Bringing Your Files In

Movie Magic Scheduling 10 opens your Movie Magic Scheduling 6 schedules directly. There is no separate conversion step.

Open a Schedule from Movie Magic Scheduling 6

Open the .msd file the same way you open any schedule. It opens in a temporary state, and you save it to the .mmsx format. See Import a Schedule from Legacy Movie Magic Scheduling 6.

Your .msd file is not changed. Movie Magic Scheduling 10 saves your work to a new .mmsx file, so the original stays where it is.

Note

With Autosave on, the system prompts you to Save As when you open a .msd file, so the schedule is saved to .mmsx before Autosave takes over.

Your Strips Are in the Boneyard

After the import, your strips sit in the Boneyard rather than on the Board itself. This is the same place strips started in Movie Magic Scheduling 6, where the manual called it the Unscheduled section. Drag them onto the Board and schedule as normal. See Managing Strips.

What Comes Across

Your category settings come across. Movie Magic Scheduling 10 creates every element property defined in your Movie Magic Scheduling 6 categories, along with the fields defined in Category Settings.

A few specifics worth knowing:

• Interior/Exterior and Time of Day values are preserved as they were in the .msd file.
• Red Flags import as Red Flags, one per day, and are not converted to Events.
• Element names that contain a quantity, such as POLICE CARS (10), import as written. The number stays part of the name.

Importing a Tagged Script

If you have a script you already tagged, import it rather than rebuilding the breakdown. See Importing Breakdown Sheets.