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Ch. 01Int. Your machine — Day one

Start a project

Point Endroll at a folder. It reads everything on your machine first, then asks what film you want to make.

Free · on your machine

Start screen

Your recent projects and one New project button. Endroll never drops you into last week's session.

  1. Open Endroll
  2. Pick a recent project, or press New project
  3. The endroll wordmark in the top bar always brings you back here
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Pick your footage folder

Drop a folder of clips on the window, or pick it. Phone clips, camera cards and old interviews can sit in the same folder.

  1. New project
  2. Drop a folder on the drop zone, or click it to browse
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Preparing your footage

Endroll listens to the speech, finds the faces and describes what is in each frame. It all runs on your computer, and the screen tells you which step it is on.

  1. Starts by itself after you pick a folder
  2. Follow the percentage and the step list

Indexing runs locally and never spends a credit.

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Power use

Choose how hard your computer works while it prepares: Full speed, Balanced (about half speed) or Low.

  1. While preparing, pick Full speed, Balanced or Low under the progress
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Stop preparing

Stops after the video it is working on. Everything already prepared stays usable.

  1. Media tab
  2. Stop indexing after the current video
Credits · price shown first

What film are we making?

A project with footage but no film opens here: write a sentence about the video, or tap one of three suggestions, and Endroll drafts the first cut.

  1. Open a prepared project
  2. Write the brief or tap a suggestion
  3. Check the price range on the button, then press it

Shows about X–Y credits before anything runs.

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Start from an empty sequence

Skip the draft and build the cut yourself.

  1. On the first screen, choose Start from an empty sequence instead
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Write or paste a screenplay first

Already know what the film says? Paste the script, and the cut is made to match it.

  1. On the first screen, choose Write or paste a screenplay first

Writing is free; drafting the cut from it spends credits.

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File menu

New project, Open project, Open recent and Save a copy of this cut. Everything saves by itself, so Save only tells you so.

  1. Top bar
  2. File
  • Ctrl+N new project
  • Ctrl+O open project
  • Ctrl+S (everything autosaves)
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Timelines

Keep several cuts of the same project. Switch between them, rename them or duplicate one to try something.

  1. Top bar
  2. The dropdown after the project name
  3. Pick a cut, ✎ to rename, or Duplicate
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New timeline — reframes this cut

Turn the same cut into Vertical 9:16, Square 1:1, Portrait 4:5 or Landscape 16:9 for another channel.

  1. Top bar
  2. Timelines dropdown
  3. New timeline — reframes this cut
  4. Pick the format