For years, film scheduling and budgeting software lived on desktop computers. Producers built budgets, assistant directors organized stripboards, and production managers generated reports using applications installed on their Mac or Windows machines. Projects were saved as files, shared when necessary, and updated by the person responsible for maintaining the schedule or budget. Today, filmmakers have […]
Film budgeting used to live in isolated files. A producer might have one version of the budget. A line producer might have another. Someone else might be working from an exported spreadsheet, while a director is looking at an old PDF that no longer reflects the current production plan. That kind of workflow can work […]
Film scheduling used to be tied to a desk, a machine, and a carefully guarded file. The assistant director or producer would build the schedule, export a PDF, email it to the team, revise it, export it again, and hope everyone was looking at the latest version instead of some fossilized attachment from three revisions […]
