Scene Explorer basics
Find any moment from the shoot day: cast filters, dialogue search, speaker matching, and notes — the story team's home base in Story Hub.
August 10, 2026 · 2 min read
Scene Explorer is where the shoot day becomes searchable. Every scene the desktop app processes shows up here with its transcript, and the tools are built for one job: getting a producer from "I think somebody said something great in the kitchen" to the exact line, with a timecode, in seconds.
Opening Scene Explorer
Pick your show in Story Hub, then open Scene Explorer. Scenes appear as their transcripts arrive from the desktop app — during an active shoot day, the list grows as the DIT processes media.
Filtering by cast
The cast filters come straight from your show's cast roster. Select a cast member to see only the scenes they speak in — the fastest way to follow one storyline across a full day, or to prep a producer for tomorrow's scenes with a specific cast member.
This is also why the roster matters: filters are only as good as the profiles behind them. If your cast page is current, your filters are too.
Matching speakers to cast
Transcripts arrive with speaker labels. When a label doesn't match a cast member automatically, Scene Explorer flags the unmatched speakers so you can assign them to the right person. Do it once and the mapping sticks — future transcripts read as your cast, and your filters stay accurate.
Searching dialogue
Search runs across transcript text, so a half-remembered phrase is enough. Every result carries its timecode and speaker, which means a found moment is immediately usable — flag it for the hot sheet or pass the timecode to post.
Notes
Notes live where the story lives:
- Scene notes attach to a scene, visible to the team working it — context, flags, follow-ups.
- My Notes is your personal scratchpad for the show, kept separate from team notes.
Notes you take during review feed the same hot sheet drafting flow as the transcripts, so observations captured in the moment end up in the day's paperwork.
Getting things out
Transcripts export from the Exports hub as TXT, HTML, or PDF — formatted, speaker-labeled, and timecoded. Hot sheets export print-ready. Whatever your network, post house, or story team needs, it comes out as a file you can actually send.
Where it fits
Scene Explorer sits in the middle of the daily loop — after transcription, before the hot sheet. For the full cycle, read From set audio to finished hot sheet.
Put it to work on your show
Create your show in Story Hub, install the desktop app, and let tonight’s hot sheet write its own first draft.