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11.3

Filtering and fitting

Halfway through a film, dozens of items in one column is normal. This section is about the two ways of narrowing a column in DOTV's storyboard down to the few you want right now: filtering (show fewer) and filling the view (spread this column out) — plus the small things: column width, column height, and where you were.

The filter in the column header

The column headerThe button right of the column name is the filter. Once you filter, the button says what you filtered by (here: Generated · Scene 2 · Tunnel).
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Status in one group, the canvas groups in another; pick one from each.
  • Status — All / Generated / Not generated. The one you reach for most near the end is Not generated: it shows at a glance which ones are still missing.
  • Group — one entry per group on the canvas (see 9.2), so you can look at one pile only, say just the shots in "Scene 2 · Tunnel". Any group is the way back out.
  • The two conditions both apply: pick "Generated + Scene 2" and you get the ones in that group that are already out. The button says what you filtered by (Generated · Scene 2 · Tunnel), so you can tell you have filtered without opening it.
  • Every column filters on its own: filter the image column to "Not generated" and the video column still shows everything. Key elements has its own set too (see 11.4).

The search box in the top bar and the filter stack (see 1.5): type a word and filter by status, and what is left satisfies both.

Fill the view

Fill the boardThis column takes over the whole storyboard and the cards go from one column to a grid — a dozen shots on screen while you choose.
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This column takes over the whole storyboard, with the cards laid out as a grid.

The image and video column headers have a Fill the view button at the right end: click it and that column takes over the whole storyboard, the cards go from a single column to a grid, and a dozen or more fit on screen. The button in the header becomes Collapse, and one click puts the columns back side by side.

  • The audio and text columns do not have it — audio is a run of small tiles that already fit on one screen, so filling the view only makes them bigger, and filling the view with text just stretches a column of titles.
  • Filled out, the cards still carry their model and duration labels and that row of small reference images; the drag handle moves out to the gutter beside the card.
  • Filling the view and the detail view are mutually exclusive: open an item while filled and the fill gives way; close the detail and you are back to the filled layout.

Column width, column height, and where you were

  • Across: the boundary between the side column and the main area, and the one between images and video, can both be dragged.
  • Down: the boundaries between key elements, audio and text in the side column can be dragged too.
  • Every column has a minimum width and height, and past that it will not move — any narrower and a card is a sliver with nowhere to put the title.
  • Widths and heights you set are remembered, and they are the same next time you come in. So is where each column was scrolled to (list and filled layouts are remembered separately), so open an item and come back out and the column is still where you left it.
Try it in DOTVReading only goes so far: open DOTV and make an AI video with the feature this section covers.