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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 (re-import or refresh), 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 new revision, 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. Bootstrap UNKNOWN pre-scene rows are not auto-added back if you removed them. This applies to every schedule on the project (approved or working), including stripboards that were empty before the parse. If strips ever look out of sync with the script, use Restore scenes from script on the stripboard. 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).
  • Approving and Boneyard: Learn when to keep a schedule Working versus when to mark it Approved for call sheets and reports. Archive old schedules in Boneyard. See Approving a schedule and Boneyard.
The schedule sidebar (left of the stripboard) lists each day with Call, Day Bible, DPR (Company), and Day Sides. Use Day Bible per day to open that day’s board; see Boards and cards. Quick start: Your first schedule.