Videotext Studio / Grip the text

Sheet 01 · the whole poem Cineosis LabFour cutsFloorABC FLIXBets
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couple herereplaces what plays under what you hold
add to the stackplays with what is already there
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Timeline
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my shots
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ABC FLIX →rip it into frames
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Hold some words, then click a shot to look at it here.

Videotext · keys

1–5grain: word, phrase, line, stanza, passage
click · draggrip at the grain · drag (or shift-click) to grip any run of words
← →move the grip one unit · with shift, extend it
[ ]contract to a word · expand to the next grain up
spaceplay / pause the film
P · Lplay the selection · loop it
Ccouple the shot in the viewer (or the first shot) to the selection
⌫lift the couplings under the selection
Ztimeline zoom: poem · passage · selection
V · , .the view wall: every view of the sheets full size · previous / next view · esc closes
⇧C · Tadd the shot you’re looking at to the stack under what you hold · put it in the tray (or take it out)
drag a shotonto a word, the ribbon, the timeline or the monitor to couple it (hold Shift, or drop on “add to the stack”, to stack it); onto a coupling to stack it; onto the tray to keep it. On a phone: long-press, then drag
⌘Z · ⌘⇧Zundo · redo any change to the film (couplings, slides, stacks, merges, discards)
⌥← ⌥→ · Gmove the playhead 2 s · go to what you hold
PgUp PgDn · Homethe previous / next stanza · the top of the poem
0 · Rscreen the film from the top · review it: what you have, what loads, what changed since the last export
Enter · ⇧Entercouple · stack the shot you’re looking at (like C · ⇧C)
Q · Mthe wall in 1, 2, 3 or 4 views at once · merge the branch on the stage into main
/search the archive
pinch · + −zoom into a view on the wall (or ⌘/Ctrl + scroll); click the % to go back to 100%. Pinch the timeline under the title (or its − / +) for the whole poem, the passage, or 36 seconds with her words; drag along it to scrub
B · Sthe wall’s player small, medium or large · sound and touch feedback, touch only, or off
touch a shoton the wall it opens big in the peek, with couple, stack, like and tray; a ring shows every touch
other toolsABC FLIX and the Bets share this clock: open one while the film plays and it carries on at the same moment; with several open, the one you play leads and the rest follow
H · ♡like the shot you’re looking at: it stays near the words you hold, loosely, without going into the film. Liked shots float under their stanza; drag one onto words to couple it later
drag my shotson the timeline or the ribbon, drag a coupling to slide it off its words, or drag an end to trim it. It snaps gently to word edges; hold Alt to place it freely. ⇤ puts it back on its words
Ffollow the playhead through the poem (on by default)

Word times are spread over each spoken stanza by length and punctuation. Your film is kept in this browser; a share link carries it anywhere.