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Describe a shot

The detail panel on the right holds everything Shotwork knows about the selected shot besides its in and out points. This is not bookkeeping: the reel editor runs on these fields. Overlay templates print them, draft reels sort by rating, and the filter box searches them.

Fill them in while the shot is in front of you. Reconstructing them later means watching the film again.

The fields

The detail panel for a selected shot, showing Name, Interest Points, Tags, Project, Client / Studio, Year, Role, Assets, Rating, the Restricted checkbox, and Notes.

Every field the reel editor later runs on
Field Holds Used later by
Name What this shot is. Per-shot only, never bulk-edited Export filenames, overlays, the shot list
Interest Points Frames worth keeping. See Interest points Shortening a clip on a reel
Tags Comma-separated keywords Filtering, searching
Project The production the shot came from Overlays, filtering, the library's Projects view
Client / Studio Who it was made for Overlays, client logos, filtering
Year When. Stepping up or down from empty starts at the current year Overlays, filtering
Role What you did on it Overlays, filtering
Assets Comma-separated, what you worked on Filtering
Rating Zero to five stars Draft reels fill from your best-rated shots
Notes Anything else Filtering

Tags, Project and Client / Studio autocomplete from a vocabulary shared across every shot list, so a tag you typed in one offers itself in all the others.

Editing several shots at once

Select more than one shot and the panel keeps the fields that can apply to all of them, such as Tags, Project and Client / Studio, and drops the ones that cannot, such as Name. Editing a kept field writes it to every selected shot.

Three shots selected with Ctrl, a tag typed once in the detail panel, all three taking it

Restricted

Restricted (not cleared for public use) flags work you do not have permission to show. It is a working feature, not a label:

  • Restricted shots stay out of reels unless the reel explicitly opts in.
  • Overlay templates never print the client name on a restricted shot.
  • Exporting a reel that contains restricted clips asks you to confirm first.
A restricted shot: its row in the picker, the wash on the clip it becomes, and the reason shown in the panel

Warning

Shotwork does not verify rights or clearances for anything. The restricted flag helps you keep track of a decision you have made. It does not make that decision for you.