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Summary

Record the papers on your desk with the same webcam that films your face: tilt it down, and a Full Camera section shows the desk the right way up.

  • Desk view (inspector, Full Camera section): turns the camera 180°, switches the mirror off for that section — a selfie-mirrored page reads back to front — and shows the whole camera frame instead of the face crop. Rotation (0° / 180°) and mirror (Auto / On / Off) are also available separately. The timeline marks such a section with a rotate icon.
  • The tilt is covered. At both ends of a desk section the camera picture is blurred and dimmed while the Full Camera grow/shrink runs (the moment the camera is physically moving), fading in and out around it, with a translated "Desk mode" label over it, drawn at the blur's own strength in every frame so both fade together. The label can be switched off per section; the blur stays.
  • Preview and export render it identically: everything goes through the compositor's frame plan. Old projects are unchanged — the new region fields are optional and defaults are never written.

How it is built

  • Rust compositor: per-frame WebcamOrientation (u/v bound swaps, crop bypass) and cover strength from the Full Camera region in effect; a new LayerCB.cover lane (appended last — Rust, HLSL, WGSL and MSL agree at offset 176 / 192 bytes, pinned by the existing size/offset test); the blur reuses the background effect's Vogel kernel and is clamped to the camera's valid area, so aligned decoder padding (1080 lines in a 1088-line texture) never bleeds in; two label animations in text_anim.
  • App: rotation / mirror / deskLabel on Full Camera regions, one undo step per change, persistence normalises unknown values; the label is generated like captions, one start/end pair per projected piece of the section, so it always matches the blur — also for sections split across clips.
  • Translations for every locale.

Related issue

None — new feature.

Type of change

  • Bug fix
  • Feature
  • Enhancement
  • Documentation
  • Refactor / maintenance
  • Performance
  • Security

Release impact

  • Patch
  • Minor
  • Major / breaking change
  • No release note needed

Desktop impact

  • Windows
  • macOS
  • Linux
  • Installer / packaging
  • Not platform-specific

Screenshots / video

Can follow on request (a short before/after of the tilt).

Testing

  • npm run test (303 files, 4179 passed), both tsc configs, npm run lint (0 errors), npm run i18n:check.
  • cargo test -p openscreen-compositor --lib on Windows ARM64: all new tests pass, including a naga validation of layer.wgsl (with the LAYER_MODELS prefix) that runs on every host. The pipeline_windows::tests that need hardware video decode fail on this host with or without this change.
  • Measured on real headless exports (electron . export, synthetic asymmetric 1080p and 720p cameras):
    • steady part of a desk section equals the source turned 180° at encode-floor difference (5.1), and is not mirrored with the project mirror on;
    • covered ends: camera luma 0.64× and fine detail 0.008× of the steady part; no dark/green band at the turned edge on a 1080p camera (130.4 vs 130.0);
    • label only while covered, absent with the label switched off;
    • a 2.6 s section changes smoothly (largest step 15.6 per frame, no one-frame jump).
  • Real device: a webcam tilted onto a printed page and back on Windows 11 ARM64 (Snapdragon X Elite) — Full Camera section with Desk view, tilt hidden at both ends, page upright and sharp in between, label switch, MP4 export. Logged in technical-documentation/testing/manual-e2e-checklist.md together with the measurements.
  • Not covered here: macOS and Linux rendering — the Metal shader is reviewed but compiled only by the macOS CI job.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Full Camera sections now support Desk view with rotation and mirror controls. Desk view keeps the camera image upright and readable, with a blurred, dimmed transition at section boundaries.
    • Optionally show a translated desk label in Desk view. Orientation and label settings are saved with the project and support undo.
    • Added localized controls for camera fullscreen settings across supported languages.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Changing the app language now refreshes translated scene text.
    • Improved webcam blur sampling to reduce edge artifacts.

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Full Camera regions now support rotation, mirroring, full-frame display, and desk-label visibility. These settings flow through editor state and native scene descriptions to compositor rendering, which applies webcam transforms and a cover effect. The native scene also refreshes when the locale changes.

Changes

Full Camera desk view

Layer / File(s) Summary
Orientation settings and timeline updates
src/components/video-editor/types.ts, src/lib/cameraOrientation.ts, src/components/video-editor/projectPersistence.ts, src/lib/ai-edition/store/useTimeline.ts, src/lib/ai-edition/timeline/timelineMap.test.ts, related tests
Camera regions gain normalized rotation, mirror, and desk-label settings. Persistence retains non-default values, and timeline updates save changes with undo history.
Editor controls and translations
src/components/ai-edition/v4/FloatingInspector.tsx, src/components/ai-edition/v4/V4Timeline.tsx, src/components/ai-edition/v4/EditorShellV4.module.css, src/i18n/locales/*/settings.json, related tests
The inspector adds desk-view, rotation, mirror, and label controls. Turned camera regions use a rotation icon in the timeline. Camera setting labels are added to the locale files.
Scene orientation and desk labels
src/native/sceneDescription.ts, src/lib/deskCover.ts, src/native/sceneDescription.test.ts
Scene descriptions serialize resolved orientation and generate translated desk labels for turned regions. Generated labels include projected timing and stable IDs.
Compositor orientation and cover geometry
crates/compositor/src/scene.rs, crates/compositor/src/regions.rs, crates/compositor/src/frame_geometry.rs
Compositor scene regions gain orientation and crop fields. Frame planning derives webcam orientation and cover strength from the active region. Tests check cover timing, orientation, and constant-buffer layout.
Blurred cover and label rendering
crates/compositor/src/compositor_*.rs, crates/compositor/src/shaders.metal, crates/compositor/src/vk_shaders/layer.wgsl, crates/compositor/src/text_anim.rs, technical-documentation/testing/manual-e2e-checklist.md
Compositor backends apply camera flips, full-frame crop bypass, and cover parameters. Metal and WGSL shaders apply cover blur and dimming; desk-label opacity follows cover strength. The manual checklist adds desk-view checks.

Locale-triggered scene refresh

Layer / File(s) Summary
Refresh native scene on locale change
src/components/ai-edition/NativeCompositorOverlay.tsx, src/components/ai-edition/NativeCompositorOverlay.test.tsx
The native scene effect now depends on locale. A test verifies that changing locale triggers a scene update.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant FloatingInspector
  participant useTimeline
  participant NativeCompositorOverlay
  participant sceneDescription
  participant Compositor
  FloatingInspector->>useTimeline: Save camera orientation and label settings
  NativeCompositorOverlay->>sceneDescription: Build scene from editor state
  sceneDescription->>Compositor: Send camera regions and projected desk labels
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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 00e6b

Desk labels can remain in the wrong language when a locale change succeeds but browser storage is unavailable. This is a narrow edge case; the change is mergeable with owner awareness and follow-up.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 00e6b

Desk view remains within the selected project's existing camera media. No expanded access or verified security vulnerability was identified, but overlapping setting changes may lose earlier edits and disrupt undo consistency.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · reliability · inferred: The new orientation and label setters independently save captured whole-document snapshots. Overlapping edits can lose an earlier setting, including rotation that determines transition cover, and record undo history from the same stale base. The inspector does not await these writes, and the store's epoch guard protects document replacement rather than ordinary concurrent edits. This extends a pre-existing save pattern to the new transition settings; native merge guarantees remain unverified.
Security review details

Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The inspected exposure remains the existing webcam frame and rendered output for the selected project. Orientation swaps existing UV bounds and full-frame mode broadens their selection; neither introduces a new camera source or rendering caller. The identified write-consistency concern affects that project's document and history, not an established cross-tenant or service boundary.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Project-controlled rotation resolves to boolean flips, with only 180 degrees activating the turned path. The existing webcam-presence gate remains. All three shader blur helpers clamp samples inside the valid camera image extent to exclude aligned decoder padding.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — Normal frame transitions are deterministic and do not require rollback of mutable cover state. Persistence is the remaining weak point: successful overlapping saves can still conflict without changing the write epoch. Overlapping-region label ownership, concurrent preview/export behavior, and native partial-write recovery were not fully established.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Serialize camera-setting patches against the latest project document, preserving project and write-generation checks, or establish equivalent revision-aware merge guarantees. The existing queued zoom-write path provides a local model for preventing stale snapshots and preserving independent undo steps.
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Linked Issues check ✅ Passed Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the camera feature and its covered tilt behavior.
Description check ✅ Passed The description covers the feature, related issue status, change type, release and desktop impact, implementation, and testing. It notes that screenshots or video can be provided on request.
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🟡 Minor · Use screen time for desk-cover label animations. · text_anim.rs:74-87

crates/compositor/src/text_anim.rs:74-87
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Use screen time for desk-cover label animations.

When a turned Full Camera section overlaps a 2× speed region, the label animation receives source-time elapsed values, but the camera cover uses ScreenClock. A 500 ms source-time fade can therefore finish in 250 ms of screen time, so the label fades twice as fast as the cover. Pass ScreenClock-derived elapsed and region durations to deskCoverStart and deskCoverEnd at the compositor caller boundary. Keep ordinary annotation animations on source time.

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Review comment at @crates/compositor/src/text_anim.rs around lines 74 - 87:
Update the compositor caller that supplies timing to `deskCoverStart` and
`deskCoverEnd` to use elapsed time and region duration derived from
`ScreenClock`, so their fades match the camera cover during speed changes. Keep
ordinary annotation animations on source time.

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Review comments at @crates/compositor/src/text_anim.rs:
- Around line 74-87: Update the compositor caller that supplies timing to
`deskCoverStart` and `deskCoverEnd` to use elapsed time and region duration
derived from `ScreenClock`, so their fades match the camera cover during speed
changes. Keep ordinary annotation animations on source time.

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The desk label also fades too early on short sections at 1×.

I reproduced this on the Windows D3D11 path at aa5052620 with a 2.6 s Desk view section and no speed region. While the camera cover is still fully active, the label has already faded substantially (about 0.45 / 0.21 opacity in the rendered frames).

The two transitions derive their fade duration differently: the camera cover shortens it from the remaining steady interval, while the desk-label animation derives another fade from the generated label window. Those diverge on short sections.

The existing 2.6 s test checks cover continuity, so it doesn't catch this synchronization case. Could the label use the same transition timing as the cover here?

A Full Camera section can now show a webcam tilted down onto the desk: "Desk view"
in the inspector turns the camera 180°, switches the mirror off for that section
(otherwise text on the page reads back to front) and shows the whole camera frame
instead of the face crop. The timeline marks such sections with a rotate icon.

The moment the camera is tilted is covered at both ends of the section: the whole
camera picture is blurred and dimmed for the Full Camera grow (and the shrink),
fading in and out around it, with a translated "Desk mode" label over it that can be
switched off per section. Preview and export render it identically through the
compositor's frame plan.

- Rust: per-frame orientation (u/v bound swaps, crop bypass) and cover strength,
  a `LayerCB.cover` lane (HLSL, WGSL, MSL), the blur clamped to the camera's valid
  area so aligned decoder padding never bleeds in; the label is drawn at the
  cover strength of the same frame, so it fades exactly with the cover.
- App: `rotation` / `mirror` / `deskLabel` on Full Camera regions (defaults are not
  stored), store and persistence, inspector controls, one generated label annotation
  per projected piece, translations in every locale.
- Tests for each layer; WGSL is validated with naga on every host.
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Thanks, good catch. The label had its own fade, derived from its generated window, and that diverged from the cover's min(0.5 s, steady/2) on short sections and ran on source time inside speed regions. It now has no timing of its own: the app spans one label over each turned piece, and the compositor draws it at exactly the cover strength of the same frame (annotation_text_state with g.webcam_cover), so they share one function and the screen clock. On very short sections the cover's two fades meet, so the label briefly dips with the cover there too. A new frame-plan test samples a 2.6 s section at 1x, a long one and one inside a 2x region and asserts label opacity == cover at every frame, including your 0.9–1.0 s frames, which now stay at 1.0. This also resolves the speed-region point CodeRabbit raised.

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src/components/ai-edition/NativeCompositorOverlay.test.tsx (1)

255-294: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Assert the translated label in the rebuilt scene.

makeDocument() has no Full Camera region, and the test checks only that setNativeScene is called. A stale desk label can therefore pass. Add a turned region, make the test translation follow the mocked locale, and assert that the pushed scene contains the new label.

Suggested fix
 vi.mock("@/contexts/I18nContext", () => ({
 	useI18n: () => ({ locale: i18n.locale }),
 	useScopedT: () => (key: string) => key,
 }));
 
+vi.mock("@/i18n/toastText", () => ({
+	toastText: () => (i18n.locale === "de" ? "Schreibtischmodus" : "Desk mode"),
+}));
+
 import { NativeCompositorOverlay } from "./NativeCompositorOverlay";
-			document: makeDocument(),
+			document: {
+				...makeDocument(),
+				legacyEditor: {
+					cameraFullscreenRegions: [
+						{ id: "desk-label", startMs: 0, endMs: 5_000, rotation: 180 },
+					],
+				},
+			},
 		expect(native.setNativeScene).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+		expect(native.setNativeScene).toHaveBeenCalledWith(
+			expect.stringContaining('"content":"Schreibtischmodus"'),
+		);
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Review comment at @src/components/ai-edition/NativeCompositorOverlay.test.tsx
around lines 255 - 294:
Update the language-change test to include a turned Full Camera region in its
document and make the mocked translation return locale-specific desk-label text.
In the test that rerenders after changing the locale, assert that the scene
passed to NativeCompositorOverlay’s native.setNativeScene contains the German
label, not just that the scene was pushed.

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Review comments at @src/components/ai-edition/NativeCompositorOverlay.test.tsx:
- Around line 255-294: Update the language-change test to include a turned Full
Camera region in its document and make the mocked translation return
locale-specific desk-label text. In the test that rerenders after changing the
locale, assert that the scene passed to NativeCompositorOverlay’s
native.setNativeScene contains the German label, not just that the scene was
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