Edit with Blueprints

A Blueprint is a finished film with its footage taken out: the cuts, the song and the pacing stay, and Hailo fills each cut from a wedding you have already analyzed. Use it for a rough cut of a teaser, a dance scene, or the montage in the middle of your film. You pick a couple, pick a blueprint, and get an assembled film you can tweak shot by shot and open in your editor.

Open Blueprints

Click Edit with Blueprints ("A rough cut of a teaser, a dance scene, or the montage in the middle of your film.") on the Edit launchpad, or Build to a reference ("Match the shape of an edit you like.") in the Make rail on a couple's Edit hub.

Blueprints needs the Hailo app on your Mac, a wedding you have already sorted, and that wedding's footage drive plugged in. If your Hailo is older than Blueprints needs, you see Update Hailo to use Blueprints with "Blueprints needs the newest version of Hailo. This Mac is on {version}." Click Update Hailo.

The top of the screen

Three things sit at the top right while you work:

Control	What it does
{N} builds left	How many Blueprint builds you have left this month ("1 build left" when one remains). Hover for "A Teaser or Dancing build uses 1, a Story uses 2. Click to see your plan." Click it to open your billing page. Its panel has Buy a build · $10, and counts builds you bought as "plus N bought".
Request a song	Ask for a Musicbed song you want a Blueprint made to, and vote on what other filmmakers asked for. See Request a song.
Musicbed	The two free months of Musicbed and their code, or, if you have Musicbed, how to swap in your licensed track.

Pick the couple

Click Start here. The screen asks Which couple is this edit for? with "Pick the wedding Hailo builds this film from."

Type in Search couples... or scroll the list. Each row shows the couple's photo, their name and the wedding date. Only weddings you have sorted are listed, newest first. Click a couple to move on.

If nothing is listed, the screen reads "No sorted weddings yet. Sort one first, then come back to build its film."

Past builds

Once you have built a film on this Mac, a Past builds button sits above the search box with the number of films. It lists every film you have built, newest first. Each row shows the song's album cover with the couple's photo on its corner, the couple, the blueprint, the number of shots and when it was built. Search by couple or blueprint in Search past builds..., and click Open on a row to go straight to that film.

The Musicbed step

Every blueprint is cut to a Musicbed song. After you pick a couple, the screen reads Every blueprint is cut to a Musicbed song with "To deliver a film with its song, you need a Musicbed license. Hailo builds with Musicbed's watermarked copy either way."

Pick one to continue:

• I'm a Musicbed member: "You're set. License each song when you deliver."
• Not a member yet: "You can still use every blueprint. The music stays watermarked." Choosing it shows the code HailoBlueprints with a Copy button and a Get Musicbed link: two months free on a new yearly plan, using the code at checkout on musicbed.com.

Every blueprint works without a membership. Click Choose a blueprint to go on. Tick Don't show this again to skip this step next time.

Pick a blueprint

The top of the picker reads 10 more blueprints coming November 5 with "On top of the ones below."

The blueprint at the top of the screen shows:

• The song's album cover, the blueprint's name, and its song and artist.
• What kind of film it is: Teaser, Story or Dancing. See Teaser, Story and Dancing.
• Its length and number of cuts, for example "1:02 · 34 cuts".
• Its cuts laid out by part of the day, with a chip for each part (Prep, Ceremony, Dancing and so on) and how many cuts it has.
• One player for the song. Click play or the cover to hear it, and click along the cuts to jump to a spot.

Under Other blueprints are the rest. Click one to bring it to the top. Click Use this blueprint to build the one on top. A Story's button reads Use this blueprint · costs 2 builds.

Which blueprints fit this wedding

When your footage fits every blueprint, the picker shows them plainly. When some do not fit, the ones that fit come first and carry Fits this wedding, and the others say what they need, for example "Short on the ceremony and details". Nothing is hidden: you can still build one your wedding is short for.

The line over the picker then says how many work best with this wedding, with "Hailo works best on a wedding shot as a full day, from getting ready through the ceremony and into dancing."

Weddings sorted with the Indian or Jewish labels fill blueprints too: a tisch, haldi or mehndi fills getting-ready shots, a ketubah signing, milni or vidaai the ceremony, a bedeken the first look, a sangeet the reception, and a hora, baraat or sangeet dance the dancing.

Before the build

Hailo may ask up to two questions before it starts. Close either one to go back to the picker.

Not enough footage for every shot

A clip plays once in a Blueprint, never twice. When one part of the day runs short, Hailo reaches for an unused shot from the closest part of the day first. When your wedding still cannot fill every shot with a clip that is not already in the film, Hailo asks first:

Not enough footage for every shot: "Your footage is {n} shots short for this blueprint." with a row for each part of the day that is short.

Button	What you get
Leave them black	Those shots stay black in the film so you can fill them yourself after the build.
Repeat clips	Hailo repeats a few clips to fill them.
Pick another blueprint	Back to the picker.

Only the quickest cuts, under three quarters of a second, reuse a clip on their own without asking.

If your wedding has footage for every shot but is short on some parts of the day, you see Your footage can't fill this blueprint instead: Build anyway fills those shots from other parts of the day, or Pick another blueprint. If your sort skipped long clips, it says so, and sorting the wedding again with a longer limit gives the blueprint more to work with.

How should your slow motion play?

If you filmed in slow motion, Hailo asks how it should play:

Choice	What you get
Real time	"Plays as the blueprint was made. Only the shots it marks play in slow motion." Those marked shots use footage you filmed in slow motion, slowed.
Slow motion	Every clip you filmed in slow motion plays slowed. The toasts and the dance floor stay real time.

Both tiles play one of your own slow motion clips. Your last choice is marked Last time. You can change any clip's speed once your film is built. A wedding with no slow motion footage skips this question.

While it builds

A ring shows how far along the build is, under the blueprint's name and "for {couple}". Click Keep working while it builds to leave it; the build carries on, and the film opens when it is done.

The finished film

The finished film opens under the couple's name, with the blueprint, the length and the number of shots under it, for example "Good Good · 1:02 · 34 shots". Use a different blueprint goes back to the picker.

• The player. Press Play the film, or Space. Click the picture to open the shot that is playing.
• The timeline, under Tweak it. Every shot in order, with each part of the day named above its shots. Zoom with + and -.
• Clips, on the right. In the film lists the shots you are using, by part of the day. All footage lists every clip in the wedding, by Time of day or Moment, with a filter for each part of the day. Clips already in the film carry In film.

Change a shot

Click a shot on the timeline to open it. Then:

• Move it inside the clip. Drag the blue bar along the bottom of the picture to the part of the clip you want, then click Apply selection.
• Try another clip. The left and right arrows step through other clips from the same part of the day.
• Use any clip. In All footage, click a clip to drop it into the open shot, or drag it onto the player. Right-click a clip for Replace the open shot or Replace the shot at the playhead. If that clip is already in the film, the menu says where, with Jump to where it's used.
• Trade two shots. Hold a shot on the timeline and drag it onto another to swap them.
• Change the speed. A clip filmed in slow motion offers Real time and Slow motion with its speed, for example "Slow motion 40%". A clip filmed at normal speed plays real time.

Click Timeline, or press Escape, to go back. The keys are in Blueprint Studio hotkeys.

When the song keeps playing after the last shot, the film plays it to the end over black, in Hailo and in your editor.

Black shots

A shot you chose to leave black shows as a dark block on the timeline and reads (black) when you open it. To fill it, open it and drop in any clip the same way you change a shot. The clip you drop in comes with the film when you open it in your editor.

License the song

When the song has a page on Musicbed, a card above the player shows its album cover, "{title} by {artist}" and "This is Musicbed's preview copy. License the song before you deliver, then relink it in your editor." Click License on Musicbed to open the song's page.

Open it in your editor

Click Open in Premiere, Open in Final Cut or Open in DaVinci Resolve at the top right. The button follows the editor you chose in Hailo. A box asks What should come in with it?

Choice	What comes in
A new project, only these shots	Only the clips in the film. Imports in seconds.
A new project, the whole wedding	Every clip and recording, filed in the same folders as your drive, with your timeline at the top. Slower to import, but every other take is already there when you want to change a shot. The footage stays on its drive and is not copied onto your Mac.
A project I already have (Premiere Pro)	The timeline goes into an edit you are already working in. Click Choose and pick the project. Hailo tells you how many of the shots are already in it.
The project open in DaVinci Resolve	The timeline goes into whatever project you have open in Resolve.

Under Saves to, click Choose and pick the folder for your timeline files. Hailo remembers it for next time and shows it with a Change button. Tick Do this every time without asking to skip the box from then on.

Click Open in {editor}. A card shows while it opens and tells you the moment it is in: "It's open in Premiere" and "Your timeline is waiting in Premiere." Click Keep working to close the card; you still get the message when it is done. The whole wedding takes a few minutes.

In your editor the timeline is named "Blueprint Build - {blueprint}".

The film's folder

Every film gets its own folder inside the one you chose, named for the blueprint and the couple, for example Big Mood Blueprint - Marissa & Chapin. In it are the timeline, a copy of the song and License {song} on Musicbed, which opens the song's page.

To deliver with the licensed song, download it from Musicbed and drop it into that folder in place of the copy. It has the same name, so your editor plays the licensed song and every cut stays where it is.

When DaVinci Resolve does not build it for you

If Resolve does not let Hailo build the timeline, a Finish in DaVinci Resolve card names the one step left: open any project in Resolve, choose Workspace > Scripts and click the Hailo script it names, or choose File > Import > Timeline and pick the file it names. On Resolve Studio, set External scripting using to Local under Preferences > System > General and Hailo builds it for you next time. Show the file opens the folder.

Teaser, Story and Dancing

Every blueprint card says what kind of film it is: Teaser, Story or Dancing. A Teaser or Dancing blueprint uses 1 of your builds. A Story runs longer and uses 2, and its button says so. Click the ? beside it for "Story films run longer, so each one uses 2 builds. Teasers and Dancing use 1."

When your builds are used up

When this month's builds are gone, opening Blueprints shows You've used this month's Blueprints builds with "Your plan includes {number} builds a month, and a Story uses 2. They come back {date}." and a See your plan button. On a free trial it reads You've used your trial's Blueprints builds with "That's the 2 Blueprints builds your free trial includes." and a Start {plan} now button that starts your plan on the card you already gave.

With one build left, a Story is turned down with "A Story uses 2 builds and you have 1 left. A Teaser or Dancing blueprint uses 1." Your finished builds stay saved and still open from Past builds and the couple's hub.

Request a song

Click Request a song at the top right: "Ask for a Musicbed song you want a Blueprint made to. Every studio votes, and the most wanted get made first."

1. Paste the song's link from musicbed.com into Paste a Musicbed song link and click Ask.
2. Vote with the up and down arrows on the songs other filmmakers asked for. Click the same arrow again to take your vote back.

The list is split into Being made, Asked for and Made. You can ask for 5 songs a week, and the panel shows how many you have left. Asking for a song someone already asked for counts as your vote and does not use one of your 5. Anyone can see the list from Open the public page.

Where results show in Manage

A finished build is recorded on the couple's record. On the couple's Edit hub a Blueprint row appears with an Open Blueprints button that opens that couple's newest build, and a list of every build for the couple. On the Edit launchpad the couple's tile reads Films built.

The "Blueprints runs in the Hailo app" screen

Some accounts see this instead of Blueprints:

Edit with Blueprints runs in the Hailo app

"Build a finished edit's structure, the cuts, the song, the pacing, filled automatically with this wedding's footage. It builds on your Mac, inside the Hailo app. Already in Hailo? Quit and reopen it and Blueprints switches on."

Under it are two offers, 20 free timeline structures and Two months of Musicbed, free, each with a code to copy and a button to the partner's site. On a free trial the codes read "Revealed after your free trial". At the bottom is a Back to Edit button.

You see it when you open Blueprints in a web browser, or in a Hailo that was already open before Blueprints switched on for your account. Open Blueprints in the Hailo app on your Mac, or quit and reopen Hailo.

Build a blueprint as part of Build Everything

The Build Everything flow has a Build a blueprint film switch with a "Which blueprint?" list. Its note reads "Hailo re-cuts that blueprint's timeline using this wedding's clips, then renders a preview. It runs last, and it needs the moments pass - switching this on switches that on too." See Build Everything.

If it didn't work

What you see	What to do
"No sorted weddings yet." or the couple is not listed	That wedding has not been sorted, or its sort is not finished. Run it through Sort a wedding first.
Update Hailo to use Blueprints	Click Update Hailo, then open Blueprints again.
The film plays black frames you did not choose	The footage drive is not connected. Plug it in and open the build again.
"The footage folder for this build isn't reachable, so only the shots in the cut came in."	The whole wedding needs the footage drive. Plug it in and open it in your editor again.
"Hailo can't save into that folder. Pick another one."	Click Choose under Saves to and pick a folder on a drive you can write to.
"Premiere's Hailo panel didn't answer, so this opened as its own project."	Start Premiere first, then open it in your editor again to land it in your project.
"Build failed: Something went wrong on our side."	Try again. If it keeps happening, send us a note from Feedback.
"Build failed: Blueprints couldn't build this film" with a code	Hailo has been sent a report. Quit and reopen Hailo and try again. If it happens again, write to support with the code.
"This clip wasn't filmed in slow motion, so it plays real time."	Only clips filmed in slow motion can be slowed.
"Getting your blueprints. This takes a minute the first time."	The first time you open Blueprints, the list fills in as each one finishes downloading. Leave the screen open.
"Couldn't load your blueprints." (in Build Everything)	Quit and reopen Hailo.