ftrack Studio vs Production Slate

ftrack Studio is a platform for shot management, production tracking, scheduling, and media review. Its cloud-based interface supports team management, planning thousands of shots, and creating reports. Teams can map milestones and task dates on timelines and schedule people with a calendar. Configurable views, dashboards, kanban boards, time tracking, comments, and to-do notes support production tracking. For review, users can examine dailies, sketch ideas, and share real-time feedback with colleagues or clients. Publishing an asset with a name already in use creates a new version, and media can be converted to HTML5 video for internal review. Integrations include creative applications such as Foundry Nuke, Adobe After Effects, Premiere Pro, Autodesk Maya, and Cinema 4D. The API supports Python, JavaScript, and cURL. Studio includes 250GB of storage for review media, thumbnails, and metadata. The Studio plan costs $30 a month, billed monthly, with the first 14 days free; no free plan is listed.

Production Slate is production management software for budgets, schedules, crew, call sheets, and read receipts. It is aimed at line producers, production managers, assistant directors, and small production companies working on films, shorts, music videos, commercials, branded content, web series, or TV. Users can import FDX scripts, read them in the app, and highlight text to tag props, wardrobe, and set dressing. Scheduling includes movable scene strips, labor cost calculations, crew and location assignments, and day-out-of-days reports. Call sheets can gather crew, cast, scenes, weather, sunrise and sunset, and nearest hospital information. Organizations can share projects and assign Owner, Editor, or Viewer access at page level. The Pro plan supports Excel, CSV, and Movie Magic Budget import and export; budgets can also be exported as PDFs. Production Slate is available on Android, iOS, and web. The Free plan has project, budget, crew, shoot-day, and call-sheet limits. Pro costs $12 a month, or $99/year.