What Focus is

Words are good at saying what should change. Focus is for saying exactly where. With Focus you mark a place on a moment of your clip — the man on the right, the third car, the logo on a cup — and then point at that mark from your words. Optic then knows precisely which subject you mean.

Focus belongs to Optic. Marking is free; it never costs credits.

#Two kinds of focus

• Area — "Draw around a region." Drag a box around the subject. Use it when the subject is clear and you want to show all of it.
• Point — "Tap to indicate a subject." Tap on the subject. Use it for something small, or when a box would cover others. A point only needs to touch its subject.

Each focus is drawn in the shape of the ROUTIX eye, in its own colour, with its number — 01, 02 and so on — and a name you can change.

#When you need Focus

• There is more than one subject your words could mean: two people, several cars, a crowd.
• The subject is small or partly hidden.
• You want to be sure which object you mean: this cup, not the one behind it.

If your words already make it clear — "the only dog", "the woman in the red coat" — you do not need a focus.

#How to open it

Focus opens once your clip is in and the range is confirmed.

1. Press Focus at the top left of your clip's picture. The clip pauses and the editor opens on that moment.
2. Choose Area or Point and mark the subject.
3. Press Apply to keep the focus, then Done to go back.

Then type # in the words box to point at it — see Focus in your prompt.

#What a focus is not

The marks are only for Optic. They never appear in your film, and their colours are never painted into it.