Shot List

The Shot List is where you break scenes into shots and track their production details.

How to reach it

Open a project and click Shot List in the sidebar.

Views

Switch between Table, Rows, and Cards with the view switcher in the top bar. Phones always show the card layout. You can enable or disable views for the page in the workspace customization panel (right-click the page background and choose Customize workspace).

The new Table view

A redesigned Table view is being rolled out gradually, so you may have it on a project before the people you work with do.

How to tell which one you have. Read the column headings in Table view. If they say Movement and Focal length, you have the new table and this section describes what you see. If they say Move and Lens, the rest of this page describes your Table view, and nothing in this section applies to you yet. If you have hidden both of those columns, the other tell is the Display popover: the new table has no Table Layout choice in it.

Either way the shots are the same shots. Both tables read and write the same fields, so nothing about your data, your exports, your PDFs, or your share links depends on which table you see. Rows and Cards are unchanged in both.

Which columns you see

It starts with nine: Shot, Description, Type, Angle, Movement, Focal length, Cast, Sound, and Image.
Seven more are one click away: Status, Duration, Camera, Frame Rate, Aspect, VFX, and Notes. Click the + at the right-hand end of the column header row and switch on the ones you want. The same list drags to reorder, offers Add Field for a custom field of your own, and has Reset column layout to go back to the nine. The Columns popover in the top bar does the same job.
Three columns carry a different name here than in the rest of this page: Movement is Move, Focal length is Lens, and Aspect is Aspect Ratio. They are the same fields under new labels. Frame Rate reads the same in both.

Your layout is remembered, per project

Which columns you show, the order you put them in, and any width you drag a header edge to are saved as you go and are still there when you come back. They are saved per project, so a commercial and a feature each keep their own layout, and they are yours alone: someone else on the same project keeps their own columns and widths, and changing yours never moves theirs. The new table keeps its own record of this, separate from the one the older Table view uses, so it starts you on the nine defaults rather than inheriting the columns you had before, and changing it here leaves the older table’s layout where it was.

Both headers stay put while you scroll

Scrolling down a long list keeps the scene you are inside pinned to the top with its column labels underneath it, until the next scene arrives and takes its place, so a row is never far from the scene name and the column heading it belongs to. Scrolling sideways keeps Shot and Description on the left and the row menu on the right.

Because those two stay on the left, they stop widening while there is still room on screen for the columns beside them. Drag Description as wide as you like and it holds at the point where the next column and the row menu would disappear behind it, and it takes the extra room again as soon as the window is wider.

There is no Fit or Scroll choice to make here, and Table Layout is not offered for that reason: the table fills the window on its own, giving any spare room to Description, and starts scrolling sideways only once the columns need more room than the window has.

A long description opens on the line

Click a Description or Notes cell, or a text custom field of your own, and it opens for editing exactly where the text already sits, at the same width, on the same line, growing downwards as you type instead of opening a separate box beside it. The row itself stays one line tall, so nothing below it moves while you write. Enter starts a new line, Cmd+Enter (Ctrl+Enter on Windows) saves and closes, clicking away saves, and Esc closes and discards what you just typed.

Scenes

Create: click Add Scene in the top bar (in Cards view there is also a dashed Add scene tile at the bottom).
The Add a scene dialog has Scene name, Setting (INT, EXT, INT/EXT), Time of day (Day, Night, Dusk, Dawn, Golden hour, Blue hour), Page count (in eighths), Story day, Location name (optional), and Address (optional) with autocomplete and a map preview.
Edit: the pencil icon on the scene header, or Edit scene in the scene menu.
Duplicate scene copies the scene and recreates its shots with fresh numbers. Delete scene removes the scene and all its shots after a confirmation; this cannot be undone.
Reorder: drag the scene header grip in Table view.
Collapse: use the scene chevron, or Collapse All / Expand All in the Display popover.

Scene numbers come from the linked script scene when one exists, otherwise from the scene’s position. See Scenes, shots, and versions.

Shots

Create: the Add shot row or card at the end of each scene. New shots are numbered automatically.
Edit: click any cell to edit inline. Type, Angle, Move, Camera, Lens, Frame Rate, and Aspect Ratio are comboboxes: pick a suggestion or type any value. Each combobox lets you save values to your own list (Save ”…” to my list).
Status: click the status ring to cycle through none, in progress, and completed.
Sound and VFX are toggle dots. Description and Notes are text fields. Duration is free text.
Cast: the Cast cell opens a picker (“Search or add character…”) where you link project cast to the shot, or add a new character to the project on the spot.
Image: attach a storyboard frame with the upload button, or draw one on a built-in canvas with the pencil button. Click a thumbnail to view it full screen. A shot’s image can also come from a whiteboard: drag an image on the board onto a shot card’s storyboard area and it becomes that shot’s image here too.
Delete: the row menu’s Delete, or select shots and use the bulk bar. Deletes are permanent.
Reorder and move: drag shots within a scene or into another scene. A shot moved to another scene gets a new number there.
Bulk edit: select shots with the row checkboxes; the bar offers status buttons (None, In progress, Completed), Delete, and Clear.
Reveal in Script: shots created from the script have a row action that jumps to their script line.

Columns

The Columns popover lists all columns with visibility switches; drag to reorder. Reset column layout restores defaults.
Default visible columns: Shot, Status, Description, Type, Angle, Move, Cast, Duration, Camera, Lens, Notes, Image. Frame Rate, Aspect Ratio, Sound, and VFX can be switched on.
Resize columns by dragging the header edge; right-click a header for Hide column and Reset width.
Custom fields: click Add Field in the Columns popover (or Manage Fields in the page context menu). Fields can be Text, Select, or Status with your own options. Custom fields appear as extra columns.
If your column headings say Movement and Focal length, you are on the redesigned table: its defaults and its chooser are the ones under The new Table view above, not the ones in this section.

Display options

The Display popover contains:

Versions: opens the versions panel (see below).
Coverage: toggles the coverage tracker.
Collapse All / Expand All, Clean IDs.
Table Layout: Fit or Scroll. Card columns: 1 to 5 (Cards view). Table Layout is absent on the redesigned table, which sizes itself; see The new Table view above.
Filter: by Cast, Lens, Status (All, Completed, Incomplete), Time of Day, and Setting.
Shot ID Style: USA (1A, 1B, 2A), Europe (1.1, 1.2, 2.1), or UK (1, 2, 3). This is a project-wide setting. Clean IDs renumbers everything to the current style.

Versions

Open Display then Versions.

Save current version snapshots all scenes and shots, with an optional Version label.
Each version lists its save time with View (preview) and Restore. Restoring replaces the current shot list with the snapshot.

Script panel

The script chip in the top bar opens a read-only script drawer next to the shot list, so you can reference the screenplay while building shots. Shots can also be created directly from the script; see the Script guide.

Export

Open the Share popover in the top bar for Export PDF and the shot list share link. See Exports and PDFs and Sharing and permissions.

Permissions and offline

Viewers see the shot list read only: no add, edit, numbering, or field management controls.
Offline, shot edits keep working and sync later (“Saved offline. Will sync when you reconnect.”); creating scenes requires a connection.