Scout Composer

BETA

Scout stills → cine frames → decks

See the frame before the shoot day.

Overlay any cine format on a scouting still, scaled by sensor and lens. Runs in your browser.

What are you scouting for?

Your stills stay on your machine. We keep your email to tell you what changed. Privacy

REFERENCE FRAME · 4:3 STILL · ANY CINE FORMAT REBIRTH PRODUCTIONS LLC

LIVE · TEST YOUR FRAME

Try it on this still.

Scout with any camera that takes photos. Pick the camera and lens you'll shoot on, and Scout Composer shows the exact frame you'll get, so you arrive prepared. Then try a photo of your own.

Pick a camera. The frame draws itself.

Camera
Lens
75mm
Still
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Frame
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Match
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Your still

Your photo is read in this tab and never sent. Open your browser's Network tab, drop one, and watch. Nothing goes out.

8 of the 136 formats in the app: ARRI, Canon, Fujifilm, Nikon, Panasonic, RED, Sony, and film gates from Super 8 to 65mm.

How it works

Three steps from scout to crew.

Start with the photos you already took on the scout. Scout Composer does the math and builds the pages.

A scout still with a card showing the camera, lens, sensor, time and location read from the file.
JPEG · HEIC · RAW previews
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Add your scout photos.

Works with the camera you already carry. Scout Composer accepts most photo types and reads each one's lens, time and location to start your shoot prep.

A scout still with 2.39:1 and 9:16 frame lines and the sun path drawn on it.
 
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Pick the camera and lens you'll shoot on.

Craft images for every format and delivery aspect at once, with stand-ins and sun positioning.

A Storyboard deck page, with the lighting and grip plot, setup list and color palette as small role panels beside it.
PDF · CSV · calendar
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Share a deck the whole crew can read.

Everyone gets their page: the deck for the director, the lighting and grip plot for G&E, setup lists and sun times for the AD, and the palette for the art department.

In the app

From scout to delivery, in one place.

Runs in your browser: Safari, Chrome and Edge. Nothing to install.
Private by design: your photos and projects stay on your computer. Nothing is uploaded unless you publish a deck for review.

Who it's for

Built by a working DP, for the whole department.

CinematographersGaffersAssistant directorsDirectorsFilm students

Access

In early access.

Ask and we'll set you up. Students and faculty with a school .edu email are approved on sign-in.

Want it on your own scout? Ask for access ↑