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What is Shot Core?
The easiest way to prepare, shoot, and edit together footage.
Shot Core is a system that organizes all your shots into a schedule so you can make sure you shoot all the shots you need. Easily go from storyboards to shooting. When you are shooting, it keeps you on schedule. As you are shooting, it automatically copies all the footage off the camera and organizes all your files and metadata. It automatically assembles your footage into a rough edit, so you can see your scenes as you shoot them. When you are editing, you have all your footage organized in one place.
Preparing to shoot, shooting, and managing all the footage for a movie is an organizational nightmare. A movie contains, on average, 2,000 shots. Typically there are 3 takes per shot. That's 6,000 pieces of footage. That's a lot of shots you have to make sure you shoot. Additionally, you have to make sure that footage is all organized in a way you can easily edit it later.
In old typical productions, a crew member called a "Script Supervisor" is in charge of making sure all of the shots are gathered and organized. They log every shot on a paper notebook. Additionally, there is another crew member called a "Second Assistant Camera (2nd. AC)" that writes shot information on a clapper board and claps the board in front of the camera, so metadata is permanently tied to the clip. Additionally, another person has to shuttle footage off a camera and make sure it is backed up. This is prone to a lot of human error, delays, and high cost.
We want filmmakers to be able to shoot with minimal crew, not worrying about administrative and organizational tasks so they can focus on the most important things: the story and the performances. Technology gives us this ability.
Narrative productions with small crews. This is not only for small crews because of tighter budgets. This is for small crews because smaller crews can move faster, and focus more on story. Stanley Kubrick commonly shot movies with a crew of 6 people. He was incredibly organized, but ultimately he cared most about the story.
This is for the future filmmaker. When you see how it works, you can't deny that this is the future of filmmaking.
- Import from Storyboarder
- Make a schedule by ordering and making day breaks
- Monitors show you what you need to shoot
- Camera controlled by Shot Core automatically records
- Audio Server controlled by Shot Core automatically records
- Footage automatically copied off Camera and stored
- Slater Mini lets you control the advancement of shots
- Watch automatic rough edit scenes
- See all rough edits
- See all metadata for shots
- Download full scene footage or just work directly off server
At the core, Shot Core is specialized software running on a miniature hardware server that contains a database of all your Scenes, Shots, Takes, Schedule information and more. But it is also part of all the other pieces of hardware that work in concert with it.
- Import from Storyboarder
- Easily schedule shoot days
- Monitor that shows schedule, shoot status, and rough edits
- Automatically shuttle footage off camera
- Slater mini Remote control
- Rough scene automatic edits
- Automatic warnings: Low Battery, Sound Issue
- Make changes with impromptu shots
- See all rough edits
- Metadata for all shots
"This is going to change the way movies are made."
"Faster, better, cheaper. Have all three."
We are making a movie. We are shooting a complete version of the movie with almost no crew as a "beta test" - we call it "proto production". This requires us to create software and hardware tools that help us automate procedural and organizational tasks that are normally done by multiple people. We are sort of building a "one man band" system for shooting a movie.
We have storyboarded the entire movie, shot for shot, using software we've created called Storyboarder. The software allows us to set up shots in 3D by placing characters, objects and cameras to easily create shots. Because there is so much metadata in the created storyboards, we can use all that metadata to quickly make shot lists and set up shots in production.
We wanted to make a production tool that would take that information and help us create the future of filmmaking.