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feat: add timeline layout changes with smooth transitions - #1404
Replace the Full Camera lane with a continuous Layouts track. A layout selected at the playhead lasts until the next change; users can choose picture-in-picture, side-by-side, top/bottom, camera-only or screen-only, move boundaries and undo/redo edits. The toolbar uses the same compact icon-button treatment as the existing tools.
Introduce a typed, clip-anchored layout partition and schema v9 migration. Existing Full Camera projects retain their original camera envelopes/easing, and the released v8 aspect-ratio migration remains intact.
Share layout edits between the UI, MCP and integrated agent through the document operations and tool-schema registry. Add addLayoutChange, setLayoutPreset and moveLayoutBoundary; retain legacy camera executors as compatibility aliases. Layout editing respects playable passages and cannot fall back to a global write in a gap.
Feed the same layout scene to native preview, MP4 and GIF. Interpolate clipping, footage geometry, camera scaling, corners and shadows. A zoom already running inside a block keeps its viewport until that uninterrupted zoom settles, preventing footage from growing and shrinking during top/bottom → PiP. Later independent PiP zooms retain overflow. Cameras keep their relative corner radius while appearing or disappearing; hard cuts do not inherit motion trails from the previous layout.
Preserve device-frame controls, block-layout zoom containment and the shared source-clock behavior through trims, speed changes and clip edits. Update all 15 locales, architecture documentation, workbench oracles and regressions.
The maintainer exercised the rebuilt Windows dev app and reported the subsequent transition/roundness defects. Both were reproduced with failing regression tests and measured in native exports before and after the fix. Desktop computer-use was interrupted by the user and has not been resumed; no fresh GUI preview pass is claimed. The app was relaunched with the rebuilt native addon.
Testing
Validated on Node 22.22.1:
Full Vitest suite: 5,082 passed, 5 skipped, 0 failed; the latest targeted scene/layout/MCP tests also pass (419 tests).
Application and test TypeScript checks pass (tsc --noEmit and tsc -p tsconfig.test.json --noEmit). Workbench typecheck passed during the earlier review follow-up.
Biome passes with no errors (25 existing global warnings). Documentation validation passes; all 15 locales passed when changed.
Shared layout operations cover migration, source anchoring, clip edits, boundaries, undo/redo, persistence, gap/end guards and MCP protocol add/move/set/read/remove flows. Clip/source anchors and native scenes are compared against the UI’s shared document operations. The real running-app MCP handshake uses the shared layout schemas/descriptions and mutation annotations; legacy Full Camera aliases are not advertised.
Rebuilt Windows native compositor: 479 library tests passed. One playback-at-end test is excluded after reproducing its failure on pristine main (27d9be27b) on the same hardware. Coverage includes all 20 ordered layout pairs at both transition edges, zoom 1×/2×, none/window/laptop frames, hard cuts, camera appearance/disappearance, connected zooms, speed/trim clocks and later independent PiP overflow.
Latest native MP4 pixel regression: reconstructed the reported 1298×1920 phone scene with synthetic media, 1.8× zoom and top/bottom → PiP → screen-only. Across 12 measured frames of the 146-frame, 60 fps export, footage width stays 994 px (before: grew to 1298 px and returned). Camera fill stays 88.3–89.9% as it shrinks (before: 97.5% at 2.23 s, squaring its corners).
Earlier native MP4/GIF pixel checks confirm zero blue source pixels outside side-by-side/top/bottom slots and normal PiP overflow.
Earlier workbench L0: 435 pass, 45 fail, 1 skip. Of the failures, 44 require the original real-screencast fixture missing from this checkout; the remaining speech-fragment duration mismatch also occurs with pristine main sources. Workbench config validation used the same settings with its timeout import replaced by the same constant to avoid an existing config-time alias resolution issue.
Remaining runtime coverage: GUI preview/playback after the last fix, real capture/devices/tray, macOS/Linux execution and tilted/3D transition pixel exports. The complete release checklist was not run; this is a feature-specific Windows pass. Details are recorded in technical-documentation/testing/manual-e2e-checklist.md.
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New Features
Create and edit layout passages throughout a video, choose from five screen and camera arrangements, and adjust passage boundaries on the timeline.
Layout changes transition smoothly during playback and can be copied, pasted, undone, or managed with AI editing tools.
Improvements
Layout options reflect camera availability, and camera settings remain accessible across layout passages.
Webcam shadows now respect the selected shadow strength across layouts.
Compatibility
Existing projects preserve their layout settings, including legacy full-camera sections converted into camera-only passages.
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The change adds clip-anchored layout passages and five layout presets. Editors and agent tools can create, update, move, and remove passages. Preview and native rendering sample layout transitions. Schema version 9 migrates existing camera-fullscreen regions.
Changes: Continuous Layout Editing
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Layout model and schema src/lib/layoutTypes.ts, src/lib/ai-edition/document/layout.ts, src/lib/ai-edition/schema/*, src/lib/ai-edition/document/*, technical-documentation/architecture/document-model.md
Adds layout presets, clip-anchored layout runs, editing operations, and schema version 9 migration from camera-fullscreen regions.
Timeline and editor controls src/lib/ai-edition/document/timeline.ts, src/lib/ai-edition/store/*, src/components/ai-edition/*, src/i18n/locales/*
Adds layout passage selection, editing, copying, and timeline controls. The layout picker and translated labels support five presets.
Agent, MCP, and workbench integration electron/ai-edition/*, electron/mcp/*, workbench/*, technical-documentation/architecture/ai-agent.md, technical-documentation/architecture/mcp-server.md
Adds layout-editing tools and layout segments to agent and MCP interfaces. Workbench checks cover layout edits, region anchors, and tool results.
Scene projection and rendering src/native/sceneDescription.ts, src/native/layoutScene.test.ts, crates/compositor/src/*, src/lib/compositeLayout.ts, src/components/ai-edition/PreviewCanvas.tsx
Projects layout regions into scene descriptions and interpolates layout geometry, reactive zoom, and webcam shadow values.
sequenceDiagram
participant Editor
participant Timeline
participant LayoutDocument
participant SceneBuilder
participant Renderer
Editor->>Timeline: Select a layout preset at the playhead
Timeline->>LayoutDocument: Add or update a layout passage
LayoutDocument->>SceneBuilder: Provide clip-anchored layout regions
SceneBuilder->>Renderer: Provide sampled layout transition data
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getopenscreen/openscreen#1392 — Adds a layout track where layout changes take effect at the playhead and continue until the next change, addressing the requested time-specific layouts within one video.
Merge Risk: Minimal · up to ee1ee
The timeline-end preset selection now updates the last passage without changing earlier passages. No merge-blocking issue remains in the reviewed change.
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Issue #1392 requests multiple camera and screen layouts at different times in one video. The PR implements a continuous, clip-anchored Layouts track with camera-only, screen-only, picture-in-picture, dual-frame, and vertical-stack presets. Users can add changes, edit boundaries, change presets, and undo or redo edits. Preview and MP4/GIF export use the shared layout scene. Tests cover document operations, migration, UI editing, MCP and agent flows, and transition geometry. No unmet coding requirement is identified.
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layoutRegions is missing from the top-level shape table. Add the v8 → v9 migration as a subsection immediately after v7 → v8. Replace the historical reference to the experimental v8 build with the current behavior.
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| `zoomRanges[]` | `AxcutZoomRegion[]` | Zoom-in effects, depth 1–6, anchored to a clip (`clipId?`). |
+| `layoutRegions[]?` | `LayoutRegion[]` | Optional clip-anchored layout partition (v9). Absent or empty means one global `legacyEditor.webcamLayoutPreset`. See [Layout passages (v9)](#layout-passages-v9). |
| `shaderEffects[]?` | `AxcutShaderEffect[]` | Agent-written shader effects: WGSL `code`, `name`, `description`, the contract version, declared `params`, and the compositor's cached `cost`. Optional: absent on a document without effects. A definition no region uses is dropped by the edit that removed its last region. See [docs/shader-effects.md](../../docs/shader-effects.md). |
Add this subsection after v7 → v8 and remove the migration paragraph from Layout passages (v9):
### v8 → v9 (`upgradeV8DocumentToV9`, `schema/index.ts`)
The load migration converts Full Camera into `camera-only` passages and removes the old mutable collection. Migration-only `legacyCamera` metadata keeps the original source envelopes and easing. A v8 document with existing `layoutRegions` retains them; when its clip timeline is present and `legacyEditor.aspectRatio` is missing, the upgrader sets it to `"16:9"`. Validation remains pure.
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Update the top-level shape table to document optional `layoutRegions` and its
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describing `upgradeV8DocumentToV9`, including preservation of existing
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Document the SceneLayoutRegion contract fields.
This interface is a TypeScript/Rust contract. The header comment says changes must update the mirrored Rust scene. Neighbouring scene types carry per-field doc comments, but this one has none.
Some field semantics are not obvious from the names:
startSec and endSec are source seconds. A trim can narrow them.
transitionStartSec stays at the original passage start, so a trim does not restart the animation. layoutScene.test.ts asserts this.
transitionSec is 0 when fromLayout is absent. This includes a legacy-camera neighbour.
fromLayout, fromPreset and fromWebcamReactiveZoom are set together or omitted together.
Add short doc comments for these fields so the Rust consumer matches them.
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Review comments at @crates/compositor/src/frame_geometry.rs:
- Around line 3043-3044: Update the previous-layout sampling in plan_frame so a
hard-cut sample uses the current layout as its previous layout, preventing old
geometry from contributing to motion blur on the cut frame. Preserve the
historical one-frame-earlier sample for positive-duration transitions; use a
hard-cut indicator from SceneLayoutRegion::sample or the corresponding
sampled-layout state to distinguish these cases.
Review comments at @electron/ai-edition/agent-tools.ts:
- Around line 3385-3393: In the layout-change executor, check whether
`addLayoutChange` returns the original document before constructing the success
result; return `failure(...)` when `next === document` so an unchanged layout is
reported as a refusal. Apply the same no-op check to the `setLayoutPreset`
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Review comments at @src/components/ai-edition/RightPanes.tsx:
- Line 2784: Update the passage lookup in the RightPanes flow to fall back to
the last passage when the playhead is at or beyond its end. Preserve the current
in-range lookup, so the preset select uses that passage’s preset and writes only
to it through setLayoutPreset rather than applying a global settings patch.
Review comments at @src/components/ai-edition/v4/V4Timeline.tsx:
- Around line 715-720: In V4Timeline, derive whether layout changes are allowed
from edit mode, document availability, and nonempty clips; register the
openscreen:change-layout listener only while allowed and clear layoutOpen when
that condition becomes false. Also gate the controlled Popover’s open state with
the same condition so stale state cannot reopen it.
Review comments at @src/lib/compositeLayout.ts:
- Around line 169-208: The new preview-reachable behavior in
interpolateCompositeLayout lacks tests. Add tests in compositeLayout.test.ts
covering intermediate geometry, webcam collapse in both directions, the forced
rectangle mask, screenCover, and screenBorderRadius; do not treat the t >= 1
return as a preview-path case.
Review comments at @workbench/lib/oracles.ts:
- Around line 323-341: Update diffMatches and its call site to skip
layoutSegments comparison when any later wire call is mutating, since only the
final document state is available; retain the comparison when no later mutation
follows.
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Review comments at @technical-documentation/architecture/document-model.md:
- Around line 238-252: Update the top-level shape table to document optional
`layoutRegions` and its global-preset fallback. Add a v8 → v9 subsection
immediately after v7 → v8 describing `upgradeV8DocumentToV9`, including
preservation of existing `layoutRegions` and the conditional `"16:9"`
aspect-ratio default; remove the migration details from `Layout passages (v9)`
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R4 measurement on a real Mac (M1, macOS 27.0.1): main27d9be2 vs this PR 2fb9bed. Compositor addon and renderer built from each tree. Exported through the CLI as MP4 1080p60 --quality good, interleaved, 3 runs each.
Non-regression: pixel-identical
Project (schema 8 → loaded by both)
Frames
Frames differing (decoded framemd5)
Export time main → PR (median)
light (one zoom, no camera)
1800
0
9.80 s → 9.82 s (+0.2 %)
heavy (PiP camera, 5 zooms incl. 3D, annotations, captions, music)
1800
0
11.55 s → 11.57 s (+0.2 %)
heavy + two legacy Full Camera regions (migrated to v9 by the PR)
1800
0
11.65 s → 11.70 s (+0.4 %)
All six runs of a project hash identically, so the comparison is deterministic. The migrated Full Camera project renders exactly as main renders it.
Preview cadence (editor playback, 26 s, source frame index read from a barcode clip, 10 plays per build over interleaved sessions): median 28.86 fps on main, 28.95 fps on the PR (+0.3 %).
Feature sanity: top/bottom → PiP at 3 s (blue screen, green camera; pixels counted on raw rgb24 frames)
The transition runs over 12 frames (3.017–3.200 s) and grows monotonically: screen area 313,790 → 1,876,680 px, with the largest single-frame step at 9.8 % of the final area. No size jump.
Before the boundary, screen and camera stay in their slots (screen rows 22–441, camera rows 458–1057), with no overlap.
With a 2.2× zoom across the boundary, the top slot is identical to the unzoomed export (313,790 px, same bbox), so no footage spills out. PiP then restores the full-frame overflow progressively.
Not covered: GIF export and tilted/3D transitions.
The head has since moved to f857769. Its two commits only touch timeline/inspector edit guards, MCP tests and docs: no compositor, scene description, migration or export code. These numbers therefore still apply.
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Summary
Replace the Full Camera lane with a continuous Layouts track. A layout selected at the playhead lasts until the next change; users can choose picture-in-picture, side-by-side, top/bottom, camera-only or screen-only, move boundaries and undo/redo edits. The toolbar uses the same compact icon-button treatment as the existing tools.
addLayoutChange,setLayoutPresetandmoveLayoutBoundary; retain legacy camera executors as compatibility aliases. Layout editing respects playable passages and cannot fall back to a global write in a gap.Related issue
Fixes #1392
Type of change
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Desktop impact
Screenshots / video
The maintainer exercised the rebuilt Windows dev app and reported the subsequent transition/roundness defects. Both were reproduced with failing regression tests and measured in native exports before and after the fix. Desktop computer-use was interrupted by the user and has not been resumed; no fresh GUI preview pass is claimed. The app was relaunched with the rebuilt native addon.
Testing
Validated on Node 22.22.1:
tsc --noEmitandtsc -p tsconfig.test.json --noEmit). Workbench typecheck passed during the earlier review follow-up.main(27d9be27b) on the same hardware. Coverage includes all 20 ordered layout pairs at both transition edges, zoom 1×/2×, none/window/laptop frames, hard cuts, camera appearance/disappearance, connected zooms, speed/trim clocks and later independent PiP overflow.mainsources. Workbench config validation used the same settings with its timeout import replaced by the same constant to avoid an existing config-time alias resolution issue.Remaining runtime coverage: GUI preview/playback after the last fix, real capture/devices/tray, macOS/Linux execution and tilted/3D transition pixel exports. The complete release checklist was not run; this is a feature-specific Windows pass. Details are recorded in
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