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Managing shot lists

Who can do this: Free plan on your first project, Supporter on all projects. Everything on this page needs project edit access; members with view access get the read-only View. The Builder is for desktop and tablet.

Once shots exist, the list needs tending: a shot squeezed in between two others, coverage marked on a shot you added in a hurry, setups and banners for the day, the odd shot cut. This is where that happens. Find it under Visual → Shot List → View Shot List. It opens on All Shots, every scene’s shots together. To reorder a list, open one scene or one shoot day from the bar at the top left. The Builder does the script-side work, and Your first shot list covers that.

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Add a shot without the script

1. Click Add, at the right of the toolbar beside Export.
2. On a scene’s list, click Add Shot. On a shoot day or All Shots, click the scene the shot belongs to.
3. Fill in the form and click Add Shot.

You come back to the list you started from. On a shoot day the menu lists that day’s scenes, and the new shot goes in after its scene’s last shot on the day, so it stays on that day even when the scene shoots over several. The form has every field the Builder’s entry row has. To tie the new shot to a line of script instead, click Add Shot (with coverage) (on the menu, or under the form), which opens the Builder on the scene.

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Insert under a shot

1. Click the three dots at the end of a shot’s row.
2. Click Add Shot Under, Add Setup Under, or Add Banner Under.

Duplicate Shot puts a copy directly under the shot. On a scene’s list or a shoot day’s, drag rows to move shots; banners and setup markers drag too. All Shots mixes every scene and has no order of its own, so its rows don’t drag. On All Shots, Add Setup Under opens the shot’s scene with the setup form ready, because a setup belongs to a scene or a shoot day. The line under the item names the scene it opens.

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Move several shots at once

1. Open a scene or a shoot day from the bar at the top left.
2. Cmd-click (Ctrl-click on Windows) each shot you want to move. Shift-click picks every shot between your last pick and this one.
3. Drag any of the picked shots.

They land together where you drop, in the order they had. Drop them above a setup marker and they join that setup. A bar at the bottom of the page counts your picks; click Clear or press Escape to let them go. Setup markers and banners are never picked, so they stay where they are. This works in the Builder’s shot list too.

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Group shots into a setup

1. On a scene’s list, click Add, then Add Setup.
2. Name the setup after the camera position, or leave the name blank.
3. Click Add Setup.

On a shoot day, click the three dots on the last shot the setup should hold and click Add Setup Under. Setups are numbered in the order they come down the list, so dragging one higher renumbers it. A setup with no name reads Setup 1, Setup 2, and so on. A setup is an End of Setup marker. The shots above it, down to the previous marker, are its shots. Drag the marker, or drag a shot across it, to change which shots it holds. Deleting a setup keeps its shots; they are just in no setup. When shots in no setup sit above another setup’s shots, a thin Not in a setup row separates them. A setup you add to a scheduled scene is numbered with the rest of that shoot day’s setups, and its marker says which day: End of Setup 2 of 5 on Day 1. Add Banner works the same way and drops a label row, such as a meal break, with optional prep, shoot, and estimated times.

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Mark coverage on a shot later

1. Open the Builder on the shot’s scene.
2. Click Set coverage on the shot in the right panel.
3. Drag the label at the top of the line to where the shot starts, and the circle at the bottom to where it ends.
4. Click Save coverage.

To move a line later, open the shot: its line is the only one on the script, and you can drag it right there. Inserts and full-scene shots can stay without a line.

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Change a shot in place

• Click the Shot Size, Frame, Angle, Focus, Movement, or Est. value on a row to pick a new one.
• On a card, click the pill under Shot Type or the Technical pill.
• Click Edit Shot in the row’s menu for the full form.

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Work one shoot day at a time

Set Shoot day to a day. The day’s list opens across scenes, whatever scene you had open. The days come from your schedule’s day breaks, one group per shoot day, and shots follow their scene onto the day. You cannot rename or delete them. On a day, the list is also that day’s setup builder. See Shot list groups and settings.

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Cut a shot instead of deleting it

1. Click the three dots on the shot’s row.
2. Click Cut Shot.
3. Type the reason and save.

The reason is required. The shot leaves the list and the PDFs, and Show cut shots brings it back into the View. Restore Shot in its menu puts it back for real. Cutting is the shoot-day habit; see Using your shot list on the shoot day.

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Set the numbering

1. Click More, then Settings.
2. Under Shot Numbering, pick Letters, Numbers, or Custom.

With Letters, Excluded Letters skips the ones that read like digits. With Custom, the Shot column is editable and you type each identifier. Manage Coverage opens the coverage subjects, where each character’s color lives.

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Choose the columns

1. Click Display.
2. Tick the columns you want, set the thumbnail Size, and pick Fit or Scroll.
3. Click Save.

Columns are saved per project, and the Shot List PDF uses the same columns. Size and layout are saved on this device.

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Export

1. Click Export.
2. Pick Shot List PDF, Lined Script, or As Shot.

On All Shots, the menu offers Shot List PDF (all scenes). Cut shots stay out of the PDFs. More → Share makes the view-only link; see Sharing a shot list.

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Related

• Shot list
• Builder and coverage
• View, export, and share
• Reference images and storyboards