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      "detail": "shots over 14.0s: none"
    },
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      "id": "T4_timeline_contiguous",
      "severity": "BLOCKER",
      "status": "PASS",
      "detail": "gaps/overlaps after: none"
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      "id": "P1_short_has_shot_plan",
      "severity": "WARN",
      "status": "PASS",
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      "id": "P5_captions_written",
      "severity": "WARN",
      "status": "PASS",
      "detail": "34 caption cues -> EP05.srt"
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      "id": "A1_audio_assets_present",
      "severity": "WARN",
      "status": "PASS",
      "detail": "audio cues missing from disk: none"
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      "id": "D1b_receipts_have_highlight",
      "severity": "WARN",
      "status": "PASS",
      "detail": "0 receipt shot(s) with no highlighted line"
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    {
      "id": "P2_title_present",
      "severity": "WARN",
      "status": "PASS",
      "detail": "publish title set"
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      "id": "P3_chapters",
      "severity": "WARN",
      "status": "PASS",
      "detail": "3 chapters"
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      "severity": "BLOCKER",
      "status": "PASS",
      "detail": "3 b-roll shot(s); unprovenanced: none"
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      "id": "P4_no_stock_footage",
      "severity": "BLOCKER",
      "status": "PASS",
      "detail": "shots not from receipts/presenter/provenanced-broll: none"
    },
    {
      "id": "R1_every_card_renderable",
      "severity": "BLOCKER",
      "status": "PASS",
      "detail": "cards whose data cannot be drawn: none"
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    {
      "id": "X1_shots_are_ours",
      "severity": "WARN",
      "status": "PASS",
      "detail": "shots with a card this frontend does not define: none"
    }
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    "warnings_failed": [],
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  }
}