You can bring an existing budget from Movie Magic Budgeting into Tubes. Your cost categories and budget lines are imported automatically.

Export from Movie Magic

Two formats work; JSON is the most complete.

  • JSON: in Movie Magic choose File > Export > JSON. Includes all detail lines, fringes, currencies and groups.
  • Excel: in Movie Magic choose File > Export > Excel. Contains totals per cost category; item details are summarised.

Import into Tubes

  1. During setup of a new account, the Budget import step offers the upload. Later, open a project and choose Magic Movie import from the budget actions.
  2. Drop the .json or .xlsx file (up to 50 MB).
  3. Choose Import. The result says how many budget lines and fringe lines were imported, and which account codes were unknown and skipped.

What happens to the codes

Movie Magic account numbers are matched to the cost types of your Tubes account. Codes that do not exist in your chart are skipped and listed, so you can add the cost types and import again, or add those lines by hand.

After the import

The budget is an ordinary Tubes budget: open it, check the totals, add sales prices and additional costs, and publish it when it is agreed. See Build a budget.

Tip: Compare the imported budget with the original topsheet before you continue. The free budget comparison tool on tubes.media shows differences between two versions line by line, in your browser.