Sides, MMBX import, Versioning & Script Text Editing

Until now, a small script change meant busywork: fix the file somewhere else, re-upload, and re-run the whole breakdown. Your crew shot from printed sides that might already be out of date. And if your budget lived in Movie Magic, you rebuilt it in Filmustage from scratch.

Two releases just closed those gaps. Here's what each new feature does for you — the under-the-hood speed gains come at the end.

Sides: packets your crew can trust on set

The headline of this release — and the one built for the floor, not the office.

• Hand the crew sides they can trust — Sides (new) turns your schedule into per-day packets, and a QR code on every page lets anyone scan on set to confirm they're holding the current version, not a stale printout. What Sides are
  • Mark up without touching the original — cross out lines non-destructively.
  • Keep continuity straight — log shot status, takes, and notes per scene; a Partial scene carries continuity into the next day.
  • Surface what matters — Smart Highlight by cast, location, category, or scene type.
  • Skip scenes already shot on the next export, or pull sides straight from the Stripboard's Export → Shooting Sides menu.

Why we built Sides: between re-prints and last-minute schedule changes, crews too easily end up shooting from outdated pages. Now anyone can scan and know they're holding the current version in a second.

Budgeting now speaks Movie Magic

If your budget already lives in Movie Magic, you don't rebuild it in Filmustage anymore — you bring it in, finish it with AI, and send it back.

Why we built it: if your budget already exists in Movie Magic, recreating it line by line just to work in Filmustage is wasted hours — so we made the two talk to each other.

Start from your existing budget — import a Movie Magic budget (.mmbx); AI maps your breakdown tags to budget categories and builds the draft for you, with no coins spent. Import a budget

Finish in one click — Finish Create Budget loads your breakdown data and unlocks AI budgeting; save the structure as a reusable template if you want.

Send it back to the rest of your team — export your budget to Movie Magic Budgeting (MMBX), PDF, or XLSX. Export the budget

Move the Summary anywhere — export it to PDF, XLSX, or Movie Magic (SEX and MMSX). Summary export options

Version control that shows you the impact

Revisions never stop. Versioning now tracks every draft and tells you exactly what each change costs — before you commit to it.

Why we built it: a new draft shouldn't mean re-breaking the whole script or guessing what moved. You should see what changed, and what it costs, at a glance.

• Only re-break what changed — upload a revision in the new Versions hub and Smart Upload re-processes just the new and modified scenes; unchanged scenes are free.
• See what a revision really costs — compare any two drafts across six views, including an Impact Report that traces every change into your schedule and budget. Compare versions

Edit your script text without leaving Filmustage

A typo used to mean fixing the file elsewhere, re-uploading, and re-running your breakdown. Now you fix it in place.

Why we built it: pre-production is iterative — changing a line shouldn't mean throwing away the breakdown you already ran.

• Fix a line without re-uploading — edit action, dialogue, and scene headings right on the Script tab with the Editing toggle; changes autosave and update your breakdown and tag counts on the spot. How it works
• Restructure without starting over — split or combine scenes with Break & Merge, no re-upload.

Also new in scheduling

• Catch date clashes before the shoot day — conflict detection flags when a cast member, prop, or location is booked on a day it's marked unavailable, lists every clash in one place, and lets you fix it — or hand it to AI Dude . How the Calendar works
• Plan by story day, not just shoot day — the new Script Day column lets you see and sort scenes by when they happen in the story, and it carries into your Movie Magic export. Set the script day

Smarter tagging that cleans up after itself

Stop the same character showing up as two — after an AI breakdown, Filmustage spots likely duplicate tags (EMMA LIU vs EMMA, or a room inside a location) and offers to merge them, right on the Reports tab.

• Merge or ignore — merge a pair with one click, or dismiss it. Runs automatically at the end of every AI breakdown and costs no coins . How it works

Under the hood: a faster, sharper breakdown

Get your breakdown back in a fraction of the time — the engine processes scripts several times faster than before.

Spend less time fixing tags — cleaner parsing and more accurate tagging out of the gate.

Work in your own language — much stronger non-English support, in both the parser and the AI.

The Bottom Line

The throughline across both releases: less re-uploading, less rework, less jumping between tools. Edit in place, trust your sides on set, catch conflicts early, and round-trip your Movie Magic budget — on top of a breakdown that's now several times faster.

All of it is live now — open your project and try it.