Planning

Organise and schedule your production

You have a budget. Now the people, locations and props have to be organised and put on the right days. Tubes keeps that in one place, and as the planner you also see where the budget stands.

Planning is part of the full Tubes platform, from Producer Pro upwards.

Weekly planning calendar in Tubes with cast, crew and locations

From a budget to a working schedule

The budget is approved. The production starts. Crew have to be booked, locations confirmed and props arranged, all on the right days.

In Tubes you do that on one plan. When a location moves a week, you drag the day to its new date. When the DOP is already booked on another production, Tubes tells you. Cast and crew see their own schedule and call sheets, and confirm whether they are coming.

All along, Tubes gives you insight and a clear overview of both the planning and the budget.

What it solves

One plan for the production

People, locations and props on the right days, in one place.

Changes without the puzzle

When a location or a shoot day moves, you drag the day to its new date. Tubes tells you when someone is already booked on another production.

Cast and crew know where to be

They see their own schedule and call sheets, and confirm whether they are coming.

Overview of planning and budget

While you plan, you see what is planned and where the budget stands.

What is in it

  • Four ways to look at the plan. A timeline of the production, a board where you drag people, locations and props onto days, and a calendar per week or per month.
  • Drag to reschedule. Move a day to another date, or stretch it over the days that follow.
  • Everything a day needs. Cast and crew with their own call times, locations, props and equipment, and files.
  • Draft until you publish. Change a published day and Tubes marks it as changed.
  • Call sheets from the plan. Make a call sheet from a planned day and send it by email, with a PDF, a calendar file and a personal confirmation link.
  • Weather on the day. The forecast per day and location, on the plan and on the call sheet.
  • Capacity and workload. Planned days against available days, and one person's load across all productions.
  • Locations you can compare. Facilities, photos and a price guide per location, up to three side by side.
  • From script to shooting days. Paste or upload a script, let Tubes split it into scenes and group them into shooting days.
  • On the phone. Crew with a Tubes account see their published days and call sheets, and can confirm there.
  • See where the budget stands. Budget, planned and what is left are in view while you plan.

Part of the full platform

Planning is not available as a separate plan. It comes with Producer Pro and Enterprise, together with budgeting, cost control and forecasting.

Prefer to take one step at a time? Start with budgeting only and move on to planning when you are ready, in the same account, with the budgets you already made.

How a first conversation goes

  1. Thirty minutes, online. Bring a production you are planning now, or one you just finished.
  2. We look at how you plan today. Where the schedule lives, how call sheets go out, and what happens when something moves.
  3. We show the same kind of production in Tubes, from planned days to a call sheet.
  4. You decide whether it is worth trying on your next production. No obligation.

Planning comes with the full platform

Enterprise

For teams of more than 10 users, with unlimited projects and planning across the whole organisation.

  • Unlimited projects
  • Budgeting, planning & cost control across the organisation
  • Advanced permissions, roles, and approval flows
  • Dedicated onboarding & Customer Success Manager
Book a call

Only need budgets for now? Start with Budgeting, from € 29 per month. See all plans.

Questions about planning in Tubes

Can we use planning on its own?

No. Planning is part of the full platform (Producer Pro and Enterprise) and is not sold separately. What you can do is start with budgeting only and expand to the full platform later, in the same account.

Does the crew need a Tubes account?

Not to confirm. Each person gets a personal link that works without logging in. They see the day and answer that they will be there or that they cannot make it. Crew who do have a Tubes account also see their published days and call sheets on their phone.

How do call sheets reach the crew?

By email from Tubes, per department, with the call sheet as a PDF, a calendar file and a personal confirmation link. You can also copy someone's confirmation link and send it yourself, for instance in a chat message.

What happens when the plan changes after it was sent?

A published day that you edit is marked as changed. Per person you see whether they have seen the day, confirmed it or declined it, so you know who still has to react to the new version.

What does it cost?

Planning is included in Producer Pro, from € 49 per month including two users and up to three active projects, and in Enterprise. See plans and pricing.

Show us your next shoot

Thirty minutes on how you plan today, and what that same production looks like in Tubes.

Request a Demo

Share a few details about your organization and productions, and we'll get in touch.

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