Strip Display¶

Strip Designer Window Overview¶

Customize how your Strips display by selecting Strip Designer from the Design menu, or by clicking the Edit icon.

Strip Designer from Design menu

On the Strip Designer window, you can:

Customize the Strips display
Customize the Strip Colors
Customize the Day Break strips display
Customize the Shoot Day strips display
Add different Strip Layouts

Customize the Strips Display¶

The different fields available for a strip are: Scene #, I/E, Set, Element, Custom Text, Script Day, ID List, Pages, Script Page, Page 8th, Location, Unit, Shoot Time, Screen Time, Space, Episode, Sequence, Shooting Date, Shooting Day, D/N, Element Quantity, Sunrise, Sunset, Comments.

Note

D/N appears by default in the Board, One-line Schedule, Shooting Schedule, and Daily Category designers.

To customize the Strip Layout, drag and drop the fields as needed from the Available Fields panel to the customize panel.

Drag and drop fields to customize strips

Note

When adding Element, ID List, or Element Quantity, select the category to be displayed after dragging the field onto the strip.

Category selection after dragging field

Note

When adding Custom Text, type the text in the text field after dragging the field.

Custom Text field example

You can adjust the columns in the preview by hovering and dragging the red borders between cells. You can adjust in width and in height. This can also be done in the Board itself.

Adjust columns in preview

Column adjustment options

Scale height displays the full text of the element. The Strip will automatically resize its height as needed.

Scale height option

Scale height result

Font Size¶

The Font Size dropdown offers six options: Default, Small, X-Small, Medium, Large, X-Large.

Strip Designer with the FONT SIZE dropdown open

Line Style¶

The LINE STYLE dropdown sets whether row separators appear as Solid or Dotted lines. LINE STYLE works alongside the LINES dropdown (None, All, Vert). When LINES is set to None, LINE STYLE is disabled.

Strip Designer with the LINE STYLE dropdown open

Strip Rows¶

Strips support up to four rows of fields. Drag fields from the field list into rows three and four to display additional information without widening the strip.

After making your selections, click Save & Close. Your Strip layout will be saved as a part of your Schedule.

Below the setup table is a Strip layout preview. Navigate from strip to strip by clicking on the arrows.

More to know about customizing Strip displays:

If you place the same item in two cells next to each other, the cells merge.
Green in the setup table indicates two cells merged vertically. Blue indicates two cells merged horizontally.
You cannot merge both vertically and horizontally.
With any cell selected, you can choose SCALE HEIGHT TO CONTENT, which will wrap data in the cell and increase the cell size so that all data is visible in every Strip. You can also change the alignment of the data in the cell (left, center, or right alignment).
Your Strip layout will be saved as a part of your Schedule.

Create Layout¶

On top of the window, click on the Layout drop-down menu, then click + NEW LAYOUT.

New Layout button

Name the Layout.

Name Layout dialog

To edit a Layout, click the three dots next to the name of the layout. There you can Edit Name, Duplicate, or Delete a Layout.

Edit Layout options

Note

The Layout selected in the Edit window will be the one displayed on your Board. To change the display of your Board, go back to the Design window and select another Layout.

Day Breaks¶

You can customize the display of the Day Breaks from the Strip Designer. In the TYPE drop-down menu, select Day Breaks.

Day Breaks type selection

Day Break Fields¶

The fields available for a Day Break strip are:

End of Day #: Automatically shows the Shooting Day.
Day Break Date: Automatically shows the Shooting Date.
Total Pages: Automatically sums the page count for the day.
Estimated Time: Automatically sums the Shoot Time for the day.
Screen Time: Automatically sums the scenes' screen timing for the day.
Element Quantity: Automatically sums the total of a selected element category for the day.
Sunrise: Displays the earliest Sunrise value entered across breakdown sheets on that day.
Sunset: Displays the latest Sunset value entered across breakdown sheets on that day.
Space: Extra space between fields.
Custom Text: Static text you define.

Drag and drop the fields as needed from the Available Fields panel to the customize panel.

Day Breaks drag and drop fields

Note

When adding Element Quantity, select the category to be displayed after dragging it onto the strip.

Day Breaks category selection

Sunrise and Sunset can each appear once per banner. The same field list is available on Shoot Day banners. See Shoot Days for details on the Shoot Day designer.

How Sunrise and Sunset Are Calculated¶

When Sunrise or Sunset is included on a Day Break banner, the displayed value is derived from the Breakdown Sheets scheduled on that day:

Sunrise: the earliest Sunrise value entered across all Breakdown Sheets on that day.
Sunset: the latest Sunset value entered across all Breakdown Sheets on that day.
No values entered: the banner displays 00:00 until a value is added to at least one sheet on that day.

The displayed values update as you add, remove, or edit Breakdown Sheets on that day. See Scene Header Information for how to enter Sunrise and Sunset on a Breakdown Sheet.

Day Break banner with Sunrise and Sunset

Day Break Layout¶

Adjust the columns in the preview by hovering and dragging the red borders between cells. Select if you want lines between cells. Select the color for the background of the Day Break.

Day Breaks color and font settings

Note

The text color will automatically adapt: black for light backgrounds, white for dark backgrounds.

Select the font size, alignment, and font style. Click Save & Close. The Day Break layout will be saved as a part of the Schedule.

Day Breaks support up to four rows, the same as standard strips.

Day Break with four rows of fields configured

See Day Breaks for how to add and manage Day Breaks on the Board.

Shoot Days¶

Shoot Day strips display the production's shoot-day count above each Day Break. They are managed separately from Day Breaks in the Strip Designer, but the two strip types work together on the Board: each Shoot Day strip is linked to the Day Break beneath it.

How Shoot Day Strips Behave on the Board¶

A Shoot Day strip appears above each Day Break, showing Shoot Day # [sequence] FULLDAY, MONTH DD YYYY.

The Shoot Day strip and its Day Break move together. The Shoot Day strip cannot be moved independently.
When a Day Break is moved to the Boneyard, its Shoot Day strip shows Shoot Day # without a sequence count.

Customize the Shoot Day Display¶

In the Strip Designer, select Shoot Day from the TYPE dropdown.

Strip Designer with Shoot Day type selected

The Shoot Day designer mirrors the Day Break designer. By default, Shoot Day strips display with a black background and white text.

Shoot Day Fields¶

Shoot Day strips share the same Available Fields panel as Day Breaks (see Day Break Fields above), including Sunrise, Sunset, Custom Text, Screen Time, Space, and Element Quantity. Sunrise and Sunset can each appear once per banner.

Drag fields from the Available Fields panel onto the strip to include them. Drag fields off the strip to remove them.

Click Save & Close to apply your Shoot Day layout to the Schedule.

Strip Color¶

Strip colors can be customized in the STRIP COLORS tab within the Strip Designer Window. Assign colors by scene header field values to make your Board easier to read at a glance.

Click on the STRIP COLOR tab.

Strip Color tab

For each Time of Day, select the color by clicking on the color box on the right.

Strip color selection

Click Save & Close.