Annotations and Notes

Top level description of what annotations and notes mean to different people.

What is an annotation?

• a relationship between information...
• A representation(s)

Annotation styles (Drawn)

1. Callouts - Draw an arrow, or a circle. 
2. Basic draw-overs - showing a direction of flow, can include pressure sensivity. - Not extensive brush pallettes.
3. Paint-over - I want it to look like "this". – does have brush pallettes.

Annotation styles (3D)

Ways to give feedback

1. Drawn
2. Audio
3. Video
4. Reference
5. Color
6. Annotation of Wipe/or Dissolve? - There are multiple pieces of media, what are we associating it to?
7. Human Tagging or Automated Tagging & Classification (ML driven)
8. Text
9. Dataset

Notes

Notes are the documentation and todo list.

DO we have a session - The context of where the meeting is, who is there.

Three Pieces Here:

1. What am I working on
2. What am I drawing
3. "Namespace Server"

Problem: How do I define "validity" of the annotation when I see it

Problem: There's a gap in common rendering of annotation

Problem: Selecting - how to choose what you're drawing on or related to

Review and Annotation User Journeys

Artist needs Supervisor to comment on some media

1. Artist emails supervisor path to movie file.
2. Supervisor loads media, and annotates/writes comments on movie file. annotations are saved out to file-system.
3. Artist loads annotations back into their own review tool.

Artist submits to Dailies (Single review)

Artist submits to Dailies (Multiple review, Department review, VFX Supe Review).

Facility A sending Media to Facility B for review and feedback.

1. Facility A identifies a number of bits of media to facility B for review. A spreadsheet is created that lists the Facility A ID, along with notes for why the media is being reviewed.
2. Media is sent to Facility B using Prores for encoding.
3. Facility B - ingests media, Facility B - adds its own ID to identify each of the media. It also re-encodes the media to H264, which adds an overlay with the Facility B ID, and timecode.
4. Facility B - A review is held of new media, VFX Sup annotates media, coordinator also adds notes based on VFX Sup comments.
5. A second review occurs with Director, who adds their own annotation and comments (e.g. final, CBB, etc).
6. Any annotations and notes are sent back to Facility A.
7. Annotations and notes are ingested into Facility A production tracking system, ideally using facility A's ID.