[miguel-heygen]

Release v0.8.197.

Cloud renders of opaque VP9 video use compressed frames instead of lossless ones, which cuts their cost by about 40 percent. Snapshot reports a clip it cannot read instead of saving a black frame, and Studio frees each closed project's memory.

Full notes: releases/v0.8.197.md

No visible change

Version bump and changelog only; each change was captured in its own PR.

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Verdict: APPROVE · 0 blocker · 0 important · 2 nits · head a286ae15

Version bump and changelog are correct. All 7 commits in v0.8.196..main are listed, every manifest moves to 0.8.197 with no 0.8.196 left over, and the file set is the same as the v0.8.196 release PR.

• nit (summary line in releases/v0.8.197.md:5, docs/changelog.mdx): "cuts their cost by about 40 percent" is higher than #6284 measured. It reports 55–60 s → ~40 s per chunk (about 30% less wall time) and about 28% less CPU (22% counting planning). "About 30 percent" matches the data.
• nit (same line): "Studio frees each closed project's memory" overstates #6289. That PR halves heap growth across film swaps (+15.1 → +7.6 MB over 25 swaps), so the growth is not gone. Something like "Studio holds much less memory when you switch films" would be accurate.

Scope

Read the full diff. Checked the commit range against the tag and each entry against its PR. CI was still running at review time; nothing had failed.

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Edit accuracy: accurate 271 (base branch 271), smooth 126 of those

The gate passes.
Smoothness is reported in the artifact, not gated. A case fails only if it fails 2 of 3 runs.

Quarantined, measured but not gated (0)

Unstable (2)

• seqheldtwice-tlhold-px-r0-nested-z100: tracking 120.29, pressJump 312.3, drop 0.07, reload 0.07, render 0.03, renderKey -, undo true, teleport false / tracking 0.11, pressJump 0.11, drop 0, reload 0, render 0.02, renderKey -, undo true, teleport true / tracking 0.13, pressJump 0.11, drop 0.07, reload 0.07, render 0.02, renderKey -, undo true, teleport true
• seqplainkeys-none-pct-r0-nested-z100: tracking 0.05, pressJump 0, drop 0, reload 0, render 0.02, renderKey -, undo false, teleport true / tracking 0.05, pressJump 0, drop 0, reload 0, render 0.02, renderKey -, undo true, teleport true / tracking 0.05, pressJump 0, drop 0, reload 0, render 0.02, renderKey -, undo true, teleport true