Exporting

ShotWork never touches your source files. Everything it writes is a new file, and there are three kinds.

You have	You want	Use
Shot selects with marked shots	One clip per shot, named by rule, with its metadata alongside	Export shots
A reel	One finished video, overlays and music included, ready to upload	Export a reel as video
A reel	The edit inside Resolve, Premiere or Final Cut, to keep working on	Export a reel as a timeline

The two video exports re-encode every clip, so a cut lands on the frame you chose. Copying the compressed video as it is would be faster, but a copy can only start at a keyframe, a frame the file stores whole, and that moves an in point by up to a few frames. The one exception is a shot export whose clip is already the chosen format and covers its whole source file, which is copied as it is and labeled so in the results. A timeline export encodes nothing: it points your editor at the original files.

A format your ffmpeg build cannot encode is marked (encoder not found) and cannot be chosen, rather than failing partway through a batch. See Install ShotWork for where ffmpeg comes from.

Color correction, effects and compositing belong in your editor, which is what the timeline export is for.

Stills and metadata

Not built yet

Still and metadata exports are not built.

You want	Use
A still of every interest point, for a portfolio page	Export stills
A shot selects file's details as a spreadsheet or a JSON file	Export metadata