Use a scene's renders
Renders stay inside the scene. Nothing lands on the Storyboard until you send it, so twenty test frames and four takes don’t fill your canvas.
Send a render to the Storyboard
Section titled “Send a render to the Storyboard”| To send | Do this | What lands |
|---|---|---|
| One shot’s take | Right-click the shot in the Shots row, or use the Lens wipe, and choose Send to Storyboard | A video card such as Shot 2 · Render 3 · 0:12 |
| The whole scene | Right-click the Scene card and choose Send latest take to Storyboard | A video card such as Render 2 · 3 shots · 0:24 |
| A test frame | Pause on it in the Lens view and click Send to Storyboard | An image card named after the scene, · Test frame |
Takes land in a row to the right of the Scene card. A take that is already on the Storyboard isn’t placed twice: the button reads Show on Storyboard and takes you to its card.
A take card’s menu adds Open Scene and Add to Montage.
Put the scene in Montage
Section titled “Put the scene in Montage”- Right-click the Scene card and choose Add latest take to Montage.
- Or drag the Scene card onto the timeline. It lands as a video clip.
The clip’s menu on the timeline offers:
- Open Scene: opens the editor on that scene.
- Replace with Render N: when the scene has a newer take, adds it to the clip as a new source version and switches to it. You can switch back.
- Reveal in Storyboard.
Use the scene as a video input
Section titled “Use the scene as a video input”A Scene card stands for its scene video anywhere a video input is accepted. Drop it into a generation card’s video slot or reference, the same as a video card.
The scene video is ready when every shot’s newest take is finished, up to date and on disk. Cask Film then joins the shots in order once, and reuses that file until something changes.
A shot goes out of date when you change anything the render saw in it:
- its start or end,
- an object in view (position, keys, description, references, guide colour or label, hidden or shown),
- the camera or its keys, handheld shake, the environment or the aspect.
Changing the Vibe, the model, the resolution, names or locks does not make a shot out of date. Neither does changing an object that is out of frame.
An out-of-date shot shows Scene changed on the Shots row and AI · out of date in the Lens view. The Scene card shows · Scene changed.
Result
Section titled “Result”The takes you chose sit on the Storyboard as regular video and image cards, the scene plays as a clip in Montage, or a generation card holds the scene as its video input.
If it doesn’t work
Section titled “If it doesn’t work”A generation card won’t submit and the scene input has a red outline. The scene isn’t ready. The tooltip names the reason, such as Render all 3 shots first, Shot 2 is still rendering or Shot 2 is out of date. Render the shot it names, or remove the scene from the card to generate without it.
The timeline refuses the Scene card. “Render every shot of the scene before adding it to the timeline.” Run Full Render, or re-render the shots marked Scene changed.
Send to Storyboard says “Place the scene on the Storyboard first.” The scene has no card on the canvas. Open the scene switcher in the editor header and click Place on Storyboard beside the scene.