[ColinGPT9]

Editor suite step 2. Stacked on #220 (step 1), which is stacked on #218 (step 0). Don't merge yet: it waits for the owner's click-through.

Closes #190.

What it does

• Make clips again… in the Library. It reuses a video already in Clips Kitty with other settings (for example 60s+ off), without adding it again. The dialog is prefilled with the last run's settings and says how many clips will be replaced and kept.
• What's kept. Clips anyone used are kept: edited, retitled, published or sent to publish, scheduled, exported, translated, submitted to a campaign, chosen by a watch, given a chosen thumbnail, or rendered on request. The untouched ones are replaced, but only after the new run succeeds and has made clips. A run that fails, is cancelled or makes nothing replaces nothing.
• Cuts follow the clip. Changing a clip's start or end keeps its cuts, mutes and muted words on the same moment of the video (shift_edit).
• The plain path is untouched. core/pipeline.py is unchanged. Plain runs and Process again give identical argv snapshots and golden renders.

Checks

• QC and an adversarial data-safety review: 7 rounds, 6 fix rounds, defects 2-D1 to 2-D32. These close every route found to delete a used clip:
  • clean-up during a run;
  • exports in other languages;
  • in-place races and the publish plan;
  • the app killed partway: a journal plus start-up recovery, tested by killing a process at more than 60 points;
  • edits made in another app version: a fingerprint of generated words;
  • marks that erasing a creator's learning removed.
• Accepted known limit: a hidden plugin suggestion stops keeping its clip after a plain Process again. It's documented in docs/editor-suite/api/step2-remake.md.
• Black-box (tester never reads the source):
  • Edited and exported clips survived byte for byte. 7 untouched long clips were replaced and 15 new clips added. Clips from before this update were all kept.
  • Cuts land on the same moment, checked from a burned-in timer.
  • The no-speech video failed once on a hidden whole-video setting. The fix adds a visible switch and an on-screen result.
  • Unusual use (double presses, cancelling, removing a queued run, an open editor) found no crash and no data loss.
• Performance: plain renders are byte-identical and no slower.
• UX: two keyboard issues fixed (focus return, focus trap). Minors are listed in STATUS.md.

Open, for the click-through

• Clips made before this update are kept, so on an existing library the dialog mostly says "0 will be replaced".
• Leftover files of removed clips, and copies made while a player held a file, can stay on disk after a remake.
• A stuck progress bar can show after a remake while the clip editor is open, until a reload.

Full record: docs/editor-suite/STATUS.md and state.json.

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