February introduced a major improvement to how scheduling teams collaborate in Cinapse: Private Stripboards.
Scheduling is rarely linear. Assistant Directors often need space to explore different approaches, test alternate shooting orders, and work through ideas before sharing them with the wider production team.
With this release, Cinapse now supports the first stage of a clearer scheduling workflow:
Private → Shared → Published
This structure reflects how schedules actually evolve during prep and production.
You can now create Private Stripboards that are only visible to you or selected collaborators.
This allows AD teams to experiment with scheduling ideas without affecting the stripboard used by the rest of the production.
Private Stripboards are ideal for:
You can also invite specific collaborators, such as the 1st AD, 2nd AD, 2nd 2nd AD, or UPM, to work on a private stripboard together.
When the schedule is ready, the board can be shared with the rest of the production team.
Shared stripboards remain the primary way teams collaborate on schedules in Cinapse today.
Once a scheduling plan is ready for the wider team, it can be shared so collaborators across the production can review and coordinate around the schedule.
We are currently working on Published Stripboards, which will allow productions to formally publish an official version of the schedule.
Published boards will make it easier to:
Schedules evolve through many iterations before they become the official plan for the day.
Private Stripboards give AD teams the freedom to experiment and collaborate in smaller groups before sharing changes with the broader production.
This mirrors the way scheduling actually happens on real productions and is part of our ongoing effort to make Cinapse the most powerful collaborative scheduling platform for film and television.
