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Trimming a clip meant opening the Edit modal to move two numbers the clip is
already drawn from. The clip row now carries a grip at each end that moves the
same two numbers in place.

What this does not do

It does not reimplement the edit. applyClipEditsetClipSourceRange already
clamps and orders the range, relays every clip back-to-back, and reclamps the
pills anchored inside the window a trim removes. This turns pointer travel into
a source range and hands it to that — which is why an edge trim lands on the
undo stack as one step like any other edit, and why the modal, this, and the
agent's setClipRange tool cannot drift apart.

The one thing that is not obvious

Dragging the start grip does not move the clip's left edge on screen. Clips
are laid back-to-back from zero, so trimming a head leaves the clip starting
exactly where it started and takes the length off its tail, pulling everything
after it along — a ripple trim. The live preview models that rather than the
more literal reading, which would show a gap the commit will not produce.

The clips it pushes along drop .tlClip's transform transition while the drag
is live. 150ms of ease is right for a reorder, where neighbours settle into a
gap; it reads as rubber when they should be tracking the pointer.

Bounds

Edge Stops at Why
Head 0 there is nothing before the start of a file
Tail the asset's duration anything past it is footage that does not exist
Tail, duration unprobed the current out-point the Edit modal's own fallback rule
Both MIN_CLIP_SEC crossing would hand setClipSourceRange a backwards range

The unprobed fallback means a clip whose asset has not been measured yet can be
trimmed in but not pulled back out. That is the safe way round — the
alternative invents footage past the end of the file — and it is the same rule
the Edit modal already computes, with the same reasoning.

Not writing when nothing happened

A press that never moved writes nothing, so a grip clicked on the way to
selecting a clip does not leave an empty step on the undo stack. The same guard
covers the keyboard, so holding an arrow against a stop does not pile identical
steps up. The grips also swallow their own click, which would otherwise bubble
to the card and reselect at the end of every trim.

Where they are not

Hidden below NARROW_CLIP_PX. Two 10px grips on a card a few pixels wide would
cover it entirely and leave no body to grab for a reorder; the pencil, and the
modal behind it, stays the way in at that size — the same bargain the other
in-clip controls strike. They sit inside the card rather than straddling its
edge, because .tlClip is overflow: hidden and an overhanging grip would also
cover its neighbour's in a back-to-back row.

Keyboard

The grips answer the arrow keys, a tenth of a second at a time and a second with
shift. A focusable button that only answers a pointer is worse than no button —
it takes a tab stop and does nothing with it.

They reuse the Edit modal's two existing labels rather than adding keys: they
adjust the same two numbers, and saying it differently here would be two names
for one edit. No new translation work in any of the 13 locales.

Verification

tsc --noEmit clean, biome check clean.

Ten tests, and each was checked against a deliberately broken version rather
than trusted because it was green
:

  • dropping the clamps fails three of them
  • never rendering the grips fails all ten
  • removing the click guards fails the one that covers them

That last check caught a real weakness in this PR's own test: the first version
asserted no selection after a drag, but dragHandle stops at pointerup and
never dispatches the click a real pointer produces, so it passed with the guard
deleted. It now dispatches the click.

The suite reports 58 failures on this branch. That is the same 58 as on main,
in files this PR does not touch: localStorage.clear is not a function, from
running Node v25.2.1 against a project that pins 22.22.1.

Not verified visually. Screen capture is unavailable in this environment, so
the grip styling — 10px hit zones, the bar that fades in on card hover, the
ripple during a drag — rests on the CSS as written and on the tests, not on
having watched it. Worth a look before merge.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Added timeline clip edge trimming with draggable start and end grips.
    • Added keyboard nudging for precise trim adjustments, including larger Shift-based increments.
    • Added live ripple preview so subsequent clips move smoothly during trimming.
    • Added safeguards for minimum clip duration and available source footage.
    • Added support for trimming clips without explicit source end times.
    • Narrow clips hide trim controls when they cannot be used effectively.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Cancelled or interrupted trims now discard changes without saving.
    • Prevented unrelated pointer interactions from interrupting an active trim.

Trimming a clip meant opening the Edit modal to move two numbers that the clip
is already drawn from. The clip row now carries a grip at each end that moves
the same two numbers in place.

The document work is not new and is deliberately not reimplemented here:
applyClipEdit → setClipSourceRange already clamps and orders the range, relays
every clip back-to-back, and reclamps the pills anchored inside the window the
trim removes. This turns pointer travel into a source range and hands it over,
which is also why an edge trim lands on the undo stack as one step like any
other edit, and why the modal, this, and the agent's setClipRange tool cannot
drift apart.

Dragging the START grip does not move the clip's left edge on screen. Clips are
laid back-to-back from zero, so trimming a head leaves the clip starting exactly
where it started and takes the length off its tail, pulling everything after it
along — a ripple trim. The live preview models that rather than the more literal
reading, which would show a gap the commit will not produce. The clips it pushes
along drop .tlClip's transform transition while the drag is live: 150ms of ease
is right for a reorder, where neighbours settle into a gap, and reads as rubber
when they should be tracking the pointer.

Bounds, all three measured against what the file actually holds. The head stops
at 0. The tail stops at the asset's duration — and where that has not been
probed yet it falls back to the current out-point, the same rule the Edit modal
computes for the same reason, so an unprobed clip can be trimmed in but not
pulled back out. That is the safe way round: the alternative invents footage
past the end of the file. Both edges stop at MIN_CLIP_SEC rather than crossing,
which would hand setClipSourceRange a backwards range.

A press that never moved writes nothing, so a grip clicked on the way to
selecting a clip does not put an empty step on the undo stack. The grips also
swallow their own click, which would otherwise bubble to the card and select on
the end of every trim.

They are hidden below NARROW_CLIP_PX. Two 10px grips on a card a few pixels wide
would cover it entirely and leave no body to grab for a reorder; the pencil, and
the modal behind it, stays the way in at that size — the same bargain the other
in-clip controls strike. They sit inside the card rather than straddling its
edge, because .tlClip is overflow:hidden and an overhanging grip would also
cover its neighbour's in a back-to-back row.

They answer the arrow keys too, a tenth of a second at a time and a second with
shift. A focusable button that only answers a pointer is worse than no button —
it takes a tab stop and does nothing with it. They reuse the Edit modal's own
two labels rather than adding keys: they adjust the same two numbers, and
saying it differently here would be two names for one edit.

Ten tests, each checked against a deliberately broken version: dropping the
clamps fails three, never rendering the grips fails all ten, and removing the
click guards fails the one that covers them.

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Clip cards now support pointer and keyboard edge trimming. The implementation enforces source and duration bounds, previews ripple movement, handles cancellation and unmount cleanup, and commits only changed trims. Tests cover the new interactions and boundary cases.

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Clip edge trimming

Layer / File(s) Summary
Trim interaction and commit flow
src/components/ai-edition/v4/V4Timeline.tsx
Clip edges support pointer and keyboard trimming. The implementation enforces asset bounds, a 0.05s minimum duration, missing source out-point fallback, pointer identity filtering, cleanup, and change-only commits.
Live trim preview and ripple rendering
src/components/ai-edition/v4/V4Timeline.tsx, src/components/ai-edition/v4/EditorShellV4.module.css
Live trim deltas update preview sizing and ripple transforms. Edge grips appear on hover or focus, and rippling clips do not animate their transforms.
Edge trim behavior tests
src/components/ai-edition/v4/V4Timeline.geometry.test.tsx
Tests cover trim direction, bounds, minimum duration, keyboard input, pointer identity, narrow clips, missing source out-points, cancellation, unmount cleanup, no-op presses, and selection behavior.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant TrimControl
  participant V4Timeline
  participant applyClipEdit
  TrimControl->>V4Timeline: Send pointer or keyboard trim input
  V4Timeline->>V4Timeline: Enforce bounds and minimum duration
  V4Timeline->>applyClipEdit: Commit changed source range
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Rapid pointer or keyboard trims can lose an earlier adjustment and make undo history confusing. The issue is localized and has a clear queue-based fix.

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In `@src/components/ai-edition/v4/V4Timeline.tsx`:
- Line 1447: Update the pointer and keyboard trim handlers in V4Timeline,
including the fromEnd calculation near sourceEndSec, to fall back to
sourceStartSec plus the clip’s timeline duration when sourceEndSec is absent,
matching the clip renderer’s effective out-point. Apply this consistently before
calling applyClipEdit/setClipSourceRange, and add a regression test covering an
omitted sourceEndSec.
- Around line 1493-1494: Update the trim interaction setup around the move and
end handlers to register a separate pointercancel handler. When cancellation
occurs, remove both the global pointermove and pointerup listeners, clear
edgeTrim, and do not call applyClipEdit; preserve the existing pointerup
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Two holes in the edge trim, both from CodeRabbit on getopenscreen#668.

`sourceEndSec` is optional, and the handlers defaulted it to 0 while the waveform
painter stood in the clip's timeline length. Zero puts the out-point before the
in-point, and `setClipSourceRange` orders its endpoints, so a trim on an unprobed
clip committed a collapsed clip instead of failing. One `clipOutPointSec` now
serves the pointer path, the keyboard path and the painter.

The drag also only ended on `pointerup`. A palm rejection or a lost capture sends
`pointercancel` and nothing else, leaving the preview frozen and the move listener
live until some later release committed a trim nobody asked for.

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🟡 Minor · Clean up active trim listeners when V4Timeline unmounts. · src/components/ai-edition/v4/V4Timeline.tsx:1498-1523

1498-1523: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Clean up active trim listeners when V4Timeline unmounts. NewEditorShell conditionally renders V4Timeline, so the timeline can unmount during an active trim. startEdgeTrim removes its window listeners only from end and cancel. A later pointerup can therefore retain the old closures and call tl.applyClipEdit after unmount. Store the active trim cleanup in a ref and invoke it during unmount without committing the pending range.

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In `@src/components/ai-edition/v4/V4Timeline.tsx` around lines 1498 - 1523, Update
startEdgeTrim to store the active trim cleanup in a ref, and invoke that cleanup
from V4Timeline’s unmount effect so all window listeners are removed without
committing the pending range. Ensure end and cancel clear the stored cleanup
appropriately, preventing stale closures from calling tl.applyClipEdit after
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in a ref, and invoke that cleanup from V4Timeline’s unmount effect so all window
listeners are removed without committing the pending range. Ensure end and
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The shell renders the timeline conditionally, and a drag keeps its listeners on
`window` -- so the gesture outlived the component, and the next release reached
closures that still wrote through a hook the user had navigated away from. The
trim now parks its own cancel in a ref for the unmount effect to call, which
drops the pending range rather than committing it.

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🟡 Minor · Track the initiating pointer for an edge trim. · src/components/ai-edition/v4/V4Timeline.tsx:1476-1476

1476-1476: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Track the initiating pointer for an edge trim.

The window listeners accept events from every pointer. A second pointer can update next, end the trim, or cancel it. Because the terminal listeners use { once: true }, an unrelated event can also remove them before the initiating pointer ends. The current tests use MouseEvent events without pointerId and do not exercise multiple pointers.

Record e.pointerId, filter move, end, and cancel, remove { once: true }, and add a multi-pointer regression test.

Proposed fix
+			const pointerId = e.pointerId;
 			const startX = e.clientX;
 			let next = { start: fromStart, end: fromEnd };

 			const move = (moveEvent: PointerEvent) => {
+				if (moveEvent.pointerId !== pointerId) return;
 				const deltaSec = (moveEvent.clientX - startX) / pxPerSec;
 				// ...
 			};

-			const end = () => {
+			const end = (endEvent: PointerEvent) => {
+				if (endEvent.pointerId !== pointerId) return;
 				detach();
 				setEdgeTrim(null);
 				// ...
 			};

-			const cancel = () => {
+			const cancel = (cancelEvent?: PointerEvent) => {
+				if (cancelEvent && cancelEvent.pointerId !== pointerId) return;
 				detach();
 				setEdgeTrim(null);
 			};

 			window.addEventListener("pointermove", move);
-			window.addEventListener("pointerup", end, { once: true });
-			window.addEventListener("pointercancel", cancel, { once: true });
+			window.addEventListener("pointerup", end);
+			window.addEventListener("pointercancel", cancel);
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In `@src/components/ai-edition/v4/V4Timeline.tsx` at line 1476, Update the
edge-trim flow around the initiating pointer event in V4Timeline to record its
pointerId, ignore move, end, and cancel events from other pointers, and remove
once-only terminal listeners so unrelated events cannot unregister them.
Preserve compatibility with existing MouseEvent-based tests that omit pointerId,
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`window` hears every pointer on the device. A second finger's release ended the
first finger's trim -- committing a range from a press that happened somewhere
else -- and, the terminal listeners being `{ once: true }`, unregistered them on
its way out, so the finger still dragging was attached to nothing. Move, up and
cancel now check the id they started with, and the listeners stay until `detach`
takes them; the unmount path still cancels unconditionally, since it is
abandoning the gesture rather than answering a pointer.

The shared drag helper carries a pointerId through as well: jsdom defaults
`fireEvent.pointerDown` to 0 and leaves a hand-built MouseEvent undefined, so the
old sequences would have been filtered out and every trim test passed vacuously.

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🟠 Major · Cancel the active trim before starting another trim. · src/components/ai-edition/v4/V4Timeline.tsx:1457-1457

1457-1457: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Cancel the active trim before starting another trim.

startEdgeTrim creates independent window listeners for each pointer, but overwrites abortEdgeTrimRef with only the newest cancel callback. The first gesture can still receive its matching pointerup and call tl.applyClipEdit. After unmount, cleanup cancels only the callback currently in the ref, so the other gesture can commit through the unmounted timeline.

Call abortEdgeTrimRef.current?.() before creating the new gesture. Add a same-package regression test that starts two trims, unmounts, and verifies that neither pending trim can commit. The existing different-pointer and single-trim unmount tests do not cover two initiating pointerdowns.

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 			e.preventDefault();
 			e.stopPropagation();
+			abortEdgeTrimRef.current?.();
 
 			const fromStart = clip.sourceStartSec;
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In `@src/components/ai-edition/v4/V4Timeline.tsx` at line 1457, Update the
startEdgeTrim handler to invoke abortEdgeTrimRef.current?.() before creating a
new trim gesture, ensuring any prior pointer listeners and pending commit are
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Filtering by pointer id also meant a gesture no longer ended when another grip
was pressed, so a second press started a second independent drag: two of them
fighting over the single `edgeTrim` preview, both committing on release, and only
the newer one reachable through the ref the unmount effect cancels -- the older
could still write through an unmounted timeline. A new press now abandons the one
in flight, which is what the user asked for by moving to another edge.

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🟡 Minor · Serialize trim document updates before saving. · src/components/ai-edition/v4/V4Timeline.tsx:1533-1533

1533-1533: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Serialize trim document updates before saving. applyClipEdit reads the current document, builds the next document, and then calls saveDocument without using useSequentialTimelineOps. Rapid calls can therefore build from the same pre-trim document. The second persisted document can replace the first trim, while both successful saves add history entries from the same base. The per-project queue in DocumentService only serializes file writes; it does not serialize these document reads and history updates.

Route applyClipEdit through useSequentialTimelineOps.enqueue. Perform the document read and edit construction inside the queued task.

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In `@src/components/ai-edition/v4/V4Timeline.tsx` at line 1533, Update
applyClipEdit to route its entire document read, edit construction, and save
operation through useSequentialTimelineOps.enqueue, ensuring rapid trim updates
execute sequentially and each task reads the latest document before building the
next state.
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In `@src/components/ai-edition/v4/V4Timeline.tsx`:
- Line 1533: Update applyClipEdit to route its entire document read, edit
construction, and save operation through useSequentialTimelineOps.enqueue,
ensuring rapid trim updates execute sequentially and each task reads the latest
document before building the next state.

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Every clip in the row carried a grip labelled "Adjust clip start" and one labelled
"Adjust clip end", so a screen-reader user tabbing the row heard the same two
names over and over with nothing saying which clip they were on. Each grip now
points at its own card's name element -- the 2N buttons keep one label and gain N
descriptions, with no new string to translate thirteen times.

Keyboard focus was drawn as the hover state, at the same opacity on the same bar,
and the shared focus ring was turned off outright with no note as to why. The
reason is real -- .tlClip is overflow:hidden and the ring sits at offset 2px --
so the indicator moves inside the grip: accent colour, full height, opaque.

And a nudge now takes over from a drag on the same grip. Focus survives the
pointerdown, so an arrow key can land mid-drag, and the drag's pending range was
computed from a snapshot the nudge invalidates -- on release it put the old range
back over the nudge.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
NICOLASGON and others added 7 commits September 15, 2026 09:42
Found by running the thing. The card resizes live under an edge trim, but the
duration printed inside it kept showing the committed length, so dragging a 20s
clip down showed a visibly shorter box still labelled 0:20.0. It is the precise
half of the preview -- the keyboard step is a tenth BECAUSE this is printed to a
tenth -- so it is the number the user is actually aiming with. It now reads from
the same `boxLen` the box does, which is identical to the committed length
whenever no trim is in flight.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…ares

From CodeRabbit on getopenscreen#668, and it is this PR's own bug. `applyClipEdit` reads the
document at call time and saves it back, so two calls in flight both build on the
same pre-trim document and the second clobbers the first. The Edit modal's call
site has always gone through `useSequentialTimelineOps` for exactly that reason
(NewEditorShell:1755); the two call sites this PR added went straight at the
timeline API and skipped it. A drag commits once, but the keyboard nudge fires
per keydown and a held arrow repeats about thirty times a second, which is how
you get two.

The shell owns the queue, so it hands the commit down already wrapped rather than
the timeline growing a second queue of its own -- which the module header warns
about, since a mutation serialising on its own queue still clobbers one running
on the shared one.

Also fixes three things the test typecheck was catching and I was not, having
only ever run the app tsconfig: the `applyClipEdit` mock took no arguments, and
the unprobed-clip fixtures could not omit `sourceEndSec` because the factory's
inferred return type made it required. It is optional in the schema, which is the
whole point of those fixtures.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…nds on

The trim went through the shared write queue, but the range it saved was worked
out before it got there, from the clip in the render the gesture landed in. The
queue serialises writes; it cannot refresh a value that was fixed at call time,
which is what its own header warns about. A held arrow key repeats far faster
than a save comes back, so every repeat computed `end - 0.1` from the same stale
clip: the edge moved a tenth however long the key was held, and each identical
save still pushed an undo step, since history only skips a write that hands back
the very same object. The "already against the stop" guard read the same stale
clip, so a step back out after a step in was dropped as a no-op.

The timeline now hands the shell a resolver instead of a range. The shell calls
it inside the queued task with the document the previous write committed; it
applies the move to that clip, clamps there, and answers null when the result is
the range the clip already has, so nothing is saved.

A drag commits the same way, as a move rather than an absolute range. The preview
is drawn as the committed length plus the change, so if the document moves under
a held drag (Ctrl+Z with the pointer down, a queued write landing) the move
applied to the newer clip is what is on screen at release. Cancelling the drag
instead would also be safe, but would throw away a gesture whose outcome the user
could see; committing the pointerdown range would put an undone trim back.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The only threshold on a trim was a thousandth of a second of source time. At a
low zoom one pixel is seconds of timeline, so the jitter of an ordinary click on
a grip committed a multi-second trim and put a step on the undo stack for it.

The reorder on the same card has always ignored travel under 4px. The trim now
uses that dead zone too, through one shared constant rather than a second magic
4, and measures its move from the press once it is past it, so the edge does not
trail the pointer by the width of the zone.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The release dropped the preview synchronously and then handed the trim to a write
that is async, so the card snapped back to its old length for as long as the save
took and jumped to the new one when the store caught up. The reorder on the same
row has always kept its preview through its save for exactly this.

The commit callback now returns the queue's promise instead of voiding it, and the
release awaits it before taking the preview down. It takes down only its own: by
the time an older save lands another press may have put up a preview of its own,
and clearing that would snap the newer drag back instead.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Whether a card renders its grips is decided by its live width, and that width
changes under the grip being used: a keyboard nudge shortens the clip, a Ctrl+wheel
zooms the row out. Once the card fell under the threshold the focused grip was
unmounted and focus dropped to the body, so a keyboard user nudging a clip down
lost their place mid-edit. The grips now stay while a grip of that card holds
focus, or while that clip is being trimmed; focus leaving the card lets them go.

A nudge also changed nothing a screen reader could hear, the grips being plain
buttons with no value. aria-valuetext is not valid on a button, and turning them
into sliders is a pattern this row does not use; the Edit modal already speaks
these same numbers through a polite live region, so the card gets its
counterpart, rendered only while one of its grips has focus.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The drag closed over the px-per-second scale it was pressed at. Ctrl+wheel zooms
the row with the pointer still down, and after that the same travel kept counting
at the old rate while the card and the clips it ripples were drawn at the new one,
so the edge came off the cursor for the rest of the gesture.

Each move now reads the scale the row is currently drawn at, through a ref kept
in step with it, and turns the travel since the press into seconds at that scale.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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