B/side on a phone

What B/side does on a phone — watch the cuts, leave notes at a frame, send clips from the camera roll — and why the editor itself is on an iPad or a computer.

On a phone, B/side does two things: it plays the cuts, and it sends clips from the phone into the show. Cutting is done on an iPad or a computer. The project, the cuts and the notes are the same ones on every device.

Open B/side on the phone, either in the browser or in the app. Sign in, and tap the project.

Watch Cuts

The cut plays at the top, at its own shape, so a vertical cut fills the phone's height. Play and Pause are under the picture, beside the timecode. Drag the bar to move through the cut.

If the project has more than one cut, choose one from Cut above the picture.

To leave a note, stop on the frame, type the note in the box and tap Add Note. It is added at that frame, under your name, and the editor sees it on their timeline straight away. It moves with the cut like every other note.

Every note on the cut is listed under the box, in order. Tap a note to go to its frame.

A cut brought in from an AAF can carry notes the import left, about what it could not carry over, such as level and pan automation. These are folded into one line at the top of the list: tap it to show them, and again to hide them.

Send Footage

This tab sends clips from the phone's camera roll or files into the show. It is the same page a shooter gets from an Upload Link (Sending footage from a phone), and the clips land in the same way, in a bin named for the link.

The first time an editor opens this tab, B/side makes them an Upload Link of their own, called Your name's phone. That link lasts a year and is kept on that phone. It is listed with the others under File ▸ Upload Link…, where Turn off stops it. If it is turned off or runs out, the phone makes a new one the next time the tab is opened.

Somebody who is not an editor on the project is asked to get an Upload Link from an editor.

Which devices get which