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Four fixes, all measured against a published Deeptech Decoded short that was cut with this renderer. None needed a new feature; each was the renderer not doing what it was told.

--logo was dropped on three of four caption styles

Two gates: a logo_support flag in the style config that only branded set true, and the logo being drawn inside the branded caption component. So the flag was accepted, the asset resolved, and the watermark silently never drawn on hormozi, karaoke or subtle.

A logo belongs to the show, not to a caption style. Both gates are gone and the mark moved one level up into CaptionedClip, at exactly its old position and size.

A branded render is byte-identical — same frame hash before and after (6bba026c…).

Subtle captions faded in and then cut

Every chunk boundary flickered: the outgoing line vanished on the frame the incoming one started at zero. They ramp down inside their own window now, which crossfades without moving a single caption timing. Skipped on chunks too short to hold full opacity.

An intro or outro was joined through 0.8s of black

concat_outro defaulted to crossfade_duration=0.8, transition="fadeblack" and generate_clip never overrode it, so it ate three quarters of a second of both sides. Measured: 6s of clip + 2s of outro came out at 7.23s.

A designed bookend should be cut to. The fade is a number now (--bookend-fade) and defaults to none — 8.03s for the same inputs.

A clip opens on a stranger

New lower third: name, role, an accent underline, gone after three seconds. --name-card "Jamie Gull: Founder & Solo GP" --name-card-sub "at Wave Function Ventures".

Tests

Two regressions, because this class of bug is silent:

  • no caption style may carry a logo_support gate (fails if a per-style opt-out returns)
  • the name card reaches the renderer's argv

The existing suite already caught a live mistake in this branch: a parameter used in a body whose signature never got it, swallowed by the surrounding except, which showed up only as two subprocess calls instead of four.

test_ai_fallback's three CLI-discovery failures are pre-existing on main and unrelated.

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  • New Features

    • Added configurable speaker name cards with titles, subtitles, colors, durations, and fade effects.
    • Added vertical, horizontal, and square studio output formats.
    • Added controls for caption position, font scaling, single-line captions, and logo placement.
    • Logos and watermarks now render consistently across caption styles and positions.
    • Added smoother caption and video fade transitions.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved branded caption rendering and logo spacing.
    • Preserved preset transition settings when options are omitted.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for name cards, logo rendering, caption settings, and transition options.

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Four things measured against a published short that was cut with this very
renderer. None of them needed a new feature; all four were the renderer not
doing what it was told.

`--logo` was accepted, resolved from the asset store, and then dropped
unless the caption style happened to be "branded". Two gates did it: a
`logo_support` flag in the style config, and the fact that the logo was
drawn inside the branded caption component. A logo belongs to the show, not
to a caption style. Both gates are gone, the mark moved one level up into
CaptionedClip at exactly its old position, and a branded render is
byte-identical, frame hash for frame hash.

Subtle captions faded in and then cut, so every chunk boundary flickered:
the outgoing line vanished on the frame the incoming one started at zero.
They now ramp down inside their own window, which crossfades without moving
a single caption timing. Skipped on chunks too short to hold full opacity.

An intro or an outro was joined with 0.8 seconds of crossfade through
black, which ate three quarters of a second of both. Six seconds of clip
plus two of outro came out at 7.23. A designed bookend should be cut to;
the fade is now a number, and it defaults to none.

And a clip lifted out of an hour of conversation opens on a stranger, so
there is a lower third: name, role, an accent underline, gone after three
seconds. `--name-card`, `--name-card-sub`.

Two regression tests, because this class of bug is silent: one asserts no
caption style may gate the logo, the other that the name card reaches the
renderer at all. The suite already caught one live mistake here — a
parameter used in a body whose signature never got it, swallowed by the
surrounding except.
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The PR adds process options for speaker name cards and bookend fades. It forwards these settings through clip generation into Remotion, adds configurable caption and watermark positioning, and updates caption fade behavior.

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Clip rendering enhancements

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Pipeline configuration and renderer wiring
backend/cli.py, backend/services/clip_generator.py, tests/test_clip_generator.py, node_modules
The process command accepts name-card and bookend-fade settings. The studio command accepts an output format. generate_clip forwards caption, logo, name-card, and fade settings to rendering paths. Tests verify logo forwarding and name-card serialization.
Remotion name-card contract and rendering
remotion/render.mjs, remotion/src/Root.tsx, remotion/src/CaptionedClip.tsx, remotion/src/components/NameCard.tsx
Remotion receives an optional nameCard object. CaptionedClip passes the configuration to NameCard. NameCard renders an animated lower third when a title is present.
Caption visuals, watermark, and motion
remotion/src/components/Watermark.tsx, remotion/src/components/BrandedCaptions.tsx, remotion/src/components/SubtleCaptions.tsx, remotion/src/motion.ts, backend/config/caption_styles.py
Watermark rendering supports configurable placement. Branded and subtle captions use shared line and fade behavior. Caption styles no longer define logo_support.

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99-107: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Cover the complete name-card command contract.

The test does not pass or assert seconds and accent. A regression that drops either --name-card-seconds or --name-card-accent will pass this test.

Add both values to name_card. Assert that each flag and serialized value reaches the command.

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In `@tests/test_clip_generator.py` around lines 99 - 107, Update
test_name_card_reaches_the_renderer to include representative seconds and accent
values in name_card, then assert that --name-card-seconds and --name-card-accent
and their serialized values are present in argv alongside the existing title and
subtitle assertions.
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Inline comments:
In `@backend/cli.py`:
- Around line 1067-1068: Update every interactive re-render generate_clip call
to pass the same config.get("name_card") and config.get("bookend_fade", 0.0)
values already used by the initial render, preserving overlay settings after
review edits.
- Around line 585-586: Update the --bookend-fade argument definition to use
default=None, preserving the existing args.bookend_fade is not None guard in the
configuration update so preset bookend_fade values are overridden only when the
CLI option is explicitly supplied.

In `@backend/services/clip_generator.py`:
- Around line 923-924: Update the ASS fallback path around the clip-generation
logic at lines 934-958 so a supplied name_card is rendered as an equivalent
lower-third overlay. Ensure this applies when use_ass_captions is enabled and
when Remotion falls back to ASS, including --fast; if ASS cannot support
name_card, reject the option combination before generating a clip rather than
silently omitting it.

In `@remotion/src/components/NameCard.tsx`:
- Around line 41-44: Update the rendering logic in NameCard around fadeInOut so
frames at or beyond seconds * fps return null, ensuring the card unmounts at its
configured duration. Also validate or clamp seconds so durations shorter than
the fade ramps cannot produce unsupported fade behavior.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@tests/test_clip_generator.py`:
- Around line 99-107: Update test_name_card_reaches_the_renderer to include
representative seconds and accent values in name_card, then assert that
--name-card-seconds and --name-card-accent and their serialized values are
present in argv alongside the existing title and subtitle assertions.
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Comment thread remotion/src/components/NameCard.tsx
The logo collided: this branch hoists it out of BrandedCaptions into a
top-level Watermark so all four caption styles carry it, while #139 kept
it inside BrandedCaptions and taught it --logo-position. Taking either
side whole loses something, so the hoist stays and the position
expression moves into Watermark with it.

BrandedCaptions keeps logoSrc and logoPosition even though it no longer
draws the logo: its caption margin still has to leave room for one. The
box constants move to Watermark and are imported back, so the mark and
the gap reserved for it cannot drift apart.

Known gap, opt-in only: that margin guard exists only in BrandedCaptions,
so --logo-position bottom-* can overlap captions on hormozi, karaoke and
subtle. The default is top-left.

Also closes the four review findings:
- --bookend-fade defaulted to 0.0, so it overwrote a preset's value on
  every run. It defaults to None now and only an explicit flag wins.
- The interactive re-render dropped name_card and bookend_fade, so a
  reviewed clip came back without its lower third.
- A name card reached only Remotion. On --fast or an ASS fallback the
  clip rendered without it. That combination is refused now.
- The name card outlived its own duration whenever the fade ramps did
  not fit inside it.

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In `@backend/services/clip_generator.py`:
- Around line 923-928: Update the render-path selection around transcript_words
and clip_words so a present name_card still uses Remotion when the word lists
are empty, ensuring the lower third is rendered for uncaptioned clips. Keep the
existing ASS restriction for name_card before selecting the renderer, including
the use_ass_captions or allow_ass_fallback condition.

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- Line 1: Remove the tracked node_modules symbolic-link entry from version
control, leaving dependency restoration to the existing package manifest and
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… symlink

The guard sat inside the "there are words to caption" branch, so an
uncaptioned render (a party or action profile skips transcription) took
--name-card and produced no lower third. It runs before the branch now
and names which of the two reasons applies.

.gitignore lists node_modules/ with a trailing slash, which does not
match a symlink of that name, so one used to link a node_modules for the
test run was committed with an absolute path under a home directory.
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