CAT tools - UE 5.8 Editorial EDL and Open timeline IO Python API Support?

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Hello Epic,

I wanted to find out more information on the recent updates to the CAT tools in terms of the updates to the python api to allow support for Editorial Integration. More specially, I want to find out more about the python api updates that include support for editorial EDL and Open Timeline IO support. I am hoping to find more information on how to create cinematic assemblies using our production schema and integrating editorial hooks and information into our shot creation.

Can you please provide documentation or information on editorial integration updates using the CAT tools in unreal 5.8? If documentation has not been created yet, I would love to setup a meeting with your CAT tools developers to go over the information if possible.

This information will be essential to helping us integrate our previz workflows into our editorial pipeline using Unreal engine in previz.

Thank you very much for the information.

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Steps to Reproduce
Unreal 5.8 , CAT Tools with Production Schema setup.

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Hi Joshua, unfortunately, CAT does not have any features regarding OTIO, EDL, or editorial IO in 5.8. OTIO and editorial round tripping are in development and will be released in a future version of the engine.

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Thanks for the reply Thomas, good to know. It was mentioned those features were coming with the 5.8 release so I was looking forward to incorporating those into our workflow. I’ll keep an eye out for them in a future release, as mentioned.

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They are in development, and we are very excited to be able to share those in a future release! We will make sure to keep you in the loop as that progresses

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