Cull in Lens view

Lens is designed to help you focus on your footage and make decisions more comfortably. Watch the selected video in a large view while seeing the other clips as small images, and keep culling from the same screen.

Ways to open Lens:

• Click the Lens icon in the top bar or press M.
• Click the queued count beside Search.
• Open the Culling panel from the ▷ icon in the left rail and click start culling. While the panel is open, clicking ▷ again or pressing Enter also starts it.

Press ⌘1 to return from Lens to Overview.

What’s in the Lens screen?

• When the view opens, you’ll briefly see the Press Space for the full frame reminder. Press Space to watch the video in detail.
• You’ll see the folder the clip belongs to along with its date and time. If it’s in more than one folder, a number such as +1 appears; hover over it to see the other folders. When you add a clip to a folder, the folder name appears in green briefly.
• If the clip has a note or tag, you’ll see the related marks. Videos shot with a variable frame rate show a Variable frame rate warning.
• If you see the preview mark, Merceq is showing a lighter version because the original video can’t play smoothly. Hover over the mark to see “A light preview is playing because the original video doesn’t play smoothly.”
• If the clip has duplicates, you’ll see the ⧉ N mark. See Section 6 for details about duplicates.
• You can also see the filename and the decision you made for the clip.
• The video length and, if you’re watching at a different speed, the playback speed are shown: 1:20 · 1.5×.
• If the Link plugin is on, long recordings split into parts by GoPro show which part you’re watching: Part 2/3 of recording · full length 24:10.
• Use A to turn audio on or off. Unmute or Mute appears on screen briefly.
• Use J / K / L to rewind, pause, or fast-forward. A LUT you turn on in Preview is also applied in Lens; Lens has no LUT button or shortcut of its own. See Section 4 for details.
• Right-click the video to see Play / Pause, Speed (1×, 1.5×, 2×), and Unmute / Mute at the top of the menu.

You can also use F, R, 1–9, and 0 in Lens. When you make a decision about a clip, it leaves the culling view and the next clip appears. This helps you focus on clips that don’t have a decision yet.

Card sizes in Lens

In Lens, Small / Medium / Large determines how many columns of small cards show other clips. At a normal window size, Small may show 4 columns, Medium 3, and Large 2. A wider window may show more columns.

• Large shows at least 2 columns in Lens.
• If the window is very narrow, two card sizes may look the same. In that case, the option that wouldn’t change anything is temporarily unavailable. This isn’t an error; it becomes available again when you widen the window.