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I am new to review: what is a timeline marker or annotation in OTIO, RV, Kitsu and an EDL, and which one holds a frame-accurate note?

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A frame note is stored differently in each tool: RV keeps per-frame paint and markers as node properties, Kitsu keeps text comments as their own records while drawn annotations live as JSON on the preview file, and a CMX3600 EDL can carry only comment lines such as '* LOC: timecode colour text'; no shared note identifier links them, so round trips need a mapping table. Curator qualifications: Zero-fetch code and doc reading 2026-10-22. OTIO Marker fields from producer reading (see CA-B263). Limitations: Zero-fetch code and doc reading 2026-10-22. 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": "RV reference manual chapter sixteen, RVPaint; zou 629c4316 zou/app/models/comment.py L82-L93; zou/app/models/preview_file.py L44; otio cmx_3600.py L519-L520, L724"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/cgwire/zou/blob/629c4316661ede66ea6b65f166a0d7d852fd4b68/zou/app/models/preview_file.py",
      "note": "RV reference manual chapter sixteen, RVPaint; zou 629c4316 zou/app/models/comment.py L82-L93; zou/app/models/preview_file.py L44; otio cmx_3600.py L519-L520, L724"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/cgwire/zou/blob/629c4316661ede66ea6b65f166a0d7d852fd4b68/zou/app/models/comment.py",
      "note": "RV reference manual chapter sixteen, RVPaint; zou 629c4316 zou/app/models/comment.py L82-L93; zou/app/models/preview_file.py L44; otio cmx_3600.py L519-L520, L724"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/OpenTimelineIO/otio-cmx3600-adapter/blob/4b02a6668b4ddb435bd6b8e7459e1dbd170938df/src/otio_cmx3600_adapter/cmx_3600.py",
      "note": "RV reference manual chapter sixteen, RVPaint; zou 629c4316 zou/app/models/comment.py L82-L93; zou/app/models/preview_file.py L44; otio cmx_3600.py L519-L520, L724"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/OpenTimelineIO/blob/44236713c1db295a6ffc66189ae98dbdfd0cb9c4/docs/tutorials/feature-matrix.rst",
      "note": "RV reference manual chapter sixteen, RVPaint; zou 629c4316 zou/app/models/comment.py L82-L93; zou/app/models/preview_file.py L44; otio cmx_3600.py L519-L520, L724"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/OpenRV/blob/27db5464a90ca19a9a30d540988ee109ee06bb7e/docs/rv-manuals/rv-reference-manual/rv-reference-manual-chapter-sixteen.md",
      "note": "RV reference manual chapter sixteen, RVPaint; zou 629c4316 zou/app/models/comment.py L82-L93; zou/app/models/preview_file.py L44; otio cmx_3600.py L519-L520, L724"
    }
  ]
}

Evidence claims

[sourced_fact] A frame note is stored differently in each tool: RV keeps per-frame paint and markers as node properties, Kitsu keeps text comments as their own records while drawn annotations live as JSON on the preview file, and a CMX3600 EDL can carry only comment lines such as '* LOC: timecode colour text'; no shared note identifier links them, so round trips need a mapping table. · locator: RV reference manual chapter sixteen, RVPaint; zou 629c4316 zou/app/models/comment.py L82-L93; zou/app/models/preview_file.py L44; otio cmx_3600.py L519-L520, L724 source

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