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I am building a dubbing or ADR handoff: where do I put emotion/effort notes, timecodes and M&E handling, and does any public format tell me?

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In the two public handoff documents inspected in this batch, none defines an emotion or breath/vocal-effort field. W3C DAPT requirements (Group Note, 08 May 2025) say emotion and intonation data are a possible extension whose format is left undefined (stated for audio description), and ask for a free annotation string per dubbing script event; ptulsconv has a Reason tag and an EFF line-category flag. Timing and mix are separate: begin/end and Mixing Instructions in DAPT; clip timecodes, Ver and Reel in ptulsconv. A beginner should therefore keep three separate columns or fields (timing, direction note, mix/stem note) and name the convention in the file, since no standard supplies one.

In the two public handoff documents inspected in this batch, none defines an emotion or breath/vocal-effort field. W3C DAPT requirements (Group Note, 08 May 2025) say emotion and intonation data are a possible extension whose format is left undefined (stated for audio description), and ask for a free annotation string per dubbing script event; ptulsconv has a Reason tag and an EFF line-category flag. Timing and mix are separate: begin/end and Mixing Instructions in DAPT; clip timecodes, Ver and Reel in ptulsconv. A beginner should therefore keep three separate columns or fields (timing, direction note, mix/stem note) and name the convention in the file, since no standard supplies one. Curator qualifications: Neither handoff format defines an emotion or breath/vocal-effort field; DAPT requirements leave emotion/intonation as a possible extension; intent travels as free text. 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] In the two public handoff documents inspected in this batch, none defines an emotion or breath/vocal-effort field. W3C DAPT requirements (Group Note, 08 May 2025) say emotion and intonation data are a possible extension whose format is left undefined (stated for audio description), and ask for a free annotation string per dubbing script event; ptulsconv has a Reason tag and an EFF line-category flag. Timing and mix are separate: begin/end and Mixing Instructions in DAPT; clip timecodes, Ver and Reel in ptulsconv. A beginner should therefore keep three separate columns or fields (timing, direction note, mix/stem note) and name the convention in the file, since no standard supplies one. · locator: candidate evidence excerpts source

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