Financial
Generate formatted financial documents for producers, investors, and stakeholders. Export to PDF (A4 landscape) or Excel.
- Budget Top Sheet: Category-level summary with ATL/BTL sections
- Detailed Budget Report: Full line-item detail with quantities, rates, and amounts
- Cost Report: Budget vs Actuals with variance highlighted
- ATL/BTL Report: Above- and below-the-line breakdown
- Expense Transactions: Every logged expense, filterable by date
- Income vs Expenditure: Money in against money out
- Budget Comparison: Two scenarios side by side
- Payment Schedule & Cashflow: A matched family of reports sharing the detailed budget's clean design. Pick a date range — This Month, This Week, or a custom window — to export exactly the period a financier asked for.
Every report opens in the same dialog with a live preview, so a report opened from the Reports hub looks identical to one opened from its own page.
Presets, zoom & live Excel. Save an export setup and pick it from a dropdown next time; zoom the preview (or Ctrl+scroll) to check the fine print; and export to Excel with live formulas — each line is qty × rate, and categories and totals sum themselves, laid out to match the PDF.
Branding & Custom Text
Every PDF FilmBase produces can carry your production's identity.
- Your logos on every page: Upload a production company logo and a show logo in Settings > Region and Format > Branding, and they print in the header of every export: budgets, cost reports, schedules, call sheets, and the contact list. The two sit side by side with a thin divider between them.
- Placed your way: Each export dialog has controls to include the logos and set their size (S/M/L) and position (left, middle, or right). The choice is shared: set it in one export dialog and every other export uses it.
- Your own text: The "Generated by" line and the footer note are editable in every export dialog's Custom Text section. Like the logos, a change made in one dialog carries to all of them.
- Travels with the project: Logos are stored inside the project folder, so a project opened on another machine keeps its branding.
Scheduling
Generate scheduling documents per shooting block. Export to PDF or Excel.
- One-Liner Schedule: Scene list in shooting order with scene number, description, INT/EXT, DAY/NIGHT, cast numbers, pages. Day breaks show totals.
- Shooting Schedule: The full stripboard with the columns, colour-coded strips, and scene synopsis you choose. Tall strips never split across a page break.
- Day Out of Days: Cast availability grid with standard status codes (SW, W, WF, H, etc.). Features an option to hide blank dates.
- Crew Schedule: Unit availability grid, filterable by department, with an option to hide blank dates.
- Cast List: Character assignments with actor name, phone, email, scene count, and total pages
- Production Schedule: The whole production timeline as a visual lane chart (each phase a colour bar across a date axis) or a dated table — exported from the Production Schedule page
- Breakdown Sheets: One sheet per scene with the scene's metadata, synopsis, and all tagged elements organized by category
- Driver Reports: Daily transport overview with driver schedules, passenger assignments, and pickup/dropoff details
Excel matches the PDF. Every scheduling report exports to a styled Excel workbook that mirrors its PDF and honours the same options you picked — columns, colour-coded strips, synopsis — with page counts in eighths. Choose portrait or landscape with the orientation picker, and send only relevant report pages to specific departments.
Team Workflow Hub
Collaborate with your team without the cloud. Export a unified package containing your schedule, budget, contacts, and attachments. Teammates import the package and FilmBase auto-merges their changes into the project.
- Unified Packages: Everything in one .fbtw file. Schedule, budget, contacts, and attachments
- Auto-Merge: Import a teammate's package and FilmBase merges their changes into yours
- Offline Collaboration: No cloud required. Pass files via USB, email, or your file sharing tool of choice