- Replace zero-fill with neutral gray (0.5) fill so masked background
pixels stay in-distribution: 0.5 maps to ~0 in CLIP normalized space
and exactly 0 after sync's [-1,1] normalization
- Add mask_strength float (0–1) for partial background suppression
- Add mask_clip / mask_sync booleans to toggle masking independently
on the CLIP (384px) and TextSynchformer (224px) encoding paths
- Fix temporal mask sampling: use fps-accurate index formula (same as
_sample_frames) instead of proportional int(i*M/N)
- Include mask_strength, mask_clip, mask_sync in cache hash when mask
is connected, so changing any param correctly busts the cache
- Log lines now report masked/skipped state and strength per path
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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