Philip Floetotto:

Right now I'm actually trying to work with this exact problem by creating 'slates' that go in front of X number of clips and infer they are related. The sections you show above would immediately help with that. The problem with slates is that it is tedious creating text. And reordering means you manually select all contents.

However if I'm interested in what 'Artist A' has been up to, can i search and get a list of all sections across all reviews? I like keeping playlists themselves fairly simple for some of the reasons you state above. Similar to EDLS, they don't need to be nested. but we need more ways of tagging the individual clips.

i.e. if we have 20 review playlists a week and in each one there are maybe 2 model uploads, to search for and just find the 'model' sections, some search would be nice to pull those out. But that may veer off into a general per-clip tagging /meta data search request.

Philip Floetotto: Would love to be part of a showcase to discuss this new exciting feature :) And section seems like a good term to me.

Philip Floetotto: It's good to hear that you guys are working on this. Thank you. My thoughts:

"Reviews for us are a snapshot of items in time that you can refer back to later, like last week we looked at "x""

--> Could this not be achieved with the search function, sorting by date, artist etc. and then create a new folder/section/review for those assets? Having nested folders does not prevent people from creating a top level folder for example named "dailies - 1/29/24". Production assistants would then copy the latest versions from the shot tree in that "dailies folder", or use the sections workflow you demo'd. In my experience, PA's organize dailies separately from shots. For example:

DAILIES

-MODELLING

--1/25

--1/26

--1/27

etc

" Having an arbitrary structure could confuse people and reviewers might "miss" items they are supposed to review."

--> Maybe I am missing something, but We feel it's more confusing to have hundreds of single level (not nested) review folders. Even a short film will have tens of thousands of assets to review. Having all those in a single list is unmanageable. Furthermore, even with nested folders, users can still choose to just have single level foder/reviews if they want?

I might be missing something, so please let me know. I am excited that you guys are working on this feature.

Philip Floetotto: Looks promising, we also wish to have a show case.

PS: I agree Section is less confusing than Group due to the Review Groups already existing. Alternatively calling it "(Sub)/Folder" may also work.

Thank you so much for your responses. We'll reach out to you individually to schedule sessions as soon as possible.

Kevin Mannens: Hi Kevin. We are planning to introduce 1 level grouping of items in a playlist e.g by artist, sequence, shot, etc. in the near future. You could start off by grouping everything by artist automatically and then customize. The goal is to make it easier to quickly separate content in a playlist. But - we don't think an arbitrary structure within a review would be beneficial.

That being said, we are planning to introduce collections in the project view to allow you have an arbitrary nested structure for your movie.

Philip Floetotto: But - we don't think an arbitrary structure within a review would be beneficial. --> why is that? How would you organize things like

assets

-modelling

--charactername

-lookdev

--assetname

or

shots

-shot100

--fx

--lighting

Floating Rock: Your comment is almost a year old. ;-(, yet SS still has not addressed this absolutely essential features. Mind boggling.