Long-form footage covers a lot of ground. Selects breaks your content into topics and subtopics automatically, so you can quickly log what you have and find the parts you need without scrubbing through everything.
To see how Selects organized your content, double-click a file in the project panel on the left. The panel switches to that file's topic list. Each topic represents a distinct subject or segment discussed in your footage, and subtopics are more granular breakdowns within each topic. Expand or collapse them to work at whatever level of detail you need.
Quickly understand what you have
Instead of watching hours of footage to figure out what was covered, scan the topic list. Each topic gives you a summary of that segment. Click any topic to jump directly to that moment in the timeline and preview. This turns a multi-hour review process into a quick scan.
Topic clip colors
In the Topic Stringout, each clip is automatically color-coded by its topic. The colors are consistent across the stringout so you can see how your footage is structured and where each topic appears without reading the labels.
Find your way around with the topic outline
The topic outline helps you find your way around a long transcript without scrolling. It sits on the right edge of the transcript panel as a rail of dashes, and the titles appear when you point at it. Click one to scroll straight there. A draft gets its own outline, not just a source file. It appears once your footage is analyzed and there is more than one topic to move between.
Pull what you need into your draft
When you find the parts you want, drag a topic or subtopic straight onto the timeline to add it to your draft. This is the fastest way to build an edit from long-form content: identify the sections that matter, pull them in, and refine from there.
Learn more in Start from Scratch: Creating a Draft Manually.
See subtopics on the timeline
Subtopics can also show on the draft timeline as their own clips, which makes the structure of a long topic easier to read while you cut. Open the preferences menu in the top bar and turn on [Show subtopic clips] under [Timeline]. The setting sticks between sessions.
Export topics with your project
When you hand off to your NLE, topics and subtopics are included in the export. They appear as markers or labeled segments in Premiere, Final Cut Pro, and DaVinci Resolve. This makes downstream work easier because the structure Selects built carries over into your editing software. No need to rebuild your organization from scratch.
