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When the morning overruns, the day moves itself

Built for one thumb, in daylight, with cold hands, and it keeps working with no signal at all. Mark a shot done and the rest of your day works itself out around it, because the schedule was never a fixed plan — it is built from what has actually happened so far.

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Latentshoot’s on-set mode on a phone: the shot being taken now in large type with its spec and wardrobe note, thumb-sized buttons to mark it captured or send it for a retake, how far behind the day is running, and the remaining running order underneath.
Large type, thumb-sized buttons, and a screen that goes light or dark to match your phone rather than insisting on dark — a dark screen in direct sun is unreadable, and this is not the place to be stylish.

No signal, no problem

You never lose a tap, even with no signal

Every tap saves to your phone before anything else happens, so it survives a dead spot, a locked screen, or the app being shut down mid-morning. When signal comes back, everything waiting sends itself in order, and you can see how much is left.

Here is the rule that matters: nothing you tap is ever taken back because the signal went quiet. A dead spot, a wait that runs out, a moment when Latentshoot itself is slow to answer — none of those undo a tap, because none of them is a no. Only a real refusal does that, and everything you tapped afterwards stays put, in order. Nothing you recorded on a bad connection quietly disappears.

Latentshoot’s on-set mode on a phone: the shot being taken now in large type with its spec and wardrobe note, thumb-sized buttons to mark it captured or send it for a retake, how far behind the day is running, and the remaining running order underneath.
The running order beneath the current shot re-times itself the moment you tap, before anything has even left your phone.

What the day teaches the next one

Every shot you take sharpens the next estimate

Latentshoot records how long each shot really took next to how long you planned for. At wrap that becomes a report, planned against actual, group by group — read at the one moment you will believe an estimate was wrong, because you have just lived it.

Those same numbers quietly become the estimate Latentshoot offers the next similar shot: the middle of what shots like it really took, never the average, so one three-hour disaster does not drag everything after it upward. And only once there are three to learn from. Two of anything is a coincidence rather than a pattern, and a number learned from two is worse than a plain round one, because nobody thinks to question it.

Latentshoot’s on-set mode on a phone: the shot being taken now in large type with its spec and wardrobe note, thumb-sized buttons to mark it captured or send it for a retake, how far behind the day is running, and the remaining running order underneath.
Marking a shot captured records how long it really took. That is the number the rest of your day, and your next shoot’s estimates, get built from.

Shooting out of order

"Shooting this now" moves the row, not the clock.

The light goes flat, the horse will not stand, the client wants the third look first. Your day jumps around, and on set that has to be one tap. Mark a shot "shooting this now" and its row moves to the front of what is left. Latentshoot does not write a start time for it, because being next is a place in the order rather than a time — and every time on screen still comes off the same schedule.

Mis-tap with cold hands and you can undo it: put the last status change back, and correct the time it recorded, from the same screen, without going near a keyboard.

On set is for marking off work you have already planned, not for planning new work. New shots go on the shot list, because a change that is not safe to send twice has no business on a phone that is saving taps up for later. Using on-set mode yourself is never behind a plan — sharing a live "where we are" link with someone who is not holding the phone is the part that sits on Studio.

Questions

About on-set mode

What happens to a tap made with no signal at all?
It is saved on the phone itself before anything on screen changes, and sent the moment signal returns — walking out of a barn, or the next check, whichever comes first. A change is only ever taken back if it was genuinely refused; a dropped connection, or a wait that runs out, never undoes what you tapped.
Can I add a new shot from on-set mode?
No, by design. On set you mark shots already planned, reorder what is left, and adjust a pin — all of which are safe to send twice if the first attempt never lands. Adding a shot is different: sending it twice would leave you with two of it, so new shots go on the shot list, not this screen.
Is the live day a separate schedule from the one I planned?
No. On-set mode builds the day the same way the planning screens do — it just uses how long shots really took in place of your estimates, for every shot already captured or skipped. The live day and the planned day cannot disagree, because they are worked out the same way.
Do I need a paid plan to use on-set mode myself?
No. On-set mode is on the free plan and every plan above it — it is the screen that proves the product, and putting your own shoot day behind a plan would be charging you for the reason to stay. What Studio adds is a "where we are" link, to watch rather than touch, for a crew member or a client who is not holding the phone.

Take it on set. It keeps working there.

Open the day on your phone before you lose signal, then mark shots off as you take them.

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