Resources

Background planning, built into your schedule. Plan background, calculate headcounts, track costs, and generate reports, all in one place.

A bipartisan bill would create a 20% federal tax credit for U.S. film and TV production. Here's what it would do, and how to add your voice before Congress acts.

Bulk editing in the Element Manager, category-only edit access for your departments, quick search with arrow-key navigation, color palettes by unit and episode, banner colors by unit, a Find & Replace that renames elements, and archiving for wrapped productions.

This month is all about moving faster through your breakdowns and boards, with more control over how your schedule reads. You can edit and merge multiple breakdowns at once, select every strip with a keystroke, color-code your Day Out of Days, and Background Manager enters beta.

This month we’re introducing Cinapse Production Intelligence: import a script and get Draft 1 of your schedule done fast. It ships alongside a full templates and presets system you can organize into folders and pull into any new production, plus a stack of customer-requested improvements.

The July release puts weather fully in your hands, adds sun times to your banners, and lets you merge duplicate breakdown elements in a single click.

The June 2026 Cinapse release adds folders to every manager, four new script importers (Movie Magic MSD, Final Draft FDX, PDF, and Scriptation JSON), revision colors for stripboards, category presets, and more.

May's update focused on production polish: smarter text casing, safer strip deletion, and reliability improvements across the board.

This guide walks users through Cinapse’s new Reports system, covering how to create, customize, preview, and batch-generate reports using reusable presets and a high-fidelity live preview.

Cinapse’s rebuilt Reports system introduces reusable presets, batch generation, and high-fidelity customization to eliminate repetitive setup and give filmmakers full control over report output.

The AD department of HBO's most complex show ditched legacy software and never looked back.

The April 2026 update continues the reports rebuild with presets, the breakdown report, tabloid size support, and ships unscheduled elements, holiday rules, and an improved summary view for DOODs.