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Organize shots

Marking produces a list that needs tidying: a shot that should be two, a duplicate to trim differently, a run of takes to delete.

Change what exists

Action How
Split at the playhead S, or Shots › Split the shot at the playhead
Duplicate Ctrl+D
Delete Del
Move up or down Alt+Up / Alt+Down
Sort by in point Shots › Sort Shots Chronologically

Splitting divides the shot under the playhead into two shots that meet at that frame. Each half keeps the interest points that fall inside it.

One shot that should be two: stepping a frame at a time onto the first frame of the second shot, then S splitting it there

Sort Shots Chronologically reorders the list by in point. Shots from different sources stay grouped, in the order those sources already appear. It has no default hotkey, because it is a one-off tidy rather than something you reach for mid-flow. Give it one in Settings › Remap Hotkeys… if you disagree.

Every one of these is undoable with Ctrl+Z, and the Edit menu names what it will undo rather than just saying Undo.

Filter the list

The filter box above the shot list narrows it. Every term you type has to match, and nothing you type can produce an error: a half-finished term just searches as plain text until you finish it.

You type It means
dragon fx Both words, each found anywhere
"dragon takeoff" That exact phrase
-dragon Exclude anything matching dragon
tag:fx fx in the tags only
-client:acme Exclude that client's shots
rating:3 Rated three stars or more
/drag.n/ A regular expression, case-insensitive
A filter typed live, narrowing 85 shots to 6, then swapped for a rating filter

The scoped form works with name:, tag:, project:, client:, role:, notes:, asset:, year: and source:, and scoping accepts a regular expression too, as in tag:/^fx$/.

Terms combine freely:

rating:4 tag:creature -project:"Old Reel" flyover

The same query language works in a reel's shot picker.

Note

The filter hides shots. It never deletes them. It also drives the export dialog's Filtered / visible shots option, so filtering to exactly what you want and then exporting is a deliberate workflow.