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# Shot Layouts & Shot Launcher

Stage a combination of graphic layers as a single "shot" and trigger them together with one click.

Use this chapter when your show repeats the same multi-layer states often — opening shot, scoreboard plus lower-third, sponsor break. A Shot Layout captures which layers are visible at once; the Shot Launcher fires the whole combination with one trigger.

## What’s in this chapter

* [Create Shot Layouts](/control-your-show/chapter-index-1/creating-shot-layouts.md) — use this to define the layer combinations your show needs.
* [How Shot Layouts are structured](/control-your-show/chapter-index-1/shot-layouts-data-model.md) — what a Shot stores, per-item overrides, take and stop semantics.
* [Shot Launcher mode](/control-your-show/chapter-index-1/shot-launcher-mode.md) — make the Shot Launcher the center panel of the workspace.
* [Recall Keypad](/control-your-show/chapter-index-1/recall-keypad.md) — fire Shots from a numeric keypad.

## Related

* [Cue & take, live](/control-your-show/chapter-index.md) — for layer-by-layer control on air.
* [Control your show — section overview](/control-your-show/branch-index.md)


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