Cinapse October product updates

October 2026 Release What’s New in Cinapse 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. Community Presenting to the DGA 1st AD Committee. 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. 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! 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. Missed the session? Book a personal demo of Cinapse with our team. Book a demo Elements Edit multiple elements at once. 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. Fields that differ across your selection show as Mixed and stay untouched unless you change them. Permissions Share the breakdown. Keep the schedule. 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. 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. Crossboarding Color palettes by Unit and Episode. 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. Crossboarding Banner colors by Unit. 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. 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. Configure your colors in the Color Manager. Stripboard Quick search. On by default. 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. 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. Stripboard Pin your go-to board. 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 el