video_editing_poc/.claude/memory/current-state.md

Video Editing Service: Current State

Last verified: 2026-07-23 (Europe/Berlin). Verify against git before trusting — see ai-handover.md.

Snapshot

• Branch feature/imrovements; recorded HEAD 8b68116 + uncommitted working-tree fixes (2026-07-23).
• mvn -o verify: 254 tests, 0 failures, JaCoCo gate passes.
• The full local single-source cinematic-highlight pipeline is BUILT and works end-to-end: analysis → candidates/category → manual montage.json director plan → local audio generation (Piper voice, MusicGen music, AudioLDM2 SFX) → cinematic FFmpeg render (grade, grain, overlays, multi-cut, slow-mo, orientation-aware geometry) → QA.
• Models provisioned + proven locally; user authorized downloads 2026-07-21 (reversed the no-download stance).

Authoritative sources (do not duplicate them here)

• Live code/state: git log, git status.
• Roadmap + milestone log: docs/cinematic-highlight-poc-plan.md.
• How to render e2e: memory highlight-e2e-render-runbook.
• Model runtime facts: memory local-model-runtime-intel-mac.
• Handover + staleness check: .claude/memory/ai-handover.md.

2026-07-23 fixes (whole service)

• Orientation-aware: portrait sources render portrait (rotation read in FfmpegClipInspector, geometry chosen in HighlightFfmpegRenderer.outputGeometry), letterbox landscape-only.
• Audio mix: source audio ducked under the generated score (score now leads).
• Highlight duration no longer capped (validator + config); a highlight can be as long as needed.

Known limits / next (Phase 5 in poc-plan)

Source footage quality is the ceiling; no resident local director (plans are manual); bigger/continuous music pending; licensing of local models is non-commercial (CC-BY-NC / AGPL); production hardening deferred until the creative-quality gate passes. Highlight rendering still defaults OFF; approval still required.