They closed three routes to pinning the absolute leaf rate. Route 1 -- a top-level
element moving in the same capture as a leaf, so fps cancels -- failed on the
settled title.
Searched all 16 screens for a top-level element still moving at its settle
instant. Two hits, pttitle on extras and extras_jp, and both are false positives:
it arrives, holds from t=24, and the post-settle motion is the exit ramp at t=52
to 58, which plays only when the screen leaves. Third time the exit ramp has
fooled a census of mine, after counting it as the end of visibility and after
making every normal element look like a flash.
The negative generalises their finding: excluding exits, no top-level element on
any of the 16 screens moves at rest. holding clamps every top-level element at its
own hold and the only post-settle keyframes are exits, so no capture of any screen
in this archive can carry a top-level clock alongside a free-running leaf. Route 1
is closed structurally, not just empirically.
Also states something about the port's design I had not: everything that moves on
a settled screen is nested. The three free-running clocks -- looping focus record,
spin, leaf -- are all sub-records, which is now explained rather than observed.
Also marks the 1.87x table conditional, since its input is the rate they cannot
pin.
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