The clip card

Select Clip under the Camera title row. The panel switches to the clip layout.

The list

The list on the left shows the current format (Clip) and how many shots (e.g., 3 shots), then three pages: Clip organizer, Clip Framing, and Look. Small text under each shows what’s set (e.g., no sound yet, Free · 16:9, Lofi · set by shot 1). In Clip, their heading reads WHOLE CLIP (Photo, Loop, and Video say SET UP). Select the Clip row to leave those pages.

The card

The middle holds, from the top: Photo · Loop · Video · Clip, the Show: row, the STAGE section, and the shot’s card. Save stage and + New shot sit at the right end of the Camera title row, so they are always in reach. In Photo, Loop, and Video, that spot holds Snap, Spin it, Loop it, or Roll it, with no Save stage. Before the first shot, a Camera row lower on the page sets the first shot’s move. Later shots each have their own Move.

Under STAGE, plain grey words say what the stage holds: No shots yet, Matches Shot 1, or, once you change the scene, an apricot dot and Changed since Shot 1, with Save stage puts it into Shot 1. New shot adds it as Shot 2. Save stage is grey while the stage matches the shot you’re on, and turns purple once you change something. Select it to put the stage into that shot. + New shot adds the new shot right after the ringed shot, or at the end. While the stage has changes, the ringed shot in the strip shows a small apricot dot. With no shot picked, the page reads Each shot is a snapshot of the stage. Set up the stage, then press New shot. A shot’s settings save as you change them; changes to the stage need Save stage.

Before anything that would drop unsaved changes on the stage (tapping another shot, Play, Share, the Clip organizer, Photo, Loop, Video, another tab, Showtime, or Done), a card asks first: The stage has changed since Shot 1 and Keep the change, or let it go?, with Save stage to Shot 1, Save as a new shot (Shot 2), and Drop the changes. A tap outside the card cancels.

Under the stage words, ALL FIG ANIMATIONS sets how figs move while you set up: Still stops them, Loops plays their loops, and Action also plays tap moves. This doesn’t change playback; shots play their loops and chosen actions either way.

The Show: row under Photo · Loop · Video · Clip holds Ghost Shot, once there is a shot, and Storyboard, when the clip has a storyboard. They help you set up and are part of no shot. Ghost Shot lays a see-through copy of the current shot’s frame over the view, to help you line up the next shot. It never shows in exports and stays on for the session until you turn it off.

The strip

The strip sits under the view: Play, numbered thumbnails, + (new shot), the music icon (+ ♫ with no music, ♫ with music), and the Share chip. Selecting a thumbnail jumps the view to that shot and opens its card. + New shot or + adds a new shot after the current one and selects it. Opening Clip rings the shot the stage already matches. Delete puts the next shot on the stage. Select the music icon to set up music. Select Share to open Share video . In landscape, the panel sits on the left and the strip stays under the view.

After the first shot, a note shows Adjust the scene, then press New shot again. Tap ♫ for music, Share to export. The first time on each device, Moves reset between shots. Pose a part to hold it. shows for four seconds.

Play plays the clip from shot 1. During playback, the rows hide. Tap the view to stop.

The shot’s card

The current shot’s card shows its number and length (Shot 2 of 5 · 1s), with Saves Automatically on the right, and its settings: Move; chips (Shot Length, + Sound, + Story); rows that show when they apply (Doing, Doors & windows, Talking, Then); and, at its foot, Duplicate and Delete. See The shot's camera . The scene’s Undo undoes changes to these, except sound and words. Redo puts them back.

Clip organizer, Clip Framing, and Look

• Clip organizer: Changes every shot at once, and holds share, music, narration, and the Camera Frame. Off until a shot exists.
• Clip Framing: Sets the shape, focus, and camera angle.
• Look: Sets the look (Style, Lens, Glow, Film).

The frame shape (Clip Framing) and the lens and film (Look) apply to the whole clip, as they are set when it plays or saves. The style (e.g., Lofi, Handheld, Flat) is set by the first shot; a later shot in another style shows Video plays in Lofi. (with the first shot’s style). The camera angle is taken by the next + New shot or Save stage. What changes from shot to shot (Move, Shot Length, sound, words, who moves or talks, doors) is on each shot’s own card.

Video and GIF exports from this session show in TAKES so you can share them again quickly.