What Precision Culling Analyzes
Precision Culling analyzes every frame of your footage across multiple dimensions: camera shake, motion blur, focus accuracy, exposure consistency, and audio quality. Each analysis produces a quality score from 0.0 to 1.0.
Understanding Thresholds
The threshold setting determines the minimum quality score a clip must achieve to pass culling. A threshold of 0.5 keeps most usable footage while removing obvious rejects. A threshold of 0.8 is aggressive, keeping only technically excellent clips.
Recommended Settings by Genre
Different genres benefit from different thresholds. Wedding and event footage typically works well at 0.4-0.6, preserving candid moments that may have slight motion. Commercial work often uses 0.7-0.9 for technical perfection.
Grouped vs. Ungrouped Output
Grouped output organizes culled results by detected scenes, keeping related clips together. Ungrouped output presents a flat list sorted by quality score. Choose grouped for narrative projects and ungrouped for b-roll selection.
Troubleshooting
If culling removes clips you wanted to keep, lower the threshold incrementally. If too many unusable clips pass through, raise it. The sweet spot varies by project, but most editors settle into a preferred range after two or three projects.