See the film before you shoot it
Shot-by-shot breakdown, generated storyboard, 3D sets with their focal lengths, a playable timeline with a guide voice: in Cinelude, the video exists before the first clap.
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Hitchcock held that once the script was finished, the film was perfect. Cinelude takes the idea one step further: once the shot list is finished, you can watch the film.
The breakdown, shot by shot
The script becomes a technical breakdown. Every shot has its number, its start, its length, its voice-over or on-screen text, and its type: to camera, Blender shot, archive, 2D animation or live-action shot. A colour bar sums up the whole video. You see at a glance whether the pace holds, whether a to-camera stretch runs too long, whether archive shots pile up without a breath. The demo's breakdown even sets itself a rule: never more than ten seconds to camera without a cut.
The storyboard draws itself
The same breakdown shows up as a storyboard: one frame per shot, with its timecode, its type and the line it carries. Forty-eight shots for a thirty-two-minute video in the demo, from the cold open to the last act. The editor, the designer and the animator work on the same board, and every change to the breakdown shows up there.
3D sets and their eight cameras
For reconstruction shots, Cinelude provides 3D sets along with their technical breakdown: eight camera shots, focal lengths included, from the exterior tracking shot to the 85 mm close-up. You use them as a framing reference, or bring them as they are into your editing software.
Renders go to your own computers, not to a compute service billed by the minute. One machine coordinates the queue, the others each take a whole project depending on the software installed: Blender, DaVinci Resolve or Premiere Pro. Your hardware, your software, your files.
A timeline you can play
Shots arrive already timed on a multi-track timeline: images, script, overlays, voice. A generated guide voice reads the text on top, so you hear the pace before recording the real one. Press play, and you see the film before you shoot it.
And the timeline is no toy. It packs colour grading with curves, colour wheels and LUT import, green-screen keying, subtitles generated from the voice, camera and microphone recording straight into a track, and safe-zone guides for vertical formats. When the edit is ready, it goes out as XML to Premiere Pro or DaVinci Resolve, or renders to MP4 and MOV on your machine.
The film before the film: it is Cinelude's signature, and it is literally what this screen does.
Fewer failed shoots
A missing shot discovered in the edit means another half-day of shooting. A sequence that runs too long, discovered after release, means a video viewers drop. By playing the film before shooting it, these mistakes show up while they still cost nothing.
