From the camera card to the cutting room.

After a long day on set, someone still has to offload the cards, sync sound, rename clips and sort everything into scenes. Dailies does that part for you while you sleep.

Step by step

1. Connect your drive

   Point Dailies at the drive or folder where the day's camera and sound cards were offloaded. Dailies only reads these files. It never moves, renames, re-encodes or deletes your originals.

2. Upload your shooting script and schedule

   The script tells Dailies what every scene says and who is in it. The production schedule tells it which scenes were shot that day, so it knows where to look.

3. Dailies makes your dailies

   It creates small proxy files for every clip, syncs picture to sound by timecode or waveform, and transcribes the dialogue.

4. Every take is sorted

   Claude reads each transcript against your script to match the take to its scene and lines, then looks at the frames to label shot size and the characters on screen. B-roll and inserts go in their own bin. Script supervisor and director notes are attached to the takes they're about.

5. Review and pick your takes

   Watch takes side by side on the proxies, search by what was said, circle the good ones and fix any label Dailies got wrong. It learns from your corrections.

6. Build a rough assembly

   Dailies lines your script and shows which setups cover each line. Pick a setup for every line and the timeline builds itself. Trim or extend shots by a few frames and overlap dialogue where you want. It's a starting point for the edit, not the finished cut.

7. Send it to the edit

   Send the scene to Premiere Pro or DaVinci Resolve. Every take comes over in bins sorted by scene, setup and take, with your circled takes marked and the assembly on a timeline. When you're ready to finish, the edit relinks to the original camera files.