Building a shot list from a finished script used to mean going scene by scene and typing everything in by hand. Now CineLog can do that first pass for you.
Populate Shot List
There’s a new Populate Shot List button in the script editor. You press it, and CineLog reads your script and offers to build the shot list from it. Before anything changes, it shows you a preview. You can see how many scenes it will create, how many it will skip because they already exist, which new locations it will add, and roughly how many shots it expects to generate.
You get two modes, and the difference matters. Replace clears the list and rebuilds it from the script. Merge keeps everything you already have and only adds what’s missing. You also choose how deep it goes. It can bring in scenes only, or scenes with a starting set of estimated shots. When it generates shots, it pulls context straight from the scene, the action lines, the dialogue, so every suggested shot comes with a description that means something when you read it back. And it places coverage shots through the scene where they belong instead of piling them all at the end.
The key here is that this is a first pass, not a final answer. Everything it creates is a regular shot list that you can edit, reorder, and cut down like any other.
More Live Analytics
We also extended the script analytics sidebar. Along with your scenes and the page estimate, it now shows a live word count and character count as you type, and it counts the unique characters in your cast.
And one small thing for the editor. When you type a scene heading, CineLog now converts it to uppercase smoothly as you go, without the line jumping around under your cursor.