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October 2026 Release
What’s New in Cinapse
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Cinapse presents to the DGA 1st AD Committee, a new call sheet integration, and an open beta program. Plus color coding by unit or episode, multi-edit in the Element Manager, department-level permissions, and Command-K quick search. It’s all live.
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Community
Presenting to the DGA 1st AD Committee.
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On September 26, the Directors Guild of America 1st AD Committee invited Cinapse and fellow production scheduling software companies to present to Assistant Directors, both in person at the DGA Headquarters in Los Angeles and virtually.
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It was an honor to demo Cinapse for you all. Thank you to the committee for hosting us and to everyone who joined, asked thoughtful questions, and shared feedback!
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We’re proud to support DGA ADs, and your feedback continues to shape how we build Cinapse, particularly for the complex demands of multi-unit, crossboarded episodic productions.
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Missed the session? Book a personal demo of Cinapse with our team.
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Elements
Edit multiple elements at once.
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Select multiple elements in any category in the Element Manager and edit their shared fields in one pass. Allow hold days across multiple cast elements simultaneously, set drop/pickup, and change the days between drop and pickup in bulk.
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Fields that differ across your selection show as Mixed and stay untouched unless you change them.
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Permissions
Share the breakdown. Keep the schedule.
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Give users edit access to only the breakdown categories they manage, available on Studio and Enterprise plans. In the Roles Manager, enable Edit Categories, select Only Selected Categories, and choose which categories each role can edit, such as Props or Wardrobe. Users with that role can edit elements in their assigned categories, assign them to breakdowns, and update category settings.
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Permissions to create or delete categories are managed separately. Department heads can contribute directly to the breakdown sheets while you retain control over everything else.
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Crossboarding
Color palettes by Unit and Episode.
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Color palettes now support customizable X and Y axes, allowing you to color-code strips by any combination of Unit, Episode, DAY/NIGHT, or INT/EXT. For example, Episode 3 on 2nd Unit can have a different color than Episode 3 on Main Unit, or DAY scenes on Main Unit can have a different color than NIGHT scenes on Main Unit. Choose the two variables that determine your strip colors and assign a color to each combination in the Color Manager.
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Crossboarding
Banner colors by Unit.
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Assign default banner colors by unit. Give Main Unit and 2nd Unit their own colors for Day Breaks, Start of Day banners, Unit Breaks, and Text Banners, with general defaults for banners without an assigned unit.
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Banners automatically inherit their unit’s colors, eliminating the need to color-code each one individually when scheduling multiple units. You can still override any banner’s color directly on the stripboard, and Reset to Default Colors will restore its unit’s default or the general default if no unit is assigned.
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Configure your colors in the Color Manager.
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Stripboard
Quick search. On by default.
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Quick search is now on by default. Press Command-K or click into the search bar, then search the selected board’s stripboard, unscheduled section, or scrapyard, or all three at once. Quick search finds scenes on your stripboard as you type, searching every element in every category plus synopses, notes, comments, and script pages, even if you only half remember the name or number.
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Jump straight to the result instead of setting up a complex query with Advanced Search. Advanced search is still available when you need it. It’s just no longer the default.
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Stripboard
Pin your go-to board.
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In the Stripboard Manager, right-click a board and choose Pin board to make it your default whenever you open the production. Pins are personal. Each person can pin one stripboard per schedule, and pinning doesn’t change what anyone else sees.
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Navigation
Get to any manager in one click.
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Click a manager to go straight to it, or click its dropdown to switch your board, calendar, layout, or colors right from there, just like before. A new Home button takes you back to the breakdown sheet and stripboard view.
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Breakdown
Rename it once. Everywhere.
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Find & Replace now updates elements themselves, not just text. When a character, prop, or location is renamed during prep, you can update it across all breakdowns, text banners, notes, and the element itself in a single action. Cinapse shows you exactly how many breakdowns and elements will be affected before you confirm.
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Productions
That’s a wrap.
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Archive productions you’ve wrapped and Cinapse stops storing their data on your computer, freeing up local space for the shows you’re actively working on. Archived productions stay listed in My Productions: filter by Active or Archived, and restore any of them in one click to bring the data back to your machine.
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More Features. More Improvements.
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Arrow-key navigation
Use the up and down arrow keys to move through the stripboard, unscheduled section, or scrapyard. Hold Shift to select a range, and press Enter to add or remove a strip from your selection. Arrows follow your Script order or Schedule order setting.
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Production Intelligence for existing productions (beta)
Run Production Intelligence on scenes you import into an existing production, like script revisions or a brand new script, with progress you can cancel any time.
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Unscheduled strips in reports
When you create a report from a selection of both scheduled and unscheduled strips, Cinapse automatically enables Show unscheduled strips to ensure all selected strips are included. You can still turn this setting off when creating your report.
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Vertical alignment, now in PDFs
The top, middle, and bottom cell alignment you set on your board now carries through to printed and PDF stripboards.
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Smoother imports
When you import a Cinapse file into an existing production, you now choose whether to keep your current layouts, color palettes, and banner colors or use the incoming ones.
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Bug fixes & stability
More reliable syncing when you’re working offline. Fixed an issue where the Day Out of Days date range could get stuck showing a single day until you set it manually. It now updates automatically to match the date range of the stripboard you’re viewing. You can now build a Day Out of Days by Set, Sequence, Script Day, Unit, Location, INT/EXT, or DAY/NIGHT. Plus: Movie Magic imports bring in script day as an element, episode filters on existing reports carry over cleanly, viewer invites count toward your viewer seats correctly, and creating a new element from the element picker is smoother.
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Integrations
New call sheet integration.
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Call Sheet Commander now imports Cinapse workspaces. Export your .cinapse file, drop it in, and it builds a call sheet for every day of your show in about 10 seconds. Cinapse users get 30 days of Pro free at callsheetcommander.com/cinapse.
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Ross Novie, the DGA Director and 1st AD who built it, is running a free live walkthrough for 2nd ADs on Saturday, November 7 at 10 AM Pacific.
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Beta
Join the Cinapse beta program.
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Get early access to new features while they’re still in development. As a beta user, you’ll be among the first to try new functionality and help shape it with your feedback before it’s released to everyone. You can switch back to the regular app at any time.
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It’s all live. Log in and see what’s new.
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