What Hailo detects on its own
A plain summary of what Hailo works out by itself during intake and analysis, so you know what you do not have to tell it.
Hailo asks you a handful of questions at intake and works out the rest from the footage. This is the list of what it figures out by itself, so you know what you can leave alone and what you can correct if it gets something wrong.
Which folder is which
When you drop the wedding folder, Hailo looks at each subfolder and guesses whether it holds main footage, long-form takes, drone shots, action-camera B-roll, audio, or nothing worth including. The guess shows as a hint next to each folder on the review screen, and you can override any of them. See Folder labels.
Long takes
A folder where one clip runs for many minutes is treated as a long-form camera: the ceremony, the toasts, the dances. Hailo does not label those files clip by clip, so they cost nothing and stay out of the highlight grid, but it keeps them for the ceremony and speeches films.
Which day is which
On a multi-day drop, Hailo groups the clips by day, works out which day was the wedding, and anchors the dates to the couple's wedding date in Manage so a wrong camera clock does not move the wedding. See Multi-day weddings.
The couple's faces
Hailo works out who the two people getting married are and uses that to tell couple shots from guest shots across the whole day. It costs no tokens, and it is deliberately cautious: a silhouette, a back-to-camera shot or a drone pass keeps the label it already had.
Camera roles named after the couple
For multi-camera work, Hailo works out what each camera was doing: the wide, the camera on one partner, the camera on the other, the officiant, the guests, a roaming camera. It names these after the couple's real names, so the roles read "On Cami" and "On GG", never bride and groom. That wording would be wrong at a wedding with two brides or two grooms, so Hailo does not use it anywhere. When Hailo is not sure which partner a camera was pointed at, it asks you and shows a frame so you can say.
Shaky and soft sections
When you ask Hailo to trim, it watches each clip for the parts that are steady and sharp and the parts that are shaky, hunting for focus, or too soft to use, and keeps the good windows. Everything it rejects gets a reason you can read on the clip card. See Trimming shaky footage.
The moments of the day
Every clip on a main camera is labeled with the moment it belongs to: prep, first look, ceremony, portraits, reception, speeches, dancing, details, establishing shots. Hailo also looks for key moments inside clips, such as the kiss or the first dance entrance, and writes a one-line description of what is in each clip. See Moments and labels.
Speech
Hailo listens to your recorder audio and works out where each toast starts and ends and who is speaking. That is what the speeches film is built from.
What Hailo will not decide for you
- It never changes, moves or deletes your original files.
- It never decides which editor you use; that is a setting.
- It keeps every label you correct by hand, through every later pass and every re-analysis. See Correcting a label.