What Deleting a Scene, Shot, Take, or Shooting Day Removes

Deletion in SlateX has two importantly different forms. Removing an episode, scene, shot, or take can cascade through the records below it. Deleting a shooting day removes that day’s take records and meal periods, but the scenes assigned to the day leave the schedule rather than being deleted as scenes. The consequences must be distinguished before the operation.

Deleting a scene affects downstream records. Deleting a shooting day removes its daily records while leaving its scheduled scenes as records without that day assignment.

Deletion through the record hierarchy has downstream scope

Before deleting a scene, inspect its shots and takes. Before deleting a shot, review its takes and continuity assets. Deleting a take can also affect the continuity assets and camera-related records under it. Episode deletion reaches the scenes within the episode. A delete action on a parent is not simply the removal of one label from a list.

These record deletions have an irreversible boundary in their confirmation flow. Project deletion has a broader scope, addressed separately by What Sign-Out, Account Deletion, and Project Deletion Actually Remove.

Deleting a shooting day keeps the scenes, not that day’s takes

The shooting-day confirmation explains that deleting a day also deletes its recorded takes and meal periods, and that scenes scheduled on that day become unscheduled. The message differs depending on whether the day has any takes. In either case, it warns that deletion cannot be undone.

An unscheduled scene is not the same thing as preserving the daily take records. Takes logged on the deleted day, including voided takes, are included in the removal; the scene record itself remains without that day’s schedule assignment.

Changing a day’s use is not the same as deleting it

If the intention is to change how a day is used or represented in the schedule, first distinguish other adjustment paths, such as turning it into a rest day, from deletion of the records themselves. The rest-day change is a separate reversible path; it does not make shooting-day deletion reversible.

Before deleting a day, check whether it contains take records or meal periods and whether the operation’s actual effect is acceptable. This article does not attempt to provide the full rescheduling workflow.

Record changes and local file cleanup are separate matters

Deleting a record and cleaning up its files can be separate steps. A photo still shared with another record should not be assumed to have the same cleanup outcome as a file exclusive to the removed record. Check actual relationships and local files when the file state matters.

The two steps do not always finish together: the record can already be gone from the list while the related files are still there. That is why a half-finished step can leave you with “the record is gone, the file is still there”, and why deletion cannot be shortened to “remove the record and its files disappear at the same moment”.

Also keep app-local copies distinct from originals on external camera cards or media archives, and from handoff files already exported or sent. The in-app deletion does not retroactively rewrite a previously issued handoff, nor does it establish that an external original was removed.

Confirm the intended result before deleting

If the goal is only to change a scene’s day assignment, inspect the scheduling relationship before considering scene deletion. If the goal is to remove an accidental shot, review its takes and linked continuity assets first. And if the target is an entire shooting day, confirm that losing the day’s takes and meal periods is acceptable.

Review the confirmation scope and preserve any material that must remain separately. The article identifies what the actions mean; it does not decide on the crew’s behalf what to delete.

FAQ

Does deleting a scene affect its shots and takes?

Yes. The records below the scene enter the cascade of that deletion.

Does deleting a shooting day delete the scenes on its schedule?

No. Those scenes are unscheduled, while that day’s takes and meal periods are removed.

Does the reversible rest-day action mean day deletion can be undone?

No. They are different operations, and the shooting-day deletion confirmation warns that deletion is irreversible.

Are already-sent handoff files changed by the deletion?

No. An in-app deletion does not rewrite already issued files. The actual state of local media copies needs separate verification.

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