This is the biggest update we’ve shipped so far. Until now, CineLog was about planning your shots. Now it manages the people too. There are three big pieces in this release, and those are Cast & Crew, project access control, and Call Sheets.
Cast & Crew
The new Cast & Crew screen is the home for your whole team. There are two ways to look at it. The Cast and Crew view organizes everyone by group, department, and role, so a Key Grip lives under Camera and Grip where you’d expect. The Contacts view is a flat list of everyone in your workspace, and you can filter it down to a single project.
You don’t need to know who’s doing a job to start planning it. You can create a vacant slot for a role you still need to fill, like an open Director of Photography slot. Once you hire someone, you assign a contact to that slot, and they flow into your call sheets automatically. The role structure comes preloaded with hundreds of standard production roles, so everyone on your team speaks the same language.
On desktop you can choose between a horizontal board grouped by department or a dense vertical table, whichever fits your screen. You can select multiple people at once and edit them together. And on the phone, every form opens as a bottom sheet, so it’s comfortable to use with one hand.
Project Access and Invitations
Adding someone to a call sheet doesn’t mean they can open your script. Access is a separate switch. Inside a role’s details there’s an access toggle. Flip it on, and if that person already has a CineLog account, they get access right away. If they don’t, they get an email invitation. Flip it off, and access is removed immediately. The same goes for removing someone from a project entirely. Their access ends the moment they’re removed.
Permissions are tied to roles, not to individual people. Each department has a baseline, each role can refine it, and as the project owner you can override any specific switch for any role in your project, because every production draws its lines differently. And if someone’s permissions change mid-session, from view to edit for example, the app picks up the new access while they work, so they don’t have to restart anything.
Call Sheets
The Call Sheets module turns CineLog into your production office. The schedule section is not a static text box. It’s a live view of your shot list. Enter a start time like 08:00, and the schedule cascades down using the estimated times of your scenes and banners. If the day doesn’t fit, the impossible spots show up in red. If there are gaps, you get a yellow warning. Change something on the call sheet and it shows up in the shot list, and the other way around.
Setting a location is fast now. Start typing an address, pick it from the suggestions, and CineLog fetches the weather forecast for that spot and saves it on the sheet. You can also upload your production company logo once, and it lands in the header of every PDF export.
PDF export runs on our servers, so the file matches what you see in the app exactly, and names in Arabic, Hebrew, Devanagari, CJK, or Thai come out correctly instead of as empty boxes. When you send call sheets out by email, each day’s sheet arrives as its own message, so daily sheets don’t pile up into one long unreadable chain.
Every sendout comes with a confirmation link. Your crew taps the link, hits Confirm on their phone, and a green checkmark appears next to their name on your Sendout Status dashboard in real time. So you know exactly who has seen tomorrow’s call.
Everything Else
You can now download files straight out of the Media Explorer. Invitation and confirmation links open directly in the native app on iOS and Android if you have it installed. Floating panels move out of the way when the phone keyboard comes up, so your text inputs stay visible. Phone numbers in Cast & Crew are formatted to the international standard, so your call sheets print clean dialing patterns. And the app is easier on your laptop battery, because it slows its background connection checks way down when you’re idle.