# Create a selects reel

Creating a review from existing content

July 9, 2026

While you're watching, you can pull individual clips or shots aside into a new review of your own — a **selects reel**. It's a quick way to gather the takes or scenes you want to come back to or pass on.

A selects reel starts life as a [draft](https://help.sohonet.com/en/articles/742844-all-reviews#h_bfa043fbd2): only you can see it, and you'll find it under **All Reviews**.

## Add a shot or scene

While you're watching in the [Review Player](https://help.sohonet.com/en/articles/742827-watch-a-review), open the **Add to review** menu for the shot or scene you want. There are two ways in:

- select the shot or scene **name** in the player footer, or
- in the footer's expanded view, click the **+** on its thumbnail.

From the menu, pick a review to add it to — a tick shows it's already in, and picking it again takes it back out. A confirmation appears with an **Undo**, in case you change your mind. To start a fresh selects reel instead, choose **New review**, give it a name, and **Create and add clip**.

The list only shows reviews the shot or scene can actually join, based on where it came from:

- from a **cut**, you can add to other cuts or **No type** reviews — not dailies reels;
- from a **dailies reel**, to other dailies reels or No type reviews — not cuts;
- from a **No type** review, only to other No type reviews.

A new selects reel is a No type review, so anything can start one.

## Keep adding quickly

Once a shot is in a review, the quickest way to keep adding is the **+** button — it drops straight into the same review as last time, without opening the menu. The **A** key does the same from your keyboard. If that last review isn't a compatible type for the shot you're adding, the menu opens instead so you can choose another.

## Publish the reel

A selects reel stays a draft — visible only to you — until you publish it. When you're ready for other people to see it:

1. Open the reel from **All Reviews** to bring up its **review drawer**.
2. Click **Publish**, then check the details and confirm.

What happens on publish depends on the reel's type. If its project runs a **workflow**, publishing submits the reel automatically and shares it with the relevant people, as set by the project. If there's no workflow, publishing makes it live and you share it yourself — the confirm button reads **Publish and Share it** and takes you straight to [sharing](https://help.sohonet.com/en/articles/742852-direct-sharing).

Publishing can't be undone.

**Coming soon:** Sharing a selects reel while it's still a draft — without publishing.