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Build a film

Put the recording, the voice, the open and the close together into a finished film, checked, with subtitles and a transcript.

Building turns the recording and the voice into the finished film. It cuts the take to the voice line by line, adds the kit's open and close (the bumpers) and any chapter cards, levels the sound, and then checks the result. It makes exactly what you have chosen and nothing more.

Before you start

Choose what a build makes

  1. Open the film and choose the Film panel.
  2. In What a build makes, tick the Shapes you want besides wide: square, vertical or portrait. See Square and vertical cuts.
  3. Under Also, tick GIF, Walkthrough page or Deck from the film if you want them. See GIFs and walkthroughs and A deck follows its film.
  4. Save with ⌘S.

The wide cut, its subtitles and its transcript are always made. Choosing shapes and extras does not withdraw the film's approval.

Build

In the app

Click Build film in the top bar, or Build in the pipeline. When it finishes, the monitor plays the film, with a button for each shape, and the top bar shows Verified or Problems with the film's length.

In the terminal

Build the film:

showreel build compose

Choose the shapes and extras for this build only, replacing what the storyboard says (none for none):

showreel build compose --formats square,vertical --extras gif

What a build does

  1. Makes the open, the close and the chapter cards, if they have not been made yet.
  2. Cuts the take to the voice, using the marker at the start of each line.
  3. Assembles the wide film, with the voice and any music, levelled to the kit's loudness.
  4. Checks it (see Check a film before you share it) and writes a frame from the start and end of every shot and a contact sheet.
  5. Writes subtitles (.vtt and .srt) and a transcript (.txt).
  6. Makes each extra shape, each with its own checks.
  7. Makes the extras you chose.

Everything lands in the film's out folder. A shape you no longer ask for is removed, so an old file is never mistaken for this build's.

Building for an audience

A build can make a separate cut for each audience the film is for, leaving out what that audience may not see. See Make a cut for an audience.

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