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Every moment in a render came back marked "Did not render". The job died partway and the API marks whatever was still rendering as failed, so one crash strands the lot.

utils.proc.run raises on a timeout even when check=False, and 2.7.4 added -shortest to the mixed-layout stitch. That output takes its video from a filtergraph and its audio from a plain input, and -shortest has to wait for both to agree where the end is; on some ffmpeg builds it never does. It did not hang on the build I tested against, which is why it reached production. The stitch now states its length outright.

The trigger is one line, the class of bug is not. _track_and_crop is one of several ways to find a crop and every caller already reads None as "try something simpler", falling through to a face-map crop and then a centre crop. An exception skipped all of them and failed the clip. It now reports failure the way its callers already handle, and the local mouth-motion planner does the same.

704 tests, up from 701. The three new ones assert that a raising tracker, including a ProcError timeout, comes back as None.

Reframing quality is unchanged from 2.7.4: 1-3% of frames with nobody in them, 98% on the speaker's turn for the one clip with real back-and-forth.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved video cropping reliability by recovering from speaker-reframing and adaptive-tracking failures.
    • Videos now fall back to simpler cropping strategies instead of failing when advanced tracking encounters an error.
    • Improved mixed-layout video output duration handling for more consistent playback.
  • Release

    • Updated the CLI and package version to 2.7.5.

Every moment in a render came back marked "Did not render". The job had
died partway and the API marks whatever was still rendering as failed, so
one crash strands the lot.

utils.proc.run raises on a timeout even when check=False, and 2.7.4 added
-shortest to the mixed-layout stitch. That output takes its video from a
filtergraph and its audio from a plain input, and -shortest has to wait
for both to agree where the end is; on some ffmpeg builds it never does.
It did not hang on the build I tested against, which is why this reached
production. The stitch now states its length outright.

The trigger is one line, the class of bug is not. _track_and_crop is one
of several ways to find a crop and every caller already reads None as
"try something simpler", falling through to a face-map crop and then a
centre crop. An exception skipped all of them and failed the clip
instead. It now reports failure the way its callers already handle, and
the local mouth-motion planner alongside it does the same. A badly framed
clip is recoverable; a missing one is not.
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Video cropping now treats local reframe and tracking failures as recoverable. Tracking returns None for fallback handling. Mixed-layout output uses an explicit duration. CLI and package versions are updated to 2.7.5.

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Crop Recovery and Release Update

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Crop failure recovery
backend/services/video_processor.py, tests/test_crop_path_golden.py
Local speaker reframe and tracking failures are logged and converted into fallback behavior. Tests cover exceptions, timeouts, successful results, and the test runner entry point.
Mixed-layout output duration
backend/services/video_processor.py
Mixed-layout xfade output uses the source clip duration instead of -shortest.
Release version alignment
cli/VERSION, package.json
The CLI and package versions are updated from 2.7.4 to 2.7.5.

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The PR makes crop and tracker failures fall back instead of failing clips and explicitly bounds stitch duration; the only open item is a localized nullable-annotation lint cleanup, with no supplied evidence of production impact or a merge-blocking risk.

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  participant CropPipeline
  participant _track_and_crop
  participant _track_and_crop_inner
  CropPipeline->>_track_and_crop: request tracking crop
  _track_and_crop->>_track_and_crop_inner: execute tracking
  _track_and_crop_inner-->>_track_and_crop: output path or exception
  _track_and_crop-->>CropPipeline: output path or None
  CropPipeline->>CropPipeline: use fallback crop when result is None
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In `@backend/services/video_processor.py`:
- Around line 1215-1217: Update the _track_and_crop_inner parameter annotations
so transcript_words uses list | None and face_map uses dict | None, matching
their existing None defaults and resolving Ruff RUF013; leave clip_start
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Comment thread backend/services/video_processor.py Outdated
Both parameters default to None while their annotations claim a list and
a dict, which is what RUF013 is for. The wrapper inherited the shape from
the function it was split out of; state it in both.
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