Who it's built for
Cinetech is designed for directors, ADs, DPs, and production coordinators who are tired of the spreadsheet-and-PDF workflow that the industry has tolerated for decades. It's for indie productions that can't afford a full Movie Magic license and a dedicated coordinator to maintain it. It's for corporate and commercial productions that need professional-grade output without the overhead of legacy software. And it's for anyone who has ever emailed a revised call sheet at 11pm and then spent the next morning answering questions from crew members who were looking at the wrong version.
The connected pipeline
Upload a screenplay and Cinetech's AI breaks it down — every scene, every element, across 11 production categories, with a two-phase verification system that catches formatting edge cases before extraction runs. That breakdown data becomes the foundation for everything else. The scheduler pulls your scenes into a stripboard pre-populated with sluglines, locations, INT/EXT, DAY/NIGHT, and page counts in eighths. The shot list builder surfaces your scene elements and storyboard panels inline as you build shots. Call sheets pull cast and logistics data from the schedule automatically. This is the pipeline that ADs spend the first week of prep building manually — Cinetech builds it from the script.
Four things worth knowing
Beyond the core pipeline, a few capabilities set Cinetech apart from every other pre-production tool.
The lined script
Drag-select text in your screenplay and assign the region directly to a shot. Color-coded coverage visualization shows you exactly which lines each shot covers and where the gaps are — the thing script supervisors currently do with colored pencils on printed paper, done digitally and kept in sync with your shot list automatically.
Living call sheets
Publish once to a permanent URL. Your crew bookmark the link and it always shows the latest version. When you change the crew call or update a location, recipients automatically get an email notification with a change table showing exactly what moved. No more version chaos.
The AI assistant knows your production
Ask it which scenes featuring a specific character are scheduled on the same shooting day, or how many pages of a given location are spread across the schedule. Ask it to search across every document you've uploaded and synthesize an answer. It's not a generic chatbot — it has full access to your breakdown, schedule, storyboards, shot lists, and uploaded files.
The storyboard-to-animatic pipeline
Generate AI storyboard panels, annotate them with camera movement indicators, sequence them in the animatic editor with per-panel timing, and export a working animatic — without leaving the platform.
Where to start
If you're starting a production from scratch, begin with a script breakdown — upload your screenplay to the Script Library and let the AI run. Everything else follows from that data. If you want to see what a fully built production looks like before committing your own script, build the demo project from the Getting Started section — the AI assistant will build a complete example project in about two minutes, with breakdown, schedule, storyboard, and call sheet, so you can explore the platform with real data.
Tips
- The demo project is the fastest way to understand the full platform — it shows you how all of the produciton assets hook together before you start your own
- The more accurate your script breakdown, the better every downstream tool performs — time spent reviewing and correcting the breakdown pays off across everything else
- The AI assistant has access to all of your production data — ask it questions that would normally require opening multiple tools