Story-check: the step editors skip

Editing tools help you cut footage. None of them tell you whether the story you set out to tell actually made it onto the card.

That gap is the story-check: diff the planned beats against the captured clips, and surface what’s missing, what drifted off-script, and what should be reordered — before you sink hours into an edit built on a hole.

It’s not an editor and it never cuts your footage. It hands you a map: missing beats, off-script takes, reorder and trim suggestions. You stay the director.