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 on the scene you’re currently looking at.
• 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 empty scene at the end and focuses it. Same with ← before the first scene. Useful for outline-style work; surprising if you over-pressed the arrow key. To clean up, exit Focus and delete the empty 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 empty scene I didn’t want.” You went past the last scene. Exit Focus (Cmd + F) and delete the empty 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.