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Measured off a Shorts screenshot: on a 9:19.5 phone a viewer's chrome starts
1498 down a 1920 frame, the action rail runs from x 817 to the edge, and the
outer ninth of the width is cropped before any of that is drawn. Cards and
captions were being written into all of it.

What changes

  • SAFE reserves that band. safeFor reads which reservation a frame is owed
    off its own shape, so a landscape clip does not guard against furniture a
    player never draws.
  • Captions hold above the line instead of dropping to the bottom edge while a
    card is up. The band the speaker loses comes off its own floor.
  • Every preset card is measured, not just the scene. Five bullets used to draw
    through the captions. They borrow the scene's estimator and shrink, or take
    the whole frame when shrinking would cross the floor of the fit.
  • Captions take the show's colours. A style shipped its own palette, so every
    clip carried two accents.
  • New outline caption style: a whole line at a time, stroked, no pill.
  • place: "over" writes a card into the shot with a scrim. It falls back to
    the panel when the shot has no room.
  • bleed gives a picture or footage the whole frame. A band too short to read
    still bleeds on its own.
  • emphasis takes up to three phrases and colours them where they stand.
  • The logo and the topic chip stopped sharing a corner at the same inset.

Verification

Rendered 35 frames covering 11 card kinds, 4 brands, 5 caption styles, 8 edge
cases and 3 landscape shapes. A contrast-based check confirms all 32 portrait
frames keep their ink above y=1498. The one exception is the full-frame
cutaway, which owns the frame deliberately.

Compatibility

emphasis as an array renders as literal text on 2.7.33 and earlier, and the
outline style name is rejected by their argparse. Consumers must move to
2.7.34 together. place and bleed are ignored safely by older versions.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Added the Outline caption style across caption settings, presets, editing, and CLI workflows.
    • Added configurable caption backgrounds, strokes, branding colors, and emphasis for selected words or phrases.
    • Added full-frame media cards and cards positioned over footage.
    • Improved caption and card placement across portrait and landscape formats, including safer margins and logo/chip spacing.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved caption resizing and card transitions for smoother visual results.
    • Refined text styling when outline strokes are enabled.

A vertical clip is never watched on its own. YouTube draws a title, a handle
and a link chip across the bottom, an action rail up the right, and a phone
crops the outer ninth of the width before any of that. Measured off a Shorts
screenshot: a viewer's chrome starts 1498 down a 1920 frame and the rail runs
from x 817 to the edge. Cards and captions were being written into all of it.

SAFE reserves that band, and safeFor reads which reservation a frame is owed
off its own shape, so a landscape clip does not guard against furniture that
is not drawn in a player. Captions hold above the line instead of dropping to
the bottom edge while a card is up, and the band the speaker loses comes off
its own floor rather than out of the caption.

Every preset card is measured now, not just the scene. Five bullets or a quote
that runs to nine lines used to draw straight through the captions; they
borrow the scene's estimator and shrink the type, or take the whole frame when
shrinking would put them below the floor of the fit.

Also in here, because they are the same frame:

- Captions take the show's colours. A style shipped with its own palette, so
  every clip carried two accents: a yellow sweep under a green figure.
- An outlined caption style, for a whole line at a time over an uncovered shot.
- place: "over" writes a card into the shot with a scrim instead of a panel,
  and falls back to the panel when the shot has no room for it.
- bleed gives a picture or footage the whole frame, which is what dropping the
  speaker was for. A band too short to read still bleeds on its own.
- emphasis takes up to three phrases and colours them where they stand, so a
  sentence can land on two without being rewritten.
- The logo and the topic chip stopped sharing a corner at the same inset.
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The pull request adds the outline caption style across rendering and CLI flows. It introduces shared safe-area and emphasis helpers, expands card placement and media rendering, updates caption positioning, and bumps versions to 2.7.34.

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Caption rendering and CLI support

Layer / File(s) Summary
Style, geometry, and text contracts
remotion/src/types.ts, remotion/src/scene.ts
Adds the outline style, safe-area constants, caption-zone calculations, brand color mapping, and shared multi-phrase emphasis helpers.
Card layout and media rendering
remotion/src/cards.ts, remotion/src/components/Cards.tsx
Adds panel and over placement, bleed media, safe-area fitting, full-frame rendering, multi-phrase headline emphasis, and footage seam gradients.
Caption composition and positioning
remotion/src/CaptionedClip.tsx, remotion/src/components/*, remotion/src/motion.ts
Adds outline caption rendering, branded caption backgrounds, stroke styling, animated caption shrink, safe-area placement, and collision-aware name-card and topic-chip positioning.
CLI support and release version
backend/cli.py, backend/clip_studio.py, cli/VERSION, package.json
Adds outline to CLI choices, help text, preset configuration, and clip editing. Updates versions to 2.7.34.

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  participant CLI
  participant CaptionedClip
  participant Cards
  participant CaptionComponents
  CLI->>CaptionedClip: Select outline caption style
  CaptionedClip->>CaptionedClip: Apply safe-area and brand caption geometry
  CaptionedClip->>Cards: Render cards with settled caption style and top inset
  Cards->>Cards: Measure placement and choose panel, over, or bleed rendering
  CaptionedClip->>CaptionComponents: Render captions, name card, and topic chip
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Some wide-frame cards can lose speaker content, bleed captions can sit too low, and outline captions can fail when fallback rendering is used. These issues should be fixed before merging.

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In `@backend/clip_studio.py`:
- Line 341: Add outline support consistently by adding an outline entry to the
shared registry in caption_styles.py and an outline branch to render_captions
for ASS fallback rendering. Ensure generate_clip can resolve and render
--caption-style outline without either unknown-style ValueError; otherwise
remove outline from the CLI choices.

In `@remotion/src/CaptionedClip.tsx`:
- Around line 149-157: Update the topTaken calculation in CaptionedClip using
only overlays that are actually rendered: do not apply the default chipCorner or
chip height when topic is absent, and do not include logo dimensions unless
logoTop is true. Preserve the existing inset and clash spacing for rendered
top-positioned logo and topic overlays.

In `@remotion/src/components/Cards.tsx`:
- Line 903: Update the preset measurement in the scene-height calculation around
sceneHeight to use the reference-space width actually rendered by safeFor for
the current frame, rather than always passing SCENE_WIDTH. Alternatively
constrain preset content to SCENE_WIDTH * s, while preserving the existing
behavior for shapes without a preset.

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A full-width element with objectFit contain letterboxes the picture inside
itself, and the outline traced that element. A tall screenshot came out as a
narrow picture adrift in a wide empty rectangle with a line around the empty
part.

Shown whole, the element is now bounded rather than sized, so it takes the
picture's own shape and the line lands on its edge. Cropped to fill, the
element already was the picture and nothing changes.
… drawn

Three from review on #223.

get_style("outline") raised before any render, Remotion or not: the style was
added to the CLI choices and to the Remotion styles, and nowhere else. It has
a registry entry now, and the ASS fallback draws it with the whole-chunk
renderer, which is the shape it already is. The fallback's position stops were
still the old 760/480/220 while Remotion had moved, so they match again.

topTaken reserved a chip that was not drawn. The chip corner defaulted to
top-left whether or not there was a chip, so a clip with only a logo lost the
chip's height off the top as well. Each overlay is asked whether it is
actually on screen, and the reservation is the larger of the two.

A preset was measured at SCENE_WIDTH and drawn at the padded width. In
portrait those are both 680 and nothing moved. On a landscape frame the
padded width is 3173 reference pixels, so a card measured at 680 came out far
taller than it draws, shrank its type and could drop the speaker for a card
that had room all along.
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