An Industry First
G-Casper Pro is the first call sheet tool to import from Movie Magic Scheduling 10. Movie Magic 10 introduced changes that broke compatibility with many existing tools. Since MMS 10 does not support exporting to open interchange formats like USS (Universal Scheduling Standard), other tools have struggled to offer any import path at all. G-Casper Pro solved this by engineering a way to combine two standard PDF reports to capture all the data needed for a complete import.
No Custom Report Format Required
G-Casper Pro is also the first import tool that does not require you to install a custom report template in Movie Magic. Other solutions have required productions to download and install a proprietary report format into MMS before exporting. G-Casper Pro reads the built-in Breakdown Report and Shoot Schedule Report PDFs that every copy of Movie Magic can already print. No setup, no plugins, no configuration.
The Two PDFs
We identified that these two standard PDF reports, used in combination, contain all the important data needed for a complete import:
| PDF Report | What It Contains |
|---|---|
| Breakdown Report PDF | Scene numbers, descriptions, page counts, cast assignments, locations, INT/EXT, Day/Night, script notes |
| Shoot Schedule Report PDF | Day assignments, shooting order, shoot dates, day numbers |
Data Fidelity
Scene numbers, cast assignments, location names, page counts, day assignments, INT/EXT and Day/Night designations, and shooting order all transfer cleanly. The schedule file is the foundation of every call sheet. If the import is lossy, every downstream call sheet suffers.