What Analyze does

An analysis run is what happens between pressing Start processing and opening the finished project in your editor. Hailo reads the footage, studies every clip, picks the takes, and builds the timeline. This article names each step in the words the screen uses, so you know what you are looking at.

The stages, in order

The intake screen lists the stages as they run. Which ones appear depends on what you asked for in Choosing what to run; a trim-only run never transcribes speech, and a labels-only run never checks focus.

Group	Stage as shown on screen	What Hailo is doing
1. Reading	Reading your files	Walking the folder, counting clips and audio, and getting your footage ready to study.
2. Checking	Checking which clips are sharp, Checking focus quality, Watching each clip	Finding the steady and sharp sections of each clip, and watching each clip to describe what is in it.
3. Listening	Listening to your audio, Transcribing speech	Reading the recorder audio and turning speech into text so toasts and the ceremony can be found.
4. Sorting	Sorting clips by moment, Identifying the couple, Tagging ceremony, speeches, dancing, Detecting key moments, Deep classification pass	Labeling every clip with its moment, learning who the couple are, and finding the key moments inside clips.
5. Selecting	Picking your best takes	Choosing which clips and which sections make the timeline.
6. Building	Building your {editor} project	Writing the timeline for the editor you chose. The editor name updates if you change it in Settings mid-run.

The four phases on the progress card

The workspace's progress card condenses those stages into four tiles: Read, Study, Select and Build. The banner above them reads Reading Your Footage, Studying Every Scene, Choosing Your Best Takes and Building Your Timeline as each phase becomes active. The percent behind the bar only ever climbs; it never steps back when a new stage starts.

Once the tiles reach Build and the analysis is stamped complete, the status pill can still read finishing up. That means the analysis is done but a ceremony, speeches or blueprint film you asked for is still building behind it. The films land on the couple's Edit hub as they finish.

It keeps running while you work elsewhere

You do not have to watch the run. Switch to Manage to answer email, or to Deliver to build a gallery; the run continues, and the Edit pill in the top bar shows a thin progress bar the whole time. The progress card says it plainly: "Keep working anywhere in Hailo. This keeps running."

Closing Hailo stops it

Quitting Hailo stops the run. Nothing is lost: every finished stage is saved, and the next time you open the project (or Hailo itself, when the run was the live one) it resumes from the last completed step on its own. The launchpad tile reads Paused mid-analysis in between. See Quitting while Hailo works.

Losing your internet connection does the same thing: the run pauses, and resumes when you are back online. See Pause, resume and failures.

What a run costs

Only the clip-by-clip study of main footage spends tokens. Everything else in a run is included. See Tokens and run cost.

What you have at the end

• Every main-footage clip labeled by moment, described, and scored, in the clip grid.
• A timeline in your editor's format, in a Hailo Edit folder beside the footage (or in your library folder).
• If you asked for trimming, the timeline holds only the steady sections.
• If you asked for them, the ceremony film, the speeches films and the blueprint film.

See The results screen and What the run made.