[ THE FLAGSHIP TOOL ]
Gobeau — keep the shot the moment you see it
You're watching something — a film, a screener, a reference someone sent — and a shot stops you. One keystroke keeps that moment as you watch, with the film, the cinematographer, and the exact timestamp already attached. Find it again in seconds, and hand it off as a clean reference instead of a screenshot no one can place.
STATUS: tool in build — opens soon
The loop
Keep it. Find it. Hand it off.
Keep the frame the moment you see it
A shot stops you — one keystroke keeps it, without pausing what you're watching. The film, the cinematographer, the exact timestamp and where to find it again are saved with the frame. The shot you loved at 1:02:33 is never lost in a folder of nameless screenshots.
Find any shot in seconds
Every frame is searchable the instant it's kept — by film, palette, shot size, lighting, aspect, or free text. Or point at one frame and pull every other one that looks like it. Your whole reference habit, indexed by craft instead of by filename.
Hand it off clean
Turn a frame into a captioned reference card — film, year, DP, timestamp, palette — or a whole set into a contact sheet or a shareable collection. What lands with a director, a class, or a crew is a decision, not a raw screenshot.
Search by the decision
Every frame reads its own craft
The moment you keep a frame, its color, shot size, lighting, composition and aspect are read for you — and the film and DP identified. Nothing to tag. You search for a decision and get the frames that made it.
- COLOR
The palette, pulled automatically
Every frame's color is read on the spot — the dominant swatches, warm or cool, vivid or muted — so you can search your own frames by a look, not just a title.
- SHOT SIZE
The framing, read for you
Close-up, medium, wide — the shot scale is detected as the frame is kept. Pull every close-up you've ever saved without tagging a thing.
- LIGHT
The lighting, classified
High-key or low-key, the lighting approach behind the frame — searchable, so you can find the exact mood you're chasing across everything you've kept.
- COMPOSITION
The composition, mapped
Centered, rule-of-thirds, off-center — how the frame is built, ready to filter and study alongside the shots it rhymes with.
- ASPECT
Aspect ratio as a real axis
2.39, 1.85, 16:9, 4:3 — a frame's shape is something you can search on, kept exactly as it was shot.
- FILM & DP
The film and DP, identified
Gobeau recognises what you're watching and attaches the title, the year, and the director of photography — so a Deakins frame files itself under Deakins.
For directors, DPs, editors and students who study film to make it.
You're watching something — a film on a streaming service, a screener, a video essay, a cut someone sent you — and a shot stops you. Gobeau keeps that moment as you watch: the frame, the run of shots around it, the film, the DP and the exact timestamp, all attached. It's waiting for you when you sit down to plan, cut, or brief a crew — and when a frame raises a question, why that lens, why that light, why that grade, the guides are one click away, so every reference is backed by the craft behind it.