Film scheduling software with a stripboard your AD won't fight.

Stripboard, day-out-of-days, gantt and per-day call sheets, built from the breakdown, not typed up twice. Drag a strip and the call sheet, budget and diary keep up.

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The Calendar app's Stripboard for Origin: Ascension with a shoot-day command row (schedule fitness 88/100, days wrapped 8/8, day readiness 100% with a call sheet, one compliance flag, cost per day, next event), progress bars for shoot-day progress and scene coverage at 100%, actions for day briefs, daylight, a readiness matrix and a fitness report, and a stripboard listing Day 1 with its call and wrap times, page count, daylight window and a cast-tentative flag.
The Calendar app's Timeline view with phase bars for pre-production, production and post-production across May to August, marked with tech scout, day one, wrap day, rough cut and picture lock milestones and a today line, above a Day Out of Days grid where each performer (alien captain, enemy soldier, husband, mother, newborn baby girl, priests, temple women) carries start work, work, finish or start-and-finish tags per shoot day with work and hold totals.
The Calendar app's Pre-Production Timeline with tiles for 45 milestones, 56% complete, six in progress and 20 overdue; a 'load standard milestones' action; and milestone cards grouped by phase, showing script lock complete, final budget approval at £3.39M with 10% contingency, the cast read-through, signed stunt and armoury risk assessments, child performer licences for the infant twins, a completed tech recce, and two insurance confirmations 20 days overdue in red.
Stripboard
The shoot-day command board: schedule fitness scored out of 100, days wrapped, day readiness, compliance flags and cost per day, above a stripboard of scenes colour-coded INT/DAY, EXT/DAY, INT/NIGHT and EXT/NIGHT with call, wrap, page count and daylight hours on every day.

What's inside Calendar

Film scheduling with a stripboard.

  • Schedule fitness scored out of 100, with a compliance flag when turnaround is tight
  • Crew availability matrix - every crew member across every department against every shoot day, cells you click to cycle confirmed, hold or unavailable
  • Equipment bookings day by day with vendor, daily rate and a live rental spend
  • Pre-production milestone spine - script lock, budget approval, risk assessments, child licences, tech recce - with overdue items in red
  • Daylight hours and golden hour on the day itself, so an exterior is scheduled against the light rather than against hope
  • Eight views - stripboard, timeline, grid, gantt, crew, equipment, pre-prod, call sheets
  • DOOD (Day-Out-of-Days) report for every actor
  • 1st AD Agent - vertical AI for day-order optimisation, conflicts, weather contingency
  • Dolly day-order optimizer - cuts wrap time by hours
  • Company-move and meal-break awareness
  • Weather and daylight windows factored in
  • ICS export - crew imports the schedule into their phone calendar
  • Import / export the legacy stripboard formats (CSV and FDX shipping today, MMS XML round-trip on the roadmap) - migrate your stripboard in one upload
  • IATSE turnaround compliance - flags any next-day call time that would breach the 10-hour minimum after wrap
  • Multi-unit scheduling - A unit, B unit, splinter, aerial, underwater, stunt - every shoot day tagged with its unit code
  • Daylight and weather swap suggestions - every exterior day reads sunrise / sunset / forecast and flags weather risk on the strip
  • Voice-command scheduling - push call times, move days, swap days from a phone mic on set
  • Schedule versioning - every save snapshots; revert to any prior version, audit-trailed
  • Public share tokens - send a read-only stripboard link to a financier without giving them an account
Get started Replaces: Legacy stripboard-scheduling desktop apps

The pipeline

Where Calendar sits in the production flow.

The schedule that lives inside the project file. Calendar reads cast availability + location confirmation + breakdown element counts + equipment manifest, generates an industry-standard stripboard + DOOD, optimises day order with AI, and publishes shoot days that auto-build call sheets + diary entries downstream.

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This app

Calendar

Owned by: 1st AD + Production Coordinator

Feeds downstream into

Schedule the shoot

One drag, and the whole office reflows.

Pull a strip to a new day and watch the call sheet, the budget and the diary rearrange themselves around it. The schedule stops being a document you maintain and becomes the thing everything else listens to.
Calendar app for StoryboardCanvas film production software - Film scheduling with a stripboard.

DollyAI™ in this app

AI commands wired into Calendar.

A few of the 200+ DollyAI commands across the suite, here in Calendar. Every one shows its credit cost before you commit, and every response is anchored in your real project - not a generic prompt.

Day-order optimiser

4 cr

Re-orders shoot days against cast availability + location distance + weather + equipment + union rules. One-line explanation per move.

Weather risk scorer

2 cr

Pulls 14-day forecast for every EXT scene's location and flags weather risk per shoot day.

Schedule risk scorer

2 cr

Reads the schedule + flags risky days - back-to-back 14-hour stretches, cast double-bookings, union turnaround violations.

Talks to every app

Calendar reads + writes to the same project file.

No re-entry, no copy-paste, no out-of-sync versions. Every connection below is a live data path in the running product.

Breakdown

Per-scene element counts feed shoot-day capacity estimates (a scene with 3 vehicles + 5 cast + INT location takes longer than a single-cast INT).

Cast

Cast availability calendar feeds day-order optimiser; double-bookings flag before publication.

Locations

Confirmed locations + permit status feed the schedule; expired-permit days surface as risks.

Call Sheet

Shoot-day publication triggers call-sheet auto-build + locks the linked /shoot-day surface.

Diary

Shoot-day publication pre-populates the /diary entry's cast-attendance + scene-list.

Producer

Schedule risk score + day-order changes surface on the producer dashboard.

Frequently asked

Common questions about Calendar.

Does Calendar generate a proper stripboard?

Yes. Industry-standard stripboard view with the same INT/DAY (white) / EXT/DAY (yellow) / INT/NIGHT (blue) / EXT/NIGHT (green) colour coding every 1st AD knows. Cast availability paints live across the strip.

Can the day-order optimiser handle real production constraints?

Yes. DollyAI™ reads cast availability, location distance, weather forecast, equipment availability, and union turnaround rules - and re-orders shoot days with a one-line explanation per move.

Does it sync to Google Calendar / Outlook?

Yes - two-way ICS sync to Google Calendar, Outlook, Apple Calendar. Every crew member sees today's call time on their own device, no app install required.

Can I see the schedule by crew member or by equipment?

Yes. Eight view modes - stripboard, timeline, grid, call sheets, gantt, crew, equipment, pre-prod - each optimised for a different department's read.

The Promise

Calendar is on every tier.

No locked features, no Pro-only exports, no surprise paywalls. Every Calendar tool on this page ships on every plan - Hobbyist to Enterprise.

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More in the suite

Works with every app around it.

See it for yourself

Step inside a real production, completely free.

Open the actual software on Origin: Ascension, a finished short film, and explore every app exactly as the crew left it. Read the script, walk the boards, open the budget, print the call sheet. Fully read-only, with no sign-up. Nothing you touch is saved.

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Live demo · Origin: Ascension
The AI Artist app in the free demo, generating an Origin: Ascension storyboard frame in the project's locked house style.
The Draw studio in the free demo, painting over an Origin: Ascension storyboard frame on the GPU canvas.
The Animate app in the free demo, playing back the timed Origin: Ascension animatic.
The Call Sheet app in the free demo, showing a finished Origin: Ascension shoot-day call sheet.

Script · breakdown · boards · animatic · call sheets · budget

The demo is a view-only copy shared for exploration. Some features need a paid subscription to run.

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