The Scrapyard acts as storage for strips you do not want in your active board. This can be scenes that are omitted, that have already been shot, that are from a different episode or block, etc.
How to open the Scrapyard
The Scrapyard is one of the views you can load into a working panel:
- In the header of either panel, click the view dropdown. It shows the panel's current view name (such as Stripboard or Breakdown) with a small arrow beside it.
- Select Scrapyard from the menu.
The Scrapyard opens in that panel. The same menu also switches a panel to the Stripboard, Breakdown, Calendar, or Day out of Days, and includes Toggle full panel (Cmd/Ctrl + Shift + F). Because Cinapse uses a two-panel layout, a handy setup is to keep your Stripboard in one panel and the Scrapyard in the other, so you can drag strips straight between them.
The Scrapyard is key for crossboarding in Episodic Files.
- A strip created in one board will automatically appear in ALL THE OTHER Board Scrapyards.
- For example: A strip created in the “Sequential 603 Board” (Board A), will populate in the scrapyard for the “Block 603/605 Prelim Board” (Board B) and “Sequential 605 Board” (Board C). From the scrapyard, you can move the strip into Board B’s Stripboard or Unscheduled work, or leave it in the scrapyard if you don’t need it.
To move a strip from the Stripboard to the Scrapyard (or vice-versa), right-click and select “move to scrapyard” or “move to stripboard”. Alternatively, if you are in split-panel view you can simply drag and drop the desired strips from the Stripboard panel into the Scrapyard panel and vice versa.
Strips in the Scrapyard can still be rearranged by dragging and dropping and Breakdown sheets and their elements can be adjusted. You can also create a specific report from selected strips in the Scrapyard, if desired.