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All Schedule Guides

Getting Started

TL;DR — Open the Schedule tab, click “Generate Schedule,” and your scenes are organized into an optimized shoot plan in one click.

Your First Schedule

  1. 1 Open the Schedule tab in your project.
  2. 2 Click Generate Schedule.
  3. 3 Done. The algorithm builds an optimized shoot from your scenes.

What Just Happened?

The algorithm grouped your scenes into strips — scenes at the same location and time of day — then packed those strips into shoot days, keeping location changes minimal and respecting a default page-per-day limit.

How Strips Work

Scenes sharing a location and time of day are grouped into one strip. For example, “INT. OFFICE — DAY” scenes 3, 7, and 12 become one strip. “INT. OFFICE — NIGHT” is a separate strip. Scenes marked CONTINUOUS attach to the previous strip automatically.

Regenerating

If you already have a schedule, the button says Regenerate. It will warn you before clearing the existing schedule — all manual edits (reordered strips, custom day dates) will be lost. Use this when your script has changed significantly and you want a fresh start.

What the Algorithm Does

  1. 1 Split — Oversized strips (too many pages for one day) are split into smaller ones.
  2. 2 Sort — Day scenes come first, night scenes second.
  3. 3 Bin-pack — Strips are packed into days (max ~3 pages, max 1 company move per day).
  4. 4 Re-sort — Each day’s strips are re-sorted chronologically for a logical shooting order.