FilmBase

Most productions juggle five or six disconnected tools: a scheduling app, a budgeting app, spreadsheets, a call sheet template and a notes app for transport. FilmBase puts all of it in one desktop application and, crucially, keeps the pieces 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 one shoot day updates every actor's days and every prop's usage by itself.

Because FilmBase is a native desktop app, it runs locally and works with no internet at all. That matters on a closed soundstage or a remote location: the schedule optimizer and the AI script breakdown run inside the app, so nothing is metered and there are no credits to run out of mid-shoot. Your projects are ordinary files on your own computer, and the AI breakdown tags props, wardrobe, vehicles and stunts without your script ever leaving the machine.

Beyond scheduling and budgeting, FilmBase covers the paperwork that eats production time: one-click stripboard optimization, Day out of Days, brainstormed storyboards linked to camera angles and shot timing, animatic video export, call sheets and sides generated from the schedule, transport route planning, cost tracking against every budget line, custom reports and built-in backups. It is built for producers, line producers, production managers and studios who need a single source of truth for a project.