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 ### Purpose
 A program that renders podcast videos from a set of input tracks and avatar images.
+
+### Build Note
+This program is written as a satalite program from the mr4th codebase and
+must be configured to point at that codebase to build. The "pointers" are
+set in "bin/compiler_flags.txt".