ROUTE 01
Tape, don’t click
Flag a frame and it inherits the tape’s route instantly. The select rail reorders the keepers to the front of the print run without losing shot order.
Splice lays every contact frame on one lightboard, in shot order. You flag the selects with colour-coded tape, and the colour is the decision — it routes each frame to its print run, its hold pile, or its darkroom note.
No daily page, no scattered slips — Splice is a single moving rail of frames you scan left to right, tape as you go, and the strip remembers the sequence.
Three tape colours, three routes. Nothing is filed by a hidden status field — you can see every decision on the board, the way an editor sees their selects on the loft wall.
Flag a frame and it inherits the tape’s route instantly. The select rail reorders the keepers to the front of the print run without losing shot order.
A coral flag parks a frame for a second pass — it never disappears into an archive. The board shows the whole take, decided and undecided alike.
Teal carries a darkroom instruction that follows the frame to the enlarger and onto the print order — dodge, crop, grade, all attached.
Drop a developed roll onto the board and Splice lays the frames out in sequence with their stop and exposure read in mono.
Move down the rail, taping selects amber, holds coral, notes teal. The exposure bar tracks how far the pass has run.
Close the roll and every select gets a dated stamp; the print order assembles itself, sized for the box.
Splice is built for anyone who decides in sequence — photographers culling a shoot, editors cutting a reel, archivists routing a collection.