Importing Crew Lists from PDF

The importer reads crew list PDFs laid out as a table, with columns for name, position, phone and department. It copes with most variations on that layout.

To import a crew list from PDF, follow these steps:

• Open the Crew tab in your production
• Click File, then Import from File
• Choose your PDF. The same dialog takes CSV and Excel
• Map the columns the parser found to crew fields
• Pick an Import Mode and a Departments option, then Continue to Preview

The Preview & Import step lists every crew member the parser found, with name, position, phone and department. Nothing is written to your production until you click the Import button at the bottom of that step.

The Departments option decides how people are filed. Auto-Match Job Title to Department reads the position: a Gaffer goes to Electric, a Key Grip to Grip, a Boom Operator to Sound. From Column uses a department column in the file. None / Manual leaves departments for you to set on the Crew tab. Titles the matcher does not recognise need filing by hand.