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Summary

The cursor pane gets an optional Mouse clicks sound: every click the recording already stored
in its cursor sidecar (<video>.cursor.json — the same table the click bounce and the auto-zoom
detector read) plays a short hit, in the preview and in the exported file.

The hits are laid out per click rather than baked into one rendered audio file. An imported audio
track is moved by a speed region and never stretched (SceneAudioTrack's content is placed
as recorded), so a bed rendered against one edit falls behind every click after it — the sound
needs a stale file to be wrong. Each hit here goes through
projectRawTimelineSecToPlayback, the same raw→programme projection the app places imported audio
tracks with, and is recomputed for the edit being exported, so there is nothing to keep in step.

  • Renderer: src/lib/ai-edition/clickSound.ts reads the sidecar once per take, builds press/release
    cues (a double click gets two presses, right and middle a little quieter, a release taken from the
    recorded mouseup), applies the user's level, and hands the hits to the scene.
  • Export: SceneClickSound on the scene (downPath / upPath / hits[] in programme seconds),
    summed hit by hit by audio::mix_click_hits, between mix_external_tracks and finish_audio,
    reusing decode_clip_audio and overlay_track_pcm. Two decodes per take, not one per click.
  • Preview: preview audio never reaches the compositor — it is <audio> elements and a Web Audio
    graph in VirtualPreview — so the same cues are fired there as the source clock crosses each
    click, through the graph the component already builds. That is also why this is not a track on the
    timeline: a track could only be placed, and placing it once is what goes stale.
  • UI: one toggle and one level slider directly under the existing Click impact row —
    cursor.clickSound and cursor.clickSoundGainDb (−24…+12 dB, default 0), plumbed exactly the way
    clickImpact is, so no new settings storage and it rides on style presets like its neighbours.
  • Assets: two hits from Kenney's "UI SFX set" in public/sounds, stripped of leading silence and
    levelled to a matching 0.7 peak, so neither the preview nor the compositor measures them at
    runtime. THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.md records the files, the pack and the processing. The author's
    page (https://kenney.nl/assets/ui-audio) states CC0; the readme shipped inside the pack only says
    free for personal and commercial use with credit optional — flagging that in case the repo wants
    the stronger statement verified before it ships.

Related issue

I found none: searching this repo for "click sound" returns no issue and no open PR, so there is no
closing keyword here.

Type of change

  • Feature

Release impact

  • Minor

Desktop impact

  • Windows

The scene field is platform-neutral and all three pipelines get the same small hunk (a
click_sound clone out of the scene snapshot plus one wrap in the audio chain), but macOS and Linux
were not compiled or run here — see Testing.

Screenshots / video

Not attached yet. The visible change is a switch plus a slider under Click impact in the cursor
pane. I can add a short recording of the preview and the exported file if that helps the review.

Testing

All of it on one Windows 11 machine (Node 24, cargo 1.98, MSVC toolchain), no CI run and no second
machine:

  • npm test — 302 files, 4159 passing, 4 skipped.

  • cargo test -p openscreen-compositor --lib — 403 passing, including four new tests: hit placement
    and sample choice, a hit the edit pushed past the programme end, the app's camelCase payload
    parsing into SceneClickSound, and a decode-and-mix test that writes two real 16-bit WAVs and
    reads them back through ffmpeg instead of stubbing the decode. That last one hard-fails rather
    than skips where the ffmpeg DLLs cannot be loaded, the same requirement the existing
    a_file_is_measured_whole_across_its_windows test already has.

  • biome check ., tsc --noEmit, tsc -p tsconfig.test.json --noEmit, npm run i18n:check — clean.

  • Unit tests pin the arithmetic that was actually hard: a click under a 2× region landing at its
    compressed programme second, a take trimmed at the head no longer being at ruler zero, a click
    inside a removed region producing no hit while later ones pull up, and the level slider's dB law.

  • 23077a9a answers the two review findings: the CLI exporter now awaits prepareClickSound before
    it builds its scene, and the preview's crossings are gated to the take the cues came from.

Beyond the tests, the feature was run in a locally built app (native compositor addon +
npm run build-vite) against a real recording with speed regions: the clicks stay on the clicks
through the sped-up sections, in the preview and in the exported file. One human listened, on that
one machine — there is no audio assertion in CI, so the loudness and the feel of the two samples
are unreviewed.

Known limits, small on purpose:

  • Preview audio is still the browser's, not the compositor's. It reads the same cues and is gated to
    the take those cues were recorded from, so in a multi-take project the clicks sound over that
    take's picture and stay quiet over the others — deliberate, since "clicks on every take" would
    mean a cue list per take.
  • The hits are summed after mix_external_tracks, so they are not ducked under a voiceover and do
    not duck it. Felt right for a click, but it is a choice, not a fact about clicks.
  • The 14 non-English locale strings for cursor.clickSound, cursor.clickSoundTip and
    cursor.clickSoundVolume are machine-translated and should be checked by a native speaker.

The take's cursor sidecar already carries each click's timestamp, the same
table the click bounce and the auto-zoom read. This turns it into sound:
the hits travel on the scene description in finished-programme seconds and
the compositor sums them, per hit, over the assembled audio.

They are placed by the editor's own projection rather than baked into one
rendered file, because an imported audio track is moved by a speed region
and never stretched: a bed laid down against one edit falls behind every
click after it. Nothing to re-render, nothing to keep in step.

The cursor pane gets a "Mouse clicks" toggle and a level slider under the
click-impact row; the preview plays the same hits live through the audio
graph it already runs, so what you hear is what the file gets.

Two bundled hits (Kenney "UI Audio", CC0) ship in public/sounds, stripped
of leading silence and levelled to a matching peak; the notice file
records the set, the pack and the processing.
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Adds recorded mouse-click audio settings and cue generation from cursor telemetry. Clicks can play in preview and are included in exported audio through scene data and platform-specific compositor pipelines.

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Recorded Click Sound

Layer / File(s) Summary
Cursor click-sound settings
src/components/video-editor/*, src/components/ai-edition/RightPanes.tsx, src/lib/ai-edition/store/editorSettings.ts, src/lib/ai-edition/stylePresets*, src/lib/projectDefaults.ts, src/i18n/locales/*/settings.json, related tests
Adds a disabled-by-default click-sound setting and gain value. Persists both values, carries them through style presets, and adds cursor controls and translated labels.
Cue generation and sample staging
src/lib/ai-edition/clickSound.ts, src/hooks/useClickSound.ts, electron/electron-env.d.ts, electron/ipc/*, electron/preload.ts, src/components/ai-edition/ExportDialog.tsx, src/cli/CliExportRunner.tsx, THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.md, related tests
Builds press and release cues from cursor telemetry, loads and stages the two audio samples, and prepares cues for scene reads and export. The IPC handler accepts only the two named samples and rejects invalid or oversized data.
Preview click playback
src/lib/ai-edition/clickSound.ts, src/components/ai-edition/VirtualPreview.tsx, src/lib/ai-edition/clickSound.test.ts
Detects cues crossed during forward source-time playback and plays them through the preview audio graph. Resets the click playhead when playback is paused.
Scene data and export audio mixing
src/native/sceneDescription.ts, crates/compositor/src/scene.rs, crates/compositor/src/audio.rs, crates/compositor/src/pipeline_*
Adds click sample paths and timed hits to scene data. Each platform compositor mixes the selected press or release sample into assembled audio before finalizing or encoding it.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant VirtualPreview
  participant takeCrossedClickHits
  participant clickHitBuffers
  participant playClickHits
  participant AudioContext
  VirtualPreview->>takeCrossedClickHits: Find cues crossed by source time
  VirtualPreview->>playClickHits: Pass crossed cues and audio graph
  playClickHits->>clickHitBuffers: Resolve sample buffers
  clickHitBuffers-->>playClickHits: Return decoded buffers
  playClickHits->>AudioContext: Schedule selected sample with cue gain
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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 23077

A click may sound briefly after pausing preview. This is a bounded issue that can be fixed or accepted before merging.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 23077

The new audio path has constrained file destinations and reuses existing playback and export capabilities. No introduced security vulnerability was established, but authorization for arbitrary scene inputs remains incompletely assessed.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The intended exposure is within the desktop application's current user context: two shared staged sample files feed recordings' exported audio, while preview uses fixed bundled URLs. The staging caller cannot select a different destination filename through this API.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The intended renderer-to-main flow supplies fixed sample names and bundled bytes, receives generated filesystem paths, and places those paths into the native scene. Preview's active recording path is used for equality-based cue identity rather than as a sample-fetch destination.
  • observed — Generic native scene submission does not constrain click-sound paths to the staging directory. This extends a pre-existing path-based audio boundary: imported tracks already reached the same decoder at the PR base, and the bridge and scene-path resolver are unchanged. Authorization and provenance for arbitrary scene submissions remain unverified.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Native click mixing decodes each sample only once with a one-second window, clamps hit gain to 0–4, and truncates overlays at the programme boundary. These controls contain decoded sample size and output placement, without establishing trust in arbitrary scene inputs.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Consider staging the two shipped samples directly from main-process-owned assets instead of accepting their bytes from the renderer. This would narrow the authority of the new API; it is a hardening proposal, not evidence of an introduced exploit.
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Review comments at @src/components/ai-edition/VirtualPreview.tsx:
- Around line 1221-1242: Gate the click-cue playback block around
`takeCrossedClickHits` so primary-take cues are checked and played only when the
mounted clip belongs to the primary take; skip cue crossings for clips from
other takes.

Review comments at @src/lib/ai-edition/clickSound.ts:
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🟡 Minor · Discard pending click cues when playback stops. · clickSound.ts:361-384

src/lib/ai-edition/clickSound.ts:361-384
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Discard pending click cues when playback stops.

If decoding is still pending when the user pauses, playClickHits retains the crossed cues in its promise callback. resetClickPlayhead() resets future crossing detection but does not cancel that callback. The pause path pauses media elements without suspending the audio context, so the callback can start the cue after playback stops. Invalidate pending starts on pause.

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Review comment at @src/lib/ai-edition/clickSound.ts around lines 361 - 384:
Update playClickHits so promise callbacks for cues queued before playback pauses
cannot start audio afterward; use an invalidation mechanism that the pause path
can trigger, and preserve the existing behavior for pending cues while playback
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