Feature Requests

It would be great if we could customize what categories / elements we want displayed on the One Liner's header board.

I'm generating several reports: what works best for me (and I REALLY like 😎!) is: Shooting Schedule -> Select the Category/Categories I need from the DROP-DOWN MENU -> generate the report. It would be even better though, especially for elements that are very staggered and/or don't have many appearances, if we could have the option to export only the relevant strips/days (with the 'Shooting Schedule Format' if possible). Check the attachments: the 'CosmoVisions' report I made was done by manually selecting the strips I was interested in from the story order stripboard; I then right-clicked "generate report", then Shooting Schedule, selected the category I was interested in: Bingo! It was easy to find the right days & strips because I put a little emoji in the sc description every time this element appears so I could spot the required strips easily. But that wouldn't work for elements that are not evident in the strip see the "Stunts & Stunt Action" report, I only attached the 1st few pages: the first time they appear is on Day 7: I don't need to give that Dept everything else. Ps: I am using this rather than the 'Category by Day' list because it often makes sense to group more than one category in one report: ie Background: BG + Feat BG + Stand-ins; or in a Period film: Vehicles (Wagons, Chariots etc) + Horses + Riders... If I select more than one Category in the 'Category by Day' report it doesn't work.

Would love to be able to find AND replace text throughout. For example if a character name changes from John to Jack, we could search for John and then replace it with Jack. Would be ideal to be able to choose to "replace all" and boom, all instances change to Jack, and would be ideal to also have the option to step-though each occurrence to "approve" that particular replace-instance. Text-case/match-case should be an option to go along with that as well.

So a lot of my cast names and loaction names got changed in a new draft of the script. Because you couldn't do a simple find and replace , now I'm retyping elements in 80 scenes. This program is absolutely shameful. You use all of us to solve your software problems. 1st ADs out there - DO NOT USE this program.

So that new & current/ready-for-distribution reports are out there and immediately visible while older versions are in folders? It could work well both when sharing to a 'view only' person (producer? production coordinator?) so they can view all relevant and up-to-date stuff without having to look for the latest file etc; or when a team member (Crowd 3rd?) is making specific reports: any 'trial & error" and/or "old" reports could be organized & kept in folders while the 'current/latest report' is easy to find and marked as ready for distribution. It would be great to keep track of every step of the process in folders while having a neater "reports page" for what's currently approved / in distribution.

It would be great if it were possible to create custom lists & reports early on! I would love it if we could start generating lists and reports before we have all the scripts, before they are production/shooting drafts - before a single realistic day/any proper scheduling has started! When the stripboard is just in story order and you might have a single day break at the end of each Ep to separate them and/or several day breaks with a rough grouping of sets & locations - but no realistic shoot days yet… Some really helpful lists/reports can be made (see attachments) before having a schedule and dates/days/doods. How many scenes/pages (same list/report can later show DAYS) is 'Cast Member X' in so far? Should we consider hiring them on a daily rate or for the whole shoot? How many scenes/pages (same list/report can later show DAYS) is 'Set Y' in so far? Should we consider building it or is it better to look for a location? This usually helps me help production (gets them off my back!) in the early days way before I have a realistic Schedule & DOOD when we're trying to wrap our heads around how much to spend on certain Characters and the Casting Director is having early discussions with Agents and/or the Production Designer & Production are understanding what sets to build... Etc

It would be great if it were possible to create folders in the stripboard manager to organize script imports / older versions of the stripboard without having one long list

I was working in Cinapse, and saw that 1.21 was released. I went to try the merge element feature and it wasn't working. When I clicked back to the main Cinapse screen, noticed it said "1.20" was the latest release.... I knew that was wrong, so reloaded the page, and it updated. Once my schedule loaded from that refresh, I could now merge elements. It makes sense that there's an aspect of the app that is loaded into the browser, and with out a proper reload, you don't get the full benefits of the latest version. It would be great if there was a indicator somewhere in the software when you're working OONNNN the schedule, you see the version of Cinapse.

It would be great to have the option to turn on/off events or flags on one liners, shooting schedules, DOODs, etc.

When adding a travel date, it would be ideal if it behaved like a red or orange flag and showed a little airplane on the strip if one of the actors in that scene is traveling the day that that strip is scheduled.