ftrack Studio vs Shamel Studio

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.

Shamel Studio provides web tools for film and TV production scheduling, budgeting, call sheets, and production reports. Its scheduling tool can create an initial breakdown from a PDF script in under 20 seconds, then organize work with a stripboard, scene breakdown, Day Out of Days reports, and conflict alerts. Scheduling data exports to PDF or Movie Magic Scheduling 6 and 10 formats. Budgeting can import shoot days, cast, locations, and other schedule elements, and automatically populate union and guild rates and fringes. Call sheets draw on schedule details and support weather forecasts, cast and crew call times, department notes, and PDF distribution. Production reports use call sheet data and offer customizable sections, fields, templates, time tracking, and PDF export. The site currently supports PDF scripts; other formats such as FDX are in development. Properly formatted scripts in several Latin-alphabet languages, including Spanish and French, can be processed. Free access is free and allows one project. Scheduling and Budgeting each cost $23/user/mo (annual); the combined plan is $45/user/mo (annual).