Best practices

None of this is required. All of it helps.

Sound

• Record clean scratch audio on every camera. That's what the recorder gets matched against.
• Put the talent's mic on channel 1 of the recorder. Circle Take finds the talent's speech by level on that channel.
• Keep the recorder rolling across takes. Circle Take finds where each clip sits inside the recording.

Direction

• Say what you think of a take out loud, in plain words like “I like that one” or “perfect”. Circle Take circles that take: it gets a ★ in Selects, and it's listed at the top of picks.txt.
• A negative in the same sentence (“not perfect”, “I don't like that one”) doesn't count as circling it.
• Notes and direction end up on the markers, as long as a camera is still rolling when they're said. Circle Take only transcribes the parts of the recording a camera clip covers.

Folders

• Give each shoot day its own folder with a name like “Day 1”, so Circle Take can tell shoots apart.
• Keep renders, proxies and exports out of the shoot folders, or leave them in folders named for what they are. Circle Take skips those.