@hypit/timeline

Domain contract for one finite absolute program-time axis.

A completed Timeline contains only:

• id;
• exact rational frameRate; and
• positive finite frameCount.

It contains no media, semantic anchors, Tracks, Canvas, author declarations or central event registry. Every consumer that shares program time receives the same Timeline value explicitly.

@hypit/timeline-author constructs this value from an acyclic graph of named Instants, Windows and typed Extents with one required exclusive end. Each named declaration naturally publishes an absolute sibling value after finalization. Local domains and media are never fields stored inside Timeline.

Semantic time is an optional projection onto this absolute axis. A NarrativeAlignment locates Script anchors in a local temporal domain; the Narrative projector maps that domain through an equal-length Window to resolve absolute Instants and Windows. Other domains such as musical beats can provide peer adapters without extending Timeline.

Media presentation is independent as well. Visual and Audio Clips consume ordinary normalized media with explicit absolute Windows, without asking Timeline to discover material or retaining whether that media's Extent helped construct it.

This package validates and seals the completed value. It performs no media I/O, transcription, generation, rendering, projection policy or Studio behavior.