Working a batch

My Work is your personal queue — the batches and stages assigned to you, without the rest of the team's workload. It's where most contributors start their day.

View it by stage (your stages grouped into tabs, to clear one kind of work at a time) or by batch (a card per batch showing all of your stages on it, to see each shoot as a whole).

ShootHive tracks post-production by counts, not individual files. Each stage records how many assets came in and how many went out — so you can see, for example, that retouching took 200 selects down to 180 finals.

Set a stage to in progress when you start, update the output count as you go, and mark it done — the batch advances to the next stage automatically.

If a stage can't move — you're waiting on client feedback, or a file is missing — mark it blocked with a reason. A blocked stage stays visible so it gets unstuck rather than forgotten. Blocking isn't failure; it's a signal that shows exactly where the pipeline is stuck and why.

When you assign a stage, you can leave a short note for whoever works it — a detail specific to this shoot, like keeping skin texture or going light on retouching.

Add or edit it from the stage card or the Assign dialog on the batch page. The assignee sees it in their task list beside that stage, and it applies only to this shoot's stage — not to every batch.