Filters, sorting and bursts

A shoot is too big to look at all at once. The filter panel is how you cut it down to the pass you are on.

Press \ to open it.

What you can filter by

Your own marks

• flag: picked, rejected, unflagged, anything, or everything that is not rejected
• a minimum star rating
• colour label
• task tag

The file

• type: RAW, JPEG, or a shot that has both
• orientation: portrait, landscape, square
• folder
• whether the frame is part of a burst

The camera

• body and lens
• ISO, aperture, focal length, shutter speed
• date

The camera facets are read from the metadata during the scan, and they work on HEIF files too, so an iPhone library filters by real capture time and real camera data, whether or not the pixels can be drawn on this machine.

Searching by name

Ctrl + F opens a search over file names. Useful when a client sends back a list of frame numbers.

Sorting and grouping

Sort by capture time, file name, rating or the other facets. Group by day and the grid grows a sticky header for each one, so you always know which day you are looking at.

Bursts

Cullant detects rapid sequences and can collapse each one into a single cell. A forty-frame burst then takes the space of one photo instead of flooding the screen.

• , and . step through the frames inside a collapsed burst.
• N opens the whole burst in survey view, which is the fastest way to pick the winner.
• The detection gap is adjustable, and can be adaptive or a fixed number of seconds.

A workflow that uses all of it

1. No filter. Flag rejects with X, Caps Lock on, straight through.
2. Filter to picked. Rate with 1 to 5.
3. Filter to four stars and up. Collapse bursts, survey each one, keep the best.
4. Filter to rejected and look at it once before you commit. This is the pass that catches the frame you rejected by accident.