The camera on the sheet

Every scene sheet and every shot’s sheet has a Camera lane. Its blocks move the camera in time, so a shot can stay still and then push in slowly. See The dope sheet .

While the lane has blocks, it plays over the shot’s own Move row, and the Move’s setting stays for later. With no blocks, the shot plays as before. There is no Cut block: each shot is its own cut.

The blocks

Tap + on the Camera lane. The picker lists Hold · the framing, the paths, Fade with Black and White, and under Lens the Focus · fig to fig block.

• Hold: A framing for a length of time, so a path can start late or end early. A hold can come first, last or both.
• Path: Push in, Pull back, Pan left, Pan right, Rise or Orbit. The card has the Path pick, Amount with Small, Medium and Big, and Ease with Even, Ease, Ease in and Ease out. A path you drew on the shot’s card shows as Drawn path, and the drawn path stays as it was. See Path: a camera move you draw .
• Fade: Color is Black or White. Way is Fade in or Fade out. Place puts it at the Shot start or the Shot end. The first Fade on a shot opens it, and a later one closes it. An end Fade stays at the end if the shot grows.
• Focus: The focus moves From one fig To another over the block, through a depth-of-field lens. Lens is Soft or Dreamy. The block shows once the shot has a fig.

Drag a block to move it, and drag its end to stretch it. A Then arrow from a Hold to a Path makes the pan start as the hold ends.

Framings

A Hold block’s card has the Framing row: As the shot, your Saved framings, or Close, Medium, Wide, Two shot and Over the shoulder. The app places the camera on the fig you pick under Fig. Two shot and Over the shoulder take a First fig and a Second fig.

• Eye level: One button. The camera goes to the fig’s head height, facing it. On a phone it tilts a little to centre the head.
• Reverse: The same framing from the other side of the two figs, for the second speaker. Tap it again to go back.
• Save framing: Names the shot’s camera Framing 1, Framing 2 and so on. A saved framing shows under Saved on every shot of the clip, so two shots frame exactly alike.

A framing you preview on the stage goes back at Play and at Done.

The Framing page

The Camera’s Framing page, Clip Framing in a clip, has the same rows: the framings on a fig, Eye level, Reverse, Save framing and the Saved list. Under them:

• Lens: Wide, Normal or Long.
• Guides: On or Off. A thirds grid and the widescreen bars show over the viewfinder while you frame. Guides start on and never print in a photo or a video.
• Reference: A still from your files, or a shot’s picture, laid over the viewfinder at half strength, so you can match a framing. Replace swaps it and Remove takes it off.

The Reference lane

Add lane › Reference adds a lane that plays the reference piece in a small window at the playhead, muted, so you can match the timing as well as the framing. Starts at steps it a second earlier or later, and the line reads 3 s into the piece. With a reference on its shots, the Clip organizer shows a Storyboard row of the reference pictures, one per shot.

Widescreen, full screen and Wiggle

• Widescreen in the Clip organizer: On draws black bars over Play and over every video. The bars cover a Medium framing’s headroom, so reframe a little.
• Full screen on the sheet’s bar hides the sheet while the scene plays. A tap brings it back.
• Wiggle on a shot’s card, and on a scene Video, has Speed with Slow, Normal and Fast, and Amount with Small, Normal and Big.

A scene or a clip with none of these plays as before. Older versions of Ünflat open the scene and skip the camera lane.