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Review Your Film at a Cut Point

A cut point is a place your film stops, shows you what it has made so far, and waits for you. You turn them on when you set the film up. While a film waits, nothing is spending, and it holds for up to 14 days.

  1. Find the films waiting for you

    We email you when a film stops for you. In the studio, Cut Points lists every film that’s waiting, which cut point it’s at, and the date it holds until. Press Review cut point to open one.

    Cut Points: two films waiting, one at the script and one at the storyboard.

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  2. Look through it

    Move through the film scene by scene, or person by person for the cast. A filled dot marks what you’ve looked at. On any cut point, Help → Tour this page walks you round every button.

    A storyboard cut point: the film’s scenes on the left and a shot’s picture beside them.

  3. Keep it and go on

    If you like what you see, press Keep and go on. It asks you first, because what you keep can’t be changed afterward: the cast and the storyboard are drawn from the script, and the film from the storyboard.

    The buttons that keep the storyboard or redraw the pictures you selected, with what the rest will cost.

  4. Or ask for changes

    Select what you want changed (Rewrite this scene, Redraw this picture or Redo this shot) and add a note saying what you’d rather have. Only what you selected is changed; everything else stays exactly as it is.

    A scene of the script, with the button to rewrite it and a place for a note.

  5. See what a change costs

    The panel shows the cost to redo before you confirm. A script rewrite is one small price however much you change; redrawing pictures costs more the more you select. Credits are set aside when you confirm, you pay only for what it uses, and the film comes back to the same cut point for another look.

  6. Free changes at the storyboard

    Changing a shot’s camera move is free. Where real footage was found, Use this instead switches to another clip for free. In a Mixed film you can also turn a still shot into a moving one with Turn to motion, which shows its extra credits first.

  7. Take your time

    A film at a cut point costs nothing while it waits. If nobody decides within 14 days, it closes: you’re charged only for what was made, the rest comes back, and its files are deleted.