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Latentshoot plans the shoot day and delivers the photographs from it
Write the shot list once. Latentshoot works out your running order, your daylight band, your gear list and your call sheet from it every time it changes. After the shoot, the photographs go to the client from the same project.
The shot list is the only thing you keep up to date
Almost everything else on screen is worked out rather than saved. A group’s letter, its shot count and its running time come off the shots underneath it every time you look. So drag “Garden” above “Interior” and the whole sheet re-letters itself, instead of leaving an out-of-date “C” on a printed page until someone notices.
A start time on the schedule works the same way: it is never saved. The only thing saved is a pin, for when you deliberately hold a shot to a moment like golden hour. Everything else is just a place in the running order, so “shoot this one next” moves that shot to the front of what is left and every time after it follows from the new sequence. It is also why the day re-times itself around what really happened this morning — the same sum, done again, with your real times instead of the estimates.
The daylight band behind the schedule is worked out for where you are shooting and the date you are shooting it, not drawn on as decoration. If a shot pinned to golden hour will not fit, the schedule tells you how many minutes short you are rather than quietly moving it somewhere else.
Stills and motion on one list
Every shot has a size, an angle, an orientation, a focal length, an aperture, a body, its lighting, wardrobe, props and styling. Mark one as motion and it carries four more: what the camera does, the frame rate, whether sound is being recorded, and how long the delivered clip runs. Every other field means the same thing on both, because framing a clip and framing a photograph ask the same questions.
A clip is scheduled from the same estimated duration a photograph is, so a day that delivers both comes out as a single running order. The camera move puts a slider or a gimbal on the gear list, and sync sound puts a recordist on the call sheet. Nobody keeps a second document in step with the first, because there is not a second document.
There is no storyboard view and no scene numbering, so a narrative shoot built around scenes and takes wants different software. This one plans the day itself, so a group is “feed room, then stable, then ridden” — the sections of the day, in the order you shoot them.
After the shoot, the same project
The photographs arrive in the project the shoot was planned in. Latentshoot suggests which shot each frame came from, by when it was taken. The client, who needs no account, selects and downloads on the same share link as the call sheet.
Develop edits a set in the browser, and a version you show in the gallery reaches the client as a photograph of its own. A watermark goes on a copy of each photograph, never on the file you uploaded. The AI tools send nothing until the team owner has agreed and the gallery allows it, and each runs only when you press it.
On Pro and Studio, a gallery can keep each photograph’s RAW file for Develop to edit from, and a phone’s HEIC file beside the JPEG made from it. Retouching that needs layers or skin work still belongs in Lightroom or Photoshop. How a gallery works.
Made to survive a day with no signal
Marking a shot captured, reordering the list, recording how long something really took: on set, all of it saves to your phone before anything is sent, so a dead spot with no bars still keeps the tap. When the signal comes back, everything waiting sends itself, oldest first.
A waiting change is undone only when the server actually refused it. If it simply could not get through — no signal, a wait that ran out, Latentshoot being slow to answer — it stays in the queue and tries again rather than being quietly undone.
Where to go next
See what Latentshoot does, screen by screen, or read the shoot-planning guides if you are still weighing up how you plan a day right now.
No card. One active shoot is free for as long as you want it, and on-set mode is on every plan, free included.