Draft mode
Audition a large chop set on a QWERTY board and keep only what sparks.
A four-minute song produces more candidates than you want to organize on a waveform. Draft turns that pile into a hand you play through.
Dealing a hand
Press Draft beside the view switcher. The editor switches to the Video Keyboard and deals up to 26 pending chops onto a full QWERTY letter rack, with a video thumbnail in every slot and a moving preview on the focused chop. Portrait, landscape, and square sources keep their natural shape rather than being cropped.
Hover, select, or hold a letter to see its translucent keyboard label centered over the video.
Keep or pass
Play the hand freely. Enter keeps the chop you just heard; Delete passes on it. Every chop is heard before an undecided one recycles, so nothing slips through unheard, and Undo restores the previous deal.
Deal open pads replaces everything except your keeps, so a second pass draws fresh candidates around the ones you’ve already committed to. Passed chops stay out of the crate.
Set a keep goal of 4, 8, 16, or the full set for a light finish line. The goal shapes the hand; it never stops you finishing early.
Fixing a start while you audition
The compact waveform beside the keyboard follows the last chop you played. Drag its start handle for a small timing correction, or focus it and use the arrow keys for 10 ms nudges. The adjustment changes the real pending marker and joins the normal marker undo history — you’re editing the document, not a preview of it.
The first chop begins at the fixed source trim boundary, so its start is deliberately locked.
Finishing
Use keep pile returns your choices as ordinary starred chops. Nothing is deleted automatically: adjust the stars if you like, then use the usual discard-unstarred and rerack controls once the keep pile looks right.