Every take, logged
on set, as it rolls
Record shot, take and timing for every setup, with the card, clip and lens of each camera — right inside the scene it belongs to. Mark the good ones, and at wrap hand the editor a clean takes sheet instead of retyping your notebook.
Timed
Built-in take timer
Multi-camera
Card, clip and lens per camera
Good takes
Marked as you go
Ready for post
Takes sheets as PDF
The take log is the bridge between set and the cutting room
Every circled take, every card and clip number is something an editor will rely on weeks from now. Kept in a notebook, it gets typed up again at the end of a long day, by someone tired, from handwriting written between setups. That is where mistakes get in.
In SceneMatch the takes live in the scene, next to its continuity photos, notes and shooting days. You write them once, on set, and the sheet the editor receives is the same record — not a copy of it.
- Handwritten log, retyped at wrap Logged once on the phone, exported as-is
- Stopwatch in one hand, pen in the other Timer built into the take form
- B-camera details squeezed into the margin A row per camera, with card, clip and lens
- One copy, in one bag In the cloud, on every device of the team
What you can log
Everything a take report needs, in a form fast enough to fill between "cut" and "reset".
Take timer
Start, pause and reset a timer right in the take form and the duration fills itself in. Or just type the minutes and seconds if you timed it some other way.
Every camera, its own row
Add as many cameras as the setup runs. Each one keeps its own card, clip, lens, a short description and longer details.
Mark the good ones
Flag the good take on each camera as you go. They are highlighted on the sheet, and the editor's version lists only them.
Filed in the scene
Takes sit on the scene page with its characters, looks, props and notes, so the whole story of a scene is in one place.
Tied to the shooting day
The sheet shows which shooting day each scene was filmed on, so a scene shot over several days still reads in order.
Shared with the team
Anyone on the production with access sees the same takes as soon as they are saved, on a phone, tablet or laptop.
How it works
From the first slate to the editor's inbox.
Open the scene
Find the scene you are shooting on today's shooting day and open its takes.
Log as you roll
Enter shot and take, run the timer, and fill in each camera's card, clip and lens. Tick the good ones.
Export the sheet
Export a full takes report, or the editor's takes sheet with good takes only, for one scene or a whole shooting day.
Put the notebook down
Registration is free for anyone who wants to try it. Create a production, open a scene and log your first take in under a minute.
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What is the difference between the two takes sheets?
The takes report lists every take with the good ones highlighted. The editor's takes sheet lists only the good takes, which is usually what post-production asks for.
Can I export a whole day at once?
Yes. Export from a single scene, or from a shooting day to get every scene shot that day in one PDF.
We shoot with more than two cameras. Does that work?
Add as many cameras to a take as you need. Each one gets its own card, clip, lens and good-take mark.