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7. The finished reel

The montage is ready: the director has checked the reel itself and the project opens in the editor. What the director did and where earlier versions are.

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Step 7 of 9 · about a minute

The montage is ready. The director built the reel, reviewed it itself and fixed what could be done better — there is nothing to pick. The project has opened on the Editor section: the preview shows the finished reel, and the timeline shows its edit.

Watch the reel

Play the preview and watch the whole reel before you change anything: that makes it easier to see what you want to fix. In Projects the project's status is Ready, and the reel is the project's current version: edits in the editor and exports start from it.

How the director checked the reel

Once the reel was built, the director watched it the way a viewer will: in playback order, with what is on screen and what can be heard. If there was something to improve — the logic and order of the clips, a cut-off thought — the director revised the plan, and the reel was built again. On the run card this is the Polishing the cut stage. More — The self-check of the finished reel.

What the director did

The whole course of the montage is recorded in the Chat with the director — open it with the chat button in the project header. In the feed:

  • Material map — what your material is about and who the reel is for;
  • Director’s reasoning — how it thought: on the material, on the edit and on the finished cut;
  • the version card — Idea, the story step by step and How it is cut — piece by piece: why each clip is in the reel;
  • The reel is ready — the result of the montage.

That is also where you can ask the director why the reel is built this way or request an edit in plain words.

Earlier versions

Every rebuild, retry, style change and export adds a new version of the reel, and the earlier ones stay in Media → History. You can bring back any of the last 10 versions with Make current — more in History and versions. Or just ask in the Chat with the director: “bring back the previous version”.

What's next

Step 8 of 9 — First edits: fix the caption text and remove what is extra.