From 419f6c9e669f3971abf4489e5c9e0979093ada20 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2026 10:24:26 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Offer Camera on generated pictures, and set the project's
 default move

The scene card worked out whether its picture was a still with its own
lookup, which knew GAM and search refs but not generated ones, so a
generated picture never got a Camera control. It now uses footageOf, as
the thumbnail already did.

A scene's "Project default" camera meant style.motion, which defaults to
no move and which nothing in the editor could set. The Scenes tab now
has a "For every scene" Camera (any preset, or alternate) with its
amount, and each scene's default option names the move it follows.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014PPyHwCtvqQbpW2Hvrb63Z
---
 .../src/components/ProjectDefaults.test.tsx   | 43 +++++++++++
 frontend/src/components/ProjectDefaults.tsx   | 76 +++++++++++++++++++
 .../src/components/SceneSettings.test.tsx     | 31 ++++++++
 frontend/src/components/SceneSettings.tsx     | 20 +++--
 frontend/src/spec/scene.ts                    | 35 +++++++++
 frontend/src/views/ProjectView.tsx            |  2 +
 6 files changed, 196 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 frontend/src/components/ProjectDefaults.test.tsx
 create mode 100644 frontend/src/components/ProjectDefaults.tsx

diff --git a/frontend/src/components/ProjectDefaults.test.tsx b/frontend/src/components/ProjectDefaults.test.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1687966
--- /dev/null
+++ b/frontend/src/components/ProjectDefaults.test.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+import { fireEvent, render, screen } from '@testing-library/react'
+import { useState } from 'react'
+import { describe, expect, it } from 'vitest'
+import type { VideoSpec } from '@/api/projects'
+import ProjectDefaults from '@/components/ProjectDefaults'
+
+const start: VideoSpec = {
+  title: 'T',
+  style: { transition: { style: 'fade', duration: 0.6 } },
+  segments: [],
+}
+
+let latest = start
+function Harness() {
+  const [spec, setSpec] = useState(start)
+  latest = spec
+  return <ProjectDefaults spec={spec} onChange={setSpec} />
+}
+
+describe('ProjectDefaults', () => {
+  it('sets the move every still follows, and removes it again when set back to still', () => {
+    render(<Harness />)
+    expect(screen.queryByLabelText('Default Ken Burns amount')).not.toBeInTheDocument()
+    expect(screen.queryByRole('option', { name: /two frames/ })).not.toBeInTheDocument()
+
+    fireEvent.change(screen.getByLabelText('Default Ken Burns move'), {
+      target: { value: 'alternate' },
+    })
+    expect(latest.style?.motion).toEqual({ effect: 'alternate' })
+
+    fireEvent.change(screen.getByLabelText('Default Ken Burns amount'), {
+      target: { value: '0.2' },
+    })
+    expect(latest.style?.motion).toEqual({ effect: 'alternate', amount: 0.2 })
+    fireEvent.change(screen.getByLabelText('Default Ken Burns amount'), {
+      target: { value: '' },
+    })
+    fireEvent.change(screen.getByLabelText('Default Ken Burns move'), {
+      target: { value: 'none' },
+    })
+    expect(latest.style).toEqual({ transition: { style: 'fade', duration: 0.6 } })
+  })
+})
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/ProjectDefaults.tsx b/frontend/src/components/ProjectDefaults.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a958b6f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/frontend/src/components/ProjectDefaults.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,76 @@
+import type { VideoSpec } from '@/api/projects'
+import { DEFAULT_MOTION_AMOUNT, PROJECT_MOTIONS, setProjectMotion } from '@/spec/scene'
+
+interface Props {
+  spec: VideoSpec
+  onChange: (next: VideoSpec) => void
+}
+
+/**
+ * What every scene follows unless it says otherwise. Without this, a scene's
+ * "Project default" camera named a setting nothing in the editor could change, and
+ * the spec's own default is no move at all.
+ */
+export default function ProjectDefaults({ spec, onChange }: Props) {
+  const motion = spec.style?.motion
+  const effect = motion?.effect ?? 'none'
+
+  return (
+    <section
+      aria-label="Project defaults"
+      className="card flex flex-wrap items-center gap-2 p-3 text-xs text-gray-600 dark:text-gray-300"
+    >
+      <span className="font-medium text-gray-900 dark:text-gray-100">
+        For every scene
+      </span>
+      <label className="flex items-center gap-1">
+        Camera
+        <select
+          className="input w-auto py-0.5"
+          aria-label="Default Ken Burns move"
+          value={effect}
+          onChange={(e) =>
+            onChange(
+              setProjectMotion(spec, {
+                effect: e.target.value,
+                ...(motion?.amount !== undefined ? { amount: motion.amount } : {}),
+              })
+            )
+          }
+        >
+          {PROJECT_MOTIONS.map((m) => (
+            <option key={m.value} value={m.value}>
+              {m.label}
+            </option>
+          ))}
+        </select>
+      </label>
+      {effect !== 'none' && (
+        <label className="flex items-center gap-1">
+          by
+          <input
+            type="number"
+            min="0.02"
+            max="0.5"
+            step="0.01"
+            aria-label="Default Ken Burns amount"
+            className="input w-16 py-0.5"
+            placeholder={String(DEFAULT_MOTION_AMOUNT)}
+            value={motion?.amount ?? ''}
+            onChange={(e) =>
+              onChange(
+                setProjectMotion(spec, {
+                  effect,
+                  ...(e.target.value ? { amount: Number(e.target.value) } : {}),
+                })
+              )
+            }
+          />
+        </label>
+      )}
+      <span className="text-gray-500">
+        Scenes with a camera move of their own keep it.
+      </span>
+    </section>
+  )
+}
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/SceneSettings.test.tsx b/frontend/src/components/SceneSettings.test.tsx
index f12d2e5..8e54aca 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/SceneSettings.test.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/components/SceneSettings.test.tsx
@@ -83,4 +83,35 @@ describe('SceneSettings', () => {
     fireEvent.change(screen.getByLabelText('End x'), { target: { value: '0.9' } })
     expect(latest.segments[1].visual?.motion?.to?.x).toBe(0.7)
   })
+
+  it('offers a camera move for a generated picture, naming the project default', () => {
+    const spec: VideoSpec = {
+      ...start,
+      style: { ...start.style, motion: { effect: 'alternate' } },
+      assets: {
+        a_gen: {
+          from: 'generate',
+          type: 'image',
+          prompt: 'A map',
+          result: { from: 'gam', id: 'p' },
+        },
+      },
+      segments: [
+        start.segments[0],
+        { id: 's1', kind: 'scene', visual: { asset: 'a_gen' } },
+      ],
+    }
+    render(
+      <SceneSettings
+        spec={spec}
+        index={1}
+        segment={spec.segments[1]}
+        gamAssets={{ p: map }}
+        onChange={() => {}}
+      />
+    )
+    expect(
+      screen.getByRole('option', { name: 'Project default (Alternate zooms and pans)' })
+    ).toBeInTheDocument()
+  })
 })
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/SceneSettings.tsx b/frontend/src/components/SceneSettings.tsx
index e6bcfd4..1ba94c7 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/SceneSettings.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/components/SceneSettings.tsx
@@ -1,11 +1,13 @@
 import type { GamAsset } from '@/api/gam'
 import type { Segment, VideoSpec } from '@/api/projects'
+import { footageOf } from '@/spec/clip'
 import FrameEditor from '@/components/FrameEditor'
 import OverlayEditor from '@/components/OverlayEditor'
 import {
   DEFAULT_PATH,
   MOTIONS,
   TRANSITIONS,
+  motionLabel,
   setMotion,
   setTransition,
 } from '@/spec/scene'
@@ -20,15 +22,6 @@ interface Props {
 
 const ASPECTS: Record<string, number> = { '16:9': 16 / 9, '9:16': 9 / 16, '1:1': 1 }
 
-/** The GAM asset a scene shows, if the spec's ref resolves to one. */
-function pictureOf(spec: VideoSpec, segment: Segment, gamAssets: Props['gamAssets']) {
-  const key = segment.visual?.asset
-  const ref = key ? spec.assets?.[key] : undefined
-  const id =
-    ref?.from === 'gam' ? ref.id : ref?.from === 'search' ? ref.result?.id : undefined
-  return id ? (gamAssets[id] ?? null) : null
-}
-
 /**
  * How a scene comes in and how its picture moves. "Project default" removes the
  * scene's own setting, so changing the project's default later changes this scene too.
@@ -41,7 +34,10 @@ export default function SceneSettings({
   onChange,
 }: Props) {
   const transition = segment.transition_in
-  const picture = pictureOf(spec, segment, gamAssets)
+  // `footageOf`, not a lookup of its own: a generated picture is as much a still as
+  // one picked from the library, and a second copy of this resolution once left
+  // generated pictures without a Camera control.
+  const picture = footageOf(spec, segment, gamAssets)
   const isStill = picture?.asset_type === 'image'
   const motion = segment.visual?.motion
   const outputAspect = ASPECTS[spec.output?.aspect ?? '16:9'] ?? 16 / 9
@@ -126,7 +122,9 @@ export default function SceneSettings({
                 )
               }}
             >
-              <option value="">Project default</option>
+              <option value="">
+                Project default ({motionLabel(spec.style?.motion?.effect)})
+              </option>
               {MOTIONS.map((m) => (
                 <option key={m.value} value={m.value}>
                   {m.label}
diff --git a/frontend/src/spec/scene.ts b/frontend/src/spec/scene.ts
index a893922..f6427f1 100644
--- a/frontend/src/spec/scene.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/spec/scene.ts
@@ -32,6 +32,41 @@ export const MOTIONS = [
   { value: 'path', label: 'Move between two frames' },
 ] as const
 
+/**
+ * The moves a project can default to. No path, which is one picture's framing and the
+ * spec refuses project-wide; `alternate` instead, which only makes sense project-wide:
+ * it cycles zoom and pan scene by scene, so a run of stills doesn't all move alike.
+ */
+export const PROJECT_MOTIONS = [
+  ...MOTIONS.filter((m) => m.value !== 'path'),
+  { value: 'alternate', label: 'Alternate zooms and pans' },
+] as const
+
+/** A move in words; unset is the spec's own default, which is no move. */
+export function motionLabel(effect: string | undefined): string {
+  return (
+    PROJECT_MOTIONS.find((m) => m.value === (effect ?? 'none'))?.label ?? effect ?? ''
+  )
+}
+
+/** The spec's default `amount` for a preset move (`Motion.amount` in model.py). */
+export const DEFAULT_MOTION_AMOUNT = 0.12
+
+/**
+ * The project's default move, which every still without one of its own follows.
+ * A still default at the default amount removes `style.motion` rather than writing
+ * the spec's default back in.
+ */
+export function setProjectMotion(
+  spec: VideoSpec,
+  motion: { effect: string; amount?: number }
+): VideoSpec {
+  const style = { ...(spec.style ?? {}) }
+  if (motion.effect === 'none' && motion.amount === undefined) delete style.motion
+  else style.motion = motion
+  return { ...spec, style }
+}
+
 export function setTransition(
   spec: VideoSpec,
   index: number,
diff --git a/frontend/src/views/ProjectView.tsx b/frontend/src/views/ProjectView.tsx
index 987bf68..be85607 100644
--- a/frontend/src/views/ProjectView.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/views/ProjectView.tsx
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ import RenderPanel from '@/components/RenderPanel'
 import SoundtrackPanel from '@/components/SoundtrackPanel'
 import IssueList from '@/components/IssueList'
 import JsonPanel from '@/components/JsonPanel'
+import ProjectDefaults from '@/components/ProjectDefaults'
 import SceneList from '@/components/SceneList'
 import { RUNNING } from '@/api/generations'
 import { gamIdsIn, placeHit, resolveSearch, unresolvedSearches } from '@/spec/footage'
@@ -282,6 +283,7 @@ export default function ProjectView() {
           Could not show pictures from the asset library: {gamError}
         </p>
       )}
+      {tab === 'scenes' && <ProjectDefaults spec={draft} onChange={edit} />}
       {tab === 'scenes' && (
         <SceneList
           spec={draft}