The Stripboard is the default view of the Scheduling tab. It holds every scene, day break, and banner in shooting order, and displays them in one of two modes — List view or Stripboard view.
Before you begin
When to use the Stripboard
Use the Stripboard to:
Build the shooting order from scratch.
Reorder scenes, insert day breaks, add banners.
Assign units, locations, and shooting time estimates.
Run AI Dude or 3-level sort.
Edit scene details inline.
Export the schedule to MMSX, SEX, XLSX, or PDF.
For real-date mapping and conflict detection, switch to the Calendar view. For cast and tag scheduling across shooting days, use the DOOD report.
Views
The Stripboard displays the same schedule in two modes. Switch between them with the two view icons on the right side of the toolbar:
List view — one row per schedule item, with columns for set, cast IDs, pages, unit, estimation, script day, and shooting location. Best for data entry, and for scanning coverage across the shoot.
Stripboard view — one vertical strip per scene, laid out left to right and color-coded by interior or exterior and day or night. A legend above the board maps each color to a category: INT · DAY, EXT · DAY, INT · NIGHT, EXT · NIGHT. Best for reading the shape of the schedule — night blocks, location runs, and day lengths.
Switching modes changes the layout only. Scene order, day breaks, banners, and every value you have entered stay the same. See Switch between List view and Stripboard view.
Scriptyard and Boneyard
The Stripboard splits scenes into two yards:
Scriptyard — scenes included in your shooting schedule. Day breaks and banners live here.
Boneyard — scenes parked outside the schedule (for example, title sequences, deleted scenes, or scenes pending a decision). Boneyard scenes never appear in the Calendar, DOOD, or schedule exports.
Switch yards using the Scriptyard / Boneyard tabs above the strip list. Move a scene between yards from the strip's gear menu (Move to Scriptyard / Move to Boneyard).
Anatomy of a strip
Each item in the Scriptyard is one of three types:
Scene strip — a scene with its number, set heading, page count, estimation, location, unit, cast IDs, script day, and tags.
Day break — a separator that marks the start of a shooting day, with a shoot date, notes, and per-day page and time totals.
Banner — a colored divider for company moves, meal breaks, end-of-day markers, or any custom note.
Strip actions
Hover over any strip to reveal its gear ⚙ menu on the right side. The available actions depend on the strip type:
Scene strip — Add day break under, Add banner under, Duplicate scene, Move to Boneyard, Edit Schedule Item.
Day break — Update day break, Remove day break. A 📄 Create Call Sheet shortcut also appears next to the gear, opening the call sheet builder pre-filled for that shooting day.
Banner — Update banner, Remove banner.
Batch reorder with multi-select
To rearrange several strips at once:
Hold Ctrl (Windows) or Cmd (Mac) and click each strip to add it to your selection.
Drag any selected strip to the new position.
All selected strips move together. See the Multi-Strip Sort badge above the strip list for a quick reminder.
Navigation bar
A color-segmented bar sits above the schedule, with one segment per shooting day. Hover over a segment to see which day it covers, for example End of Day 2 of 10. Select a segment to scroll the schedule to that day — useful on a long shoot, where scrolling strip by strip is slow.
Script panel
The first icon in the toolbar's right-hand control group opens a script panel on the left. Select a scene in the schedule, and the panel loads that scene's screenplay text. Zoom controls in the panel header change the text size. The panel is read-only — to edit script text, go to the Script tab. See View a scene's script in the Stripboard.
Display options
Toggle what each strip shows from the gear ⚙ menu in the Stripboard toolbar — synopsis, characters, script day, and tag categories (Props, Costumes, Special Effects, and more). These options apply in both views. See Change what each strip shows. To label scenes with a story day, see Set the script day for a scene.
