Build Log: End-to-End Text Overlay Workflow for Video Processing
Build Log: End-to-End Text Overlay Workflow for Video Processing Today I completed the core text overlay workflow across the frontend, backend, and worker pipeline. The main goal was to make text o...

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Build Log: End-to-End Text Overlay Workflow for Video Processing Today I completed the core text overlay workflow across the frontend, backend, and worker pipeline. The main goal was to make text overlays behave like a real production feature instead of a partial UI action. That meant saving overlays, enqueueing processing jobs, running worker execution, tracking status, and making sure users can download the final processed file when rendering is complete. What changed The biggest update was implementing the full text overlay processing lifecycle from the UI down to the background worker. A user can now create overlays for a video, save them through the API, enqueue a rendering job, and return to the videos page while processing continues in the background. Once the job is finished, the videos listing reflects that state and download actions point to the processed overlay output instead of the original file. I also finalized one important behavior change in overlay saving. Instead of