Section 3.6: Stripboard & Scene Scheduling

For scripted and shoot-based projects, the Scheduling section of a project is where your scenes turn into an actual shoot calendar. It's built around the Stripboard, a drag-and-drop tool for sequencing scenes into shoot days, alongside two supporting reports that keep cast and production elements accounted for.

1. Where to find it

Open a project and go to its Scheduling section. From here you can move between four sub-views:

• Stripboard — sequence your scenes into shoot days
• Day Out of Days — see which cast members and elements are needed on which days
• Script Breakdown — where scenes and elements originate (see Section 2.4)
• Master Book of Elements — a project-wide inventory of every tagged element

Scenes and elements don't get created here — they're populated by Script Breakdown. If you haven't broken down a script yet (or added scenes manually), start with Section 2.4 before you come here to schedule.

2. The Stripboard

The Stripboard represents each scene as a colored "strip" that you drag and drop into place to build your shooting order. It follows standard industry color coding so you can read a board at a glance:

You can view the board in three modes:

• Focused Day — zeroes in on a single shoot day at a time
• Classic Stripboard — the traditional full-board strip layout
• Columns — a column-based layout for scanning across days

What you can do on the board

• Drag strips to reorder scenes within and across shoot days
• Edit a scene's estimated duration directly on its strip
• Insert Day Type banners to mark non-shooting or special days: Shooting, Travel, Hiatus, Rehearsal, and Holiday
• Add ad-hoc break or travel rows between strips for things that aren't full scenes
• Get turnaround warnings — the board flags it if there isn't enough rest time between the end of one shoot day and the start of the next

Extra actions

• Sync Crew to Schedule — align crew scheduling with your current stripboard order
• AI Sort Board — let ABRAM automatically sequence your scenes into a suggested order
• CSV export — download the board as a spreadsheet
• Print — a landscape print view for printed call sheets or set copies

3. Plan access

The Stripboard is fully editable on every plan, including the free one. Adding production days, reordering strips, Sync Crew to Schedule, CSV export and the print view are all included. AI Sort Board runs on AI credits, so it draws on the free plan's trial allowance or a paid plan's monthly one.

4. Day Out of Days

Day Out of Days is an automatically generated report built from your scenes and their tags. It lays out which cast members and elements are needed on which shoot days, so you can see availability and workload across the whole shoot at a glance rather than scene by scene.

5. Master Book of Elements

The Master Book of Elements is your project-wide inventory of every tagged element — props, wardrobe, vehicles, and more (tagging happens during Script Breakdown). For each element, it shows which scenes it appears in and which shoot days it's booked for. Anything tied to a scene that hasn't been placed on the Stripboard yet is flagged Unscheduled, making it easy to catch gaps before you lock your shoot days.