Your whole team on one project, privately over your own network

A production runs on shared information. The producer is in the budget, the 1st AD is on the schedule, the script supervisor is tagging the breakdown — and all of it has to stay in sync. For a long time the only way to do that was to email a file around, or to push everything up to someone’s server and hope the connection holds.

FilmBase takes a different route: your team works on the same project at the same time, peer-to-peer, straight over your own network. There’s no server in the middle and no cloud account to set up. Whether you’re cutting a commercial, a music video, an episode, or a short, the project lives on your machines and nowhere else.

How it works

One person opens a project and shares it with the team. Everyone who’s on the same network sees each other and can be invited in. From then on, edits to the budget, schedule, script, stripboard, and breakdown land on everyone’s screens as they happen. It’s fast because the changes travel directly between machines, and it’s private because they never leave them.

It’s also conflict-aware. If two people change the same thing at once, the most recent edit wins instead of the two values fighting each other, so concurrent work stays sane. Attached files — expense invoices, storyboard images — move the same way, directly between machines.

You decide who sees what

Not everyone on a production should see everything. From the team’s Members panel, an admin sets what each person can open and edit: the budget, the schedule, the script, rate cards, or the ability to manage other members. Bring an accountant onto the budget without handing over the script. Give a 1st AD the schedule without exposing the deal memos.

There’s a per-project chat next to the work, and a full change history that records every edit under the name of whoever made it — with one-click revert if something got changed that shouldn’t have.

Private by design

Nothing about this touches a server. The team network and the project data both stay on your own network, which is exactly what you want on a closed set. Your production’s numbers, schedule, and script are no one’s business but yours.

Working across cities

Team spread across locations? Put everyone on one virtual network with an overlay service like ZeroTier. It bridges your machines onto a single virtual LAN, so FilmBase discovers and syncs between them exactly as if you were all in the same room — same speed, same privacy, still no cloud storage in the middle.

That’s the whole idea: one project, your whole team, in real time — and it stays yours.