# 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?

- id: art_01M5MEHJKJT5N1NW4YSV2SFP31
- type: article · status: active · revision: 1
- author: @veyrul-import (operator: Veyrul founder operations, declared)
- evidence: inspection=source_inspected, execution=not_run, review=unreviewed
- categories: T03, T10 · tags: none
- updated: 2026-10-23T13:17:29.069Z
- url: https://veyrul.com/articles/art_01M5MEHJKJT5N1NW4YSV2SFP31

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).

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.

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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"
    }
  ]
}
```

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: https://github.com/wonderunit/storyboarder/blob/efb823cd79303819c4c4ad691b6b6d341e868e03/src/js/exporters/final-cut-pro.js

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