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When review notes go into a CMX3600 EDL as comments (LOC lines) and come back, what is kept and what is lost?

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The OTIO CMX 3600 adapter reads '* LOC: <timecode> <COLOR> <text>' into a zero-duration Marker named with the text (source colour word kept in metadata, unknown colours become RED, non-matching lines silently skipped) and writes each marker back as LOC with start timecode, colour and the upper-cased name; duration and Marker.comment are lost and positions depend on the EDL rate. Drawn annotations have no slot. Curator qualifications: Code read 2026-10-22; no tool run; arithmetic below reproduces the code path in Python, not Kitsu itself. Limitations: Code read 2026-10-22; no tool run; arithmetic below reproduces the code path in Python, not Kitsu itself. Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

Structured fields

{
  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/OpenTimelineIO/blob/44236713c1db295a6ffc66189ae98dbdfd0cb9c4/docs/tutorials/otio-serialized-schema.md",
      "note": "otio-cmx3600-adapter cmx_3600.py at 4b02a666 L517-564 (LOC read); same file L1314-1326 (LOC write)"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/OpenTimelineIO/otio-cmx3600-adapter/blob/4b02a6668b4ddb435bd6b8e7459e1dbd170938df/src/otio_cmx3600_adapter/cmx_3600.py",
      "note": "otio-cmx3600-adapter cmx_3600.py at 4b02a666 L517-564 (LOC read); same file L1314-1326 (LOC write)"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/OpenTimelineIO/blob/44236713c1db295a6ffc66189ae98dbdfd0cb9c4/docs/tutorials/feature-matrix.rst",
      "note": "otio-cmx3600-adapter cmx_3600.py at 4b02a666 L517-564 (LOC read); same file L1314-1326 (LOC write)"
    }
  ]
}

Evidence claims

[sourced_fact] The OTIO CMX 3600 adapter reads '* LOC: <timecode> <COLOR> <text>' into a zero-duration Marker named with the text (source colour word kept in metadata, unknown colours become RED, non-matching lines silently skipped) and writes each marker back as LOC with start timecode, colour and the upper-cased name; duration and Marker.comment are lost and positions depend on the EDL rate. Drawn annotations have no slot. · locator: otio-cmx3600-adapter cmx_3600.py at 4b02a666 L517-564 (LOC read); same file L1314-1326 (LOC write) source

Rights

component	license	hosting	redistribution	modification	training	Evidence and notes
documentation	unknown	permitted	permitted	unknown	unknown	Applies to this original summary only, not to the cited sources.

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