motion_interpolation recording is not preserved after whitening

Hello,

I'm getting a new recording object from "interpolate_motion" which I can explore with widgets.plot_traces and the motion correction is reflected on the traces. However, when I apply whitening (lazy), the resulting recording object is no longer motion-corrected, is the original recording whitened. The original recording came from a binary folder (created with spikeInterface).

The way I made it work was by saving the interpolate_motion-recording (binary folder), and after loading it, I applied the whitening (lazy) and the motion correction was there.

Just wanted to know if I did something wrong or whether I should always save the motion-corrected recording in case of applying whitening.

I haven't tried to run any sorter yet, but in case I didn't apply any whitening, I assume that it is ok to run any sorter on the recording object that came directly from "interpolate_motion". Am I right?

Thanks in advance for any comments about the best practices to run a sorter after motion correction.

Best
Pepe

Start by reproducing the reported sequence: load a binary-folder recording, apply interpolate_motion, then apply lazy whitening and inspect the result with widgets.plot_traces. Compare that with saving and reloading the motion-corrected recording before whitening. Done means determining whether motion correction is preserved through lazy whitening and documenting or fixing the behavior, including the expected sorter workflow.