A Day Out of Days (DooD) shows, day by day, when each cast member (or any other element) works, is on hold, travels, has a fitting, and so on across your shooting schedule; it's a standard film/TV planning and payroll document. In Cinapse the DooD is built automatically from your board, so you don't fill it in by hand.
The most important thing to know: the DooD is a view, not something you edit directly. To change anything on it, edit the underlying data in the Events Manager, Breakdown Sheets, or Stripboard, and the DooD updates to match.
Reading the work-status codes
Each cell shows a work-status code for that element on that day. You can open the built-in Work Status Legend any time from the info icon in the DooDs panel. The full set of codes:
Work
- SW: Start-Work · W: Work · WF: Work-Finish · SWF: Start-Work-Finish
- WD: Work-Drop · SWD: Start-Work-Drop · PW: Pickup-Work · PWF: Pickup-Work-Finish
Hold
- H: Hold · SH: Start-Hold · HF: Hold-Finish · HD: Hold-Drop
Other statuses & events
- I: Idle · TR: Travel · FT: Fitting · T: Camera Test
- SR: Start-Rehearsal · R: Rehearsal · SCH: School · HO: Holiday · UA: Unavailable
When two things happen on the same day, Cinapse combines them in the cell: for example W(FT) means the element both Works and has a Fitting that day.
How to open and build a DooD
- Open the panel drop-down and choose the Day Out of Days (DooD) view.
- Select an element category to report on, for example Cast, Background, or Props. The DooD is generated for one category at a time.
- Use Filters to narrow the report (specific Elements, Episode (for episodic files), a Date range, or a Shooting day range), and use Visibility options to choose which columns appear. Both are set when building the report.
- Scroll right to see the Totals for each element: days working, held, on holiday, traveling, in fittings, school, rehearsal, and camera testing, plus their first day, last day, and total days on the production.
Remember: the DooD is only a view. To edit it, adjust the element in the Events Manager, Breakdown Sheets, or Stripboard.
Adding fittings, travel, and other events
Events such as fittings, travel, rehearsals, camera tests, and school are added through the Events Manager. Once added they appear on the DooD, and when an event lands on a scheduled work day it's combined in the cell (like W(FT)). An event on the same day as a work day counts toward the Work total for that day; fittings, camera tests, rehearsals, and similar before production starts count as their own days.
Fixing common DooD problems
My total day count looks too high
The Total column intentionally includes holidays, because holidays are paid days under SAG-AFTRA rules. In other words: Total = Work + Hold + Holidays + any fittings, rehearsals, camera tests, or school days that aren't on a scheduled work day. The total also reflects all the production days an element is scheduled across every unit (Main, 2nd Unit, Splinter, etc.), not a single unit's days. A per-unit total isn't available yet (it's on our roadmap), so today the DooD reflects the full production count.
If you want just the working count, open Visibility options when building the DooD report, turn off the Total column, and keep the Work column.
The DooD is counting a day the actor was marked unavailable
A red flag marks an actor unavailable on a day. A red-flagged day is only counted if that actor is also scheduled in a scene that day — otherwise the cell shows UA (Unavailable) and isn't counted as work. Cinapse doesn't stop you from scheduling an actor on a day they're flagged unavailable, so if the total looks off, remove them from scenes on the days they shouldn't be working.
There's an extra row for a character (or scene) that isn't in my episode
This almost always means there are strips/breakdowns on your board with no episode assigned. When a strip has no episode, the DooD can't file its elements under an episode, so they spill into extra rows. Fix it by assigning the correct episode to every breakdown/strip, then re-open the DooD.
A per-episode DooD totals less than the full production
That's expected: when you filter to specific episodes (under Filters when building the report), the summary totals only the selected episodes, not the whole production. If a per-episode report looks like it's missing days, confirm every strip in those episodes has its episode assigned and check your date range; selecting All episodes always shows the full picture.
My DooD won't generate
- Make sure you're generating from a stripboard that has day breaks; a DooD can only be generated when there are actual scheduled shooting days.
- Make sure the file finishes loading first; very large files can be slow to open, and the DooD will generate once it's fully loaded.
- Return to the Home screen and re-open the file.
- If a specific board still fails, note which board you're generating from and contact support.
Still stuck?
If your DooD still looks wrong after these checks, tell us which board (and file) you're generating it from and include a screenshot; that's the fastest way for us to dig in.
Need more help? Email us at support@cinapse.io, or ask the help assistant using the chat button in this Help Center; it answers most questions instantly and can connect you with our team.