How Cinethread works.

New here? Start with these three

1. Create your production. Sign in, then add a production with its title, dates and shoot days. Everything else hangs off it.
2. Fill your Library. Add cast, crew and locations once — every call sheet, schedule and contract pulls from it, so you never re-type a phone number.
3. Build day one. Open Call Sheets, pick the day, add scenes and calls, and send it. That first sheet takes about ten minutes; the next ones take two.

Productions is home base — the rolling shoot calendar above every production you’re running.

Following the money

One agreement travels the whole way through, and never gets retyped. A proposal your client approves becomes the budget you work to. The people on the call sheet become the people you owe. What they accept becomes what they're paid, what they wrap becomes what you reconcile, and what you record becomes next January's 1099 worksheet.

1. Proposal — the client agrees what you're making and what it costs.
2. Budget — that becomes the plan you actually work to.
3. Costs — the plan: the roster at the rates you expect, against a target the client approves.
4. Agreements — each person’s deal, drafted from the plan, accepted on their own private link.
5. Wrap — they tell you what they really worked; you reconcile it before anyone invoices.
6. Invoice and payment — recorded against the reconciled figure, not the original.
7. Contractors — the year's totals and W-9s, ready for your accountant.

How the pieces fit together

Cinethread is one system, not nine apps that happen to share a login. The same people, locations and dates flow through all of it — which is why nothing asks you to type a phone number twice.

• Your Library holds people and locations. Everything else borrows from it.
• Scripts → Schedule — import a script, and its scenes become strips you can order into shoot days.
• Schedule → Call Sheets — push a day's strips onto that day's sheet, with page counts and day/night already set.
• Call Sheets → the unit — send, and cast and crew get a private mobile link with their own call time.
• Agreements, Travel and Invoicing hang off the same productions and the same people, so a deal memo knows who it's for.

Good to know

Common questions

Do cast and crew need an account?

No. They get a private link that opens straight to their call time, the schedule and directions. Only people building the production sign in.

What if something changes after I've sent the sheet?

Edit it and push the update — everyone's existing link refreshes, so nobody's holding a stale sheet. You can see who's opened the new version.

Can I work on a plane?

Yes. Cinethread keeps a local copy, so you can keep editing offline and it syncs when you're back on a signal.

Can I get my data out?

Call sheets export as PDF, and the Library imports and exports as CSV. Nothing is locked in.