Focus mode

Focus mode is the shot list filtered to one or more scenes. Useful for working through coverage scene by scene without scrolling through everything else.

Entering Focus

• Cmd / Ctrl + F enters Focus mode and prompts you to pick a scene to isolate.
• Shift + S opens the scene picker dialog — type a scene number to jump.

In the picker, Select replaces your focus with the typed scene; Add appends it to the current focus set.

Navigating between scenes

Once focused:

• ← / → — replace the focus with the previous / next scene.
• Cmd + ← / Cmd + → — add the previous / next scene to the focus (multi-scene mode).

Multi-scene focus shows several scenes’ shots together, in script order.

Adding shots while focused

Cmd / Ctrl + N adds a new shot to the first focused scene.

Auto-create on overflow

If you press → past the last scene in the project, CineLog creates a new scene (with one starter shot) at the end and focuses it. Useful for outline-style work; surprising if you over-pressed the arrow key. Pressing ← before the first scene does nothing. To clean up, exit Focus and delete the new scene from Linear if you didn’t want it.

The script sidebar

In Linear view (not Focus), Shift + S toggles a side-by-side script sidebar. The script and the shot list scroll in sync — useful for line-by-line shot planning.

The same shortcut means something different in Focus mode: there it opens the scene picker (above). Same key, two contexts.

Exiting

Cmd / Ctrl + F or Cmd / Ctrl + B returns to Linear view.

If this isn’t working

“I pressed → and got a new scene I didn’t want.” You went past the last scene. Exit Focus (Cmd + F) and delete the new scene from Linear.

“Shift + S is doing different things on different screens.” It is, by design. In Linear it toggles the script sidebar; in Focus mode it opens the scene picker.