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Shot list groups and settings

Who can do this: Free plan on your first project, Supporter on all projects. Anyone with project access can filter to a shoot day and open the Lists tab. Building setups, making lists, and changing settings need shot list edit access (owners, admins, and members with Edit shot lists).
You write a shot list scene by scene and you shoot it day by day. Groups are how the same shots become a day’s plan: what is up first, what shares a camera position, and what moves when the light goes. Find shoot days in the Shoot day menu on the shot list View, and in the Lists tab of the Builder.

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See one shoot day

  1. Open Visual → Shot List → View.
  2. Set Shoot day to a day.
Picking a day leaves the scene you had open and shows the whole day. Picking a scene at the top of the page leaves the day. All days goes back to every shot. The days come from your schedule’s day breaks, one per shoot day, and each shot follows its scene onto that day. You cannot rename or delete a day here; change the schedule and the days follow. A day always opens as the table, pooling its shots across scenes in the day’s own order, and Export gives that day’s Shot List PDF. The View with Day 1 picked in Shoot day: the day's shots across scenes, with an End of Setup marker under the first three

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Build the day’s setups

With a day picked, the list is that day’s setup builder. A setup groups the shots that share a camera position, even when they come from different scenes.
  1. Open the row menu (the three dots) on the last shot of the group.
  2. Click Add Setup Under.
  3. Name the setup and click Add Setup.
The shots above the End of Setup marker, back to the marker or Not in a setup row above them, belong to that setup. A shot that is already in a setup cannot start another one; drag it out first. Shots in no setup stay wherever you put them in the day, between two setups too. A setup with no shots yet waits at the bottom of the day. Setups are numbered down the day, so the first one you reach is Setup 1. To move a shot across a long day without dragging, open its row menu:
  • Move to top and Move to bottom send it to either end of the day.
  • Under Move to setup, click a setup’s name to make the shot that setup’s last shot. The setup it is already in is marked current.
Edit and Delete on the marker rename or remove the setup. The shots stay. A day shot's row menu: Add Setup Under, Move to top, Move to bottom, and the Counter wide setup under Move to setup A setup you add on a scheduled scene’s own list shows here too, under the same shots. A day’s setup that holds shots from several scenes shows on each of those scenes’ lists. See Managing shot lists.

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Keep setups when the schedule changes

Setups go where their shots go. You don’t have to do anything.
  • Move a scene to another day on the stripboard, and its setups move with it.
  • Schedule a scene you already built setups for, and they show up on its day.
  • Shoot a scene over two days, say a reshoot, and the setup stays with the shots on the first day. The shots on the later day get a copy named Copy of plus the setup’s name, with the same notes and times.
A copy is a setup like any other. Rename it, move shots in or out, or delete it.

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Work through a day or a list in the Builder

  1. Open the Builder and click the Lists tab in the sidebar.
  2. Under Schedule, click a day. Its scenes appear below.
  3. Click a scene to open it.
For a set of scenes that is not a shoot day, such as pickups or a rehearsal:
  1. Click New list and name it.
  2. Click each scene you want to add.
  3. Back in the Lists tab, click the list to work through only those scenes.
Manage lists renames and deletes lists. A list only narrows the Builder’s sidebar. It does not change your schedule, and it is not a Shoot day option in the View. The Builder's Lists tab: Schedule days, a Pickups list, New list, and the scenes for Day 1

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Change how shots are numbered

  1. In the View, open More → Settings.
  2. Under Shot Numbering, pick Letters, Numbers, or Custom.
Letters identifies a scene’s shots A, B, C. Numbers identifies them 1, 2, 3. With Custom you type each identifier yourself, and the Shot cell in the table becomes editable. Under Excluded Letters, tick the letters to skip; I and O are the usual ones, since they read as 1 and 0. Each change saves as you make it and applies to the next shot you add. The Settings modal: Shot Numbering, Excluded Letters, and Coverage

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Manage coverage subjects

In the same Settings modal, click Manage Coverage to recolor a character’s coverage or review custom subjects. How coverage works is in Using shots to confirm coverage.