FAQ
What it is, what it costs, what it'll take in, and the things it doesn't do. Where the answer is no, it says no.
It's production software for people making films without a studio behind them. Your script, the breakdown, elements, locations, mood, the schedule, call sheets, cast and crew, the budget and your shot lists all live in one production instead of nine files you're constantly reconciling. Tag a brass Zippo in the pages and it's in the catalogue, sitting on a budget line, and on the day it shoots, without you doing anything else.
Independent productions, whether that's a feature, a short, a doc, a commercial or a music video, made by a crew small enough that people are covering more than one job. It's built for when the producer is also the first AD and there's no coordinator to hand any of it to. It isn't a studio pipeline with a department per tool.
Twelve modules are built and in use: Script, Beats, Breakdown, Elements, Locations, Mood, Assets, Schedule, Call sheets, People, Budget and Shot lists. Research, reports, dailies, review, VFX, marketing, festivals and deliverables aren't built yet, and we'd rather say they aren't built than call them coming soon.
Both, and that's really the whole idea. The script is a proper editor that formats as you type, counts your pages in eighths, numbers your scenes and handles locking and revisions. It's also what everything else in the production reads, so your breakdown, your schedule and your call sheets follow the pages instead of being re-typed off them.
Yes. Every scene is a strip and a shoot day is a stack of them, so you drag one onto a day, or take a run of them and move the lot together. The four colours are the industry key and they come off the slugline, so you're not setting them by hand. Page counts run in eighths down a column, which means you can read a day's weight at a glance.
Yes. A sheet belongs to a shoot day, so the scenes, pages, cast, sets and sunset are read live off it. When you publish, it freezes a version and emails everyone a PDF and a link with the sides and the shot list attached. The link opens on a phone without a login, it leads with their own call time and first location, and it has a confirm button. You get to see who opened it and who confirmed.
There are six plans. Free is $0 for 1 production and 1 seat. Student is $7 a month for 2 seats and 3 projects, and you'll need a student email. Indie is $19 a month for 3 seats and 10 projects. Team is $49 and Studio is $89 a month, and both give you unlimited projects in a shared workspace. For Enterprise we work it out with you. Every plan includes every major module.
Yes, and it's a real one. You get 1 active production, 1 seat and 2 GB of storage, with every module unlocked. The thing you don't get is the AI assistant. No card needed.
Seats, active projects, storage, and how many requests the assistant gets. That's it. We don't paywall a module, and we don't hold a feature inside a module back for a higher tier. Storage runs from 2 GB on Free up to 500 GB on Studio, and on Enterprise we agree it with you instead of printing a number.
Yes, properly. Two of you can write the same scene and see each other's carets while you're doing it, and undo stays per person so yours won't take back their sentence. Everywhere else, a record someone's working in is ringed with their name on it, so you know where everybody is before you go editing over them.
Yes, and they're two separate permissions. Being able to see the budget doesn't get you rates, and being able to see People doesn't get you phone numbers. A field you can't see isn't rendered at all, so nobody can overwrite a number they've never read. If any account holds somebody's rate, the grand total gets withheld too, or you could just subtract your way to their fee.
The rest of the production stops following it automatically, but nobody stops writing. Scene numbers freeze, so a scene added between 10 and 11 becomes 10A and a cut number retires and prints OMITTED, and anything written from then on queues as a revision for a producer to apply.
Yes. Fountain, Final Draft and plain text. There's no PDF import. Importing replaces the whole document, so bring a script into a new production rather than dropping it on top of one you've already started.
Yes. The script exports as Fountain and as a PDF, and there's a breakdown PDF and a shot list PDF too. The budget goes out as a top sheet PDF, a full PDF with every account in it, and CSV. Shot lists come out as CSV and the beats board as a PDF. There's no Movie Magic budget export yet.
One thing does, and it's the one that matters. Ticking a shot off saves on the device and goes up when there's a network, so it shows straight away and survives a reload. Everything else needs a connection while you're doing it. The call sheet PDF that gets emailed out is your copy for somewhere with no bars.
No, Keyframes runs in a browser. The two things built to be used on a phone are the on-set shoot day view and the call sheet your crew opens out of their email, and both of those work in a phone browser with nothing to install.
There's an assistant called Key and it's off until somebody turns it on. It never writes a line of your script and it won't change anything by itself. What it does is hand you a card describing exactly what it would do, and nothing happens until you press Apply. Anything you apply goes through the same permission check and the same activity log as a change you made yourself, and it's one undo away.
No. Key runs as you, so a tool your role doesn't have is never offered to it and it can't even propose the change. A module you can't view isn't in its vocabulary. If you can't see crew rates, neither can it.
Only if you use Key. If you never touch the assistant or the element suggestions, none of your work goes to an AI provider at all. When you do use it, the part it needs to answer with, meaning the scene text and the relevant records, goes to the provider we name in our privacy policy.
It's in private alpha and we're taking productions in small batches, so we can actually answer you when you ask something. Ask for access and we'll be in touch.
It won't track actuals, purchase orders or invoices, because the budget is there to plan your spend and it isn't a cost report. There's no PDF import. There's no SMS either, so phone numbers are on the sheet but nothing gets texted to them. Offline covers the on-set done tick and nothing else. Research, reports, dailies, review, VFX, marketing, festivals and deliverables aren't built yet.
Small batches, so we can actually answer you.
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