Reeltime Viewer
Transform your mobile device into a monitor.
Available for iPad/iOS
This page brings together valuable resources, tutorials, and guides to help you get started quickly and confidently. Explore video lessons, detailed documentation, and helpful content from the Pomfort Blog.
Product Manager Wanja Nolte walks you through all important features to master your daily tasks on set efficiently and serve all various monitoring requests with ease. After watching this video, you'll be fully equipped to navigate and configure Reeltime for the first time.
Dive into our Knowledge Base for in-depth articles covering every feature of Reeltime. If you're new, begin with our Getting Started learning path, designed to introduce you to the core capabilities.
This step-by-step tutorial walks you through configuring video I/O devices, setting up an audio interface, installing the Stream Deck controller plugin, and enabling local streaming to Reeltime’s companion app, Reeltime Viewer. If you’re not using all of the hardware covered, you can easily skip to the chapters that match your setup.
Connect your crew turning any iPad or iPhone into a low-latency on-set monitor over the local network. Crew members can view live feeds or playback, take stills, and share reference frames, while grid views make it easy to follow multi-camera setups in real time. Setting up local streams is a straightforward process for operators and crew.
Transform your mobile device into a monitor.
Available for iPad/iOS
To enable on-set streaming for your crew, simply follow the instructions in the following two Knowledge Base articles:
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Video technician Mihail Ursu takes us behind the scenes of the Outlander prequel series, explaining how he ensured images travelled smoothly across monitors and iPads on set.
Video assist sits right at the intersection of technology and storytelling, translating camera signals into meaningful, real-time feedback for creative and technical review. We spoke with Mexico City–based video operator Ian Castañeda about his VTR setup and workflow.
In this article, we take a 'peer perspective' on Reeltime by chatting with someone from the community, so you can see how colleagues around the world use it in their everyday workflows. So let's meet Yuji Fukuzawa, a seasoned DIT…
In this interview, DIT Aljoscha Kirschner tells us what it's like to work in Japan, where it's common to also handle VTR duties!
Discover articles from Pomfort’s editorial team covering everything from beginner topics to advanced technical deep-dives. Learn best practices, explore new features, and stay up to date with the latest in providing video assist.
This article covers everything you need to know about on-set latency: what causes it, how to measure it, and how to optimize your setup to reduce it to a minimum!
Building your video assist setup with Reeltime Pro or Reeltime Lite but unsure which Apple hardware fits your needs best? We tested three setups of increasing complexity to give you reliable recommendations!
For a video playback operator, being able to decide who sees what on set, on which device, and how the footage appears, is an ideal scenario. In this article, we'll show you exactly how you can craft tailored views for…
Setting up a video playback system with Reeltim starts with understanding the needs of the production, and each creative department on set. In this article, we walk you through how to determine the necessary size of your setup and the…