux.rs
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src/components/ai-edition/v4/FloatingInspector.tsx
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vitaligusatinsky · 2026-08-11T15:25:35Z

All CodeRabbit findings are addressed in 3d1cd3f, including both nitpicks: the PCM shift is in-place and NaN media duration remains playable. Verification: full Vitest suite 1705 passed / 1 skipped, app and test TypeScript checks passed, i18n passed all 12 locales, lint passed with only pre-existing warnings, and Rust passed 129 tests. An independent verifier audited the exact diff and all 12 findings with no blocker.

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@vitaligusatinsky I will review the updates in commit 3d1cd3f2, including the PCM shift and non-finite media-duration handling.

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In `@src/components/ai-edition/v4/MediaStage.tsx`:
- Around line 38-43: The addSelectedAssetToTimeline flow should return and await
insertClipAt before calling onSuccess, rather than showing success immediately
after starting the insertion. Update the related handleDropAsset promise chain
to catch insertion failures and display an error toast, while preserving the
existing success label behavior after successful completion.

In `@src/components/ai-edition/VirtualPreview.tsx`:
- Around line 143-144: Move the settings ref assignments currently performed
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committed setting values. Update both refs only after commit, while preserving
their existing values and ensuring the rAF loop and audio-graph setup continue
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vitaligusatinsky · 2026-08-14T13:21:06Z

Exact-head readiness checkpoint: b12d135 is rebased onto canonical main fa9719a (0 behind / 4 feature commits ahead). Fresh focused editor tests passed 19/19; app and test TypeScript checks passed; changed TypeScript/TSX files passed Biome; native compositor tests passed 137/137. The independently found CRLF diff hygiene issue was normalized only in the 14 added CSS lines, and the exact branch diff now passes git diff --check. Independent implementation review returned GO. Landing remains externally blocked by upstream maintainer approval and zero-job Actions; no merge was attempted. The exact branch remains remote-backed and its local task worktree/cache was removed.

EtienneLescot · 2026-08-15T12:51:49Z

Thanks for this — the webcam crop and the Add to timeline action are exactly the kind of finishing controls the editor was missing, and the TS→Rust crop parity work (webcam_source_rect + croppedWebcamSize feeding computeCompositeLayout) is careful.

I've rebased the branch onto main and pushed one commit on top that removes the auto-mastering. I did the removal myself rather than asking for it because the reasoning is a product call on my side, not a defect in your implementation. Everything else in the PR is untouched.

Why

The PR describes the mastering as "applied consistently in preview and native export". I went to verify that and it doesn't hold — and it can't, with this architecture:

High-pass: preview is a BiquadFilterNode (2nd order, Q 0.707, −12 dB/oct); export is a hand-rolled 1st-order RC (−6 dB/oct). Different slope.
Compressor: preview is Chromium's DynamicsCompressorNode (soft knee 12 dB, spec lookahead); export is a hard-knee peak-envelope compressor. Different detector, different curve.
RMS normalisation: audio.rs:88-104 applies a makeup of up to ×4 (+12 dB) or down to ×0.1 (−20 dB). The preview has no equivalent stage at all.

The last one is the blocker, and it isn't a matter of porting the code. That makeup is a single scalar measured over the assembled timeline — after trims, speed regions and concatenation. The preview plays the untouched source file, seeked; it never holds that programme, and the scalar changes with every trim. So it cannot be reproduced live short of rendering the export's audio assembly in the renderer.

The filter and the compressor have a milder version of the same problem: they carry state across cuts on the export side and not on the preview side. Those two could be brought to near-parity (IIRFilterNode with the Rust coefficients, plus an AudioWorkletNode running the same difference equations) — but that's a real chunk of work, it needs a numeric parity test to stay honest, and loading an AudioWorklet module from inside app.asar is a packaging trap this repo has hit before. Not something to carry on the same PR as a crop control.

Two things pushed me from "needs work" to "remove":

audioAutoMaster defaulted to true. Existing documents carry no legacyEditor.audioAutoMaster, so getEditorSettings returned true for every project ever recorded — each one would have come out at a different level on its next export with nothing changed. (Worth noting the Rust side defaulted the same flag to false, so the two ends of the boundary disagreed about what "default" meant.)
Even with the toggle off, preview ≠ export: the high-pass and compressor stayed wired into the graph and were only neutralised (20 Hz, ratio 1) rather than disconnected, and DynamicsCompressorNode adds its own pre-delay regardless of settings. The export applied nothing.

What I kept, and why it's provable

Sync offset and output gain stay. A whole-sample delay and a linear gain are the only operations that land identically on the source file and on the assembled timeline:

	Preview	Export
Output gain	`GainNode.gain = 10 ** (dB / 20)`	`trim = 10f32.powf(dB / 20)`
Sync offset	seek `audio.currentTime`	integer sample shift

The preview graph is now source → gain → destination. The GainNode has to stay because element.volume can't boost past 0 dB.

A few things I fixed while I was in there:

One range instead of three. Sliders, store and finish_audio all clamp to ±500 ms / ±12 dB, via exported AUDIO_OFFSET_MS_LIMIT / AUDIO_GAIN_DB_LIMIT. They were ±500/±12, ±2000/−24…+18 and ±2000/−24…+18 respectively, so a value from the agent or a hand-edited project could export an offset the UI couldn't display.
The WebAudio fallback no longer mutes the preview. If routing one element threw, the catch disconnected every source node and fell back to element.volume — which does nothing once createMediaElementSource has run for that element, since its audio no longer reaches the default destination. The try/catch is per-element now.
SceneAudio gained per-field serde defaults, so a payload from a build predating a field degrades to "that stage is neutral" instead of failing the whole scene.
Tests: 4 in sceneDescription.test.ts (one asserts the payload exposes only offsetMs and gainDb, so a future stage can't slip in unnoticed), and the Rust tests rewritten — one pins the 10^(dB/20) identity with the preview, one covers the bounds. The old offset test passed by relying on the ±1 output clamp (inputs of 2.0/3.0); it now uses in-range values so it actually tests the shift.
audio.help rewritten in all 13 locales — it still described automatic voice cleanup.

tsc, tsc -p tsconfig.test.json, Biome, i18n:check and 300 tests across src/components/ai-edition, src/lib/ai-edition/store and src/native all pass locally. I couldn't build the Rust crate here (no vendored ffmpeg), so the three Rust CI jobs are the real check on audio.rs and scene.rs.

On the description

One correction for the record: the first bullet claims the PR draws the audio waveform in the timeline. That's been on main since 29 July — git diff main...HEAD in this branch contains no waveform code. Worth trimming from the description so the changelog doesn't double-count it.

If you want the mastering back

It's a good feature and I'd take it as its own PR, on these terms:

Drop the whole-programme RMS/makeup — it's the only edit-dependent stage, and it's what makes parity impossible.
IIRFilterNode with the Rust coefficients + an AudioWorkletNode for the compressor; disconnect both when the toggle is off rather than neutralising them.
A numeric parity test: same input buffer through Rust and through a JS port, max abs diff under a stated tolerance.
Default false.

Residual divergence at clip boundaries (filter state and compressor envelope crossing a cut on one side only) is fine as long as it's documented rather than claimed away.

Happy to review that one whenever you get to it. Thanks again for the crop work — that part is landing as you wrote it.

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src/components/ai-edition/v4/MediaStage.test.ts (1)
5-17: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Test the completion boundary explicitly.

The current onAdd mock resolves immediately. The test passes even if addSelectedAssetToTimeline calls onSuccess before onAddToTimeline completes. Use a deferred promise, assert that onSuccess is still unused while insertion is pending, then resolve the insertion and assert the fallback label.
Suggested test adjustment
-		const onAdd = vi.fn(async () => undefined);
+		let resolveAdd!: () => void;
+		const onAdd = vi.fn(
+			() =>
+				new Promise<void>((resolve) => {
+					resolveAdd = resolve;
+				}),
+		);
...
-		await addSelectedAssetToTimeline(
+		const pending = addSelectedAssetToTimeline(
 			{ id: "asset-7", label: "", originalPath: "/recordings/demo.mp4" },
 			onAdd,
 			onSuccess,
 		);
 
 		expect(onAdd).toHaveBeenCalledWith("asset-7");
+		expect(onSuccess).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+		resolveAdd();
+		await pending;
 		expect(onSuccess).toHaveBeenCalledWith("demo.mp4");
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In `@src/components/ai-edition/v4/MediaStage.test.ts` around lines 5 - 17, Update
the test for addSelectedAssetToTimeline to use a deferred onAdd promise, assert
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In `@crates/compositor/src/audio.rs`:
- Around line 1169-1176: Strengthen the offset-clamping test around finish_audio
by replacing the two-sample constant input with an impulse buffer longer than
AUDIO_OUTPUT_SAMPLE_RATE / 2, then assert that the impulse appears exactly at
the 500 ms sample index when offset_ms is 9,999. Preserve the existing gain_db
setup and verify the output position distinguishes the 500 ms clamp from the
requested delay.

In `@src/components/ai-edition/v4/V4Timeline.tsx`:
- Line 1548: Update handleDropAsset and the onDropAsset flow to serialize rapid
asset drops through a sequential queue before invoking insertClipAt. Read the
current document and clips length inside each queued operation, compute the
append index there, and then perform the save so each drop observes the prior
drop’s result.

In `@src/components/ai-edition/VirtualPreview.tsx`:
- Around line 36-46: Update resolveAudioPreviewTime and its callers to interpret
offsetMs in timeline time, converting it according to the active clip’s playback
speed before deriving source time. Route the required audio source across
adjacent clip boundaries when the offset places playback in a previous or next
asset, and preserve correct clamping and shouldPlay behavior. Add coverage for
non-1× speeds and cross-asset boundary cases.

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In `@src/components/ai-edition/v4/MediaStage.test.ts`:
- Around line 5-17: Update the test for addSelectedAssetToTimeline to use a
deferred onAdd promise, assert onSuccess has not been called while insertion is
pending, then resolve the promise and await completion before asserting
onSuccess receives the fallback filename label "demo.mp4".

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EtienneLescot · 2026-08-16T19:08:12Z

Two more commits. Three of the four review points were valid on inspection; one of them turned out to apply to the sync offset as well, so that has gone too.

The sync offset is out

@coderabbitai is right, and I'd asserted the opposite in my last comment — the offset is not parity-safe either.

finish_audio runs after stretch_clip_pcm_by_speed and assemble_concatenated_pcm (pipeline_windows.rs:1436-1470), so the value it shifts by is in timeline seconds. The preview subtracts it from v.currentTime on an element whose playbackRate is the active speed region (VirtualPreview.tsx:606), so the value it shifts by is in source seconds. Inside a 2× region, a +500 ms authored offset was 500 ms of delay in the export and 250 ms in the preview.

Scaling by the speed factor would fix that and not the rest. The export shifts the whole programme uniformly, so within |offset| of every cut it pulls audio across the junction, while the preview clamps into the active asset's own duration and mutes. Routing the neighbouring asset's audio is not a small change, and it is not one this PR should be carrying.

So the AudioPane is one slider and a reset now. Output gain is the only audio setting left, and it is exactly equal on both sides by construction: the same 10 ** (dB / 20) scalar, fed to a GainNode in the preview and applied per-sample in finish_audio. SceneAudio carries gainDb and nothing else, and the tests assert the key set rather than just the values, so the next stage cannot be added without someone deciding this question again on purpose.

resolveAudioPreviewTime became resolveAudioTrackPlayback — the audio elements now just mirror the video's time. It still exists rather than being inlined because the supplemental track is extracted separately and can end before the video does; seeking past its end leaves the element stuck in seeking.

The other two

The timeline-add race is real, and worse than mis-ordering. insertClipAt is a read-modify-write of the whole document, so two adds in flight both read the pre-insert doc and the second saveDocument clobbers the first — a lost clip, not just one in the wrong place. Two adds is one double-click on Add to timeline (the button has no pending state) or two quick drags.

This repo had already reached that conclusion once: useSequentialTimelineOps describes the same race in its file header. So the queue here is built the same way — chain off the previous promise, read the append index inside the chain, swallow rejections only on the stored promise so a failed add can't poison the queue. It can't route through apply() because inserting a clip isn't an AxcutTimelineOperation; it carries its own background duration probe.

The offset-clamp test assertion was mine and it was worthless. On a two-sample buffer every delay past its length yields silence, so it passed for a 500 ms clamp and would have passed for no clamp at all. Moot now that the offset is gone, but the same review comment applied to the gain bounds, and those tests now assert real values plus full-scale clipping and length preservation.

MediaStage's success test resolved onAdd immediately, so it passed whether the toast fired before or after the insertion — the one thing it exists to pin. It defers the resolution now and asserts onSuccess is untouched while the insert is pending.

Where that leaves the PR

Webcam crop, Add to timeline, and an output gain. All three are exactly reproducible between preview and export, which is the bar I'm holding this to.

tsc, tsc -p tsconfig.test.json, Biome, i18n:check and 300 tests across src/components/ai-edition, src/lib/ai-edition/store and src/native pass locally. I can't build the Rust crate here, so the three Rust CI jobs are the real check on audio.rs and scene.rs — note the workflow runs need re-approving after each push, since this is a fork PR.

The mastering offer from my previous comment still stands as its own PR, and the sync offset can come back the same way if someone wants to render the export's audio assembly preview-side. Neither is a reason to hold this one.

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@EtienneLescot Thanks for the detailed follow-up.

The removal of sync offset is correct. Its timeline-time export behavior cannot match source-time preview behavior across speed regions and clip boundaries.

The serialized audio contract is now narrow and clear: SceneAudio contains only gainDb. The preview and export both apply 10 ** (dB / 20). The strengthened tests also cover the required ordering, bounds, clipping, and length behavior.

The sequential queue addresses the lost-update case in concurrent timeline insertion. The deferred MediaStage test now verifies that success feedback occurs only after insertion completes.

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preserving rejection handling.

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- Around line 48-51: Update the finite-duration handling in
resolveAudioTrackPlayback to treat durationSec equal to zero as a known finite
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handling for invalid or negative durations. Add coverage in the same package
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EtienneLescot · 2026-08-20T11:46:25Z

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The insertion queue is now the queue

@coderabbitai is right that giving the insertion a queue of its own was half a fix. apply() already had one, and insertClipAt and every timeline operation are read-modify-writes of the same document — two queues serialise adds against adds and ops against ops, and leave an add landing at the same moment as a trim free to clobber it. The lost write I described last time, one level up.

So there is one chain. useSequentialTimelineOps exposes enqueue — run this once the call ahead of you has settled — and apply is written on top of it, which also means the rejection handling exists in one place instead of two. The insertion goes through enqueue rather than apply for the reason it did before, that inserting a clip is not an AxcutTimelineOperation and carries its own background duration probe; it just waits behind the ops now instead of racing them, and still reads the append index inside the chain.

Two tests: an enqueued write sees the document the op ahead of it committed, and a throwing write does not stall the next one.

The zero-length track

Also right. resolveAudioTrackPlayback treated a duration of 0 the way it treats NaN — as not known yet — and fell back to Infinity. An empty supplemental extraction then got a seek target on the video's time and shouldPlay: true, so the rAF loop spent the whole timeline seeking and calling play() on an element with nothing in it. Zero is a known length, and the shortest track that is already over; only NaN and a negative value are unusable now.

Where that leaves the PR

Webcam crop, Add to timeline, an output gain, and both audio tracks audible in the preview on macOS — prepare-preview-audio-track had been sitting in the main process with nothing calling it. All four are exactly reproducible between preview and export, which is the bar this is held to.

The branch is rebased onto main (0 behind) and I've rewritten the description, which still advertised the waveform and the mastering that are no longer in it.

tsc, tsc -p tsconfig.test.json, biome check . and i18n:check pass, and the full Vitest suite is green — 156 files, 1818 passed, 5 skipped. I still can't build the Rust crate here, so the three Rust jobs remain the real check on audio.rs, scene.rs and frame_geometry.rs; the workflow runs need approving again after this push.

@vitaligusatinsky — I've taken the last two rounds myself rather than leave the PR sitting. The crop work is landing as you wrote it. The mastering and the sync offset are both still welcome as their own PRs on the terms in my earlier comments, if you want to come back to them.

coderabbitai · 2026-08-20T11:47:05Z

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@EtienneLescot Thanks for the detailed update.

The shared useSequentialTimelineOps chain resolves the remaining lost-write case. enqueue now serializes asset insertion with apply, and the append index is read after preceding document writes complete.

The resolveAudioTrackPlayback change is also correct. A duration of 0 means that the track has ended. Only NaN and negative durations use the unknown-duration path.

The reported TypeScript, Biome, localization, and Vitest results provide good coverage. The native Rust CI jobs remain the required verification for audio.rs, scene.rs, and frame_geometry.rs.

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Learning: In the AI editor, `insertClipAt` is a read-modify-write operation on the full document. Concurrent asset additions can lose a clip when both calls read the same pre-insert document. New timeline insertions must serialize through the same promise-chain pattern used by `useSequentialTimelineOps`, and must calculate the append index inside the queued operation.

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The editor's auto-master chain could not be reproduced in the preview, so the file a user exported was not the one they had just approved by ear. The preview plays the untouched source file, seeked. The export runs `finish_audio` on the assembled timeline — trimmed, speed-adjusted, concatenated. Two of the four auto-master stages diverge across that gap by construction: the high-pass and the compressor carry state across cuts on one side and not the other, and Chromium's DynamicsCompressorNode is not the hand-rolled peak compressor in audio.rs to begin with. The fourth is worse still — the RMS/peak makeup is a single scalar (up to x4) measured over the whole assembled programme, which the preview never holds and which changes with every trim. So the preview applied a filter and a compressor it could not match and skipped a normaliser it could not compute. It also shipped enabled by default, which meant every project ever recorded would have come out at a different level on its next export without the user touching anything — while the Rust side defaulted the same flag to false. Keep what is parity-safe by construction and drop the rest: - Sync offset and output gain stay. A whole-sample delay and a linear gain land identically on the source file and on the assembled timeline; the preview's GainNode now uses the same `10 ** (dB / 20)` scalar `finish_audio` applies, and a test pins that identity. - The preview graph loses the BiquadFilterNode and the DynamicsCompressorNode and becomes source -> gain -> destination. It also no longer tears the whole graph down when one element fails to route: once createMediaElementSource has run for an element, `volume` no longer reaches the output, so disconnecting everything muted the preview instead of degrading it. - One range instead of three. The sliders, the store and `finish_audio` all clamp to +/-500 ms and +/-12 dB, exported as AUDIO_OFFSET_MS_LIMIT / AUDIO_GAIN_DB_LIMIT. - SceneAudio drops `auto_master` and gains per-field serde defaults, so a payload from a build that predates a field degrades to "neutral" rather than failing the whole scene. - sceneDescription.test.ts asserts the payload exposes offset and gain and nothing else, so a future stage cannot be added here unnoticed. Webcam crop, "Add to timeline" and the preview sync loop are untouched.

…claim Three points from the automated review, verified against the code first. `insertClipAt` is a read-modify-write of the whole document, so two adds in flight at once both read the pre-insert doc and the second `saveDocument` clobbers the first — a lost clip, not just a mis-ordered one. Two adds is one double-click on "Add to timeline" (the button has no pending state) or two quick drags. This is the same race `useSequentialTimelineOps` already documents in its header, so the queue here is built the same way: chain off the previous promise, read the append index INSIDE the chain, swallow rejections only on the stored promise so a failed add cannot poison the queue. It cannot route through `apply()` because inserting a clip is not an AxcutTimelineOperation — it carries its own background duration probe. The offset-clamp test I added asserted nothing: on a two-sample buffer every delay past its length yields silence, so it passed for a 500 ms clamp and would have passed for no clamp at all. It now tracks a single impulse through a buffer longer than the clamp and asserts the sample index it lands on, plus the symmetric advance case and the upper gain bound. MediaStage's success test resolved `onAdd` immediately, so it passed whether the toast fired before or after the insertion — the one thing it exists to pin. It now defers the resolution and asserts `onSuccess` is untouched while the insert is pending. Not addressed here: the review is also right that the sync offset is applied in source time by the preview and in timeline time by the export, so it diverges under speed regions and near clip boundaries. That is a product call on the control itself, not a fix to make in passing.

…-safe gain The offset failed the same test the auto-mastering failed, more quietly. `finish_audio` shifts the assembled timeline — after stretch_clip_pcm_by_speed and assemble_concatenated_pcm — so the value is in TIMELINE seconds. The preview subtracts it from `v.currentTime`, which is SOURCE time on an element whose playbackRate is the active speed region. Inside a 2x region a +500 ms authored offset was 500 ms of delay in the export and 250 ms in the preview. The clip boundaries are worse, and not fixable by scaling the value. The export shifts the whole programme uniformly, so within |offset| of a cut it pulls audio across the junction; the preview clamps into the active asset's own duration and mutes instead. There is no version of "route the neighbouring asset's audio" that is a small change. So: the output gain is the only audio setting left, and it is exactly equal on both sides by construction — the same `10 ** (dB / 20)` scalar, applied to a GainNode in the preview and to every sample here. - SceneAudio and the scene payload carry `gainDb` and nothing else. The tests assert the key set, not just the values, so the next stage cannot be added without deciding this question again. - `resolveAudioPreviewTime` becomes `resolveAudioTrackPlayback`: the audio elements now just mirror the video's time. It still exists because the supplemental track is extracted separately and can end before the video does, and seeking past its end leaves the element stuck in `seeking`. - The Rust offset test goes with the offset; the clamp test keeps the gain bounds, and a new one pins full-scale clipping and length preservation. - `audio.syncOffset` removed from 13 locales, `audio.help` rewritten again. The AudioPane is now one slider and a reset. That is the honest size of what the editor can promise here without rendering the export's audio assembly preview-side.

The last commit gave the media panel's insertion a queue of its own. The review is right that this is half a fix: `apply()` already had one, and both `insertClipAt` and every timeline operation are read-modify-writes of the whole document. Two queues serialise adds against adds and ops against ops, and leave an add landing at the same moment as a trim free to clobber it — the same lost write, one level up. So there is one chain now. `useSequentialTimelineOps` exposes `enqueue` — run this once the call ahead of you has settled — and `apply` is written on top of it. The insertion goes through `enqueue` rather than `apply` for the reason it did before, that inserting a clip is not an AxcutTimelineOperation and carries its own background duration probe. It now waits behind the ops instead of racing them, and still reads the append index inside the chain, where the document it is indexing into is the committed one. Rejection handling is unchanged and lives in one place now: the caller's promise rejects, the stored one is swallowed so a failed write cannot stall the queue. Two tests — an enqueued write sees the document the op ahead of it committed, and a throwing write does not stop the next one. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

`resolveAudioTrackPlayback` treated a duration of 0 the way it treats NaN — as "not known yet" — and fell back to Infinity. An empty supplemental extraction then got a seek target on the video's time and shouldPlay true, so the rAF loop spent the whole timeline seeking and calling play() on an element with nothing in it. Zero is a known length, and the shortest track that is already over. Only NaN and a negative value are unusable now. Two cases added: the zero-length track ends, and a negative duration still falls back with NaN. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

…inned The `10 ** (dB / 20)` identity is this PR's whole parity claim, and only one end of it was tested: `finish_audio` has a test asserting the scalar, the preview had none. A regression in `applyPreviewAudioSettings` would have taken the two sides apart without turning the suite red. Three cases, against the same five gains the Rust test uses: the node gets the scalar; the no-WebAudio fallback attenuates through `element.volume` but cannot boost past unity, which is the reason the node exists at all; and with a graph in place the elements are left alone, since their audio no longer reaches the default output and `volume` would scale the signal a second time on the way in. `applyPreviewAudioSettings` and `PreviewAudioGraph` are exported for this. The fake graph is two nested objects — the function only ever touches `gain.gain.value`, so a real AudioContext buys the test nothing. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

… existed Rebasing onto main put this branch under the media-error work from getopenscreen#395, and its "does not reload an unmounted element" case went red. That test counts pending timers across the unmount, deliberately and with a comment saying why: `reloadActiveSource` bails on a null videoRef, so asserting `loadCalls === 0` would pass whether or not the reload timer was ever cancelled. The count is the only thing that actually proves the cleanup ran. The count was right and this branch was wrong. The AudioContext teardown here is deferred by one task so React StrictMode's setup -> cleanup -> setup cycle can cancel it and reuse the context — `createMediaElementSource` may only be called once per element, so closing and recreating the context permanently silences that element. But the cleanup scheduled that timer unconditionally, including when no context had ever been created. Under jsdom, and under a denied audio policy, `new AudioContext()` throws and the ref stays null, so every unmount left a timer in flight whose only job was to close nothing. Guarded on the ref. Nothing to tear down, nothing to schedule — which is also what makes the timer count mean what getopenscreen#395 needs it to mean. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Rebasing onto main put this branch under the layout-pane work, and `RightPanes.layout.test.tsx` went red on `getByRole("slider")` — "found multiple elements". Fair: that query assumed the pane held exactly one slider, and the webcam framing row makes it four. The query was not really the problem though. None of these inputs has an accessible name at all: the visible label is a sibling `<span className= {styles.label}>`, not a `<label htmlFor>`, so a screen reader announces four anonymous "slider"s and a test has nothing to select on. That was survivable while a pane held one; it isn't now, and it was never good. So `SliderCell` puts its `label` on the input as `aria-label` — which covers the three new framing sliders and the other panes that use the component — and the hand-rolled webcam-size slider gets the same treatment. The test then names the slider it always meant, the one the assertion above it just found by its text. Also: `saveDocument` returns a boolean on main now rather than throwing, so the two tests this branch added to useSequentialTimelineOps report success the way the ones beside them do. The hook itself already carries that through — `apply` resolves to null on a failed save and rejects only on an operation or import error, and threading it through `enqueue` leaves both behaviours intact. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

…y call it "Output trim" collides with a first-class tool in this product. Trim is the scissors on the toolbar, "Add Trim (T)", a lane, the "Trim {{index}}" pills, an inspector, a "How Trimming Works" dialog. A control in the Audio pane that says "trim" reads as one of those, and the help text made it worse by leading with the verb: "Trim the audio output level." English was also the only locale saying it. fr already had "Niveau de sortie", it "Livello di uscita", ja-JP "出力レベル" — all twelve translations mean output LEVEL, and all twelve use a neutral "adjust" in the help string rather than a cutting verb. So this is not a rename across the locale set; it is English catching up with it. The key stays `outputGain`: it is a gain, and the key names the thing while the label names it to the user. Two values, one file. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

The gain is the only audio setting this PR kept, and it was kept because it is exactly reproducible between the preview and the export. The timeline waveform is the one place that is VISIBLE, and it ignored the setting: pull the slider to -6.5 dB and every bar stayed exactly where it was. The bars now scale by `audioGainScalar(settings.audioGainDb)`, and the scaling is exact rather than indicative. `finish_audio` does `(sample * trim).clamp(-1, 1)` per sample; a bar is `max|sample|` over its bucket. Gain is positive and clamping is monotonic, so `clamp(max(|s|) * g)` is precisely the peak of the gained, clipped signal. The bar is the answer, not an approximation of it. Three decisions worth naming: - The multiply is at DRAW time, not in the `useMemo` that folds the peaks. That memo scans up to 24000 blocks, and a slider drag fires one `setLive` per pointer move; folding gain into it would re-scan the whole asset on every tick. At draw time a tick costs `barCount` multiplies per clip. - `Math.min(1, ...)` mirrors the Rust clamp, and it is not cosmetic: at +12 dB a 0.5 peak computed `height: 199%` and `opacity: 2.49`. Nothing looked broken only because `.tlClip` has `overflow: hidden` and the bars are centre-aligned, so it cropped symmetrically at the card's border. That drew a signal the export will never write. Clamped, loud bars pin flat at 100% while quiet ones keep rising — which is what clipping looks like. - Gain arrives as a prop rather than a `useEditorSettings()` call inside `ClipWaveform`. The component is memoised per clip; subscribing each one to the document would re-render every waveform on any edit. As a prop it busts the memo on a gain change and on nothing else. The peaks themselves are untouched. They are the source file's amplitude, disk-cached under path+size+mtime and memory-cached under the video URL; putting a gain into either key would be a cache redesign in exchange for a scalar multiply. `audioGainScalar` is now exported from editorSettings.ts beside AUDIO_GAIN_DB_LIMIT and used by both TS sites. `10 ** (dB / 20)` was already written out in audio.rs and VirtualPreview.tsx, each with a comment calling that scalar the parity guarantee — adding a third hand-copy to draw the waveform would have undercut the argument the other two are making. Tests: three cases in V4Timeline.waveform.test.tsx, over a fixture whose first half is loud (0.5) and second half quiet (0.1), so one render separates "scaled" from "clamped". At 0 dB the bars are 50% and 10%; at +12 dB the loud half pins at 100% while the quiet half rises to 40%; at -12 dB the loud half falls to 13% and the quiet half lands under the 8% empty-clip floor, which is not amplitude and is not scaled. Removing the clamp turns the second case into the 199% described above, which is the regression the test exists to catch. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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