Global Settings

Settings that apply to all projects.

• User Profile: Username, email, display name, production company, role, avatar
• Theme: Dark mode, Light mode, or System default
• Accent colour: Choose the colour that runs through the app — teal, blue, purple, amber, rose, or neutral — and switch the selected sidebar item between a filled pill and a softer tint
• Infrastructure: Default projects folder, backups folder, auto-backup frequency (15/30 min, hourly, daily, manual)
• Stripboard Appearance: Default strip height, column visibility, color mode
• Budget Appearance: Font sizes, weights, text transforms per hierarchy level. Grid line visibility, thickness, and colors.
• Default Account Numbering: Base number, increment, format types per level (numeric, alpha, roman), separators
• Licensing: Enter and manage your license key

Accounts & Signing In

A password is optional. Set one if you want FilmBase to ask for it when you open the app; leave it blank and it opens straight to your work.

• Optional password: Add a password to lock the app, or skip it and open straight in. A password you set can't be reset, so keep it somewhere safe.
• Remember me: On a computer you trust, tick "Remember me on this device" at the password prompt and FilmBase won't ask again until you sign out.
• Multiple profiles: If there's more than one profile on a computer, FilmBase opens the one you used last. Sign out to switch.
• Projects travel with you: Projects aren't tied to the computer that made them — copy or move a project folder to another machine and open it there. When you create a project you can give it its own password, or choose "Share freely" so anyone you send it to can open it without one.

Project Settings

Settings that apply to the current project only.

Budget Settings

• Currency: Define currencies with exchange rates for multi-currency budgets
• Units: Custom unit definitions and conversions
• Fringes: Fringe benefit tiers (tax, insurance, benefits) applied to categories
• Global Variables: Named values/formulas (e.g., "ShootDays = 30") referenced throughout the budget
• Account Codes: Customize numbering format per level with regeneration support

Branding

Upload a production company logo and a show logo (Region and Format > Branding) and they print on the header of every PDF export. Each export dialog controls whether they appear and at what size and position. The images live inside the project folder, so they travel with the project.

Script Settings

Script-specific configuration per project.

Backup & Restore

Backups

FilmBase creates clean, optimized backups of your project data. Auto-backups run at the frequency set in Global Settings. Manual backups can be created at any time via the toolbar. Backups are stored in your project's backups folder. The system keeps the most recent 10 auto-backups and preserves all named backups.

Restoring

Restore from any backup via the Project Hub. A safety backup of the current state is automatically created before restoring.

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