Setups

Lighting plans you can actually use on the day.

Put a camera down and you see what it really sees for that body, gate and focal length. Lights come from the fixture catalog with their real beam. The plan you give the gaffer is one that works on set. On the day, grip and electric open it from any shot on the live board.

  • Real fields of view. Cameras draw their actual horizontal angle for the body, gate and lens.
  • Real fixtures. Wattage, beam angle, Kelvin, and modifiers at real sizes like softboxes, grids, silks and flags.
  • Drawn to scale. Type in the room size, pick a room from your building plan or trace a location off a map.
Northwatch’s harbor control room: three cameras with their fields of view, the moonlight, key, console practicals, door kicker and overhead soft, and the cast.
The same setup on a phone from the live board: the plan from above and each light with its fixture, purpose and support.
11camera makers
39lens makes
2positions per setup, start and end
How it works

Building a setup.

  1. 1

    Draw the space

    Type the room size, pick a room from a building you’ve already drawn or trace a location off the map.

  2. 2

    Place camera and lights

    The camera shows its real field of view for the lens, and each light shows the beam it actually throws.

  3. 3

    Hand it over

    Shots attach to the setup, the gaffer gets the inventory list and the storyboard frame comes right from the plan.

Building a setup

Everything that goes on the plan.

Cameras

Body, gate, lens series, focal length and reducers, with the field of view drawn on the plan.

Lights

Search the fixture catalog, set the color and what the light is for, and add stands and modifiers.

Subjects

Place the actors and how they move through the scene.

Shapes and arrows

Walls, flags, set dressing and blocking, with names, colors and notes.

Positions

A starting and ending position for when the blocking changes mid-shot. Shots attach to whichever one they use.

Inventory PDF

Every fixture, stand and modifier in a setup as a list to pull from the truck.

Places and things

Buildings and set pieces.

Buildings

Rooms and walls to scale. It can read them from a floor plan PDF if you add your own AI key, and every setup in the building reuses them.

Set pieces

Furniture and set builds at their real dimensions, drawn from the top and from each angle.

See the frame

Generate a storyboard frame from what the setup’s camera sees and save it to the shot.

FAQ

Questions people ask.

Where do the camera and light numbers come from?

Built-in catalogs. Camera bodies, gates and resolutions from 11 makers, lens series from 39 makes, and a fixture database with beam angles and color temperature.

Can the art department use this?

Yes. Set pieces and buildings live here with real dimensions and angle drawings, and the art department has its own role.

Get started

Try it on your next shoot.

It's free for one project, from the script to the live board, and you don't need a card.