Playback for scene study
Study a scene from any YouTube video
Isolate the beat, watch it as many times as it takes, pin your notes to the frame they are about, and put two performances side by side.
Works with YouTube for now. More sources coming soon.
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Paste the scene, the set or the performance
Film and theater clips, stand-up, concerts, interviews, trailers, video essays.
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Mark the beat
Set the in and out points to the tenth of a second around the line, the pause, the cut or the phrase.
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Write the note where it happens
Pin a comment to the exact moment. Anyone reading it can click the timestamp and land on that frame.
Timing you can actually see
Comedy lives in the pause and editing lives in the frame. Step through a cut one frame at a time, or hold Shift to watch a reaction at quarter speed, then let go and see it at tempo again.
Two takes, one remote
Compare puts two moments side by side and drives them together: two actors on the same monologue, the original and the remake, a live version against the studio one. Flip between their audio with one key.
Teach with it
A Playback link opens on the exact beat with your note attached, so a class or a cast starts from the same frame instead of from 'around the two minute mark'.
Keys worth knowing
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- Previous or next frame
- Shift
- Hold for 0.25×
- O
- Loop on or off
- F
- Theater mode
Press ? on any Playback for the full list.
Questions
- Is it OK to use someone else's YouTube video?
- Playback never downloads, copies or re-hosts a video. The video plays from YouTube's own player, on YouTube's terms, and the creator still gets the view. What Playback saves is a pointer: the video's ID, a start and end time, a speed, and your words. If the owner removes the video from YouTube, it stops playing here too.