BenStullsBets
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The cosmos→orbit, reef→abyss and abyss→cosmos transition clips were stale leftovers from an earlier 5-scale ring, built against old/placeholder footage — so those edges flashed placeholder frames mid-zoom. Only orbit-coast and coast-reef had been rebuilt from the current real bases. - build_pool_manifest.generate_media(): now rebuilds EVERY ring edge from the current real primary pool bases (the orbit-coast recipe applied uniformly), overwriting the stale clips, and bakes a reversed companion (<edge>.rev.mp4) per edge via an ffmpeg `reverse` pass. - app.js: a `reversed` step (an ascending / zoom-OUT ring move) now plays the baked .rev clip instead of the forward zoom-in, so going up recedes from the current scale. Both directions are added to the in-memory preload set. Media is gitignored (generated locally / on deploy); regenerated all 10 clips locally. 269 passed, 2 skipped; node --check clean; clips serve 200. Visual result to be verified by-eye by the operator. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>