Organizing a comparative film study in StoryFolder — Define a corpus, pilot a codebook, code shots consistently, keep sources and interpretations separate, and move scene evidence into a paper or video essay.
Cinemetrics vs StoryFolder: choose by research question — Cinemetrics for hand-measured cut timing and a public database; StoryFolder for visual shot boards with course fields; VideoAnt for class discussion on a video's timeline; Advene for annotation corpora.
Transcription that stays on your machine — StoryFolder transcribes with Whisper on your own machine, on by default after import, with optional speaker identification. What leaves the computer (nothing) and what to check.
Let an assistant search, tag and export your footage — Connect Claude Desktop, Claude Code or Codex to StoryFolder over MCP: search every project, look at frames, write fields across shots, and undo it all from version history.
How to make a shot list from a video that already exists — Every shot-list guide assumes you haven't shot it yet. This one starts from a finished video: detect the shots, correct them, add your fields, and export thumbnails, timecodes and durations to a spreadsheet or PDF.
Exporting a shot list to a spreadsheet with durations — Which tools export a finished video's shots to a spreadsheet, exactly which XLSX and CSV columns you get, and how to calculate per-shot durations in Excel or Sheets.
Export Shot List With Original File Name — Building a VFX shot-by-shot work order from a finished cut: what you can pull from the picture, how to mark only the VFX shots, and why a video-derived list is not a conform pull list.
How to create a text file of shots used — An archive-usage report from a finished film: one row per shot with a thumbnail, timecode and the source, rights and clearance fields a producer needs to pay for what was used.
How to catalog b-roll across multiple clients — A producer wants the drone shot from a job two summers ago and the editor has left. How a small studio catalogs b-roll across clients with a few shot-level fields that survive the project file.
Cataloging b-roll across clients without a MAM — A searchable visual index is enough for a studio of two to fifteen people. When you actually need a media asset manager, and what to build instead until then.
Cheap alternatives to a MAM for a 3-person video team — Ten priced options for a three-person video team that needs to find old b-roll, from Finder tags and a spreadsheet to a drive cataloguer, a shot-level index and a full MAM. Prices read from vendor pages on 2 September 2026.
Sharing one b-roll library across a small team — A team b-roll library is five separate decisions: where originals live, who indexes them, which fields survive a handoff, and how a freelancer finds the wide of the loading bay. What StoryFolder covers and what it doesn't.
How to log footage without tagging every clip by hand — One studio typed Client, Job# and Title 3,852 times each. How to log footage without tagging every clip by hand: paste the board-wide facts once, let AI Autofill fill the per-shot visual fields, and review the result.
Can AI tag video with my own categories? — A tagging pass returns person, outdoor, vehicle. You needed B-roll, Interview or GFX. Yes, AI can tag video in your own categories: make the field a Dropdown and the model can only answer from your list.
Is AI video tagging any good? — AI Autofill filled some cells and left others empty, and nothing tells you which are wrong. What automatic video tagging is good for, how it fails inside a valid answer, and how to test it on your own footage.
A good way to catalog and organize footage you already shot — Terabytes of b-roll across drives, Mac and PC, searchable only by filename. Which kind of catalogue you need (file catalogue, MAM, NLE bins or a shot index), and how to work through a backlog one video at a time.
How to search footage by what's in it and what's said — The hard-hat adjustment happens two seconds before the safety line. A transcript finds the line and not the shot. How one search box covers both what's in the picture and what was said, and where it stops.
How to find footage with no dialogue — Transcription says No speech found and the plant shot still needs finding in six months. What to record about silent b-roll so it can be found: the field set, the field types that stay stable, and when to use AI Autofill.
How to search a transcript for a word that was misheard or misspelled — You type tick tock; the transcript says TikTok; an exact search finds nothing. How StoryFolder's transcript search handles misheard and misspelled words, where the fuzziness stops, and what to do with an approximate hit.
Descript alternative for b-roll you already shot — Descript edits video by editing the transcript, and it is good at it. Finding the silent shot you already filmed is a different job. Which tool for which job, checked against Descript's own pages on 2 September 2026.
Logging footage where nobody is scripted — Unscripted footage: people walk in mid-sentence, talk over each other, and change roles by the day. How speakers are separated and corrected, how a re-transcribe is handled, and which exports keep the labels.
How to give an editor shot-by-shot feedback on a rough cut — The client says blur every laptop screen and fix the lower-third throughout. How to turn a rough-cut review into shot-by-shot notes an editor can act on, with the shot as the unit instead of a timecode.
A client sent you a reference video. Now what? — A client sends a link and says we want something like this. Turn the reference into a numbered shot document with a thumbnail and duration per row, then write against each shot what stays and what changes.
Making a shot list from a reference video — Most shot-list tools start from a script or a prompt. This one starts from the client's finished reference: import the file, get one row per shot with timings, and build the shot list from what was actually cut.
Turning a client's idea into something you can quote — A client approves a feeling in four seconds. Turning their idea into a list of specific shots with a decision against each one, so the scope is written down before a number goes on it.
What software breaks a video into individual shots with timings — Shot detection finds where one shot ends and the next begins and gives you an ordered segment per cut with start, end, duration and a frame. Which software does it from a finished video, and where each one stops.
Turning a stringout into a searchable shot log — Five weeks after the selects pass, someone wants the moment the site manager laughs at his own joke. How to turn a stringout into a searchable shot log you can find your way back into.
Stringout, selects, assembly, radio cut — what each actually means — Stringout, selects, assembly and radio cut mean different things to different editors, and vendor pages muddle them further. Four sourced definitions, where they disagree, and which word to use on Friday.
Comparisons
Best footage logging software for post-production (2026) — Footage logging is five different jobs, and no tool does all of them. Post-production logging software compared: local shot index, offline-drive catalogue, NLE-oriented desktop tool, MAM and a spreadsheet.
Best tools for turning a finished video into a shot list (2026) — You have a finished video and need every shot in it with a start, end and picture. The tools that work from footage you already have, compared by what they accept, what they output and what no detector can recover.
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StoryFolder 0.2.7 Released — Hello StoryFolder Community,
We're thrilled to announce the release of StoryFolder 0.2.7! This update is packed with new features, improvements, and bug fixes designed to make your video analysis experience smoother, faster, and more intuitive. Let's dive in and explore what's new.
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Instant Share Links: Publish and Share Video Analysis Notes + Storyboards in a click. — Hello StoryFolder Community,
With our brand-new feature, One-Click Publishing, you can instantly create sharable links from your notes and storyboards
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StoryFolder Opens Public Beta + New Pricing — Open Public Beta 🎉
We're thrilled to announce that StoryFolder is now officially in public beta! Now anyone can install the app and access all of the features of StoryFolder. This marks a significant milestone in our journey, and we are grateful for your support along the way.
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