Where files land

Everything Hailo makes for you to open, timelines, film exports and previews, goes to one place you choose. You can change it any time; it applies from the next export onward.

Choose where Hailo saves

The sheet Where should Hailo save? opens from two places:

• Change beside Saves to on the sort setup's layout question.
• Change beside Saved to on the finish screen after a sort.

Two choices:

Choice	Where deliverables go
Next to the footage (default)	"Each wedding's folder gets its own Hailo folder." Everything for one wedding stays with that wedding.
One folder I pick	"Every wedding gets its own folder inside it." Click Choose folder and pick it. Good when your footage is on a network drive and you want deliverables on your Mac.

Click Save. A wedding you have already sorted keeps saving where its files already are, so its timeline and films stay together.

Film builds on the film builder have their own Save to field, and Blueprints asks for its own folder under Saves to when you open a film in your editor. Neither uses this setting.

Sorted folders on your drive

On the sort setup's layout question, turn on 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 next to the wedding folder, in the same order as the bins in your editor. When the sort is done, click Sorted folders on the Saved to line to open them in Finder.

Fallbacks when the folder cannot be written

If the folder you chose cannot be written to (the drive is unplugged, the card is read-only), Hailo falls back, in order, to:

1. A Hailo Films folder in your Movies folder
2. A Hailo Films folder on your Desktop

Both are flat folders. A rebuild overwrites the previous file rather than piling up copies. Because weddings from different days can share a fallback folder, files written there carry the couple's name so you can tell them apart.

The "Saved to" line

On the finish screen after a sort, the done panel ends with a Saved to line and the folder path. Click the path to open the folder in Finder, or click Change to save somewhere else.

Do not move the folder Hailo created

The output mode above changes where your deliverables go. It does not move that folder.

Deliverable names

An analysis run writes one timeline per wedding, named for what it is:

Name	When
Full Clips	You asked for labels only. Every clip, whole, labelled and coloured by moment.
Steady Clips	You also asked Hailo to trim shaky footage. Each clip is cut to its steadiest window and the shaky takes are dropped. Still labelled and coloured.

Only one word changes, and it names the one thing that differs. The couple's name is not in the file name, because the deliverables folder is already per wedding. The exception is a shared fallback folder, where the name is added back.

Film builds are named for the film: the ceremony and speeches files carry "Ceremony" or "Speeches" and the couple, so a speeches build never overwrites a ceremony build.

One timeline per wedding

There is one timeline file per wedding per run. If a run trimmed shaky footage, Steady Clips is the deliverable, and a re-export goes to that same file and overwrites it. Hailo does not leave an untrimmed twin next to it. See Re-export.

If it didn't work

What you see	What to do
Files landed in a Hailo Films folder in Movies instead of next to the footage	The wedding folder could not be written to at the time. Check the drive, then Re-export with Current Preferences.
One folder I pick is chosen but nothing lands there	Open Where should Hailo save? again from Change beside Saved to, click Choose folder and pick a folder, then Save.
You changed the save place but an old wedding still saves next to its footage	A wedding you already sorted keeps saving where its files are. New weddings use the new place.
Hailo says a project cannot be found	The folder Hailo created next to your footage was moved or renamed. Put it back inside the wedding folder. If the whole drive was renamed, use Relink project > Locate Folder… when Hailo asks.