Your whole team on one project, privately over your own network
How SetShaper keeps real-time team collaboration fast and private, peer-to-peer over your own network, with nothing stored on a server.
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Run your entire production
from one app
Script breakdown, one-click scheduling, Day out of Days, transport and cost tracking, in a desktop app that works offline. Move a shoot day, and the cast and crew costs in your budget follow it.
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7 days free, then $49.99 a month or $449.99 a year. Cancel anytime, or buy a time pass or a lifetime license.
Product overview video
Five or six tools.
Or one that stays in sync.
Most productions piece together five or six different tools. One for scheduling, another for breakdown, spreadsheets for the budget, something else for call sheets, and a notes app for transport. SetShaper does all of it in one app, and the parts stay connected. Let the optimizer lay your scenes across shoot days, pick your dates, then import your cast and props into the budget. They stay tied to that schedule, so moving a day updates every actor's days and every prop's usage on its own.
See every feature Smart Scheduling
Schedule your whole shoot in one click
Set your dates, drop in the script, and hit Optimize. Every scene lands on a day, with locations grouped, day and night kept apart, and actor availability respected. Give your locations their GPS coordinates and it keeps the driving between them down too.
Budgeting
Cast and crew costs that follow your schedule
Start from a template, your own rate cards, or a budget you bring in from Movie Magic (.xml) or Excel. Then the schedule does the arithmetic: import a character or a whole department and SetShaper reads their work, hold, travel and prep days off the Day out of Days, each at its own rate. Move a shoot day and their lines in the budget follow it.
Script Breakdown
Modern AI script breakdown
SetShaper's AI tags props, wardrobe, vehicles, and stunts on your own computer, so your script never leaves it. Promote the tags you want to track to elements, import them into the budget, and see every scene an element appears in on the Magic Sheet.
Call Sheets
Call sheets and sides from your schedule
When the day is on the schedule, Autofill brings in its scenes, cast and locations, with the hospital and parking you saved on each location. Weather fills in for any location with GPS coordinates whenever you have a connection. Send a prelim, make it final, and issue numbered revisions with the changes printed under the header. The day's sides come out attached to the same PDF, instead of being cut by hand in Final Draft.
Storyboards & Shotlist
No storyboard artist needed
Link camera angles and framing to every scene. Shots without art get automatic framing diagrams based on shot size, angle, and subject. Set shot timing and export your storyboard as a video animatic.
Cost Tracking
Know what's spent and what's left
Log spend against every budget line and attach the invoice or proof of payment, so the variance moves as you go. The Payment Schedule shows what falls due when, and Cashflow tracks money in against money out, so you can see a short week before it arrives.
One subscription instead of several
Many productions pay for a scheduling app, a budgeting app, and another tool for breakdown and call sheets. One SetShaper subscription covers scheduling, budgeting, breakdown and call sheets, with every feature included.
Separate tools
- A scheduling app
- A budgeting app
- A tool for breakdown and call sheets
- A screenwriting app
A subscription or license for each, a file in each, and the same scenes, cast and dates typed into each one.
SetShaper, all of it
- Script, breakdown, scheduling, and budget
- Call sheets, shotlists, storyboards, transport
- Real-time team collaboration, private over your own network
- Every feature in one subscription or time pass, updates included
$449.99/yr
or $49.99 a month
no tiers, no add-ons
Auto Script Breakdown Smart Scheduling Gantt Charts Call Sheets Cashflow Tracking Transport Route Planner Storyboards Media Pool Custom Reports Day Out of Days Offline First Team Workflow Hub Built-In Backups Rate Cards Light & Dark Mode Auto Script Breakdown Smart Scheduling Gantt Charts Call Sheets Cashflow Tracking Transport Route Planner Storyboards Media Pool Custom Reports Day Out of Days Offline First Team Workflow Hub Built-In Backups Rate Cards Light & Dark Mode
Your production workflow,
simplified
Import Script
Write or import
Break Down
Auto-tag elements
Schedule
Optimize shoot days
Set Budget
Estimate & track
Call Sheets
Generate & distribute
Wrap & Report
Final reports
A native desktop app,
even with no internet.
As a native desktop application, SetShaper runs locally on your computer. On a closed soundstage or a remote location with zero signal, it keeps working. The schedule optimizer and the script breakdown run inside the app, so nothing is metered and there are no credits to run out of mid-shoot. Your projects are files on your own computer.
Built for production professionals
Producers
Bird's-eye budget dashboards, cashflow tracking, and production Gantt charts.
Line Producers
Detailed budgets with actuals, payment schedules, and variance analysis.
Production Managers
One-click stripboard optimization, call sheets, transport logistics, and DOOD tracking.
Studios
Unified workspace for multiple projects with offline-first security and full reports.
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Why your schedule, budget and call sheets belong in one file
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· 3 min read
Try it on a real project, free for 7 days
Run a full production through SetShaper before you pay anything. Cancel inside the trial and nothing is charged.
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