Fix: 9:16 Reels preview was squeezing the canvas — now reshapes properly
AetherCut v1.7.82 shipped on with 5 updates to the private, browser-based video editor. Everything here is already included in the latest version. AetherCut edits on your own device, so your footage never has to be uploaded to a server.
What's new in v1.7.82
- Tester report: 'When switching to the 9:16 Reels format, the main video preview window gets squeezed horizontally instead of automatically collapsing or adjusting the side panels.' Confirmed and fixed
- Root cause: the header aspect picker only set the Export preset + a toast — `preferredAspect` was never plumbed into <VideoPreview/>, so the canvas stayed source-shaped and the source video was stretched edge-to-edge with `ctx.drawImage(vid, 0, 0, w, h)`
- Fix: VideoEditor now passes a numeric `projectAspect` (9/16, 16/9, 1, 4/5) into VideoPreview. The ResizeObserver uses it to override the source aspect, and useCanvasRenderer letterboxes/pillarboxes via the new `fitVideoInCanvas` helper instead of stretching
- Smart Reframe stays untouched — it keeps stretching the user-chosen source rect to fill the frame, since that's the entire point of the tool
- Verified: 9:16 → canvas ratio 0.563 ✅ · 1:1 → 1.000 ✅ · 16:9 / Original → 1.776 ✅ · all 68 regression suites pass
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