vfxreview/lib/render-pipeline/manifest.ts

import { z } from "zod";

/**
 * The Render Manifest (RenderPipeline2 §6.2).
 * Uploaded by the AE panel on Queue Export, snapshotted verbatim into
 * RenderJob.manifest, handed to the worker on claim.
 *
 * `outputDir` / `outputPattern` may be the literal string "auto" — the server
 * generates them from the shot's exrOutput convention and the NEW version
 * number it decides (§6.4 E1).
 */
/**
 * A plate element imported into the comp, resolved by the panel from the comp's
 * own footage layers — not re-derived from a path convention (§6.2).
 */
export const plateRefSchema = z.object({
  element: z.string().optional(),
  /** First frame of the sequence on disk; the timecode reference file. */
  path: z.string().min(1),
  frameStart: z.number().int().optional(),
  frameEnd: z.number().int().optional(),
});

export type PlateRef = z.infer<typeof plateRefSchema>;

export const renderManifestSchema = z
  .object({
    manifestVersion: z.number().int().min(1).default(1),
    projectCode: z.string().min(1),
    shotCode: z.string().regex(/^[A-Za-z0-9_-]+$/, "shotCode contains invalid characters"),
    shotId: z.string().min(1),
    aepPath: z.string().min(1),
    compName: z.string().min(1),
    rendererType: z.string().default("aerender"),
    aeVersionHint: z.string().optional(),
    outputDir: z.string().min(1),
    outputPattern: z.string().min(1),
    outputModuleTemplate: z.string().optional(),
    renderSettingsTemplate: z.string().optional(),
    /** Comp timeline range handed to aerender. */
    frameStart: z.number().int(),
    frameEnd: z.number().int(),
    /**
     * The number the first *output file* carries — the output module's starting
     * number (house convention 1001). Deliberately separate from frameStart: a
     * comp anchored to its plate's timecode starts in the millions, so file
     * numbering and comp frames are different coordinate systems.
     */
    outputFrameStart: z.number().int().optional(),
    fps: z.number().positive(),
    width: z.number().int().positive(),
    height: z.number().int().positive(),
    expected: z
      .object({
        colorspace: z.string().optional(),
        bitDepth: z.string().optional(),
        exrCompression: z.string().optional(),
        alpha: z.boolean().optional(),
        timecodeStart: z.string().optional(),
      })
      .optional(),
    /**
     * Plate provenance for the timecode check (§8.1a). Optional so
     * manifestVersion 1 panels keep working — validation then degrades to a
     * worker-derived plate, and finally to the API value as a WARN.
     */
    source: z
      .object({
        /**
         * The element the comp's start time was anchored to (the panel's
         * primaryFootage). A shot's elements carry unrelated camera timecodes,
         * so the timing reference must be named rather than guessed.
         */
        timingPlate: plateRefSchema.optional(),
        plates: z.array(plateRefSchema).optional(),
        /**
         * Verbatim from the panel's start-frame resolution: "footage metadata"
         * (trustworthy) or "API timecode …" (fallback, suspect). Known at queue
         * time, so a suspect export is flagged before it burns render hours.
         */
        startSource: z.string().optional(),
        startFrames: z.number().int().optional(),
        handleFrames: z.number().int().optional(),
      })
      .optional(),
    preview: z
      .object({
        template: z.string().optional(),
        burnins: z.boolean().optional(),
      })
      .optional(),
  })
  .refine((m) => m.frameEnd >= m.frameStart, {
    message: "frameEnd must be >= frameStart",
    path: ["frameEnd"],
  });

export type RenderManifest = z.infer<typeof renderManifestSchema>;

/**
 * Queue-time read of the manifest's plate provenance (§8.1a). A comp whose
 * start time came from the API rather than the plate's own metadata is very
 * likely to fail the timecode check — worth recording before the render burns
 * machine hours, not after.
 */
export function describePlateProvenance(manifest: RenderManifest): { ok: boolean; note: string } {
  const src = manifest.source;
  if (!src?.timingPlate?.path) {
    return {
      ok: false,
      note: "no timing plate in manifest — timecode will be checked against a worker-derived plate",
    };
  }
  // Only warn on a start source we positively know to be the API fallback. An
  // absent startSource means the comp predates this session (an AEP opened from
  // disk), which is normal — the worker still does the authoritative check.
  if (src.startSource && /\bAPI\b/i.test(src.startSource)) {
    return {
      ok: false,
      note: `comp start came from "${src.startSource}", not the plate's own metadata — timecode check likely to fail`,
    };
  }
  return { ok: true, note: `timing plate ${src.timingPlate.element ?? src.timingPlate.path}` };
}