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Burst & series grouping

A 4,000-frame morning reads like forty decisions — because the shoot is made of moments, not files.

How it works · Nala

Order before judgment.

Nala recognizes bursts, sequences and series and folds them into readable groups before you start deciding. The structure is suggested, visible and reversible.

Sports, wildlife, weddings, kids: modern shoots arrive as machine-gun sequences. Grouped, they become what they really are — one moment with variants — and the first pass collapses from thousands of verdicts to dozens.

Why it matters

Structure is the honest way AI helps.

Nala never says « this one is best ». It says « these forty frames are the same moment » — and that claim you can check at a glance.

How the grouping works, and what signals feed it, is documented in the Algorithms Lab.

See it in the full gesture.

Burst & series grouping is one piece of the Light Table. The whole first pass is what changes the workflow.