Welcome Tour and Workbench
Welcome Tour
On first launch you'll get a four-screen tour
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Welcome to Cutup Generator
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Scout every situation
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Stats and charts your way
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You own the recipe
There are Back, Skip, and Next / Get Started buttons.
Replay it any time from Settings → View intro.
Workbench Area
Everything happens in one screen: the playlist tree on one side, the play grid on the other, with a toolbar above and below the tree.
Top toolbar, left to right:
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Projects — open and manage your projects.
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The load status, live progress while plays pull in ("Loading Week 4 (2 of 5)…", then "Building cutups — 1,204 plays…"). Once loaded it becomes the Refresh plays button.
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The definition dropdown — pick the active recipe.
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Manage definitions (☰) — the definitions list (ch. 4). Enabled once you're connected to your film platform.
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The tree is your cutup library. The root shows the project and its size, "Panthers Week 4 (1,204 plays)", and every playlist shows its own count. Before anything loads it simply says "Load plays to begin."
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The grid shows the selected playlist's plays, one row each — sorting, grouping, video, and more live here. Selecting a chart, stat, or title-slide node in the tree swaps the grid for that view.
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Bottom toolbar: your account menu (avatar + email → Settings…, Signout) on the left; on the right, the partner connection button/status and, with the Player Packages license, the Player menu.
Making Room
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Resize: drag the divider between tree and grid. The width is remembered.
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Move the tree to the left or right of the grid: Settings → Task Pane position.
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Hide the tree entirely with the grid header's Hide playlist pane button — full-width film. The same button brings it back.
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Phones and tablets: the tree becomes a slide-over drawer. The ☰ button opens it; picking a playlist (or tapping outside) closes it.