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Projects, Shots & Renders

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Mago organizes work into a three-level hierarchy. Understanding it is essential to everything else. The shots panel showing multiple shots inside a project.

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Project operations

  • Create a new project from the Projects tab.
  • Rename by double-clicking the project name in the top bar or project list.
  • Delete from the project list.
  • Search the project list by name.
  • Sort by creation date or alphabetically, ascending or descending.
  • Create folders, including nested subfolders.
  • Drag projects into folders to organize.

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Shot operations

  • Add a new shot inside the current project.
  • Rename by double-clicking the shot name.
  • Delete from the shot list.
  • Search and sort within the project.
  • Organize shots in folders.
📐 Design note — Mago is built around shot-by-shot workflows. Don’t upload an entire scene as one source video. Split scenes into shots in an external editor first, then upload each shot — it makes iteration faster, settings more transferable, and review cleaner.

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Project statistics

Each project has a statistics panel, opened via the ℹ️ icon next to the shot name. It shows:
  • Total renders made on the project.
  • Total frames generated.
  • Total cost in credits.
  • Cost per frame (average) and cost per second (average).
  • Per-render breakdown: model, frame range, and credit cost.
  • Most-used models on the project.
Useful for tracking the cost of arriving at a final look, and for reviewing which model and settings produced the best results.

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Render tracks

Every render produces a new track in the shot’s vertical timeline, stacked below the source. Tracks can be rated, renamed, used as input for further renders (via Edit this Render), and downloaded. Full detail: Timeline & tracks.
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