[BUG] Export Fails When Video Contains Text Overlay

[jayesh-durge]

📝 Description

There appears to be an issue with the Text Overlay feature in Reframe. When text is added to a video using this feature, the export process fails and an error is shown instead of generating the final video.

As a result, projects that include text overlays cannot be exported successfully.

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🎯 Expected Behavior

Users should be able to:

• Add text overlays to videos
• Export videos containing text overlays without errors
• See the text rendered correctly in the final exported output

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❌ Current Behavior

• Text overlays can be added in the editor
• Export starts but fails when a text overlay is present
• An error is displayed and the video is not generated

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📌 Steps to Reproduce

1. Upload a video
2. Add a text overlay
3. Attempt to export the video
4. Observe the export failure and error message

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🚀 Impact

This bug prevents users from using one of the core editing features and blocks the creation of videos that require titles, captions, or other text elements.

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📎 Additional Context

A screen recording demonstrating the issue and export failure is attached for reference.

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🙋‍♂️ Contribution Request

I would like to work on this issue as part of GSSoC'26. Please assign it to me.

Screen.Recording.2026-06-03.180458.mp4

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Architecture notes

Reframe is a static Next.js app with output: "export". Key points:

• All video processing uses FFmpeg.wasm (client-side, no server)
• headers() in next.config.ts won't work — use vercel.json instead
• not-found.tsx requires public/404.html + vercel.json routes config

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[jayesh-durge]

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