“Footage”: reviewing your footage in one table
“Footage” is where you review the footage after the copy. The “Issues” view shows only what the check found; the “All footage” view gives a table of every clip with its camera settings. A clip can be viewed from the keyboard, and 2–4 clips compared side by side: different takes from the start, or different cameras of one take by timecode.
Two views: “Issues” and “All footage”
“Issues” shows only what the check found: a picture that breaks up, a stuck pixel, a very quiet recording, 50 Hz hum, radio mic dropouts and more. Every issue can be played and marked “Fail” or “OK”.
“All footage” is a table of every clip: file, camera, scene, take, ISO, shutter, iris, white balance, lens, length, rating, note and “Check” (the result of the clip's check). Filters: “All”, “Video”, “Sound”, “Not reviewed”.
The table can be saved: “Save clip table…” → Excel, CSV, Avid ALE or PDF.
Viewing a clip
| Key | What it does |
|---|---|
| Click on the picture, Space | Play and pause |
| J, K, L | Back, stop, forward (L again is faster) |
| ← and → | Frame back and forward |
| 1–5 | Rating |
| 0 | Clear the rating |
| 2× and 4× | Zoom; the picture can be moved with the mouse |
| Double-click or ⤢ | Full screen, Esc to go back |
| Right-click | Menu |
The keys can be changed: “Settings → Keyboard shortcuts”.
Compare up to four clips
Select 2–4 clips and press “Compare”: they appear side by side.
- ⌘-click (Ctrl-click on Windows) on a row adds a clip, ⇧-click selects several in a row, ⌘A (Ctrl+A on Windows) selects all;
- “From the start”: each clip from its own start, for different takes;
- “By timecode”: one moment of the shoot, for different cameras of one take;
- the speaker icon on the picture shows whose sound you hear.
If more than four are selected, the first four are compared.
“Whole project”
This is the footage library: every clip from every copy day, search and filters, ratings and labels, viewing with the camera LUT and the same comparison of up to four clips. Nothing is synced here.