The filmstrip provides a mechanism for saving several different states of a project. These states can easily be returned to by double left-clicking on the snapshot of the state in the filmstrip. The entire filmstrip can be saved to disk to allow the user to quickly reload views of a project from a previous session (or someone else's session).

When a snapshot is placed into the filmstrip, the user is asked to provide a description of the snapshot. A filmstrip only holds a limited number of snapshots. If a new snapshot is taken when the filmstrip is full, it is placed in the leftmost position of the filmstrip and oldest snapshot will be dropped from the right hand end of the filmstrip. The filmstrip is opened from the Tools menu.

To show the filmstrip use the Shrimp main menu and select Tools > Filmstrip.