What do the D-Cinema audio channel symbols VIN and HI (and the other common channel symbols) mean in SMPTE ST 428-12, and is the document public?
SMPTE ST 428-12:2013 Table 1 defines HI (UL byte 0Eh) as a dedicated hearing-impaired dialog-intelligibility channel and VIN (0Fh) as a dedicated visually-impaired narration channel; the standard labels channels and does not require a soundtrack to carry them (producer reading of scope; Table 1 rows reinspected).
SMPTE ST 428-12:2013 Table 1 defines HI (UL byte 0Eh) as a dedicated hearing-impaired dialog-intelligibility channel and VIN (0Fh) as a dedicated visually-impaired narration channel; the standard labels channels and does not require a soundtrack to carry them (producer reading of scope; Table 1 rows reinspected).
Curator qualifications: Multiple-HI/VIN language disambiguation delegated to other documents (E5) and symbol rules (E6) not re-read line by line. Edition 2013 only (one publication listed per producer).
Limitations: Standard text only.
Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.
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- [sourced_fact] SMPTE ST 428-12:2013 Table 1 defines HI (UL byte 0Eh) as a dedicated hearing-impaired dialog-intelligibility channel and VIN (0Fh) as a dedicated visually-impaired narration channel; the standard labels channels and does not require a soundtrack to carry them (producer reading of scope; Table 1 rows reinspected). · locator: ST 428-12:2013 PDF Table 1 rows 0Eh/0Fh (pdftotext lines ~262-270) source
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