Notes that land on the exact frame.

Shutter is a review tool for directors, editors and colorists. Park on a frame, pin it, box it or draw on it, then hand your editor a marker list that drops straight into Resolve.

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GAS_STATION_FOG_v3.mp4 Playing
A gas station at night, its canopy lights glowing through thick fog
1 2 3 01:04:12:00Photo @benwksi / Unsplash
  1. 1
    01:04:13:14 · Color

    Canopy lights are clipping. Bring them down about a stop.

  2. 2
    01:04:13:14 · Framing

    Trim the left edge so the pump sits on the third.

  3. 3
    01:04:13:14 · VFX

    Banding in the fog along this roofline. Add grain before the grade.

From playback to a marker list in four moves.

  1. 01

    Open the clip

    Drop in an MP4, MOV, WebM or a still. Shutter plays it from your drive, so there's no upload to wait for, whatever the file size.

  2. 02

    Park on the frame

    Step with ← and →, jump a second with Shift. Timecode reads HH:MM:SS:FF from whatever start TC your edit uses.

  3. 03

    Mark it

    Press M, then drop a pin, drag a box or draw the line you mean. Tag the note Color, Framing, Focus, VFX or Edit so the right person picks it up.

  4. 04

    Hand it off

    Export a frame grab with your marks burned in, a CSV for whoever keeps the spreadsheet, or an EDL of timeline markers for Resolve.

Every shortcut, format and frame rate
A film crew in silhouette around a camera on a tripod, under a cloudy sky Photo @kriss_films / Unsplash

Your footage never leaves your computer.

Shutter reads the file in your browser and plays it from there. We never receive a frame. Sign-in runs through Clerk. Your notes are saved in this browser and only reach our server when you send a review to a friend.

The trade-off: notes don't follow you to another computer yet. Export the .json and import it on the other machine.

What's stored where

Hand the edit a file, not a screenshot thread.

  • A014_C003_0912_011313.pngA frame grab with every mark and the timecode burned in.
  • A014_C003_0912_markers.edlTimeline markers you can import into Resolve, one per note.
  • A014_C003_0912_notes.csvOne row per note, for whoever keeps the spreadsheet.
  • A014_C003_0912_notes.jsonThe whole review, to reopen on another machine.
See what's inside each file
An editor in headphones working at a monitor in a dark room Photo @mark_crz / Unsplash
A hand holding a clapperboard by the side of a road

Got a cut waiting on notes?

Make an account, open the file, leave the first note.

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