CineBase
CineBase · Production Software

Run the whole
shoot from one place.

Gear, jobs, crew, call sheets, lighting plots, receipts and invoices — in one app that already understands how a shoot actually runs, because it was built on set by someone running them.

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Who built it
A working cinematographer
Where it was designed
On set, between setups
Who it's tested on
Real jobs, real gear, real invoices
SC 01 · Jobs

Every shoot gets a home.

Make a job once and everything else hangs off it — the days, the crew, the kit, the receipts, the invoice at the end.

  • Phases that follow the real shape of a job: enquiry, prep, shoot, wrap.
  • A calendar for shoot days, holds and prep, with a subscribable feed so it lands in the calendar you already use.
  • Tasks attached to the job, not floating in a separate to-do app.
  • People — crew, clients and vendors in one contact book, with the companies they work for and the history of what you've done together.
  • A dashboard that opens on what's actually happening this week.
Fig. 01 — Job structure
Fig. 01 — Job structure
SC 02 · Gear

Know where everything is.

Your inventory, what's on which job, what went out to whom, and what's due back — without a spreadsheet and a good memory.

  • Print your own labels with barcodes or QR, then scan kit in and out with a phone camera. No scanner gun to buy.
  • Kit lists per job, built from what you own, so nothing goes out unlisted and nothing comes back unnoticed.
  • Rentals out with a renter portal — the person hiring from you signs in and sees only their own gear, dates and paperwork.
  • A public gear list link you can send a producer, no account needed at their end.
  • Maintenance intervals, insurance certificates and loss & damage claims, tracked against the item they belong to.
Fig. 02 — Kit on a job, scanned in and out
Fig. 02 — Kit on a job, scanned in and out
SC 03 · Money

Get paid without the paperwork.

Estimate, shoot, invoice. The numbers carry through, so you're not retyping a rate card into a Word template at midnight.

  • Estimates that become invoices — the client approves or queries from a link, and you see when they opened it.
  • Photograph a receipt and it reads itself: vendor, date, total, tax, category. Correct it if it's wrong; it learns the vendors you use.
  • Multi-currency with live exchange rates, so a job billed in USD still reports properly in your own currency.
  • Mileage, expenses and payments against the job that incurred them.
  • Proper PDFs with your business details, tax numbers and terms on them.
Fig. 03 — Estimate to payment
Fig. 03 — Estimate to payment
SC 04 · Prep

The creative work lives here too.

Most production software stops at logistics. This is the part that actually gets used the night before.

  • Lighting diagrams drawn top-down, in 2D and 3D, where the beams behave like light — walls block, flags cut, bounce comes back. Hundreds of fixture icons, or upload your own.
  • Send a plot as a link or a PNG to a gaffer who has never heard of CineBase.
  • A shot library you can search, and shareable reference sets.
  • Scripts with scene breakdown, plus production packs and moodboards a director can open and comment on without an account.
  • Call sheets that publish to a link and stay current when the schedule moves.
Fig. 04 — Lighting plot, top-down
Fig. 04 — Lighting plot, top-down
SC 05 · On set

The maths, already done.

The calculations you'd otherwise do on the back of a call sheet, in the same app as everything else.

  • Depth of field, exposure and ND, frame rate and slow motion, aspect and anamorphic — the everyday ones.
  • Sun and golden hour for the location and date you're actually scouting.
  • Storage estimator, so you know how many cards the day needs before the day starts.
  • Colour temperature and gels, and scopes with false colour.
  • Works on a phone, and installs to the home screen like an app — nothing to download, no app store.
Fig. 05 — Tools, on the day
Fig. 05 — Tools, on the day
SC 06 · The rest of it

The unglamorous parts, handled.

The things you only notice when they're missing.

Roles that mean something

Admins, operators, viewers and renters see different things. A renter is served a different page entirely — not the same page with buttons hidden.

More than one workspace

The same login can belong to several groups, so a rental house and your own kit stay separate.

Encrypted backups

Automatic, encrypted, and pulled to storage you control rather than pushed to storage we control.

Nothing is really deleted

Deleted items go to trash and come back. Mis-clicks are not a crisis.

Share without accounts

Gear lists, invoices, call sheets, diagrams, moodboards and job pages all publish to a link the recipient can just open.

Insights

What you earned, what you spent, which kit paid for itself and which is sitting on a shelf.

Keyboard shortcuts

For the people who'd rather not reach for a mouse in a dark truck.

A manual that exists

Written help, in the app, for every section — not a support ticket queue.

SC 07 · Getting going

Three steps, then it's just there.

The setup you have to do once, and the part you never think about again.

STEP 01

Put your gear in

Add items as you go, or bring in a list you already have. Print labels for the things that travel.

STEP 02

Make a job

Name it, give it dates, attach the client. That's the whole setup.

STEP 03

Work the way you already do

Pull kit, scout, light, shoot, wrap. The paperwork assembles itself out of what you did, and the invoice is waiting at the end.

SC 08 · Questions

Straight answers.

Who actually made this?

A working cinematographer, for their own productions, over several years. Every feature exists because a real job needed it — which is why there's a false-colour scope and a lighting plotter next to the invoicing, and why the invoicing knows what a kit fee is.

Is it available right now?

Not to everybody yet. It's in daily production use and being opened up in small batches so that each new user gets set up properly. Ask for access and you'll hear from a person.

What does it cost?

Pricing isn't fixed yet, and we'd rather say that than invent a number. Early-access users will have a say in it and will get plenty of warning before anything changes.

Do I have to install anything?

No. It runs in a browser on a laptop, tablet or phone, and can be added to a phone's home screen so it opens like a normal app.

Can clients and crew see things without an account?

Yes. Gear lists, invoices, estimates, call sheets, lighting diagrams, moodboards and job pages can each be published to a link that anyone can open. People renting gear from you get their own sign-in and see only their own hires.

Where does my data live, and can I get it out?

On a server, in a normal database, backed up automatically and encrypted. There's a full export and restore path, because the answer to "what if this disappears" should never be a shrug.

I already use something else for part of this.

Most people do — a spreadsheet for kit, an accounting app for invoices, a notes app for shot lists. You don't have to move all of it at once. Start with the part that annoys you most.