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When the morning overruns, the day moves itself

Mark a shot done on your phone and every time after it moves to match what has really happened. When the day runs late, on-set mode shows what you could skip or move to still make golden hour. The buttons are big enough for a cold thumb, and it keeps working with no signal.

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Latentshoot’s on-set mode on a phone. The first screen shows the shot being taken now, Cable knit, hands in pockets, in large type with its spec, 18 minutes left of 30, a red bar reading “25m late against the plan, right now”, a line reading “19m late for the 18:26 pin. 2 options”, and buttons for Retake, Skip and Mark captured. The second shows the running order further down, each row with its start time, the captured rows ticked.
Large type and buttons you can hit without looking. The screen follows your phone’s light or dark setting, because a dark screen in direct sun is hard to read.

When the day runs over

See what to skip or move, and what each choice does to the wrap

Pin a shot to golden hour and on-set mode watches for it. When the day will reach that shot too late, or is running more than five minutes past its planned wrap, a line at the top of the screen says so, and below the shot you are on it lists the ways to catch up.

It can skip one or more set-ups you marked Nice to have on the shot list, or move one to the end of the day so it is still shot. Where neither works, it can take you straight to the pinned shot. Each option shows whether you will make the pin and when you will wrap.

One tap applies it and Undo appears straight after. With no signal, the change waits on the phone like every other tap. A set-up marked Must have is never offered for skipping, and nothing is deleted.

On-set mode on two phones. The first shows a panel headed “The day has run over” and “19m late for the 18:26 pin”: the day now reaches Dunes hero, last light at 18:45. Two ways to make the pin follow. Skip a set-up marked nice to have, Rooftop pair, walking away, 30 minutes, makes the 18:26 pin and wraps at 19:36, 19 minutes earlier, on plan. Shoot a set-up last, Cliff path, walking wide, makes the pin and wraps at 20:11, 16 minutes later. The second phone, with no signal, reads “1 change is saved on this phone, waiting for signal” above “Skipped Rooftop pair, walking away. Makes the 18:26 pin. Wrap 19:36.” and an Undo button.
Nineteen minutes late for the shot pinned to golden hour. Skipping the rooftop pair makes it and wraps on plan, and with no signal that choice waits on the phone with Undo beside it. The panel measures how late the day would reach the pinned shot, which is why it differs from how far the day is behind the plan.

With no signal

Every tap survives a dead spot

Every tap is saved on your phone before anything else happens, so it survives a dead spot, a locked screen, or the app being closed mid-morning. When signal comes back, everything waiting is sent in order, and the screen says how many are left.

A dead spot, a slow answer or a wait that runs out never undoes a tap. A tap is undone only if Latentshoot refuses it, and the screen says so.

On-set mode on two phones with no signal. The left reads “2 changes are saved on this phone, waiting for signal” above a red “30m late against the plan, right now” bar, a line reading “29m late for the 18:26 pin. 2 options”, and the shot just marked captured. The right shows the running order, re-timed, with the captured rows ticked and each carrying the minutes it really took.
Two taps the phone is holding until there is signal to send them. The running order has already moved to match what really happened.

What the day teaches the next one

Every shot you take sharpens the next estimate

Latentshoot records how long each shot really took beside how long you planned. At wrap that becomes a report, planned against actual, group by group.

The same numbers become the estimate Latentshoot suggests for the next similar shot. It takes the middle value of what shots like it really took rather than the average, so one three-hour disaster does not push every estimate up. It waits until there are three to learn from, because a figure learned from fewer is worse than a round number nobody thinks to question.

A shoot day at wrap: “Everything shot”, finished at 20:15, thirty-nine minutes later than planned, sixteen captured and none skipped, then planned against actual for each group as a bar. Outerwear 2h 35m against 3h 5m, thirty minutes over; Knitwear fifteen minutes over; Rooftop and Coast on time. The second phone lists every row of the day as it ran, each marked captured.
Planned against actual, group by group. Outerwear took half an hour more than it was given and the rooftop took exactly what it was given. The next shoot’s estimates come from these numbers.

Shooting out of order

Shoot out of order and every time still adds up

The light goes flat, or the client wants the third look first. Mark a shot “shooting this now” and its row moves to the front of what is left. Every time on screen still comes from the order of the rows, so nothing needs retyping.

If a cold hand taps the wrong thing, undo it from the same screen: put the last status back, or correct the time it recorded, without going near a keyboard.

The client’s picks

See what the client picked from the set-⁠up you are on

Open the gallery for today and publish from Lightroom between set-ups. The client watches the new frames arrive on their own page and selects as you go.

Under the shot being taken now, on-set mode counts the frames the client has picked from it, and does the same for the shots before. With no signal the count stays as it was, and marking shots off works as it always does. This is part of Studio. Proofing on the shoot day.

Two phones. On the left, the client’s gallery headed Shooting today: “New photographs appear here as they are sent. Last one at 11:41”, with a bar reading “4 new photographs” beside Show them and Mark as seen. On the right, on-set mode for the shot being taken now, Cable knit, hands in pockets, with “1 frame picked by the client, suggested from capture times” under its time bar.
The count is matched by the time each frame was taken, so on-set mode marks it as a suggestion.

Questions

About on-⁠set mode

What happens to a tap made with no signal at all?
The phone saves it before anything on screen changes, and sends it when signal returns. A change is taken back only if Latentshoot turned it down. A dropped connection, or a wait that runs out, never undoes what you tapped.
Will it offer to skip a shot the client needs?
No. Only set-ups marked Nice to have on the shot list are offered for skipping, and a set-up marked Must have never is. Nothing changes until you choose an option, and Undo puts the day back as it was.
Can I add a new shot from on-set mode?
No. On set you mark shots already planned, reorder what is left and adjust a pin, and each of those is safe to send twice if the first attempt never arrives. A new shot sent twice would be two shots, so new shots go on the shot list.
Is the live day a separate schedule from the one I planned?
No. On-set mode works the day out the same way the planning screens do, using how long each captured or skipped shot really took in place of your estimate. The live day and the planned day are worked out from the same list, so they cannot disagree.
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, including the ways to catch up when the day runs over. What Studio adds is a “where we are” link for a crew member or a client who is not holding the phone, and a gallery the client can pick from while you shoot.
Can the client pick frames while we are still shooting?
Yes, on Studio. Open the gallery for today and publish between set-ups. The client selects on their own page, and on-set mode shows how many frames they picked from each set-up.

Take it somewhere with no signal.

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

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