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OTIO
aka OpenTimelineIO
Pixar's open-source timeline interchange format — vendor-neutral, Python-native, designed to move sequences between every modern editing and VFX system.
OpenTimelineIO (OTIO) is Pixar's open-source answer to EDL and XMEML — a single, vendor-neutral format that travels between Premiere, Avid, DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut Pro, Nuke, Houdini, and every major VFX pipeline. It's becoming the de-facto handoff format for animation and VFX-heavy productions. StoryboardCanvas Animate exports OTIO alongside EDL and XMEML so studios using a modern pipeline ingest the animatic directly into their reference layer.
In StoryboardCanvas
See OTIO live in /animate
Every otio we generate stays linked to the rest of the project — change a scene heading and the otio updates automatically. No re-import. No copy-paste. One project file from script to wrap.
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EDL
A text file listing every clip used in an edit — source tape, in-point, out-point, and timeline position — so an editor can recreate a cut in another system.
XMEML
Adobe Premiere and Final Cut Pro's XML interchange format — carries every clip, every cut, every effect, and every label between editing systems.
Animatic
A timed sequence of storyboard frames cut against dialogue, scratch music, and sound effects — the closest thing to seeing the film before you shoot it.