Contents7Build your shot list
Guide- 1Get to know the Merceq screen
- Parts of the screen
- Opening and an empty library
- Top bar
- Search and barcode (signature bar)
- View row
- Rail and wings
- Three ways to view clips
- Bottom bar
- Space preview
- Machine
- Notifications
- macOS menu bar
- 2Import your footage
- Which method should I choose?
- Open the Import window
- Find your source
- Select folders and files
- Which files are imported?
- Add files to the library where they are
- Copy to disk first
- Import videos from your phone
- While a transfer is running
- When the transfer finishes
- Resume an interrupted transfer
- Watch a folder for new files
- If something isn’t showing up
- Import shortcuts
- 3Cull your clips and sort them into folders
- How would you like to view your clips?
- Cull in Lens view
- View and cull your clips in list view
- Get to know the tool rail on the left
- Move between clips
- Hover over cards
- Watch a clip up close
- Create your first folder
- Name a folder using suggestions
- Put the same clip in more than one folder
- Organize your folders
- Put a clip you’re unsure about on hold
- Reject a clip you won’t use
- How do decisions and folders affect each other?
- Clear or undo a decision
- Apply the same action to multiple clips
- Navigate your footage with the barcode
- Action buttons in the bottom bar
- Culling shortcuts
- 4Choose the best moments inside a clip
- Open the video and find the moment you want
- Get to know the video viewing screen
- Find important moments in the audio waveform
- Spot focus and camera shake issues early
- Variable frame rate warning
- Watch your video with your own LUT
- Preview different framing options
- Save a frame as a photo
- Clip cover images
- Choose a scene’s start and end
- Adjust and replay your scene
- Name and add a note to a scene
- Name a clip and add a note
- Add an exact time to your note
- Add your clip to a folder while watching
- Mark clips with tags
- Navigate the video from the transcript
- Correct the transcript
- Copy the transcript or save it as TXT/SRT
- View file and recording details for a clip
- If a clip won’t play
- Video viewing shortcuts
- 5Find the shot you're looking for
- Type what you're looking for
- Review certain and possible results
- Add a condition to your search or exclude something
- Search by city or country name
- Where are the filters?
- Quick filters: Clean up · Weed out · Find
- Clean up empty files and extra copies
- All filters
- Find by location
- Work with cameras, days, and sources
- Return to marked clips
- Search for a moment inside a clip
- Find other takes or similar scenes
- Save your search
- Exit search and return to your library
- Search shortcuts
- 6Compare takes and choose what to use
- Which comparison should I use?
- What does the V key open?
- Open Duel with two clips
- Pick the first clip, find the second later
- Get to know the Duel screen
- Watch side by side and decide
- If you want to keep both
- What does the copy badge tell you?
- Review copy differences
- After comparing
- Comparison shortcuts
- 7Build your shot list
- Open the shot list window
- Start with a template
- Start with an empty list
- Place a clip in a slot
- Place multiple clips together
- Replace a clip or move it to another slot
- Edit your list
- Remove a clip from the list
- Rejected clips and the shot list
- Switch between lists
- List menu
- Close or delete a list
- Export your list to your editing app
- 8Export your selections
- Open the export window
- Choose what to export
- What happens to rejected clips?
- The main button in Summary
- Choose your destination and file operation
- Project folder: everything in one folder
- Set up the folder structure
- Clips in more than one folder
- Organize file names
- Save your settings
- Write to a second disk too
- Prepare a project for your editing app
- Add defects as markers
- Final check before you start
- Start the export
- While the export is running
- When does the report open?
- Check the report and output
- Result messages in notifications
- Your library after delivery
- 9Back up and restore your library
- What's in a library backup?
- Open the Backups window
- Create a named backup
- Save your backup to a file
- Automatic backups
- How long are backups kept?
- Return to an earlier backup
- Restore a backup file
- Return to your state before the restore
- Delete a backup
- Backups before reset
- Backup reminder
- Switch to another Mac
- Find the videos
- 10Organize your cameras and sources
- Name the cameras for your footage
- Edit camera names
- Merge records for the same camera
- Correct the difference in a camera's clock
- Remove a clock correction
- Information cameras write to files
- Work by source
- Rescan a source
- Check disk status
- Find footage on disconnected disks
- Remove a source from the list
- 11Manage background jobs and Merceq tools
- Track jobs in the Machine panel
- Read battery and disk status
- Track an export in Machine
- Pause, resume, or stop
- Return to an unfinished job
- Queued jobs after closing
- Take action from notifications
- What do Merceq tools do?
- Download Sense
- Start Sense now
- Retry clips Sense couldn't understand
- How background defect scanning works
- Set the languages spoken in your videos
- Make mouse scrubbing smoother
- Delete what Sense has learned
- Use Link
- Apply your earlier decisions with Recall
- 12Set Merceq up for how you work
- Local operation and privacy
- Find a setting
- Choose a theme
- Choose the interface language
- Adjust playback preferences
- Adjust Sense settings
- Review storage usage
- Clean up prepared files
- Remove Sense files
- Review kept files
- Reset to factory settings
- Check for updates
- Install a new version
- Manage Alpha metrics
- Find other settings
- 13Keyboard shortcuts
- Open the shortcuts window
- General commands
- Navigate and select in the library
- Culling and folders
- G menu: another take and similar scenes
- In preview (Space)
- Frame capture (P)
- Playback and audio
- Timeline
- Duel and duplicate comparison
- Search
- All filters
- What does Esc close?
- Context menu and Undo history
- Editing text
- Import
- Export layout
- Menu bar shortcuts
- Keys that aren’t shortcuts
- Why does the same key do something different?
- 14Activate and manage your license
- Check your license status
- Start your trial
- Activate a license key
- Understand license use and updates included
- Update your license information
- Move to another Mac
- If activation doesn't complete
- 15Troubleshooting
- Where to look first
- Phone doesn't appear or videos aren't showing up
- Disk or folder can't be read
- Folder looks empty, but it contains videos
- Can't eject disk
- Video won't open
- While playing, it said “This file is no longer in its location”
- Cover or preview is missing
- Preview tool is missing
- Search doesn't find the clip I expected
- Speech text is missing or wrong
- I can't see a clip I added to a folder
- Transfer stopped or is waiting for a disk
- Export won't start
- Output isn't what I expected
- Something is missing from the editing project
- Defect markers aren't in the project
- Videos won't open after restoring a backup
- Library couldn't be opened
- Merceq closed unexpectedly
- Shortcut does something else
- Prepare information for support
- 16Cleanup and reset
- Difference between Pending deletion and the macOS Trash
- Remove a clip from the library only
- How do clips get to Pending deletion?
- Move rejected clips to Pending deletion
- Clean up rejected clips during export
- Keep a memory copy
- Open the Pending deletion window
- Restore clips
- Move files to the macOS Trash
- Restore a file from the macOS Trash
- Reset the library: What would you like to clean up?
- Reset the whole library
- Return to the state before the reset
- Reset to factory settings
- 17Copy and verify your footage safely
- When is a copy considered complete?
- What is xxHash64? It has two separate uses in Merceq
- ASC MHL: a transfer record stored with your footage
- If a disk is ejected or Merceq closes
- Read once, copy to two disks
- Which errors are prevented before a job starts?
- What happens to the original video?
- Two separate backups to know about
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