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Latentshoot plans stills. That is the whole idea.
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. You retype nothing, and none of it is an old copy waiting to go out of date.
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 So drag "Garden" above "Interior" and the whole sheet re-letters itself, instead of leaving an out-of-date "C" on a printed page until someone notices.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, which is what turns "shoot this one next" into a reorder rather than a renegotiation of every time after it. It is also why the day re-timing itself around what really happened this morning is not a separate feature. It is 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, not motion
A shot’s spec is size, angle, orientation, focal length, aperture, body, lighting, wardrobe, props and styling. You will not find a frame rate anywhere in Latentshoot, or camera movement, or sound. That is a decision, not a gap waiting to be filled.
A tool that tries to plan a fashion lookbook and a wedding video with the same fields ends up doing neither well. Sticking to stills is what lets your schedule genuinely come out of your shot list, rather than being a general-purpose production tracker with the labels changed. It is also why a group can be "feed room, then stable, then ridden" instead of a scene number.
Who this is for, and who it leaves out
Do you shoot several projects a month, or one every so often?
Latentshoot earns its keep from your second shoot onward, once the list is written down and the schedule, gear list and call sheet fall out of it instead of being rebuilt by hand. If a shoot day is rare for you, a spreadsheet and a call-sheet template are a genuinely reasonable choice. We are not going to tell you that you are doing it wrong.
Are you planning motion work — video, a commercial, anything with a frame rate?
This is not for you, and it is not trying to be. There is no frame rate, no camera movement and no sound anywhere in it. If you are running stills and video on the same day, you will need something else for the video side.
Are you looking for a CRM, invoicing or contracts?
Latentshoot plans the shoot day. It will not book the client, chase a signature or send an invoice, and it never will. If that is the problem in front of you, look elsewhere first.
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.
Here is what makes that trustworthy rather than merely hopeful: a waiting change is only ever undone if it was genuinely refused. 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 vanishing and pretending you never tapped.
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.