How CineTrack Pro Works
Your entire production lives inside one project. Upload a script and the platform builds your breakdown, budget, wardrobe, casting calls, and schedule — automatically.
When you create a new project and upload a screenplay, CineTrack Pro runs a 7-step import chain that does in minutes what traditionally takes a production team days. Your script is formatted, every character, location, prop, and vehicle is extracted and priced, wardrobe is generated for every character in every scene, casting calls are created for every role, and a stripboard is built ready for scheduling.
The Production Lifecycle
Start Here
Write Your Script
Import a screenplay, write from scratch, or create A/V scripts for docs and commercials.
Pre-Production
Plan Everything
Breakdowns, budgets, casting, scheduling, wardrobe, storyboards, and call sheets.
Production
Shoot & Capture
Shot lists on set, capture footage linked to scenes, CinePost for Premiere Pro.
The Money
Budget → Payroll
Every element has a cost. Costs become bills. Bills become payroll. Pay cast and crew directly.
The Universal Script Import
Upload one screenplay file and CineTrack Pro runs seven steps back-to-back:
📥 What Happens Automatically
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Script Formatting — Raw text converted into properly formatted screenplay pages.
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Budget & Elements — Every character, location, prop, vehicle extracted with estimated costs.
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Script Breakdown — AI tags every element by department: camera, sound, wardrobe, props, stunts.
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Script Day Detection — AI reads scene headings and determines how many story days your film spans.
🤖 And Then...
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Wardrobe Generation — AI creates a complete outfit for every character in every scene.
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Wardrobe Condense — Duplicate outfits across scenes merged into one reusable entry.
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Casting Calls — Every character becomes a casting call ready for talent submissions.
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All seven steps run from a single file upload on your project dashboard. One click, one file, entire production scaffolded.
Who This Platform Is For
| Role | What You'll Use Most |
|---|---|
| Producer / Line Producer | Budget, Payroll, Scheduling, Call Sheets, Profit Sharing |
| Director | Screenplay, Storyboards, Shot List, Wardrobe, Ask Cine |
| Writer | Screenplay, Marrah AI Scoring, A/V Writer for Docs |
| AD / Production Manager | Stripboard, Call Sheets, DOOD, Breakdown |
| Post Supervisor / Editor | Capture, Assembly, CinePost (Premiere Pro), Deliverables |
| Production Accountant | Budget, Payroll, Accounting & Reporting, Cine Finance, Expenses |
| Talent / Cast | Casting Portal (submit auditions), Earnings Portal (view pay) |
Writing & Script
Every production starts with words on a page. Three ways to get your script in, and AI tools to make it better.
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Screenplay
CoreAIThree Ways to Start
📚 What You Need to Know
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AI Script Import — Paste a treatment, rough draft, or story idea. AI converts it into formatted screenplay and extracts every character, location, and prop.
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File Upload — Upload a PDF or screenplay file. CineTrack Pro parses it into editable scenes.
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Write From Scratch — Create scenes directly. Auto-formatting handles scene headings, action, dialogue, and transitions.
🎬 How to Do It
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Open your project → Click Screenplay
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For AI Import: Click Import → Paste text → Generate → Review → Save All
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For file upload: Click Import → Choose file → Scenes extracted automatically
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For new scenes: Click Add Scene → Type heading (INT. KITCHEN - NIGHT) → Write below
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Fastest path: use the Universal Script Import on your project dashboard. Runs formatting + breakdown + budget + wardrobe + casting in one shot.
Working With Your Script
📚 Features
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Scene Sidebar — All scenes listed on the left. Click to jump. Drag to reorder. Changes story order only — never touches your shooting schedule.
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Renumber — Re-sequences all scene numbers after reordering or deletions.
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Read All — Continuous scroll of the entire screenplay. Standalone toolbar button.
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Audio Narration — AI reads your script aloud. Great for table reads.
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Rehearsal Mode — Actors run lines with AI reading the other characters' parts.
📤 Exports
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Script PDF — Industry-standard formatted PDF of your entire screenplay.
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Sides PDF — Specific scene pages only. Send to actors before auditions or shoot days.
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Share Link — Shareable link for producers or investors to view storyboard without logging in.
Marrah — Cine Script Guide
Marrah is the AI script analyst. Scoring methodology by Camara A. Davis. Evaluates dialogue quality, visual storytelling, character development, and pacing. Every scene gets a verdict — KEEP, REWRITE, CUT, or MERGE — with specific notes on what to fix.
📚 How Marrah Works
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Full Script Score — Overall score plus per-category ratings with written notes.
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Analyze a Range — Score specific scenes via the scene picker. Perfect for checking revisions.
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Scene Verdicts — KEEP (working), REWRITE (concept right, execution needs work), CUT (remove), MERGE (combine with adjacent scene).
🎬 How to Use It
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Open Screenplay → Click Marrah in toolbar
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Choose Score Full Script or Analyze Range
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Read the notes — Marrah tells you what's weak and why
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Revise flagged scenes → Run Marrah again → Compare scores
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Repeat until every scene is KEEP. This is professional script development.
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Script length: 80–90 pages for indie productions. 90 is the absolute ceiling — longer scripts create scheduling and budget problems at indie scale.
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A/V Writer
NewAINot everything is a narrative film. Documentaries, commercials, and branded content use a two-column format: VIDEO (what the viewer sees) and AUDIO (what they hear). CineTrack Pro supports both natively.
📚 Two Content Types
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Documentary — Long-form. Interview segments, b-roll descriptions, archival references, narration scripts.
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Commercial — Short-form. 15/30/60 second spots with precise timing for every frame and audio cue.
🎧 Audio Type Tags
Every audio row gets a colored tag:
VO
Voiceover narration
SFX
Sound effects
MX
Music cues
INT
Interview / on-camera dialogue
AMB
Ambient / natural sound
Marrah AI works inside A/V Writer with separate documentary and commercial knowledge bases.
Planning & Scheduling
Script is written. Now turn it into a production plan — breakdowns, budgets, casting, wardrobe, storyboards, schedules, and call sheets.
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Script Breakdown
CoreAIA breakdown identifies everything needed to shoot each scene — every person, prop, location, vehicle, costume. Traditionally done with colored highlighters on printed pages. CineTrack Pro does it with AI in seconds.
📚 What It Does
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Reads every scene and identifies all production elements: cast, extras, locations, props, vehicles, wardrobe, effects, stunts, sound.
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Recognizes duplicate names — "MIKE" and "Mike Torres" are the same person. No duplicates.
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Enriches each element with descriptions, department tags, and cost estimates in batches.
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Feeds everything downstream — Elements become budget items. Characters become casting calls.
🎬 How to Run It
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Open your project → Click Script Breakdown
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If you used Universal Import, it already ran. Elements listed by scene.
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To run manually: Click Generate Breakdown → AI processes each scene
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Review results. Recategorize anything the AI got wrong — you are the final decision.
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Breakdown saves immediately even before AI enrichment finishes. If enrichment fails, your raw breakdown is safe.
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Budget
CoreThe budget is where every production element gets a price tag. Cast, crew, locations, props, vehicles — each has a cost, and the total tells you what your production costs to make.
📚 How It's Organized
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Cast — Day rate × shoot days + agent fee + per diem (daily food/transport allowance).
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Crew — Department heads, operators, assistants. Daily, weekly, or flat rates.
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Locations — Rental fees, permit costs, insurance requirements.
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Props, Vehicles, Wardrobe, Equipment — Everything else to rent, buy, or build.
🎬 Working With the Budget
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Open project → Click Budget
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Elements from import are here with AI-estimated costs. Review every estimate — AI gives a starting point, not a final number.
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Click any element to edit rate, quantity, days, notes. Add missing items manually.
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Total updates in real time. This is your production's bottom line.
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Important: Cast payroll = base pay + agent fee + per diem. Hotels, rental cars, and flights are separate budget items — they do NOT roll into the cast member's payroll bill.
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Casting
CoreEvery character needs an actor. Casting manages the pipeline from posting roles to booking talent, including a public portal where actors submit without a CineTrack Pro account.
📚 The Casting Pipeline
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Roles created automatically from script import. Every character becomes a casting call.
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Public Casting Portal — Share a unique link. Actors upload headshots, reels, and role preferences. No login needed.
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Pipeline stages: Submitted → Shortlist → Callback → Booked. Drag actors between stages.
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Callback emails go out from the platform with sides (script pages) attached.
🎬 How to Cast
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Open project → Casting → Roles from import are already there
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Edit roles: add age range, description, requirements
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Copy Portal Link → Share on socials, casting sites, or to talent reps
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Review submissions → Drag top picks to Shortlist → Send callbacks
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Final reads → Drag picks to Booked → Actors flow into call sheets and contracts
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Wardrobe
ProAIOne of the most AI-intensive tools on the platform. Manages every outfit for every character in every scene — built automatically from your screenplay.
📚 What the AI Generates
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Full outfit descriptions for every character in every scene based on story context.
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Character motivation — Why this character wears this outfit at this story point.
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Condensed duplicates — Same outfit in scenes 3, 7, 12 becomes one reusable entry.
🎬 On-Set Tools
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Photo Analysis — Upload fitting photos. AI compares to planned outfit and flags mismatches.
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Cine Stylist — AI suggests alternatives, mood references, color palette continuity.
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Day-by-Day View — What every character wears on each shoot day. Print for wardrobe department.
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Shot List & Storyboard
CoreAIPlan every camera setup before touching a camera. AI storyboard turns shot descriptions into visual images — see your film before you shoot it.
📚 Shot Planning
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Shots per scene. Wide establishing shot of the house. Medium on Sarah at the door. Close-up on her hand. Each shot has type, description, lens, movement.
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AI Storyboard — Click generate and AI creates a cinematic image from your description.
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Storyboard View — All images in sequence. Your entire film as a visual plan.
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Playback Mode — Auto-plays frames like an animatic. Your film pitch.
🎬 How to Build It
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Open project → Shot List → Select a scene → Add Shot
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Choose type: Wide, Medium, Close-Up, OTS, POV
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Write description → Click Generate Image
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Repeat for every shot → Storyboard View for the full plan
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Export PDF for crew or share link for remote review
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Scheduling (StripBoard)
CoreMovies aren't shot in story order. They're shot in the most efficient order. The StripBoard is how you figure that out — every scene is a colored strip. Drag them to build your schedule.
📚 Key Concepts
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Story order ≠ Shoot order. Your screenplay has scenes in story order. Your schedule shoots Scene 8 first because it's the cheapest location. Changing one never changes the other.
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Day Breaks — Drag break lines between strips to mark shoot day boundaries. Day count updates in real time.
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Auto-Time — Set target hours per day. System calculates pages per day and distributes scenes.
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Company Move Banners — Mark location changes during a shoot day.
🎬 Building Your Schedule
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Open project → StripBoard → Scenes from import already here as strips
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Group strips by location — all Kitchen scenes together, all Park scenes together
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Insert day breaks to split into individual shoot days
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Auto-Time to verify each day is realistic
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Schedule locked → Generate call sheets for each day
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Day Out of Days (DOOD)
ProGrid showing which shoot days each cast member works. Rows = cast. Columns = shoot days. Cells marked: W (work), S (start), F (finish), H (hold), R (rehearsal). Built automatically from your stripboard and casting. This is what production accountants use to calculate cast payroll — count the W's, multiply by day rate, that's the bill.
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Call Sheets
ProThe single most important document on a film set. Tells every person where to be, when to arrive, what's shooting, what to prepare.
📚 What's On a Call Sheet
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Header — Production name, date, shoot day, weather, nearest hospital.
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Schedule — Scenes shooting today, order, location, estimated timing.
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Cast — Each actor's makeup call, wardrobe call, on-set call.
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Crew — Department heads with call times.
🎬 Generating Call Sheets
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Open project → Call Sheets → Select shoot day
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Fill in: general call time, location, weather, notes
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Cast and scenes pre-populated from schedule — set individual call times
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Generate PDF → Print, email, or both. Send directly to cast and crew.
Shooting & Capture
Cameras rolling. Tools for set and edit bay — capturing footage and connecting with Premiere Pro.
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Capture
NewBridges your shot list and actual footage. Pick a source — screenplay or A/V document — and Capture shows that content's shots. Record or upload takes, all linked to the correct scene.
📚 How Capture Works
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Source Selector — Choose screenplay, documentary, or commercial. Shows only shots for that source.
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Record or Upload — Capture from device camera or upload from professional camera cards.
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Multiple Takes — Unlimited takes per shot. Rate and tag each one. Mark your best take.
🎬 On Set Workflow
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Open Capture → Select source → See shot list for current scene
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Record/upload take → Add notes → Rate it
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Star the best take → Move to next shot
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Scene done → Takes organized and ready for Assembly editor
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Animate — AI Video Generation
NewGenerate entire video scenes from your script using AI. Select a scene, choose a visual style, and Animate creates a complete video clip with voiceover, captions, and music. 40+ style presets from photorealistic to Pixar to anime. Consistent characters across scenes. Every generated clip auto-saves to your project media and appears in the Assembly editor.
📚 How Animate Works
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Select a scene — Pick from your screenplay or A/V document. Scene text auto-fills the prompt.
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Choose style preset — 40+ options: Default, Ghibli, Pixar, Anime, Cinematic, Ultra Realism, Claymation, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Comic, Lego, Minecraft, and more.
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Set options — Duration (10-120s), media type (AI Video, Moving Images, Stock), image quality (Base/Pro/Ultra), aspect ratio, voiceover, captions, music.
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Add characters — Upload reference images to keep characters consistent across all generated scenes. Select up to 5 per generation.
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Generate — AI creates the video. Progress shown in real-time. Clip auto-saves to project media.
🎬 Using Animate
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Open project → Click Animate tile (or top nav link)
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Click a scene in the left sidebar → Script fills the prompt
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Add visual guidelines: "Dark mood. Red palette. Blonde woman."
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Pick style preset (scroll thumbnails) → Set duration → Choose media type
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Click Generate Video → Wait 1-3 minutes → Video appears in Generated Videos sidebar
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Download, delete, or open Assembly Editor where clips are already waiting
$VCine Video Credits
Animate uses $VCine credits — paid video credits separate from your subscription $CINE credits. Video generation costs real money (AI compute), so $VCine must be purchased. Credits never expire.
Pricing: 30s = 25 $VCine · 60s = 50 $VCine · 90s = 80 $VCine · 120s = 150 $VCine
Purchase: Subscription & Billing → Buy $VCine Video Credits (50 for $10 up to 5,000 for $500)
Pricing: 30s = 25 $VCine · 60s = 50 $VCine · 90s = 80 $VCine · 120s = 150 $VCine
Purchase: Subscription & Billing → Buy $VCine Video Credits (50 for $10 up to 5,000 for $500)
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CinePost — Premiere Pro Integration
ProCinePost is a panel inside Adobe Premiere Pro that connects your CineTrack Pro production data directly to your editing timeline.
📚 What CinePost Does
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Slate Clap Detection — Identifies slate claps in footage to auto-sync and organize takes by scene and shot.
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Hey Cine Bridge — Ask production questions from inside Premiere. Answers come from your CineTrack Pro data.
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Google Drive Integration — Pull footage and assets directly from Drive without re-importing.
🎬 How to Install
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Download CinePost extension from your CineTrack Pro account
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Install via Adobe extension manager or ZXP Installer
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Premiere Pro → Window → Extensions → CinePost
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Log in → Select project → Script, shots, wardrobe, and Hey Cine all available
Post-Production
Footage shot. Now assemble, render, and deliver.
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Assembly Editor
NewTakes your best takes from Capture and lets you build a cut. Same source selector — pick screenplay or A/V doc. Drag takes into order, render to finished video via cloud processing.
📚 Assembly Workflow
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Select source — Same picker as Capture. Only shows takes from that source.
2
Drag takes to timeline — Best-marked takes ready to arrange in any order.
3
Cloud render — Video renders on cloud servers. No local horsepower needed.
4
Export — Download MP4 or generate shareable link for review.
✅ What You Get
Designed for assembly cuts and rough cuts. For fine cutting, color, and audio, move to Premiere Pro (which CinePost connects to). For first assemblies, client reviews, or festival submissions, the Assembly editor gets you there without additional software.
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Deliverables
CoreTask management for your production. Create tasks, assign to staff, set deadlines, attach files, track completion. From "Lock script by March 1" to "Deliver DCP by June 15."
Budget, Payroll & Finance
Your budget becomes bills. Bills become payroll. Payroll gets paid. Revenue gets shared. Every dollar tracked.
The Money Pipeline
Script → Breakdown → Budget → Bills → Payroll → Payment (money out)
Invoices → Revenue Events → Earnings → Payouts (money in)
Invoices → Revenue Events → Earnings → Payouts (money in)
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Payroll
CoreFinancePayroll bridges your budget and actually paying people. Every cast and crew member has a cost. Those costs become bills. Bills get approved and paid — entirely inside CineTrack Pro.
How Payroll Bills Are Calculated
📚 Understanding the Numbers
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Base Pay — Day rate × work days. For cast, the DOOD chart counts work days automatically.
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Agent Fee — Agent's commission added on top of base pay. Standard in the industry.
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Per Diem — Daily allowance for food, transport, incidentals.
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Payroll Bill = Base Pay + Agent Fee + Per Diem. That's the payment amount.
⚠️ What's NOT in Payroll
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Hotels — Separate vendor bill.
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Rental Cars — Separate vendor bill.
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Flights — Separate vendor bill.
Budget shows a cast member at $15,000 total — but their payroll check is $10,000 (rate + agent + per diem). The other $5,000 goes to separate hotel, car, and flight bills.
The Payroll Workflow
📚 Step by Step
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Budget elements become bills. Each cast/crew member's cost becomes a payable bill.
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Review and approve. Verify rates, days, totals. Adjust if needed.
3
Process payment. Paid through the platform. Recorded against the bill.
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Track outstanding balances. See what's paid and what's owed.
✅ What the Producer Sees
✓
Total budget vs. total spent
✓
Outstanding bills by department
✓
Per-person payment history
✓
Vendor bills separate from payroll
✓
Total remaining budget
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Bank separation: Every project keeps two separate bank connections — one for payroll/payables (money out) and one for receivables/royalties (money in). They never cross.
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Cine Finance
CoreFinanceThe payables dashboard — who you pay, what you owe, what you've paid. Bills generated from budget elements, so no double entry.
📚 Three Pieces
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Payees — Everyone who receives money. Created from budget or added manually.
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Bills — Each payee has bills: payroll, equipment, locations, catering.
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Payments — Record payments against bills. Partial or full. Always know what's outstanding.
🎬 How to Use It
1
Navigate to Cine Finance from sidebar
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Select project → See payees and outstanding bills
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Click a bill → Review → Approve → Record payment
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Dashboard shows total owed, paid, and remaining budget in real time
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Profit Sharing & Earnings
CoreFinanceWhen your production earns revenue — theatrical, streaming, licensing — those earnings split among participants according to their agreements.
📚 How It Works
1
Add participants — Producers, directors, talent, investors. Set percentages.
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Log revenue events — Each time money comes in, system calculates each person's share.
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Process payouts — Pay participants through connected bank accounts. Full audit trail.
🔒 Built-In Protections
✓
Immutable ledger — Entries can never be edited. Corrections are new adjustment entries.
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Deactivation preserves history — Removed participants keep all records forever.
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No password resets — Re-inviting links to existing accounts, never resets credentials.
Two Ways to View Earnings
👤 Staff Members
See My Earnings in their sidebar. View earnings across all projects. No separate login.
🌐 External Participants
Access standalone Earnings Portal with own login. See share, payment history, connect bank. Zero access to anything else.
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Invoicing & Revenue
CoreRevenue side of finances. Proposals → Estimates → Invoices → Payments. Full sales pipeline under the Sales menu.
Proposals
Pitch documents with line items and online acceptance.
Estimates
Detailed cost breakdowns. Convert to invoices in one click.
Invoices
Professional invoices with tax calculations and online payment.
Payments
Track incoming money. Partial payments and method recording.
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Accounting & Reporting
CoreChart of accounts, vendor management, financial reports. Each company gets its own dedicated accounts — private and independent. Reports pull from invoices, expenses, bills, and payments.
Chart of Accounts
Pre-configured for production companies. Customize to match your bookkeeping.
Vendor Management
Equipment houses, catering, transport, post facilities. Contact info and payment history.
Financial Reports
P&L, expense reports, budget vs. actual across all projects.
Expenses
Log expenses with receipts, categories, project assignment. Billable and non-billable.
Contracts & Business
Business infrastructure — contracts, customers, team management, and subscriptions.
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Contracts
CoreTalent agreements, crew deals, location agreements. Auto-fills production company name, project name, and talent details. Send directly from the platform with professional formatting.
📚 How Contracts Work
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Create from template or scratch. Company and project names auto-fill.
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Send directly — recipient gets professional email with contract attached.
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Track — See which contracts are sent, viewed, signed. Follow up on unsigned deals.
🎬 Common Uses
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Booked talent → Generate talent agreement → Send for signature
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Crew deals → Lock rates and terms before day one
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Location agreements → Signed before the scout
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All signed contracts stored in the project permanently
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Customers & Distributors
CoreCustomers are production companies, studios, or clients who fund your productions. Multiple contacts, projects, and billing history per customer. Distributors sell your finished productions — sales agents, streaming platforms, territorial distributors. Tracked separately because they serve different business functions.
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Staff & Team
CoreEvery person using CineTrack Pro gets a login, role-based permissions, and project assignments. Accountant sees budgets and payroll. Director sees screenplay and shot list. PA sees their tasks. Everyone gets exactly what they need.
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Subscriptions & $Cine Credits
CoreYour subscription determines project limits, team seats, storage, and available features. Some features like Wardrobe AI, DOOD, and Call Sheets are on higher tiers.
$Cine Credits
Every AI feature runs on $Cine. Monthly grant refills on your billing date. Storyboard images cost more than text analysis. Need more mid-month? Buy credit packs without changing your plan.
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Think of $Cine like film stock — some shots burn more than others. Full Marrah analysis costs less than generating 30 storyboard images. Balance shown in your account at all times.
Cine AI Tools
AI woven into every part of the platform. Here's every feature and the assistant that ties them together.
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Ask Cine — Your Production Brain
AIConversational AI that knows your entire production. Reads your actual data — screenplay, budget, schedule, casting, wardrobe — and answers questions in plain English.
📚 What You Can Ask
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"Who plays Sarah?" → Booked actor, contact info, headshot
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"What does Mike wear in Scene 12?" → Wardrobe description
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"What scenes have fight choreography?" → Matches from all scenes
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"What day do we shoot at the church?" → Stripboard answer
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"Are we over budget on locations?" → Budget vs. actual comparison
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"Rewrite Scene 5 with more tension" → AI-generated revision
🎬 How to Use It
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Open project → Ask Cine
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Type your question in plain English
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AI searches all production data and returns an answer from your real data
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Follow up — context carries between questions
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Ask Cine gets smarter as your production data grows. More complete data = better answers.
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Every AI Feature
AI| Feature | Where | What It Does |
|---|---|---|
| Marrah Script Scoring | Screenplay, A/V Writer | Analyzes writing. KEEP/REWRITE/CUT/MERGE verdicts. Separate knowledge bases for screenplay, documentary, commercial. |
| AI Script Import | Screenplay | Raw text → formatted screenplay + extracted production elements. |
| AI Storyboard | Shot List | Generates cinematic images from shot descriptions. |
| Script Breakdown AI | Script Breakdown | Reads screenplay, identifies every element needed per scene. |
| Wardrobe AI | Wardrobe | Outfit generation, photo analysis, styling, character motivation. |
| Audio & Rehearsal | Screenplay | AI reads script aloud. Actors rehearse with AI reading other roles. |
| Ask Cine | Project Tab | Conversational AI across all production data. |
| Auto-Time | StripBoard | Calculates shoot time per day, distributes scenes across days. |
All AI runs on $Cine credits. Monthly grant included with subscription. Additional packs available anytime.