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fix(annotations): masks and their gimbals follow the footage, arrows get a tight gimbal - #909

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Summary

Follow-up to #900, from Etienne's pass on the annotations.

  • Masks keep the footage's perspective in motion. Under 3D Orbit with motion blur, a privacy mask fell back to an upright box around its two frames. It now keeps the tilted quad, grown just enough to cover the previous frame (grow_quad), so nothing it hides leaks. Text and arrows still don't deform.
  • The blur gimbal sits on the mask. Each preview frame now carries the footage's corners in the image (FootageQuad, compositor → napi → renderer store). MaskGimbal draws and drags through them, so it follows the mask under a zoom and in 3D, instead of the footage at rest.
  • Tight arrow gimbal. It frames the drawn strokes, not the mostly empty box. ARROW_EXTENTS mirrors the Rust segments and a Rust test holds the two together.
  • Gimbals no longer paint over dialogs. .previewFrame is its own stacking context (isolation: isolate). Its layers use z-indexes up to 1000+, which reached past the export dialog (z-index 100). The frame clips (overflow: hidden), so nothing inside it is meant to show outside.

Related issue

Refs #900

Type of change

  • Bug fix

Release impact

  • Patch

Desktop impact

  • Windows
  • macOS
  • Linux

The footage quad is exported by all three backends. The Metal one is compiled only by the macOS CI.

Testing

  • Rust: cargo test on Windows (446) and on Linux via WSL + lavapipe (425), including a_moving_tilted_mask_keeps_its_perspective, the_footage_quad_is_where_masks_land and the_editor_frames_each_arrow_by_its_strokes.
  • Vitest: MaskGimbal, AnnotationLayer, footageQuad, arrowBounds; tsc on both configs; Biome.
  • Manual, dev build on Windows: blur gimbal on the mask with a zoom and under 3D Orbit, tight arrow gimbal (checked by Etienne).

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  • New Features
    • Blur masks now follow tilted and zoomed footage more accurately, with on-preview controls for moving and resizing masks.
    • Arrow annotations now align their selection and resize bounds with the visible arrow.
    • Preview geometry now accounts for perspective and camera movement when positioning footage-space annotations.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Moving tilted privacy masks better cover motion-blurred content without reverting to an upright rectangular mask.

…get a tight gimbal

A privacy mask on a moving tilted screen (3D Orbit, with motion blur on) fell
back to an upright box around its two frames, so it ignored the perspective. It
now keeps the footage's perspective, grown just enough to cover the frame before.

Each preview frame now carries the footage's corners in the image. A blur's
gimbal (MaskGimbal) goes through them, so it lands on the mask under a zoom and
in 3D, instead of on the footage at rest.

An arrow's gimbal frames the drawn arrow rather than its mostly empty box; its
gestures write the square box that draws the arrow there. The preview frame is
its own stacking context, so gimbals no longer paint over the export dialog.
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The compositor now includes footage corner coordinates and projective mapping metadata in published frames. The editor uses this geometry to position and manipulate footage-space masks. Arrow annotations also use stroke-aware bounds when rendering and processing gestures.

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Footage-aware annotation geometry

Layer / File(s) Summary
Compositor footage geometry
crates/compositor/src/frame_geometry.rs, crates/compositor/src/compositor_*.rs
Compositors retain the latest footage quad. Tilted privacy masks expand to cover motion-blurred content while preserving their perspective.
Frame metadata and publication
crates/compositor/src/live.rs, crates/compositor-view-napi/src/lib.rs, electron/native/compositor-view/addon.d.ts, src/native/contracts.ts, src/native/footageQuadStore.ts, src/native/hooks/useNativeCompositorView.ts
Frame packets carry optional footage corners and a projective flag. The native view publishes validated frame geometry to a store, and the editor subscribes through useFootageQuad.
Footage-space mask mapping and controls
src/lib/ai-edition/annotations/footageQuad.ts, src/components/ai-edition/MaskGimbal.tsx, src/components/ai-edition/AnnotationLayer.tsx, src/components/ai-edition/NewEditorShell.module.css, src/lib/ai-edition/annotations/footageQuad.test.ts, src/components/ai-edition/MaskGimbal.test.tsx, src/components/ai-edition/AnnotationLayer.test.tsx
Quad utilities map coordinates between footage and the preview. Selected footage-space annotations render as projected mask gimbals with drag and resize controls.
Arrow bounds and gestures
src/lib/ai-edition/annotations/arrowBounds.ts, src/components/ai-edition/AnnotationOverlay.tsx, src/lib/ai-edition/annotations/arrowBounds.test.ts, crates/compositor/src/regions.rs, src/components/ai-edition/AnnotationLayer.test.tsx
Arrow bounds account for direction and stroke width. Arrow gestures convert between drawn bounds and stored boxes, update size during drags, and use corner-only resizing.

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Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Compositor
  participant LiveView
  participant NAPIReadFrame
  participant useNativeCompositorView
  participant footageQuadStore
  participant AnnotationLayer
  Compositor->>LiveView: attach footage_quad to published frame
  LiveView->>NAPIReadFrame: provide frame and footage metadata
  NAPIReadFrame->>useNativeCompositorView: return frame packet
  useNativeCompositorView->>footageQuadStore: publish footage corners and projective flag
  footageQuadStore->>AnnotationLayer: provide footage quad through useFootageQuad
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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 54f81

Moving an arrow to the frame edge can save a project that subsequently fails to reopen. Align arrow validation with the new stored geometry before merging.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 54f81

Mask controls can use geometry from a newer frame than the one currently visible. An edit during that interval could save unintended redaction coordinates. The potential impact is limited to the edited project; no broader access or privilege expansion was identified.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · security · inferred: The new footage store advances when a frame is received, before its pixels finish asynchronous painting. Privacy-mask controls therefore can render and interpret pointer input using geometry that does not match the visible footage. Saving an edit during that interval could persist unintended mask coverage. Native frame pairing and stale-paint rejection do not make renderer geometry publication atomic with the accepted paint.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The supported concern is bounded to privacy-mask placement in the locally edited project and any output produced from those coordinates. The added fields contain geometry derived from frame planning, not credentials or new resource selectors. The inspected change does not establish cross-tenant, service, environment, or privileged-authority expansion.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — A delayed paint can leave previous-frame pixels visible while controls use newly received geometry. User pointer input is then converted through that geometry into persisted mask coordinates. This supports a possible redaction-accuracy failure; no attacker-triggered exploitation or actual disclosure was verified. Native redaction remains present, and the prior editor already had persistent alignment limitations under zoom and tilt.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The existing view registry and native frame ownership remain in place. Pixel dimensions are validated, geometry must contain eight finite values, stale bitmap paints are rejected, and disposal clears the geometry store and blocks late paints. These controls limit malformed data and lifecycle drift but do not bind geometry to the generation actually displayed.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Publish footage geometry only with an accepted pixel paint, carrying frame generation and view ownership through the geometry snapshot. This would preserve the native pairing invariant at the privacy-editing boundary and prevent geometry-only advancement during decoding.
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- Line 127: Update the document schema’s arrow-specific validation to accept the
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Comment thread src/components/ai-edition/AnnotationOverlay.tsx
An arrow drawn against the frame's left or top edge has a square box that starts before the frame, since the compositor draws the arrow in the middle of it. The schema refused the negative position, so the save and the next opening of the project failed.
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