Every line shows its working.
For the line producer and the production accountant. Each line carries its rate, its quantity and the fringe on top, so the number is never just typed in, and the totals roll up from there. Any mix of currencies lands in one base total at rates you can name by date.
The number is its days and its rate.
A budget reads like a budget. Camera as the band, the people and gear as the lines beneath. Each line is units times rate, fringe on top where the deal carries one, and the totals roll up from there.
Days, rate, fringe, computed.
- Categories nest, line items underneath, the way a budget is read
- Each line is units × rate × FX, with an optional fringe % on top, and the planned amount falls out
- Change a day rate and every total above it moves
Quote against actual, in one currency.
Set the number you sold the job for and the working total tracks against it, so scope creep shows up as euros. A US colourist, a Tokyo rental house and a Dutch crew each stay in their own currency and roll into one total.
The number you sold it for, in view.
- Quoted vs working total, side by side, the gap shown in euros
- Contingency % and overhead % on top of the lines
- Margin your way: a fee on cost, markup on direct costs, or a gross-up to the margin you need, each overridable with a flat amount
Set the line to its currency.
- Base currency on the budget, its own currency and rate on any line
- Mark a line USD at 0.92 and 1,000 USD lands as €920
- Convert the whole budget to a new base in one move, with a confirmation, never silently
Locked, signed, on the record.
When the number is agreed, lock it. The budget keeps who approved it and when. Edit after that and it shows how far the working number has drifted from the one that was signed off, so the money is never a matter of memory.
Sign it off, then send it out.
- Lock saves a snapshot, with the approver and time, and unlocks recorded too
- A read-only share link puts the top sheet in front of the client, no account needed
- PDF with category bands and an accent-ruled grand total, plus CSV for the books
One honest limit: the budget tracks what you enter. It carries the arithmetic and the history, it does not invent a cost you have not logged.
The rest of the kit.
Scriptwriter
Live co-writing, Fountain & FDX.
TOOL 01 →Script breakdown
Tag the page, fill your lists.
TOOL 02 →Shotlist
Every setup, planned.
TOOL 03 →Storyboard
Frames beside the shots.
TOOL 04 →Canvas
Pin the look on one board.
TOOL 05 →Cast & crew
People and lists, in sync.
TOOL 06 →Locations
Scouted, pinned, permitted.
TOOL 08 →Shooting schedule
The stripboard, alive.
TOOL 09 →Call sheets
Built from the schedule.
TOOL 10 →Get in early.
Curtyn is in open beta and free to use. Every tool, one project, and the people who need to see it. Start free and bring your production in.