Feature Requests

Implement an improved reporting system, similar to that of MMS 6, with customized modifications and a wider range of report options.

It would be extremely helpful if Cinapse could identify conflicts in cast scheduling or any other elements when working with multiple shooting units. This would greatly ease our workflow. Cinapse will not notify you if a character is scheduled for two units on the same day at the moment, but if you have two units filming two separate episodes, or even two episodes in the same unit on the same day, this will be automatically indicated in the Day out of Days. I suggest this as an update — it would be very useful. Last year, I worked with Fuzzlecheck on a 40-episode production, and this feature was extremely helpful. Another suggestion: split panels, breakdown panels for Unit 1 and Unit 2. This way, I can work with both units in parallel, scrolling one side of the shooting schedule to look up a scene, for example.

Would be great to be able to add total number of background to the bottom of each day, if printing out an extras breakdown in the shooting schedule format. Or create a report that is strictly a background report.

We need the ability to change the first column's width in order to be able to show the entire name of the element that sometimes disappears into ellipsis if too long. Or the option to "fit the content to the cell". Thank you very much!

Limit edit access to breakdown input / edit to a certain department - for example the props department could edit /change the props category elements and input their breakdown into the work in progress schedule. This could also go for locations dept to import scouting pictures into the Locations Category or the art department could put director plan overheads to their category or storyboard artist images would go into a storyboard category, etc. These Dept Heads would not be able to alter the schedule itself nor edit other categories outside of their department.

Can we change minors ID from 'k' to anything we want eg. 'M'?

Cinapse will not notify you if the character is scheduled on two units on the same day at this time, but if you have two units filming two separate episodes, or even two episodes on the same unit on the same day, that will automatically be indicated on the Day out of Days. I suggest this as an update — it would be very useful. Last year i worked on Fuzzlecheck for a 40-episode production, and this feature was very useful. Another suggestion: split panels, stripboards Unit 1 and Unit 2. This way I can work with both units in parallel, scrolling one side of the shooting schedule to search for a scene, for example.

Can we talk about how challenging it is to see the actual result of custom layout changes? Forgetting the already requested features for layout manager, it takes many steps to see what the actual result of a layout change(s) will be. In order to see the result of a change and to then make an adjustment or more changes you have to follow all these steps EVERY time: Reports > New Report > Type Report Name > Select Report Type > Print Preview > Evaluate > Cancel Print Preview > Cancel Report > "X" Report > Layout Manager. It would be great if when in design mode we could see a real time or single-click update of what the layout change result will be when actually printing. It's a pretty tedious and time consuming process in its current setup. Unless I'm totally missing a better way.

Can I request A4 support for creating reports for the users who are not based in the US. Thank you.

Add the ability to upload images into a stripboard section for storyboards, particularly useful for commercial shoots and shot based schedules. Preferably this will resize images based on the size you make the box in the stripboard manager, as well as compress the images to manage file size. I have uploaded a recent commercial rough schedule I did trying out Cinapse for the first time where the director drew out a couple of simple storyboards and requested it be on a schedule for them. I added blank rows, then added the images in adobe after as an example, but this is not streamlined and causes issues around sizing.