Previously every video_target_pipeline cut wrote a <uuid>.json provenance
sidecar alongside each <uuid>.mp4. The same provenance is already in the
per-batch plan.json, so the per-clip sidecars are redundant unless a
downstream tool wants each clip self-describing in isolation.
- video_target_pipeline.py cut: new --write-sidecar flag, default off.
- run_video_pipeline.sh: new SIDECAR env var (default "no"), passes
--write-sidecar when SIDECAR=yes.
- README + docs/analysis/video-target-preprocessing.md updated.
The 1,984 already-emitted sidecars in /mnt/x/src/vd/ct/ct_src_*/ have
been deleted (1.5 MB).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Peter
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