This material is a specification and reference set with a reference rule engine. It is not an editing application, a rendering pipeline or a completed production, and the worked example is entirely fictional — it exists to demonstrate the method.

Primary sources

• Text-Based Editing — Adobe Premiere Pro
• Scene Edit Detection — Adobe Premiere Pro
• DaVinci Resolve — Blackmagic Design
• OpenTimelineIO documentation — OpenTimelineIO documentation
• Captions/Subtitles — W3C Web Accessibility Initiative
• Recommended upload encoding settings — YouTube Help
• Academy Color Encoding System documentation — Academy Color Encoding System documentation
• ACES Central — ACES Central
• Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity — Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity
• C2PA specifications — C2PA specifications
• R 128 — European Broadcasting Union
• loudnorm** and **ebur128 — FFmpeg filter documentation

Boundaries

A specification and reference set with a reference rule engine — not an editing application, a rendering pipeline, or a completed production. The worked example is entirely fictional and exists to demonstrate the method.

• The grammar is tool-agnostic: it names states and operations, never a specific application or vendor workflow.
• The worked example is entirely fictional — people, projects, quotes and scores were invented to demonstrate the method.
• The rule engine is a reference implementation: it evaluates declarative conditions and applies actions to a state object. It does not edit media.
• Scoring weights and thresholds are package defaults, intended to be tuned per project.

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