Introducing Shotrics

8/9/2025 · Fergal Hanley

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Introducing Shotrics: Smarter Scene Metrics for Creators

Shotrics started with a simple question: what if creators could get a fast, clear, and objective readout of their scene, while they were shooting, without guesswork?

It’s not designed to replace your main camera app, Shotrics is an accompaniment. A second-screen tool that helps you quickly set up and monitor your live scenes in real time, giving you the kind of data that normally comes from much more expensive gear.

We’re building it for the creators who care about quality and want actionable data that’s as immediate as their instincts, and we’re kicking things off as part of the Shipiton Hackathon, run by RevenueCat. The clock’s ticking, and before it runs out, we’ll be shipping both the Free and Pro versions.

What’s Shipping During Shipiton

Free Version – The Essentials

You’ll get a real-time view of the core metrics every creator needs, each displayed with a time-sequence graph that changes color from green → yellow → amber → red as values drift from their ideal ranges.

  • Scene complexity – Compression ratio as a fast indicator of visual detail and motion.
  • Brightness – Instant readout of exposure balance.
  • Contrast – Monitoring separation between light and dark areas.
  • Color variance – Tracking shifts in color diversity.
  • Dominant hue tracking – Quickly spot changes in your main color tone.
  • Scene change detection – See when major lighting or composition changes occur.
  • Sharpness / Focus – Variance of Laplacian on downsampled luma.
  • Edge density – Mean Sobel magnitude for quick complexity checks.
  • Exposure clipping – Percentage of pixels near black or white limits.
  • Dynamic range proxy – p95 − p5 of luma for tonal range insights.

You can also select scene presets (e.g., portrait, indoor, outdoor, product shots) so your metric guidelines automatically adjust to fit the type of shoot.

Pro Version – Advanced Tools

Everything in Free, plus deeper analysis and post-capture insights:

  • Advanced metrics, including:
    • Motion magnitude – Optical flow or block-match temporal smoothing.
    • Flicker detection – Temporal variance of mean luma or frequency analysis.
    • Noise estimate – High-frequency energy in static areas.
    • White balance drift – Chroma shift distance from neutral gray.
    • Skin-tone percentage – Face/skin detection for vlog framing.
    • Text & edge readability – Canny or FAST corner counts.
    • Rolling-shutter proxy – Line-to-line skew measurement on moving edges.
  • Save custom presets – Managed to get the perfect scene set up? Save it as a custom preset in Shotrics so next time you can dial it back in instantly.
  • AI review and guidance – After you record your metrics, Shotrics’ AI will analyze your session and provide detailed suggestions on how to tweak your setup for better results. You’ll be able to tell the AI what camera or device you’re using, and it will tailor its recommendations to that hardware, even saving those device-specific settings so you can recall them instantly for similar shoots in the future.
  • Data export – Export to common editing tool formats (e.g., CSV, XML for NLEs, JSON for custom pipelines) so you can sync metric timelines with your footage in software like Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, or Final Cut Pro.

After Shipiton: Shotrics Studio

Once the hackathon wraps, we’re aiming higher with Shotrics Studio, a pro-grade version with online services:

  • Upload and archive shoots with complete metric timelines.
  • Collaborate with team members or clients in a shared workspace.
  • Search past projects by metric conditions or visual style.
  • Run additional AI based analysis on shoots, scene labelling, object categorisation.

Shotrics Studio in the Edit Suite

How it fits into post: Studio hands editors time‑aligned, ready‑to‑use metadata so you can act fast in Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, and DaVinci Resolve.

Exports (pick what your pipeline needs):

  • FCPXML with timeline markers, clip ranges, and notes per metric.
  • Premiere Pro marker package (CSV + JSON) for sequence/clip markers, plus .mogrt‑ready JSON for overlays.
  • DaVinci Resolve via EDL/CSV marker import and a small import script.
  • OpenTimelineIO (OTIO) for pipeline teams.
  • Sidecars per clip (JSON/CSV) keyed by timecode.
  • Proxy overlays (optional): auto‑generated H.264 proxies with a lightweight HUD.
  • Looks: recommended .cube LUTs or grade notes.

Integrations (roadmap):

  • Premiere Pro (UXP Panel), Final Cut Pro Workflow Extension, Resolve Script.
  • Frame.io / Dropbox connectors.

Typical workflow:

  1. Shoot with Shotrics → metrics recorded alongside video.
  2. Upload to Studio → AI review generates notes.
  3. Download a Shotrics Package containing exports, proxies, thumbnails, and a PDF summary.
  4. Import to your NLE → markers/flags appear at the right timecode.

Why We’re Building This

Shotrics is about speed, clarity, precision, and consistency. It’s about reducing the time between setting up your shot and knowing it’s dialed in, and ensuring your footage arrives in the edit suite with full context.

We’re putting the kind of advanced monitoring and analysis normally reserved for high‑end cinema cameras and expensive production gear into the hands of everyday creators. For example, a solo YouTuber shooting in a spare bedroom can now access the same kind of scene analysis, sharpness checks, dynamic range tracking, flicker detection, that a studio cinematographer might have on a $50,000+ rig like an ARRI Alexa LF or RED V‑Raptor paired with a SmallHD Cine 13 monitor and waveform/vectorscope tools. The difference is, you get it on your phone or tablet, in real time, without the need for extra crew or hardware.