Personal Crew Roster

Your own address book of the people you have worked with, kept across every production. Import from a spreadsheet, scan a business card, or pull a profile from IMDb.

6 min readUpdated July 2026

One Address Book Across Every Show

The Roster is yours, not the production's. Contacts you add stay with your account after a show wraps, so the gaffer you liked on the last job is one search away on the next one. Each contact holds a name, job titles, phone, email, city, state, country, IMDb link, website, reel link, and notes. The notes field is the one that earns its keep: who they worked under, whether they own a truck, why you would or would not call them again.

Tip: Job titles is a list, not a single field. A key grip who also dollies should carry both, so they turn up in either search.

Filling the Roster from Your Productions

Run a sync and skip the typing. It walks every production you own or have been given access to, reads the crew lists, and upserts each person into your roster. Contacts are matched, so the same person across three shows becomes one entry. Each contact then links to the productions they worked on. That is what turns the roster into a work history and not just a phone list.

Important: Sync reads from productions you currently have access to. If you have been removed from a past show, its crew will not appear. Run a sync while you still have access at the end of a job.

Importing from a Spreadsheet

Import accepts CSV, XLS, and XLSX. Upload the file, map the columns to roster fields, then commit. It is a two-step flow, so you see what will land before anything is written.

  • Column mapping is manual, so an unusual header layout is fine
  • Existing contacts are matched and updated, never duplicated
  • Rows with no name are skipped

Scanning a Business Card

Photograph a business card and the fields come back filled in. A vision model reads the card and extracts name, title, phone, email, and company. Check what it gives you before saving. Cards with heavy design, reversed type, or a logo where the name should be are read less reliably than plain ones, and phone extensions are the field most often dropped.

Tip: This is quickest at a wrap party or a crew meeting, when you have a stack of cards and no interest in typing them out later.

IMDb Credits

Link a contact to their IMDb page and their profile fills in from there: known-for titles, a short bio, and their film credits. The search is prefilled with the contact's name, so it is usually one click. You can also search and attach individual credits by hand, and remove any that are wrong. Common names return several people, so confirm you have the right one before linking.

Sharing a Contact

Every contact has a shareable card at a public link, and a vCard download that drops straight into a phone's address book. You can send either by email or text from inside the app. Use this when a UPM asks for a recommendation. Send the card and skip retyping the details into a message.

Avatars and Profile Photos

Contacts take a profile photo. Upload a JPEG, PNG, WebP, or GIF. The file is checked by its actual contents, so a renamed file with the wrong extension is rejected rather than stored.

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