Assigning Notes to Shots			Creating Shot Groups
Chapter 4, Basics

The flag system is accessible from almost any menu and allows you to enable and disable flags, create and delete flags, and copy flag states to one or more shots.

Note: When in the timeline or the colourist's timeline, the flag system is always displayed to the right of the timeline canvas.

System flags are available by default for all shots. There are four types:

Render--Flags the shots to be rendered.

Changed--Indicates whether or not the current shot has been modified since the last save.

Locked--Locks the current shot to prevent modifications. The shot's locked status is also indicated by the word Locked that spans the three printer light fields.

Shot Priority--Assigns priority to the current shot. See Shot Priority.

Notes--Denotes whether notes exist against the current shot. Unlike the other system flags, the Notes flag cannot be turned on or off. Instead, its state is automatically updated depending on the contents of the Notes window. The Notes flag is set only when content is added to the Notes window. See Assigning Notes to Shots.

• Enable the Flags button.

  This displays the flags for the current shot.

• Right-click the flag row.

  When the flag is enabled, the flag name is in colour and its circle is filled.

  

  Disabled flag

  Enabled flag

  
  

  Hint: To select a flag without enabling or disabling it, left-click the flag row.

Custom Flags

Apart from the five system flags, you can also create your own custom flags. When creating a custom flag, you must adhere to the following:

• You cannot rename a system flag, nor can you assign the name of a system flag to a custom flag.

• Spaces are not permitted in the naming convention. It is recommended that underscores be used instead of spaces when you are working on either Linux or Windows.

Custom flags are saved to the custom.flags file in the Lustre version folder. Consequently, the custom flags are applied globally on all projects. After you create a custom flag, newly created grades save the custom.flags data to the grdXX.desc.xml file in the project's sacc_data folder.

1. Click New under the Flags window.

   A new flag is added to the bottom of the list.

2. To rename the custom flag, middle-click it and enter a new name.

• Select the flag and click Delete under the Flags window.

  Note: System flags cannot be deleted. When deleting custom flags, only one can be selected at a time.

1. Select the Custom flag (the selected flag will be highlighted).

2. Click Set All in the Flag controls.

1. Select the Custom flag (the selected flag will be highlighted).

2. Select the shots in the Storyboard or Multi-Layer Timeline by doing one of the following:

   • Right-click the shots you wish to flag in the Storyboard.

     In the Storyboard, the borders of the selected shots will turn aqua in colour.

   • Select the shots you wish to flag in the Multi-Layer Timeline. See Selecting Elements.

     In the Multi-Layer Timeline, the selected shots will turn yellow in colour.

   • Create a shot group, then select the group. See Creating Shot Groups.

3. Click Set Sel.