✓C2PA Supportive

C2PA Content Credentials are the industry direction for provenance metadata: cameras, phones, and AI generators increasingly sign their outputs, and platforms are adding verification surfaces to read them. Most real pipelines are mixed — some source files carry credentials, most don't. Studio handles both.

• Sources with Content Credentials: the manifest claims are read, recorded, and folded into the chain of custody.
• Sources without: noted plainly. The creator can attach a signed statement of origin, or the absence stands as recorded.
• At project finish: a fresh C2PA manifest is written into the final deliverable and bound to the Creative Origin Record.

Supportive, not dependent

Embedded manifests are fragile: uploads, exports, and platform processing routinely strip them. The Creative Origin Record lives outside the file, bound to the deliverable by hash. A stripped manifest does not break the chain; the record still verifies. C2PA strengthens the record where present. Its absence is recorded, not disguised.