Help & Documentation

There is no separate weather page. Forecasts live in the Preproduction tab's Call Sheets sub-tab, and travel with every call sheet you send.

• Weather Forecast panel — at the foot of the Call Sheets sub-tab. One card per prep, shoot and return date in the project's schedule, each naming the location the forecast is for, with the high and low, the condition, the detail figures and a shoot score. Click the panel's heading to fold it away.
• The call sheet's forecast card — inside the call-sheet builder. The same forecast for that sheet's own day at its basecamp, with sunrise, sunset and an hour-by-hour strip. It prints on the PDF, in the phone view and on a shared link.
• Imported day briefs — a call sheet you import from another production gets a weather line per location, plus gear warnings such as rain gear, sun protection or strong wind.
• The detail figures: feels-like temperature, chance and amount of rain, wind direction, speed and gusts, snow, cloud cover, humidity and the UV index. Each appears only when the forecast service returned it for that day — a sparse forecast shows fewer figures rather than empty labels.
• The panel and the call sheet read the same forecast and round temperatures the same way, so they never disagree. The hour-by-hour strip is only on the call sheet; the shoot score is only in the panel.

A forecast needs two things: a date in the project's schedule and a location with a map position. Nothing has to be switched on.

1. Give the project its prep, shoot and return dates — in the project's General or Calendar tab, or when you create the project. The panel shows one card per date; with no dates it says so instead.
2. Open the Preproduction tab and its Call Sheets sub-tab, and scroll to the Weather Forecast panel at the foot of the page.
3. Add a location with the panel's Add button: a name and a street address, which is looked up on the map when you press Save — or the location pin button, which uses where you are standing. Locations you scout in the Location sub-tab appear here too; it is one list.
4. Each date card loads its forecast. A date with no location of its own uses the project's primary location, marked (project location).
5. When a period shoots somewhere else, pick that location in the card's Select location menu. The choice is stored on the whole prep, shoot or return period the date belongs to, not just the one day.

Above and below the date cards, the Weather Forecast panel sums the whole schedule up, so you can see at a glance which days need a plan B.

• Four figures across the top: Total dates, Forecast available (how many of them already have one), Alerts and Avg. shoot score.
• Shoot score — 0 to 100 per date, from the day's condition: clear skies score high, fog, heavy rain, snow and thunderstorms low. The Shoot Score Legend under the figures names the bands, from Perfect conditions down to Poor visibility or severe weather.
• Weather alerts — one line per date and risk: Thunderstorm risk, Heavy rain expected, Rain possible, Snow conditions, Low visibility (fog), Freezing temperatures, High temperatures and High winds. Storms, heavy rain and snow are marked as the more serious ones.
• Equipment suggestions — what to pack, with the number of days it applies to: Add rain covers and weather protection, Bring extra batteries (cold weather), Plan for heat management and shade, Secure stands and lightweight gear, and Allow extra time for visibility.
• Suggestions start earlier than alerts on purpose: cold enough for batteries to suffer is not yet freezing, and wind strong enough to move a flag is not yet a high-wind warning.

Inside the call-sheet builder, the forecast card shows one day in full detail. Its Weather & Sun switch decides whether the forecast and the sunrise/sunset line print on the sheet.

• The card names the shoot date and the basecamp address it forecast, so it can never be mistaken for today's weather at your desk. On a multi-day sheet it is the first day the sheet covers, and only that day's page prints a forecast.
• The day's condition, high and low and detail figures, sunrise and sunset, and an editable weather line. The line fills itself in from the forecast; anything you type over it prints exactly as you typed it.
• Hour by hour: the shoot window as a strip of equal-width cells — icon, temperature, chance of rain, snow in cm, wind and UV. Night hours are dimmed so a day shoot's usable window reads at a glance.
• The strip runs from three hours before the earliest call on the sheet to three hours after the latest wrap — the hours anyone is out, plus travel and load-in either side. “Earliest” includes the crew call, department calls and pickups, per-person times and the cast's call, pickup, costume and make-up times, so a 05:30 art pickup pulls the strip back even when the crew call is 07:00.
• A sheet with no call and no wrap time shows all 24 hours, and an overnight day runs to the end of the shoot date.
• Before the forecast reaches the shoot day, sunrise and sunset are still worked out on your device and marked (calculated). Above the polar circles the card says Midnight sun or Polar night instead.
• On the PDF, the forecast is one card: a condition icon, the high and low, sunrise and sunset, the day's rain, wind and UV facts, and a row of hourly skies with the temperature and time under each. When rain is likely — a 20% chance or more — the chance is added to the printed weather line.
• The phone view and a shared link draw the same card as the PDF. An hour whose condition cannot be placed shows no icon rather than a guess.

Use the forecast to make scheduling decisions before they make themselves.

• Move outdoor scenes to clear-weather days when the schedule allows it.
• Put rain-sensitive setups (crane shots, exterior dialogue) on the days with the best forecast.
• Use temperature and wind chill to plan crew comfort, warm-up time and hydration breaks.
• Wind direction matters as much as speed for microphone placement, booms and reflectors.
• Pair sunrise and sunset with the forecast to plan golden-hour and magic-hour shots.
• Give an exterior scene a Bad-weather location in the Script sub-tab, and the call sheet can lead with it on a wet day — see the Call Sheets topic.

Understand what the weather integration can and cannot do.

• Forecasts are most reliable a few days out; about 48 hours before a shoot day is when they are usually worth acting on.
• Hard limit: the forecast service reaches 16 days ahead. Dates further out get no forecast at all — the card says “Beyond the 16-day forecast horizon” rather than blaming the location, and the panel notes that some dates are outside the window.
• Mountain, coastal and other microclimate locations can differ noticeably from the forecast for their map position.
• Fetching a forecast needs an internet connection. A forecast already loaded is reused for about half an hour before it is fetched again. The first forecast for a place nobody has looked up before takes about 3 seconds and comes from one global weather model; shortly after, the same place shows the full forecast, so figures can shift slightly.
• Weather that has been printed onto a call sheet travels with the PDF, so the crew can read it offline.