I know the Causality designers like working in beats. That’s great for construction. But, show writers like knowing scene durations. Sure, we can do the mental timeline subtraction to get that, but it would be great to see it displayed somewhere (on the timeline or script margins.) For exxample, several apps show times in the scene navigator.
This would actually be easy enough, because we have all the data for the beats, so all that’s required is adding up the beat times and showing the total somewhere.
I assume you don’t mean in a scene report, but in the actual UI. Where would you imagine it could go? Printed in small numbers in the scene heading?
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Yes, scene heading would be excellent.
Typical TV producer: “OMG, that scene is 3.5 minutes! What were you thinking?”
I’ll put it on the list.