Shot Lister

Update: latest version of the app is definitely improved and the developer seems to earnestly be working hard at making this app amazing. I’m sticking with it and would encourage others to get behind a great developer that listens. Keep coming back to this app because I love the concept, unfortunately it fails in the implementation category. Syncing for example is really rough. Sometime sync works, but more often projects fail to sync or duplicate. Signing in and out sometimes resolves the issue, but not always. If this worked as advertised, reliably, it would be amazing.

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We tried it on a film shoot and it was a bit of a headache to actually use it right due to the fact at day of filming things can go a bit off planned and so sometimes you will need to add shots or adjust, when there are multiple cameras involved. The inconsistently sections (some areas requiere you to save to continue others simple using cancel) makes it a bit hard to follow through. And when there are good takes, the circle takes option lack the ability to add additional notes (about these good takes) make it a need to jog info down to paper and then that means it requieres some combination of tablet and paper. It's not bad but it's just felt incomplete. I will try it for another simple filming and will see. Update. After three weeks of trying to use it on our feature film shoot. We decided not to continue using it. It's too time confusing while on set when there's a readjustment of the shot list or need to make additional shot list. Not to mention the limited tools to make it more intuitive. So l have cancelled my yearly subscription and decided leave this app alone. If you use multiple cameras this can become extremely difficult to use. Great ideas but when in real environment with script supervisor, it's more headache to make it work than to use pen and pencil.

I use this on three different platforms, MacOs iPad and my iPhone. It's awesome for planning out shoots. However there are issues with with uploading and syncing between devices. Let's say I create a shot list on my Mac, I try to sync it to use on my iPhone, but it doesn't work. So I'll save a file out locally and try to reimport it on my iPhone to make adjustments on the go. That works, but now that file I've adjusted won't sync to the cloud off my iPhone. So I again can't access it on any other device. Another issue is, when trying to save out a PDF with images off of my iPhone, it makes the PDF but the images don't show up. And yes I set it to export with images. Sometimes it works but often times it doesn't export the images. It seems to work the best on iPad. Saying all that I still recommend the app, besides those strange technical issues, the program itself is SUPER useful.

Excellent, so far. I’m a DP for feature films / tv shows and have been looking for a new way to shotlist (have been making custom templates on excel for a decade!) and this hits the mark. Just really, really wish I didn’t have to come up with a “nickname” every time I add a new shot. Just writing this review to publicly request the developers to just let a new shot be added blankly. It’s the one big unintuitive and nonsensical speed-bump in a pretty efficient application. Great stuff, otherwise! Thank you for the good work.

In conjunction with other pro industry apps for scheduling your production, indie film or tentpole motion picture. This tool / app is hands down a brilliant process for all your HOD’s. From Dir to DOP & more. The mobility & ease to alter shots, times, settings in production are flawlessly simple. This will save your production time & money. Definitely upgrade to PRO user though. This is not a paid endorsement. It’s from a user / director who’s looking to get the film made with a seamless workflow. Shotlister has it all.