Schedule (stripboard)
The schedule is your shooting plan: a stripboard of scene strips, day breaks for shoot days, and times (call, prep, shoot). It drives call sheets, DPR, Day Bible, and production reports. Production dropdown → Schedule. If the project has no schedule, you may see Create a Schedule or a “Working Schedule” may be created when the script is parsed. When the script is parsed again (a save in the editor, a re-import, or a new version), strips you already placed keep their day, order, and times when the scene still matches. If a previously scheduled scene no longer exists in the current version, that old strip row is removed. New scenes from the script are added at the end of the stripboard on a new shoot day so you can organize them without mixing them into days you already set up. BootstrapUNKNOWN pre-scene rows are not auto-added back if you removed them. Scenes you sent to the Boneyard stay out. This applies to every schedule on the project (official or working draft), including stripboards that were empty before the parse. Every schedule is also checked against the current script version on each save, so a strip can never be left pointing at an older version. If strips ever look out of sync with the script, use Restore scenes from script on the stripboard, or remove a strip from its three-dot menu.
When you open the schedule again after editing the script or using another part of the project, the stripboard reapplies Filter and Search Strips to the list so scene rows are not left hidden while All Days is selected.
- Stripboard and shoot days: Add day breaks, reorder strips, set times (with suggestions and recalculate), split scenes, reset times, and choose which stripboard fields are visible. See Stripboard and shoot days. If you see a message about a strip count mismatch after dragging, reload the schedule page so the stripboard matches the server, then try again. Removing the last day break on the stripboard (the one below the final scenes) merges those scenes into the previous shoot day so the break does not come back on refresh.
- Day Out of Days (DOOD): Cast availability by day, auto-built from the stripboard. Drives the Cast / schedule card on the budget and the Use DOOD days button on cast line items. See Day Out of Days (DOOD).
- The official schedule and the Boneyard: Set the version you’re shooting as Official so call sheets, the budget, and reports use it, and keep the rest as working drafts. Archive old versions in the Boneyard. See The official schedule and the Boneyard.