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, click a file in the project panel on the left. It opens in the preview, and its transcript shows each topic's title as a heading. Each topic represents a distinct subject or segment discussed in your footage, and subtopics are more granular breakdowns within each topic.

Instead of watching hours of footage to figure out what was covered, scan the topic list. Each topic has a short title that tells you what that segment covers. 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.

The titles are Selects' first guess at what each section is about, and you can change any of them. In the transcript, double-click a heading to edit it where it sits, or right-click it and choose [Edit topic title].

Type the new name and press Enter. Clicking away saves it too, and so does Escape, so there is no separate save step. If you want to abandon a half-typed title, clear the box and save: an empty title is ignored and the old one comes back. Subtopics work exactly the same way.

Titles are edited on a draft. On the original footage the headings are read-only, and double-clicking one tells you so instead of opening the editor.

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 or subtopic to move between.

When you find the parts you want, drag a topic or subtopic onto the timeline and the whole section comes with it. Clicking it first selects the same stretch of transcript, so you can see what you are about to carry. 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.

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.

When you hand off to your editing software, your topics can come with it. Depending on the handoff settings you choose, topic titles arrive as markers or as captions in Premiere, Final Cut Pro, and DaVinci Resolve, or are left out. This makes downstream work easier because the structure Selects built carries over into your editing software. No need to rebuild your organization from scratch.