| Shotwork |
The application. |
Shotwork |
| shot list |
A .shotwork document: one or more sources, and the shots marked in them. |
Marking shots |
| reel |
A .swreel document: clips arranged on a timeline, with music and overlays. |
Building a reel |
| source |
A video file a shot list marks shots in. |
Open a video |
| shot |
An in point and an out point on a source, with the details you enter about it. |
Mark in and out points |
| clip |
A shot placed on a reel. |
Add shots |
| in point, out point |
The first and last frame of a shot. |
Mark in and out points |
| playhead |
The marker for the current frame. |
Move around a source |
| playback range |
The stretch of a timeline shown and, when looping, played; set with the range slider. |
Move around a source |
| interest point |
A frame marked with P as worth keeping. The span a shot's points cover is its interest range. |
Interest points |
| project |
The production a shot came from: the Project field. Never the document itself. |
Describe a shot |
| client |
The studio or client a shot was made for: the Client / Studio field. |
Describe a shot |
| restricted |
A shot flagged as not cleared for public use. |
Describe a shot |
| field preset |
The set of metadata fields a new shot list starts with, per discipline. |
Field presets |
| detect shots |
Letting Shotwork find the cuts in a source and propose a shot for each. |
Detect shots |
| library |
The Library window, and the shot lists, reels, values, logos and songs it tracks. |
The Library window |
| reorder, trim, roll, slide, replace |
The five edits on a reel timeline. |
Arrange clips |
| ripple, slip |
A trim that moves every later clip with it; a change to which part of a shot a clip plays, without moving the clip. |
Arrange clips |
| snap, snapping |
Edges pulling to beats, other clips' edges, interest points and the budget line. |
Arrange clips |
| holds for |
How long a clip plays on the reel. |
Holds and shortening |
| budget |
The reel's length limit, set with Limit to. |
Set a length budget |
| song |
A music file in your music library, or on a reel. |
Music |
| music lane |
The row under the clips that shows the reel's songs. |
Music |
| beat, downbeat, beat grid |
The beats found in a song, the first beat of each bar, and the marks the analysis draws under the music lane. |
Beats and downbeats |
| downbeat engine |
The optional download that finds real downbeats. |
Downbeat engine |
| fade in, fade out |
A ramp from or to black at a clip's edge. The shape drawn on the clip is its fade wedge. |
Fades |
| cut, dip to black, cross-dissolve |
The three ways two clips on a reel can meet. |
Transitions |
| title card |
A full-frame card on a reel that renders an overlay template. Image and color cards hold a picture or a solid color. |
Cards |
| overlay template |
A layout of text, images and metadata tags laid over clips. |
Build an overlay template |
| template band |
The row on the reel timeline showing which template applies where. |
Overlay templates |
| override |
A template set on one clip in place of the reel's own. |
Overlay templates |
| feature |
A tile in the reel's Features tab: a fade, music, a card or a template. |
Building a reel |
| detail panel |
The panel on the right of a shot-list tab that holds the selected shot's details. |
Describe a shot |
| viewer |
The video area in the middle of the window. |
Marking shots |
| source timeline |
The timeline under the viewer on a shot-list tab. |
Move around a source |
| reel timeline |
The timeline on a reel tab. |
Arrange clips |
| hotkey |
A keyboard binding. Every one can be changed. |
Hotkeys |
| ffmpeg, libmpv |
The two components Shotwork downloads: one exports and reads video, the other plays it. |
Install Shotwork |
| AI assistant |
An AI app you already use, connected to Shotwork so it can search your library and build reels. |
AI assistant |