Take report

A take report tells Oropod which takes are circled and what was noted about them. It’s a CSV file you can make in a spreadsheet app such as Numbers, or that another tool can write. Upload it to your project’s storage, and Oropod will import it automatically.

Layout

A take report looks like this:

Oropod take report v1
Documented at https://www.oropod.com/help/reference/take-report/
Scene,Shot,Take,Circled,Notes
12,A,2,1,"Best performance, use for the cut"
14,,1,1,
  • The first line reads Oropod take report v1, which is how Oropod recognises the file and the version of the format
  • The second line points readers to this page. Oropod doesn’t read it, but the line must be there
  • The third line names the columns Scene, Shot, Take, Circled and Notes, in any order
  • Oropod reads only these five columns. You can keep other columns in the file for your own use, but Oropod doesn’t import them, and they don’t appear in the app
  • Every line after that is one take

Columns

  • Scene and Take are required. Write 20, 21 in Scene for a take that covers both scenes
  • Leave Shot empty if the production doesn’t use shot numbers
  • Circled is 1 for a circled take and 0 for any other take. Oropod accepts nothing else, not even an empty cell
  • Notes can hold anything, commas and line breaks included. Oropod shows them in the clip’s metadata view
  • Oropod skips a take that is neither circled nor has notes, since it has nothing to add

How takes find their clips

A take report names takes, not files, so Oropod attaches each take to the clips that another report, such as Pomfort Silverstack XML or DaVinci Resolve CSV, places in the same scene, shot and take.

  • A take attaches to the clips of every camera that shot it
  • A take report never changes a clip’s scene, shot or take, so a clip that no other report has numbered gets nothing from it
  • A take without a shot attaches only to clips without a shot
  • Oropod compares numbers the way people read them, so 012 matches 12 and 4a matches 4A
  • Circling only adds: a clip that another report circles stays circled, even if the take report says 0

Saving the file

Oropod reads only comma-separated CSV files in UTF-8:

  • In Numbers, keep the take report in a single table, choose File > Export To > CSV, and pick Unicode (UTF-8) as the text encoding under Advanced Options
  • In Excel, choose File > Save As and pick CSV UTF-8 (Comma delimited) as the file format. Depending on the computer’s language settings, Excel may separate the columns with semicolons instead of commas, and Oropod can’t read that file

If a take report breaks one of the rules on this page, Oropod imports none of it, and the source shows a plugin error when it has synced. Fix the file and upload it again under the same name to replace it.