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Three of six camera switches in a shipped clip flashed to bare wall. Frame by frame at 24fps, the worst one:

frame time luma on screen
72 3.000s 126.7 speaker, framed
73 3.042s 178.2 hard cut to bare wall
74 3.083s 178.0 still wall
75-78 3.125-3.250s 173→137 dissolving in
79 3.292s 125.2 speaker, new framing

Why

The stitch pads every run by the dissolve length to give the dissolve somewhere to happen, and that pad runs this run's crop over the next run's content. Over a layout change the subject has already moved, so the pad is the wrong framing by construction and the dissolve blends a correct frame into a wall.

The subject survives the pad only while the next centre is still inside this crop, half a window either side. Here the widest boundary was 1167px against a 607px reach.

What it does instead

Past that reach the crop snaps between framings as a step function of time, in the pass that was already cropping.

A step expression rather than a part per run joined end to end, because cutting and rejoining drifts. Measured:

part 0  asked  2.629s  got  2.690s  (+61ms)
part 1  asked  3.757s  got  3.857s  (+100ms)
part 2  asked  4.007s  got  4.107s  (+100ms)
part 3  asked 11.603s  got 11.690s  (+87ms)
part 4  asked  5.175s  got  5.231s  (+56ms)
                             total  +403ms

-t keeps the frame that starts before the cut, and each part's audio carries its own encoder padding. That left the video 177ms short of its own audio, which is the drift class #175 was written to fix. One pass has nothing to accumulate.

Boundaries then snap to the source's own cuts. Runs close at the first sample that noticed a change and the sampler runs at about 12Hz, so a boundary sat up to 83ms late and two frames of the old crop landed on the new layout. Those frames were both the wall left in shot and a second scene change 83ms after the source's own:

prod dissolve  cuts [0.88, 7.79, 16.96, 23.46]         blurred []
stepped        cuts [7.79, 7.87, 16.96, 17.04, ...]    blurred [7.79, 7.87, 16.96, 17.04]
stepped+snap   cuts [16.96, 23.42, 25.29]              blurred []

That 83ms pair read as clustered cuts, which pulled _apply_local_transition_smoothing onto a cut that never needed it and cost 20% of the edge energy around it.

Measured against 2.7.6

range wall frames worst flash length frames
336-365s 6 → 0 209ms → none 27.230 → 27.230 651 → 650
1100-1135s 8 → 1 209ms → 42ms 33.401 → 33.401 799 → 798

Edge energy near cuts on the second range: 6.52 → 7.85. Both clips keep their exact length and come out one frame shorter, from the -t clamp taking the tail frame.

Also

.venv joins .gitignore. The file had venv/ only, so a 202MB virtualenv at the repo root was one git add -A from being committed.

718 Python tests, 320 vitest, tsc clean.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved mixed-layout video cropping by aligning framing changes with source scene cuts.
    • Limited output duration more reliably during stepped crop transitions.
    • Prevented unsuitable cross-dissolves and automatically used hard cuts when needed.
    • Improved fallback behavior and logging for video transitions.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for crop transitions, dissolve eligibility, and source-cut boundary alignment.
  • Chores

    • Updated ignore rules for local virtual environments.

Three of six camera switches in a shipped clip flashed to bare wall. Frame by
frame at 24fps the worst is a hard cut to wall at frame 73, two frames held on
it, then a five frame fade into the right framing: 209ms about 50 luma brighter
than either speaker.

The stitch pads every run by the dissolve length to give the dissolve somewhere
to happen, and that pad runs this run's crop over the next run's content. Over a
layout change the subject has already moved, so the pad is the wrong framing by
construction and the dissolve blends a correct frame into a wall. The subject
survives the pad only while the next centre is still inside this crop, half a
window either side. Here the widest boundary was 1167px against a 607px reach.

Past that reach the crop snaps between framings as a step function of time, in
the pass that was already cropping. A step expression rather than a part per run
joined end to end, because cutting and rejoining drifts: -t keeps the frame that
starts before the cut and each part's audio carries its own encoder padding,
measured at 61 to 100ms per part and 403ms across five runs, leaving the video
177ms short of its own audio. One pass has nothing to accumulate.

Boundaries then snap to the source's own cuts. Runs close at the first sample
that noticed a change and the sampler runs at about 12Hz, so a boundary sat up
to 83ms late and two frames of the old crop landed on the new layout. Those
frames were both the wall left in shot and a second scene change 83ms after the
source's own, and that pair read as clustered cuts, which pulled the transition
blur onto a cut that never needed it.

Measured against 2.7.6 on two ranges:

  336-365s    wall frames 6 -> 0    worst flash 209ms -> none
  1100-1135s  wall frames 8 -> 1    worst flash 209ms -> 42ms
                                    edge energy near cuts 6.52 -> 7.85

Both keep their exact length and come out one frame shorter.

.venv joins .gitignore. The file had venv/ only, so a 202MB virtualenv at the
repo root was one git add -A away from being committed.

718 Python tests, 320 vitest.
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The video processor now detects source cuts, snaps mixed-layout run boundaries, and uses stepped crop rendering when framing changes exceed dissolve limits. Golden tests cover eligibility, crop expressions, and boundary snapping. .venv/ is now ignored.

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Mixed-layout crop processing

Layer / File(s) Summary
Scene-cut and stepped-crop primitives
backend/services/video_processor.py, tests/test_crop_path_golden.py
The processor parses FFmpeg scene metadata, snaps nearby run boundaries, and builds constant per-run crop expressions. Tests cover expression generation and boundary handling.
Transition eligibility and render routing
backend/services/video_processor.py, tests/test_crop_path_golden.py
The processor attempts dissolves only when adjacent framings remain within the subject-preserving range. Larger framing changes use bounded stepped crops and hard-cut assembly. Tests cover accepted and rejected transitions.

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.gitignore
The ignore configuration adds .venv/.

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The PR changes crop transitions and adds regression coverage; the remaining merge-readiness issue is localized lint violations in the test evaluator, so the change is mergeable with explicit owner follow-up to clean up those lines.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant video_processor.py
  participant FFmpeg
  participant dissolve_part_generation
  video_processor.py->>video_processor.py: evaluate adjacent framing reach
  alt Framings remain within the dissolve range
    video_processor.py->>dissolve_part_generation: process dissolve parts
    dissolve_part_generation-->>video_processor.py: return dissolve parts
  else Framings exceed the dissolve range
    video_processor.py->>FFmpeg: render bounded stepped crop
    FFmpeg-->>video_processor.py: return cropped output
    video_processor.py->>video_processor.py: assemble hard cuts
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