The Timeline is where most of the work happens. It is where you watch the film come together, fix the takes that aren’t right and send them back to render.
A timeline built around takes
It looks a little like the video editors you already know, but it is built around takes and their audio. You don’t stack tracks and channels. You work through the film one take at a time: check the keyframes, check that the shot looks right, edit the script, change a keyframe or render the take again.
Expect to spend a lot of time here, moving between takes, renders and keyframes until each shot works. Give the Timeline a large window. It is easier to judge a shot when you can see it properly.
The Render Queue
Several things can run at once. The Render Queue holds every job you have sent, and it can hold hundreds of thousands of them, spread across hundreds of GPUs and several services at the same time. Each take shows its status, so you can see when something has gone wrong and needs attention.
If you need to stop, choose Halt All Rendering. Nothing new is submitted, polled or retried until you resume. That is useful when you have a hundred jobs queued and change your mind. Rented GPU servers keep billing while rendering is halted, so stop them separately in the Vast Servers window.
Costs and the Production Guide
The Costs window shows what Chapterframe estimates you have spent, what was done, where errors happened and how much each chapter has cost. These are estimates. Your providers’ own billing pages show what you were actually charged.
Finally, the Production Guide leads you through making a film from start to finish, from importing the story to exporting the video. If it is hidden, choose View → Show Production Guide.
In short
- Iterate take by take on the Timeline.
- Queue as many renders as you need.
- Halt or resume at any time.
Practise it
These lessons turn the video into step-by-step exercises with troubleshooting notes:
- Follow jobs and recover interrupted work: Track the render queue, distinguish remote work from local finishing and avoid duplicate submissions.
- Review the Timeline and export a movie: Select primary renders, review audio and export complete takes or a condensed Movie Mode edit.
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