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Stripboard and shoot days

The stripboard is your shooting schedule: each row is a strip (a scene or a split of a scene), and day breaks group strips into shoot days. You drag strips to reorder, add day breaks between scenes, and set call times, prep, and shoot times per day.

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Where to open the stripboard

Production → Schedule. If the project has no schedule yet, create one or wait for the app to create a “Working Schedule” after script parsing. Click a schedule in the list to open its stripboard. The left sidebar lists each production day (each day break). For each day you see Call, Day Bible, DPR (Company), and Day Sides. Use Day Bible to open that day’s board. You can share a view-only link to the Day Bible when sending the call sheet so recipients can open that day’s board without signing in. See Boards and cards for what the Day Bible contains and how the view-only link works.

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Strips and day breaks

  • Strips: Each strip is a scene (or a part of a scene if you split it). Strips show scene number, slugline, INT/EXT, time of day, and location. Drag strips up or down to reorder.
  • Day breaks: A day break starts a new shoot day. Everything above the break is one day; everything below until the next break is the next day. Add a day break so you can assign call times and generate call sheets per day.

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Adding day breaks and reordering

  1. Open the schedule and go to the stripboard.
  2. To add a day break above or below a strip: click the three-dot menu on that strip and choose Insert Day Break Above or Insert Day Break Under.
  3. Drag strips to reorder within a day or across days. Dropping a strip under a different day moves it to that day.
  4. To add a banner (a label row, e.g. “Week 2” or “Location: Studio”): use the strip menu → Add Banner Under.

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Setting times

For each day you can set Call (crew call time), Prep, and Shoot (start/end). These drive call sheets and DPR. Use the day row in the sidebar or the stripboard to edit times. Recalculate times from here (from the strip menu) updates cumulative times for the rest of the schedule.

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Editing start and end times on strips

Each strip (and each banner) can have a Start time and End time. Click the time cell to edit it. When you open the editor:
  • Start time: The app may suggest a time based on the previous strip’s end (and page count or duration). You can accept the suggestion or enter your own. If the strip already has an end time, you may see a “backwards” suggestion (end minus duration) instead.
  • End time: The app may suggest an end time (start time plus the strip’s estimated duration). Accept the suggestion or type a different time.
Suggested times are only suggestions; your saved times are not changed until you save. If you change page counts, reorder strips, or edit durations, the suggested time for a strip might differ from what’s saved. When that happens, the time cell can show a subtle indicator (e.g. a ring) and a tooltip like “Suggested: 10:30” so you can decide whether to update.

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Recalculate times from here

If you want to recompute start and end times for the rest of the day from a given strip forward, use the strip’s three-dot menu → Recalculate times from here. You will be asked to confirm; then start (and end) times for that strip and all strips below it in the same day are recalculated from the strip’s duration and the previous strip’s end. Use this after reordering strips or changing durations so the timeline stays consistent.

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Cascade when you change a time

When you save a new start time on a strip, the app can cascade that change forward: subsequent strips in the same day get their start (and end) times recalculated so the timeline stays continuous. So you can anchor one strip’s time and have the rest of the day follow.

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Strip menu actions

On each strip, the three-dot menu gives you:
  • Insert Day Break Under / Insert Day Break Above: start a new shoot day.
  • Add Banner Under: add a label row.
  • Duplicate Scene: copy the scene strip (e.g. for another day).
  • Split Scene…: turn one strip into multiple strips (e.g. split a scene across days). Use Revert split to combine them again.
  • Recalculate times from here: recompute times from this strip down.
  • View Breakdown: open that scene’s breakdown page.

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Show or hide stripboard fields

The stripboard table can show or hide columns so you see only what your team needs for planning.
  1. In the stripboard toolbar, click the gear icon (top right). On hover it shows Adjust Columns.
  2. Check or uncheck the fields you want.
  3. Click Save.
You can toggle fields such as:
  • Description (set/slugline), Synopsis, Cast ID, Page Count, Script Day, Elements
  • Shoot Location
  • Prep Time, Est. Time, Shoot Time, Start Time, End Time
  • Notes
Your choices are saved for that schedule, so the next time you open it you see the same columns. Scene # and I/E & Day always stay visible.

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Reorder the whole stripboard

Use this when you want to auto-sort all strips at once instead of dragging one by one.
  1. In the stripboard toolbar, click the three horizontal lines icon. On hover it shows Reorder Strips.
  2. Choose your 1st Sort, 2nd Sort, and 3rd Sort options.
  3. Optional: check Add day breaks after reordering if you want automatic day breaks added by time interval.
  4. Click Reorder Stripboard.
Important: this action removes existing day breaks before applying the new sort.

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Reset times

Use this when your times need a clean reset after major changes.
  1. In the stripboard toolbar, click the clock icon. On hover it shows Reset Times.
  2. Choose a reset scope:
    • Reset everything (clock times + durations)
    • Reset clock times only (Start/End/Daybreak/Banners)
    • Reset durations only (Prep/Shoot/Est)
    • Reset entries only (clock times + durations)
    • Reset daybreaks only (clock times)
  3. Click Reset Times to apply.
Resetting times clears selected time fields to — and does not change dates.

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Assigning scene characters

You can assign which characters (cast) are on each strip for call sheet and day sides. Use the strip or the day sidebar as shown in the UI; the approved schedule then drives Call sheets and Your first call sheet. When the stripboard is ready, Approve the schedule so call sheets and reports use it. More: Schedule, Your first schedule.