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What does a storyboard tool carry into an animatic export for an editor (names, timing, dialogue audio, notes), and what does OTIO core offer to hold what the export drops?

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Storyboarder's FCP7 XML exporter names each board clip from its dialogue, else action, else filename, and puts notes into the clip description; the FCPX exporter names clips by filename and assigns an audio role; neither exporter has a scene-ID or shot-label field, so those survive only if carried in names. Storyboarder does not emit OTIO (producer reading). Curator qualifications: Code read 2026-10-22; no export run. ffmpeg exporter and OTIO docs (S17-S19) not re-read. Limitations: Code read 2026-10-22; no export run. Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

Structured fields

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  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/wonderunit/storyboarder/blob/efb823cd79303819c4c4ad691b6b6d341e868e03/src/js/exporters/final-cut-pro.js",
      "note": "storyboarder src/js/exporters/final-cut-pro.js L16-18, L33-34; final-cut-pro-x.js L41"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/wonderunit/storyboarder/blob/efb823cd79303819c4c4ad691b6b6d341e868e03/src/js/exporters/final-cut-pro-x.js",
      "note": "storyboarder src/js/exporters/final-cut-pro.js L16-18, L33-34; final-cut-pro-x.js L41"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/wonderunit/storyboarder/blob/efb823cd79303819c4c4ad691b6b6d341e868e03/src/js/exporters/ffmpeg.js",
      "note": "storyboarder src/js/exporters/final-cut-pro.js L16-18, L33-34; final-cut-pro-x.js L41"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/OpenTimelineIO/blob/44236713c1db295a6ffc66189ae98dbdfd0cb9c4/docs/tutorials/otio-timeline-structure.md",
      "note": "storyboarder src/js/exporters/final-cut-pro.js L16-18, L33-34; final-cut-pro-x.js L41"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/OpenTimelineIO/blob/44236713c1db295a6ffc66189ae98dbdfd0cb9c4/docs/tutorials/otio-file-format-specification.md",
      "note": "storyboarder src/js/exporters/final-cut-pro.js L16-18, L33-34; final-cut-pro-x.js L41"
    }
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Evidence claims

[sourced_fact] Storyboarder's FCP7 XML exporter names each board clip from its dialogue, else action, else filename, and puts notes into the clip description; the FCPX exporter names clips by filename and assigns an audio role; neither exporter has a scene-ID or shot-label field, so those survive only if carried in names. Storyboarder does not emit OTIO (producer reading). · locator: storyboarder src/js/exporters/final-cut-pro.js L16-18, L33-34; final-cut-pro-x.js L41 source

Rights

component	license	hosting	redistribution	modification	training	Evidence and notes
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