Sequence Timeline

Part of the canvas (see Canvas), the sequence timeline is your project’s shot list, shown across the top: each sequence is a row of ordered shots. Assign a file to a shot and it appears in that row at once, turning canvas work into project structure.

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When to use it

Use the timeline for fast, in-canvas structuring: ordering shots and assigning files as you generate. Move to Production for metadata, status tracking, or bulk planning.

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Shotlists

A project can hold multiple Shotlists: each a complete, independent set of sequences and shots. Each canvas is linked to one of them: the picker at the start of the timeline (next to Play) shows which, and the timeline and Production follow that link.

• Switch: pick a different Shotlist from the timeline’s picker. That relinks the canvas for everyone on it; viewers and commenters can’t relink, so their pick opens that Shotlist in Production instead.
• Create: click New in the popover. Starts with one empty sequence and one empty shot.
• Duplicate: from a Shotlist’s ⋯ menu. Copies the sequences, shots, and their assigned takes. (Duplicating a single sequence, below, copies structure only.)
• Rename or Delete: same ⋯ menu. Delete the last one and the timeline shows No shotlist, with a New shotlist button to start fresh.

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Add a sequence or shot

• Add a sequence: click New sequence at the end of the timeline; this also creates its empty first shot.
• Add a shot to an existing sequence: click the + at the end of that sequence’s bar, then choose Add shot or Add multiple shots.

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Assign files to shots from the canvas

The timeline needn’t be open to assign a file: every canvas file has a Select for control floating above it.

• Check the box on the file to assign or unassign it from the active shot.
• Open Select for to search any project sequence; choose one to see its shots, then a shot to assign the file to.
• Choose New sequence from that dropdown to create one with an empty first shot, then pick that shot to assign the file.
• After choosing a sequence, choose New shot at the bottom of its shot list to create and assign one.

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Reorder and remove

• Reorder shots: drag a shot to a new position in its sequence.
• Remove a take from its shot: right-click the shot (or, with multiple takes, one in its hover popover) and choose Remove take. The take stays on canvas, just unassigned.
• Delete a shot: right-click it and choose Delete shot. Takes become unassigned, not deleted; only the shot leaves the sequence.
• Play from here: right-click a shot and choose Play to open the Player at that shot.
• Find on canvas: right-click a shot (or a take in its popover) and choose Find on canvas to jump straight to that file, switching canvas or sequence if needed. Double-clicking a take in the popover does the same.

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Manage a sequence

Right-click a sequence title to open sequence actions:

• Play (opens the Player at this sequence)
• Open in new tab
• Expand / Collapse
• Duplicate
• Export sequence
• Copy link
• Collapse all / Expand all
• Delete sequence

Renaming a sequence happens in Production: Reorder sequences in a sequence header’s ⋯ menu renames and reorders them inline.

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Duplicate

Keeps the shot count but not existing media. The new sequence starts with empty shots.

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Export

The same export as the Project menu’s Export shotlist, scoped to just this sequence: a ZIP with this sequence’s media and an FCPXML timeline for Final Cut Pro or DaVinci Resolve, with the same Alternates, Audio, Burn-in review video, and Frame rate settings.

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Next: manage this structure in more detail

Continue to Production for metadata, status tracking, and bulk planning across the same sequences and shots.