Marking shots

Marking is the first half of ShotWork. You open a finished video once, record where each shot worth keeping starts and ends, and describe it while it is in front of you. Nothing renders until you choose to export.

A shot is an in point, an out point, and whatever you say about it. Shots live in a shot selects file, which points at your video rather than copying it, so one small .swselects file can cover a whole show. A shot you have only marked already counts: it shows in your library and can go straight onto a reel. Exporting shots to disk is for when something outside ShotWork needs them.

A shot selects tab's six regions, numbered as the table below lists them

#	Region	What it holds
1	Menu bar	File, Edit, Shots, Settings and Help.
2	Shot list	Each video in the file as a header row with its shots under it, a bar per video down the left edge, and a filter box above.
3	Viewer	The video as it plays.
4	Detail panel	The selected shot's name, interest points, fields, rating, restricted flag and notes.
5	Source timeline	The whole video end to end: a band per shot, its interest points and the playhead, with Mark In, Add Interest Point and Mark Out beside it.
6	Transport	Play, step, jump, loop, and the playback range.

Choose a number in the table, or a badge on the picture, to show that region on its own; choose it again to bring the rest back.

A reel tab lays out differently; see Building a reel. Tabs, the grips between the panes, and what ShotWork remembers about the window are on Documents and tabs.

Where to start

1. Open a video.
2. Mark in and out points.

The rest of this section is the work that surrounds those two:

To	See
Find the frame	Move around a source
Let ShotWork propose the shots	Detect shots
Bring in shots that are already files	Import clips
Say what each shot is	Describe a shot
Mark the moments worth keeping	Interest points
Split, delete, reorder and filter	Organize shots
Understand where the fields come from	Field presets
Add, change or remove a field	Edit the fields
See everything across your shot selects	The Library window

When the shots are marked, export them or build a reel from them.