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What changes

A show can now pick a visual style for its cards. A style is a pack plus a motion preset, and any token can be overridden.

  • Packs: clean (flat dark page, type on the ground), collage (torn paper, tape, halftone prints), editorial (newsprint serif, one red).

  • Motion presets: stop-motion, smooth, kinetic, calm, digital.

  • Building blocks for entrances, set per role (title, figure, item, media, label, strip, caption, name):

    1. type, scramble, wipe and wipe-up
    2. pop, rise, fade, spring
    3. slide, scale, blur
    4. circle, diagonal and split masks

    Plus bounces (0-3), the side a slide comes from, and letter or word reveals.

With a style set, all eleven card kinds render as full-frame takeover pages, and the speaker is never cut into a band. Without a style, output is unchanged.

How it reaches the render

--style <json> on process and studio is validated up front, then passed to render.mjs as --theme. render.mjs already used --style for the caption style name.

Fixes found while testing real renders

  1. mix-blend-mode has no effect in the transparent overlay. Textures are now baked alpha shading maps.
  2. Render input props replace the whole theme default prop, so default textures are now filled in CaptionedClip.
  3. bundle() got no publicDir, and the cache hash ignored public/ and the bundler script itself. Both are fixed.
  4. The transition quality gate blurred the designed cut into every page. It now skips detected cuts within 0.3 s of a card edge.

Guardrails

  • Overrides containing gradient, url(, image-set or filter are dropped.
  • Textures are CC0 from ambientCG. The license note is in remotion/public/style/LICENSE.txt.

Tested

  • npm test: 28 files, 207 tests pass. This includes new theme, reveal, texture and bundle-cache tests.
  • pytest: the touched suites pass, 69 tests. In the full run, 794 of 795 pass. The one failure, test_find_cli_falls_back_to_shell_lookup, fails on this machine regardless of this change.
  • Real renders through clip_studio.py with --style pass for collage, clean, and custom motion overrides. That covers textures, tape, masks, slides with bounces, and word reveals.
  • Render time for a 7.5 s clip on an M-series Mac: 18 s with no style, 11 s for clean, 23 s for collage.

The podcli-cloud side (storage, Style tab, worker flag) is a separate PR. The worker only sends --style once the installed engine advertises it, so a release is needed before it takes effect.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Added optional JSON-based style themes for video rendering, with clean, collage, and editorial presets.
    • Themes can customize cards, captions, title cards, typography, textures, and motion effects. Style options are available in both processing and studio workflows.
    • Invalid style JSON or values that aren’t JSON objects now produce an error.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Transition smoothing avoids scene cuts near intentionally designed card boundaries.
    • Public assets are included in rendered bundles, and changes to those assets trigger bundle updates.

A style is a pack (clean, collage, editorial) plus a motion preset
(stop-motion, smooth, kinetic, calm, digital), with any token overridable:
colours, surface, texture, tilt, tape, media treatment, and per-role
entrances from fourteen building blocks (type, scramble, wipe, pop, rise,
fade, spring, slide, scale, blur, and circle, diagonal and split masks),
bounces, slide side and letter or word reveals.

With a style set, every card kind renders as a full-frame takeover page, so
the speaker is never squeezed into a band. Without one, nothing changes.

- `--style <json>` on `process` and `studio` reaches render.mjs as `--theme`.
- Paper and tape textures ship in remotion/public/style (CC0, ambientCG) as
  alpha shading maps, because blend modes vanish in the transparent overlay.
- Default textures are filled where the theme resolves, since render inputs
  replace the whole theme prop.
- The bundle passes publicDir and its hash covers public/ and bundle-cache.mjs.
- The transition quality gate leaves cuts within 0.3 s of a card edge sharp;
  it was blurring the designed cut into every page.
- Overrides carrying a gradient, url() or filter are dropped.
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The pull request adds JSON style options to the process and studio commands and passes themes into Remotion for theme-aware cards, captions, and name cards. It also changes transition autofixing to exclude scene cuts near designed card boundaries.

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Themed Remotion Rendering

Layer / File(s) Summary
Theme, motion, and material primitives
remotion/src/style/theme.ts, remotion/src/style/reveal.tsx, remotion/src/style/materials.tsx, remotion/src/style/theme.test.ts, remotion/src/style/reveal.test.ts
Adds theme types, packs, and resolution; motion and reveal helpers; and themed paper, label, and tape components. Tests cover theme resolution and reveal timing.
Theme-aware composition rendering
remotion/src/style/pages.tsx, remotion/src/style/styled.tsx, remotion/src/CaptionedClip.tsx, remotion/src/Root.tsx, remotion/src/style/textures.ts, remotion/src/style/textures.test.ts, remotion/render.mjs, remotion/bundle-cache.mjs, remotion/bundle-cache.test.mjs, remotion/package.json, remotion/public/style/LICENSE.txt
Adds themed page and composition rendering, font faces, default texture paths, and theme input handling. The bundle includes public assets and hashes them for cache invalidation.
CLI style parsing and render forwarding
backend/cli.py, backend/clip_studio.py, backend/services/clip_generator.py, tests/test_cli_helpers.py, tests/test_studio_format.py, tests/test_clip_generator.py
Adds JSON-object parsing for --style and forwards valid themes from the CLI and studio fragment rendering through the clip generator to Remotion. Tests cover parsing and forwarding.

Designed-Cut Transition Autofix

Layer / File(s) Summary
Filter designed card boundaries
backend/services/clip_generator.py, tests/test_clip_generator.py
Extracts numeric card start and end times and excludes detected scene cuts within 0.3 seconds of those boundaries from transition autofixing. Tests cover extraction and filtering.

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  participant ProcessCLI
  participant ClipGenerator
  participant RemotionRenderer
  participant CaptionedClip
  ProcessCLI->>ClipGenerator: pass parsed style as theme
  ClipGenerator->>RemotionRenderer: serialize theme as --theme JSON
  RemotionRenderer->>CaptionedClip: pass validated theme input
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- Line 1568: Pass the configured style theme to all three generate_clip calls in
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paths. Use theme=config.get("style") so clips re-rendered or added during
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The post-review re-render, find and more paths now pass the theme, so a
process run with --style no longer re-renders clips without it. The cuts
the quality gate leaves sharp are shifted by the intro's length, since it
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376-395: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Cover the generate_clip intro-offset wiring.

The new tests call _designed_cuts and _auto_fix_transition_jumps directly. They do not call generate_clip. Add one mocked generate_clip test that enables the quality-gate path, supplies an intro and card windows, and asserts that _auto_fix_transition_jumps receives final-timeline boundaries shifted by intro_offset. A regression that removes this offset would pass the current helper tests while allowing designed cuts to be treated as transition jumps.

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Add a mocked `generate_clip` test that enables the quality-gate path and
supplies an intro plus card windows, then assert `_auto_fix_transition_jumps`
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