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Your first schedule

Who can do this: Free plan on your first project, Supporter on all projects. Changing a schedule needs the Edit schedule permission; setting the official one needs Approve schedule.

Import your script and every scene is already a strip. Split the strips into shoot days, date them, and you have a schedule to build call sheets from.

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Open your schedule

1. Open Production and click Schedule.
2. Click Working Schedule.

Your first script import makes the Working Schedule: every scene in script order, colored the stripboard way, with its cast, location, and page count. It stays in step with the script. New scenes join it, and cut scenes leave it.

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Split it into shoot days

1. Click + (Add Day Breaks) above the strips.
2. Choose how much goes in a day, in pages or hours.
3. To date the days, check Set start date, pick the Start date, and choose the Working days.
4. Click Add day breaks.

A day break closes each day and shows its date and page count. Every day gets its own call sheet and Day Bible. Drag strips to move scenes between days, and click a day’s date to change it. See Stripboard and shoot days.

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Tidy it up

The buttons at the top right of the strips:

• Display (sliders): choose the columns, like Start Time, End Time, and Notes.
• Reorder Strips (three lines): sort strips by set, day or night, and INT or EXT. Reordering removes the day breaks, with each day’s call sheet and Day Bible, so sort before you split days.
• Reset Times (clock): clear clock times, durations, or both.

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Make it official

1. Click Set as official.
2. Confirm.

Call sheets, the budget, and schedule reports use the official schedule. See The official schedule and the Boneyard.

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Related

• Stripboard and shoot days
• The official schedule and the Boneyard
• Import a script