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Import clips

If your shots are already separate files, rendered out of another application, you do not need to mark them. Import them and each file becomes a shot spanning its whole length.

Steps

  1. Choose File › Import Clips… (Ctrl+I) and select the files, or File › Import Clips From Folder… and select a folder.
  2. Wait while Shotwork reads each file. The dialog counts through them.
  3. Read the summary. It reports how many clips are ready, how many were already in the shot list, and how many could not be read.
  4. Choose Add Clips.

What happens

Each clip becomes a source with one shot covering all of it. From there it behaves like anything else you marked: rate it, tag it, put it on a reel.

Clips that Shotwork itself exported come back with their metadata, because the export wrote it alongside them. A clip from anywhere else arrives with its filename and nothing more.

The dialog lists anything it could not use, rather than skipping it quietly:

  • Already in the shot list, matched by content rather than filename, so a renamed copy is still recognized as a duplicate.
  • Unreadable files.
  • Variable frame rate files. These are flagged because a variable rate has no single answer to "which frame is this", which is the guarantee the rest of Shotwork depends on.
  • Open a video for the other direction: one long source, many shots.