Choosing what to run
Tick the jobs you want, answer the questions that follow, and start the run from the intake screen.
After Hailo has read your folder (and, for multi-day weddings, after you have confirmed the days), the sort setup asks what it should do with the footage. You pick the jobs, answer only the questions those jobs need, and press start. This article covers every screen from the first choice to the start button.
What should Hailo do with this footage?
Two tiles. Click anywhere on a tile to turn it on or off; a tile that is off is dimmed.
| Tile | Default | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Label the moments of the day | On | Every clip sorted: bride prep, ceremony, speeches, dancing and more. This is the job that spends tokens. |
| Trim out the shaky footage | On | "Flag unusable takes and keep the stable, in-focus windows." No tokens. On a big drop the tile says roughly how long trimming takes on this footage. |
How strictly Hailo trims is not asked here. You set it after the sort, on the finished screen, where you can see the shake in your own footage and change it without analyzing again. See Trimming shaky footage.
When the wedding has long takes, a third tile appears: Prep long takes for your films. "Marks which long takes are the ceremony and which are the speeches, so your ceremony and speech films start from the right footage later. This sort runs the same either way." It is off until you tick it, and it shows how many long takes it would mark and what that costs ("3 long takes · about 3 tokens"). It counts every clip over 5 minutes; press Change to pick anywhere from 1 to 30 minutes. If nothing is that long, it reads "None that long in this footage".
Click Next.
You cannot continue with nothing ticked. The screen tells you to pick at least one, since otherwise there is nothing to run.
Which questions appear
Hailo only asks the questions your choices need, and Back never lands you on a skipped screen. Under each heading a line counts the steps ("Step 1 of 3"), and the final one says Last question.
| Question | Appears when |
|---|---|
| What moments do you want to track? | Labeling is on. |
| How should Hailo organize your clips in {editor}? | Labeling is on. |
| Would you sort this as Ceremony, or as a Detail? | Labeling is on, you picked Detail on the moments screen, and you have not saved an answer with Don't ask again. |
A trim-only run asks no questions: you press start on the first screen.
Every question screen carries the run-context row: the couple, the clip count, the folder, and Start over. When you came back to a run in progress it also reads Picking up where you left off.
What moments do you want to track?
The help line reads "Only the ones you pick will be used. Click the dot on a selected label to change its timeline color."
- Click chips to turn moments on and off. Select all turns everything on; it becomes Clear all once everything is selected. The hint under the grid reads Pick at least one until you have, then "N selected".
- Moments with sub-moments expand: Prep into Bride Prep and Groom Prep; First Look into First Look, Engagement and Private Vows; Portrait into Couple Portraits, Family Portraits, Bridal Party and Individuals; Dancing into Formal Dances and Open Dancing.
- At the bottom, a Did these happen? Pick the ones that apply group holds First Look, Private Vows and Formal Dances. Selecting one is the "yes"; Hailo then knows to look for it.
- Click the colored dot on a selected chip to pick that moment's timeline color from your editor's palette.
The full list, with what each covers, is in Moments and labels.
How should Hailo organize your clips in your editor?
The heading names your editor: "Every clip is already sorted by part of the day. Pick how they're laid out when the project opens." Each choice is a card with a small picture of what you get, a short name and one line:
| Card | What you get |
|---|---|
| One timeline (default) | "The whole day, in order" |
| Split by part of the day | "The whole day, with a gap between parts" |
| A timeline per category | "Each category gets its own timeline" |
| Bins only | "Sorted into bins, nothing on a timeline" |
| Colored by role (Final Cut Pro only) | "Each part of the day gets its own role and color" |
Final Cut Pro speaks in projects and keyword collections instead: One project, A project per category and Keyword collections only.
Also sort them into folders on my drive
Under the cards, a switch: Also sort them into folders on my drive. "A folder for each part of the day. Your clips aren't copied, so it takes no extra space." The folders sit beside your wedding folder, in the same order as your bins. See Where files land.
Saves to
The last line shows where Hailo saves this wedding's files, Next to the footage or the folder you picked. Change opens Where should Hailo save?. See Where files land.
Would you sort this as Ceremony, or as a Detail?
This question shows a real detail shot, captioned "Filmed during the ceremony", and asks where shots like it should go:
- Ceremony: detail shots stay with the part of the day they were filmed in.
- Detail: every detail shot is filed together under Detail.
"Your answer covers detail shots at the reception too." Pick one before you press Next; otherwise you see "Pick Ceremony or Detail first".
Tick Don't ask again at the bottom and Hailo uses that answer on every sort and skips this question. While it is saved, the line beside the start button reads Detail shots: Ceremony (or Detail) with an Ask me again link that brings the question back.
The start dock
The last question you answer ends in the start button rather than Next.
The button reads Start processing, or Start processing · ~N tokens when the run will spend tokens. It reads Nothing to process (disabled) when the scan found nothing to work on, and Not enough tokens for this run (disabled) when the run needs more tokens than you have left. Beside it, Save as a preset keeps this setup for next time.
The line under it is one of three:
- "Trimming runs on this Mac. No analysis, no tokens." (labeling is off)
- "All N clips are routed" followed by no analysis, no tokens (every folder was labeled long-form, drone, action camera or excluded)
- "N tokens left this month · resets {date}", or "N trial tokens left" on a trial
Two warnings can appear above the button:
- "There are no clips to analyze." Go back and pick the folder this wedding's footage is in; if you already did, Hailo found no video or audio inside it.
- "This run needs about N tokens and you have N left, so it can't start." with what to do: pick a different folder, shorten the longest take Hailo looks at, add hours on your billing page, or wait for your reset. See Tokens and run cost.
Click Start processing. The intake screen switches to the processing view and the workspace shows the progress card. See The progress screen.
Troubleshooting
The moments screen never appeared. Labeling was off; a trim-only run has no moments to pick.
The detail shots question never appeared. It only shows when Detail is one of the selected moments, and not after you saved an answer with Don't ask again. Press Ask me again beside the start button to bring it back.
There is no shake question. It moved to the finished screen. See Trimming shaky footage.