PreFrame helps you plan the next story you want to tell — whether you already know the song, or you don't yet.
If you have the track, drop it in and feel it: a focused mode strips away everything else so you can listen, sense where the shots live, and mark cuts as you go. If you don't have it yet, sketch the shape of the piece as you imagine it and build the story around that instead.
Either way, switch to a structured mode to turn what you felt — or imagined — into a real plan: section by section, shot by shot. A moodboard runs alongside you through it all, so the look of the piece never gets lost. And when the real track finally lands, neither does your plan.
The Mood Bar
Half timeline, half mood board. All one project.
References, video, notes, palettes — even the curve itself — on a canvas that lives beside your timeline and filters by section.
AllOpeningBuildPeakTurnRelease
canyon_dusk_ref.jpg
8:24
How I shot cinematic b-roll at golden hour
YouTube · reference
“Shoot the chorus handheld — let it breathe with the crowd.”
city_night_02.jpg
18s
Chorus, in the crowd
Medium shot · 24mmSony a6700
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Emotional curve
ImageTextVideoPalette+ Add shot
100%
Reference images
Video & YouTube
Written notes
Palettes with hex
The emotional curve
Filter by section
The track, always in reach
Two substrates, one timeline
Draw the feeling. Right over the track.
When you feel the music first, the song becomes your canvas. When the track isn't here yet, you draw the emotional curve by hand — and lay one over the other when it lands. The switch says it all: Music · Curve · Both.
Export
Leave with the cut already mapped.
One dialog, two deliverables: a printable shooting plan with your shots, timecodes and uncovered time — and your sections as timeline markers for Premiere or DaVinci Resolve, at 24, 25 or 30 fps.
Focus & Ficha
One project. Two states of mind.
Focus is the dark room: you, the track and the timeline. Ficha turns the same project into a bright spec sheet — sections numbered, notes visible, every shot laid out to review before the shoot.
Track or no track
Start with the song. Or before it exists.
Some projects begin with the .mp3 in hand. Others begin as a feeling, long before the music lands. PreFrame plans both.
midnight_run_master_v3.mp3
Opening
Build
Peak
Turn
Release
The track came first
Drop the song in and cut it into narrative sections, right on its waveform. Every shot sits on real seconds — the chorus is exactly where the chorus is.
no track yet · 3:41
Opening
Build
Peak
Turn
Release
The track isn't here yet
Draw the emotional curve you want the film to follow, and cut your sections on it. Planning starts when the idea does — not when the delivery arrives.
And the day the track lands, they meet: Music · Curve · Both.
Shots & gear
Describe a shot once. Shoot it forever.
Every shot carries the film vocabulary — wide, medium, close-up, overhead — plus your camera, your lens, a thumbnail and its notes. Save it to your library and drop it into the next project with the gear already attached.
Everything else it does
The parts of a shoot nobody else models.
Golden hour, per shot
The light for that place, that day — attached to the shot itself. You'll know before you scout whether it's possible.
LocationCabo de Gata, ES
Golden hour
Golden hour18:41 → 19:12
Nothing leaves your machine
Your track and your references never get uploaded. Open the app on a mountain with no signal and keep working.
neon_pulse_master.mp3on your disk
ridge_dusk.jpgon your disk
the plan itselfsynced to your account
On set
Print it. Take it. Tick it off.
A shooting plan with every shot, its timecode, a box to tick between takes and blank lines to write on. Uncovered time is calculated and printed — nobody discovers the hole at 6pm.
This is the actual document the app generates — cover and pages straight from the demo project.
Who made this
Behind PreFrame
I'm Alberto: a programmer by trade and by hobby — coming up on a decade building software — and a filmmaker purely for the fun of it: I film my own travels :). PreFrame comes from realising that filmmakers have no dedicated place to bring our ideas to light: inspiration lives in scattered notes, gear in lists, timing in spreadsheets. PreFrame is that place, and it grows by listening to what filmmakers of every level need — hobbyist to pro.
Alberto — programmer and hobbyist filmmaker, building PreFrame
Pricing
One credit is one project.
No subscription. A credit is spent once, when you create a project. Everything you do inside it — add the track, redraw the curve, relocate the same file, export and re-export — is free and unlimited, forever.
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Free
Your first project, complete.
Waveform or emotional curve
Mood board and shot cards
EDL export and shooting PDF
No card required
Founder price
9.99 €then 19.99 €
Per project credit. Yours forever.
One full project, start to shoot
Unlimited edits and exports
Yours forever, no renewal
Max 2 per account
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The reference price
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Credits never expire, and everything inside a project stays unlimited and free whichever way you buy. Credits are bought inside the app. Savings are compared against buying single credits at 19.99 €; packs have never been sold at a different price.
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