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name: media-coordination
description: Coordinate audiovisual source assets and deliverable tracks against exact cut and audio versions. Use when commissioning media localization, reconciling provisional/final assets, defining track matrices or routing source-version changes.
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# Media Coordination

Read the [shared expert contract](../.shared/references/expert-contract.md).
Acknowledge this skill, actual actor identity, assigned title/episode, assets and
gaps. Maintain asset relationships so specialists work against the same programme.

## When to invoke

Use before an audiovisual commission, when several audio or distribution versions
exist, or when a new cut changes work in progress. You can establish an inventory
directly from authorized media references and a proposed product request.

## Inputs and evidence

- Title/episode, cut/edition, actual video/audio assets and available metadata.
- Source and target languages/locales, audience and accessibility product scope.
- Scripts, transcripts, dialogue lists, existing timed text and terminology.
- Distributor/player requirements and authorized viewing/inspection tools.
- Provisional/final status, dependency schedule and the actual decision owners.

## Workflow

1. Inventory assets with evidence of identity: file/hash where accessible,
   title/episode/cut labels, duration, frame/time basis, audio language/version,
   channels and known provenance. Distinguish observed properties from labels
   supplied by production; investigate conflicting or missing identities.
2. Build a track matrix. Give every deliverable a stable ID, locale, product,
   reference cut/audio, source text/template, profile, responsible roles and
   acceptance checks. Language count is not a deliverable count.
3. Separate product bases: subtitles for original audio, same-language SDH,
   translated accessibility subtitles, captions for a final dub and forced
   narrative can require different sources and review. Route ambiguous scope
   to client intake rather than choosing silently.
4. Check compatibility before dispatch. A script from another edit or captions
   from original audio do not establish a final-dub source. Identify which
   provisional resources can be used for preparation and where final references
   must arrive before verification, conformance or release.
5. Give specialists exact asset/track assignments and a version manifest. Connect
   transcription to spotting, translation and accessibility work; give final
   production and conformance teams the actual destination references. The
   coordinator controls agent dispatch and shared mutation sequencing.
6. On an asset change, compare old and new identities, mark affected work
   provisional/superseded, and commission a conformance impact assessment.
   Broadcast the same source-change decision to every dependent team; require
   replacement immutable text jobs where source/resources change.

For "French captions", confirm whether the order means original-audio translated
accessibility information or captions matched to a French dub. Identify the
reference soundtrack and distinct acceptance evidence in the matrix.

## Outputs and handoff

Use the [expert handoff](../.shared/templates/expert-handoff.md). Return the asset
manifest, track matrix, provenance/compatibility findings, provisional/final flags,
dependency schedule, owners and required clarification or conformance actions.

Keep old-to-new version links and identify every specialist affected by a change.
Record what was actually inspected; inventory work does not establish linguistic
fidelity, full playback or a finished deliverable.

## Completion evidence

Every commissioned track has an explicit product, locale and cut/audio source.
Version conflicts and missing final assets have owners and status. Teams receive
consistent references and can locate their assigned material without guessing.

## Must not

Do not infer the correct cut from a filename, treat an unchanged duration as proof
of unchanged scenes, or call provisional material final. Do not invent external
asset access, authorize delivery, or claim that the bundled text MCP inspects or
conforms media.