OT: Producer Software

skibumm101 wrote on 8/17/2005, 10:32 AM

Ive been asked to produce a documnetry with a fairly big budget(at least by my standards). I am looking for software that will take me from conception to completion as far as the Producer job goes.

thanks

Ryon

Comments

[r]Evolution wrote on 8/17/2005, 11:11 AM

I am looking for software that will take me from conception to completion as far as the Producer job goes.

You can use VEGAS to edit dailies, get your ideas together, & your final piece.

As far as other things... what are you needing your software to do?

skibumm101 wrote on 8/17/2005, 11:14 AM

Budgeting
Production managment
Crew mangment acounting
Timeline
Call sheets
etc..
etc..
etc..

rs170a wrote on 8/17/2005, 11:54 AM

There's a bunch of different forms on the Dependent Films and Sonnyboo sites that might have what you're looking for.

Mike

Jeff_Smith wrote on 8/17/2005, 12:33 PM

I did a search for film production software, and alot of stuff comes up. http://www.junglesoftware.com/ for example.

I use Microsoft Project for construction project management and it could be useful, however a bit pricey and you need to customize it.

dand9959 wrote on 8/17/2005, 1:02 PM

Check this link at WritersStore.com:

http://www.writersstore.com/products.php?categories_id=128&search_keywords=Production&x=10&y=14

Spot|DSE wrote on 8/17/2005, 3:53 PM

http://www.boilerplate.net/

This is what one of our clients uses, he swears by it, and he does a lot of work for National Geo, BH&G, and HBO. It sure has a lot of nice endorsements from names I recognize.

Coursedesign wrote on 8/17/2005, 10:48 PM

Anybody needing this overseas, don't bother with Movie Magic. This program is #1 in the category (in sales), but if somebody enters an international character, the database is clobbered and has to be sent to Movie Magic for repair by their programmers.

According to MM support for Europe, they have 4,000 angry customers there who have this problem.

filmy wrote on 8/18/2005, 11:39 AM

I have always used File Maker. You can customize any forms you want and there are add on databases for film/production forms. They also offer many "flavors" now they didn;t when I first started using th eprogram including the Creative version. Nice article on how File Maker was used in the production of Jimmy Neutron is here: FileMaker Behind the Scenes of ‘Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, The Movie'

skibumm101 wrote on 8/18/2005, 12:40 PM

Just an update on what i have found and deciding on. And thanks for the other sites to look at.

Cinergy
High-end software
http://www.mindstarprods.com/

Gorrila
Mid-range
http://www.junglesoftware.com/

Filmmaker software
Low-end
http://www.filmmakersoftware.com/index2.html