Free film production tools

Audio Parser

Upload audio takes and the parser listens for the spoken scene, shot, and take numbers, lets you correct them, and downloads files renamed to match.

Crew Rate Lookup

Search published union minimum rates for film crew roles by role, union local, or department, with the effective date and a link to each rate sheet.

Day Out of Days Generator

Click the days each cast member works and the generator fills in SW, W, H, WF, and SWF codes, counts work and hold days, and exports the grid as a CSV.

Film Budget Estimator

Build a top-sheet level film budget from shoot days, crew size, day rates, cast weeks, and percentages for fringes, post, insurance, and contingency.

Film Incentive Calculator

Estimate a film tax credit or cash rebate from your budget and local qualifying spend, using each program's base rate, uplift, minimum spend, and per-project cap.

Meal Penalty Calculator

Work out meal penalties per person and for the whole crew from call time, meal time, and the half-hour penalty schedule for IATSE or SAG-AFTRA.

Overtime Calculator

Calculate a crew member's gross for one day from an hourly rate, hours worked, a guarantee, time-and-a-half and double-time thresholds, and sixth or seventh day.

Page Count Calculator

Add up scene lengths in eighths of a page, get the total in pages and decimals, and see how many shoot days that is at your pages-per-day pace.

Shoot Days Estimator

Estimate shoot days from script pages, a pages-per-day pace, night pages, company moves, and contingency, with every adjustment shown so you can argue with it.

Shooting Ratio Calculator

Turn runtime, shooting ratio, camera count, and recording data rate into hours of footage and terabytes of camera originals, total and per shoot day.

Stripboard Color Key

An interactive key to stripboard colors: white for INT day, yellow for EXT day, blue for INT night, green for EXT night, black day breaks, and banner strips.

Sunrise and Sunset Planner

See first light, sunrise, golden hour, sunset, last light, and hours of daylight for seven days at a filming location, in the location's local time.

Turnaround Calculator

Enter wrap time and a rest period (12 hours SAG-AFTRA, 10 or 9 hours IATSE, or your own) to get the earliest next call and whether tomorrow's call is short.