Show them exactly
what you mean.
A visual brief and presentation tool built for video. Pull frames straight from source footage, arrange them into shot briefs and look boards, annotate the intent, then screen-share it in Zoom, Meet, or Teams and walk your team through the actual footage.
The video handoff brief has never had a tool of its own.
A shot brief in minutes, not an afternoon in a slide deck.
The board is the presentation - and it plays.
Everything a brief needs that a slide deck can’t do.
One board holds the whole project’s direction.
An infinite canvas for frames, look boards, and shot breakdowns. Capture straight from the footage, then group, stack, color-tag, and tidy into grids. Every session reopens exactly as you left it.
Compare the shots - direct your team.
Side-by-side, wipe, opacity blend, flicker, onion-skin, and difference. Put the old cut against the new one live in the room, so the call gets made on what’s actually on screen, not from memory across two windows.
Every pass, not just the beauty.
Multi-part and multi-layer EXRs open with their passes listed in a palette - cryptomatte, AO, shadow, normal, z-depth, reflection, refraction, GI, and whatever else the render wrote. Click any one to preview it in place, then capture the passes that matter straight onto the board beside the beauty.
The formats a mood board has never heard of.
ProRes 4444 with alpha, DNxHR/HD, H.264, and EXR/PNG/JPEG image sequences - opened natively, played frame-exact, with straight alpha preserved end to end and per-clip LUTs previewed in place. This is the line between a general-purpose board app and a tool built for video work.
Quietly, the best video player on your machine.
Collapse OnDeck to compact mode and it’s simply a fast, clean everyday player. Hardware-accelerated decode, RAM caching for instant scrubbing, playlists, and frame-exact stepping, in a window that stays out of the way, and on top when you need it.
Then drag the corner handle and the same window opens back into the full board. One app, both jobs.
For whoever has to get the vision out of one head and into six.
Provable, not promised.
Own it. Don’t rent it.
Board tools bill you every month for as long as you want to keep your own work, and hold it on their servers. OnDeck costs roughly what two months of a typical subscription does, once, and then it is simply yours.
If you’ve used Milanote, OnDeck will feel familiar. The difference is everything underneath: real codecs, image sequences, alpha, LUTs, frame-exact playback - and no recurring bill.