Showreel Studio Help
Help · Recording

Snapshot the screens

Follow every line's steps in your app before recording, and see what each screen holds.

A snapshot runs each line's steps against your app, one line after another, and saves what the screen holds at the end of each: a picture, the page's controls and its structure. It is the quick way to find a wrong step before you spend a take on it, and it gives Claude what it needs to write a driver by hand.

Before you start

In the app

  1. Open the film.
  2. Click Snapshot in the pipeline across the top.
  3. When it finishes, open the Files panel. The Snapshots section shows a picture for each line, named by its id.
  4. Before a film is built, selecting a line on the timeline also shows its snapshot in the monitor.

If a line's steps fail, the log says which line stopped, and a picture of the screen at that moment is saved beside the snapshots.

In the terminal

Snapshot every line:

showreel snapshot compose

Snapshot signed in, with your saved sign-in:

showreel snapshot compose --profile

The files land in films/<film>/snapshots/: for each line, a picture (.png), its controls (.elements.json) and the page's accessibility tree (.aria.txt).

What to look for

  • Does each picture show what the line's Expect says?
  • Is a dialog or menu open when it should be, and closed when it should not?
  • Did a step land on the wrong screen?

Fix a wrong step on the Line panel, save, and snapshot again.

What next