A deck follows its film
A deck made from a film keeps in step when the film changes, without losing your edits.
A deck made from a film remembers where each slide came from. When the film changes (a new take, a line reworded, added or cut), the next build brings the deck in step, field by field, and keeps what you edited.
Before you start
- A deck made from a film: Make a deck.
When it happens
- When you build the film and its extras include the deck (Deck from the film ticked in What a build makes on the film's Film panel).
- When you build the deck itself: Build in the deck editor, or:
showreel deck build compose-filmWhat changes, and what stays
- A field nobody edited takes the film's new version: words, stills and the film's length.
- A field you edited stays as you left it. If the film changed that same field too, your edit still stays, and the build says so, for example:
! line:h3 title: edited here, and the film changed it too- A new line in the film gets its slide, after the slide before it.
- A line cut from the film loses its slide, unless you edited that slide. Then it stays, and the build says so.
- A slide you deleted stays deleted.
- Slides you added stay where you put them.
Anything flagged is also recorded in the deck's film.json, beside its slides.
Start again from the film
To make the deck again from the film, throwing away every edit, build the film with --remake-deck:
showreel build compose --remake-deckA deck made from a film before decks followed their film is left alone until you remake it this way.
A deck per audience
When you build a film's cut for an audience, and that cut's extras include a deck, its deck is made and follows that cut in the same way. It is named after the film and the audience, such as compose-sales. See Decks for audiences.