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Scheduling

Scheduling

Layouts / Calendar / Color Drop-Down

How to use the Calendar, Layouts, and Colors dropdowns to assign a calendar, layout, or color palette to a board and open their managers.

Day Breaks

How to add and use day breaks: part of the full banners & day breaks guide.

Banners & day breaks: customizing your stripboard

Add text, start/end-of-day, and weather banners, build day breaks, and control colors, borders, and fonts on your stripboard.

Day Out of Days (DooDs): building them and reading the status codes

Build a Day Out of Days in Cinapse, read the SW / W / WF work-status codes, and fix common DooD problems: wrong totals, holidays inflating the count, and extra rows.

Scrapyard

How to use the Scrapyard to store strips you don't want on your active board, and how it enables crossboarding across episodic files.

Stripboard: building and working with strips

What a stripboard is and how strips work: add, rearrange, sort, search, and multi-select strips, plus answers on scene numbers, fonts, units, marking days off, and moving strips between boards.

Breakdown Sheets & Element Entry

How to open breakdown sheets from the stripboard and add, edit, and manage scene information and elements like cast, background, and props.

Split Panel and Full Panel mode

How to use split panel and full panel view to see your stripboard and breakdown sheets side by side, and switch what each panel displays.

Setting your production's revision color

Assign an official, industry-standard revision color to your production in Production Settings, available on every plan.

Adding images to breakdown sheets

Upload reference images, storyboards, or VFX setups to a breakdown sheet on any plan, and see them on your breakdown summary and shooting schedule reports.

How do I add or remove a pre-shoot day?

Add or remove a pre-shoot day from the Calendar Manager. Pre-shoot days stay separate from your principal photography day count.

What are Private Stripboards, and how do I use them?

Work on a stripboard privately (solo or with a few invited teammates) on the Studio plan. Here's how to create one and control who can see it.

How do I use Find & Replace?

Find an element, cast member, or piece of text across your whole schedule and replace it everywhere at once, with no editing strip by strip.