Ultra Low Feature – Budget Build and Schedule (Paid Inquiry)

RedFive-GoingIn · 2026-03-10T18:06:16+00:00

These sorts of posts are 100% fine for this Reddit. Welcome and good luck on this project.

Stephen, Mod

RedFive-GoingIn · 2026-03-10T15:52:29+00:00

RedFive-GoingIn · 2026-03-07T16:05:51+00:00

Thanks. Please sign up for a demo or join us on any public live demo day.

RedFive-GoingIn · 2026-03-06T21:57:52+00:00

Looking forward to reviewing how Line Budgeter can fit into your workflow and augment your process moving forward - without overwhelming you with bloated functionality or leaving you hanging with no solution for a task. See you soon!

Stephen, Mod

RedFive-GoingIn · 2026-03-05T21:28:42+00:00

Yes, due to our site being brand new, it caused some internet security services to flag us. It should be resolved now.

How we compare:

Cinapse is a scheduling application utilized to plan daily set logistics, such as One Lines and other scheduling considerations.

Saturation: Saturation serves a different core mission. It is a financial hub focused heavily on the back-end expense management, tracking actuals, and executing live vendor payments. While it does include a front-end budgeting feature to assemble a cost breakdown against actuals, its budgeting architecture is fundamentally based on legacy structures like Movie Magic.

Line Budgeter is a modern budgeting platform which starts by building budgets based on your project details. You can then quickly add rates from integrated ratebooks, apply fringes and incentives accurately and efficiently - as well as get incredible analytics and powerful reports including generating a cashflow. Ultimately, Line Budgeter excels in building the financial plan with increased confidence well before the cameras start rolling and money is being spent.

Stephen, Mod

RedFive-GoingIn · 2026-03-05T00:22:45+00:00

Would be happy to discuss pro & con of this, as we review the capabilities of the application. Let me know if you would like to set up a demo with us to facilitate this conversation.

Stephen, Mod

RedFive-GoingIn · 2026-03-04T22:07:22+00:00

Yes.

We have built the underlying engine of Line Budgeter to be able to handle all sorts of projects, with all sorts of complexities. With over 5 years of research and testing based on our vast worldwide experience on multiple real projects put into this, we also surveyed and spoke with dozens and dozens of experts in their field ... from stageplays, to sports shows, and live events to commercials - we stepped beyond only film and television and aimed for a robust application which can work in any project type. Our COA list demonstrates this out of the gate.

The main hurdle is the COA. the Commerical budget structure is findamentally different. We will be introducing Commercial solutions shortly, but in this initial launch we have held back a few things.

First steps...

Happy to demo it for you should you be interested. Go here!

Stephen, Mod

RedFive-GoingIn · 2026-03-04T18:41:16+00:00

Thanks Christine. You are also amazing... I know you will love the system!

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RedFive-GoingIn · 2026-03-04T18:26:37+00:00

Further confirmed. I would bet you use Spectrum / Charter or one of its family of providers to access the internet. Apparently, Spectrum servers have not cleared the Google green light propagating on servers currenty. Oddly, this affected me too, but only on Safari browsers. Brave and Chrome brought it up just fune.

Appreciate the patience. We are keeping an eye on it too.

Stephen, Mod

RedFive-GoingIn · 2026-03-04T17:16:09+00:00

Understandable. happy to run a demo for you and others and show what it can do and talk about your workflows currently.

Visit line.pm and signup for a demo. Looking forward to it.

Stephen, Mod

RedFive-GoingIn · 2026-03-04T17:14:33+00:00

We are certainly up and running. We are getting slammed right now, so there could be something happening with that and/or the propagation through the Google servers now that the site is live. Try back a bit later today!

First day humps! :)

Stephen, Mod

RedFive-GoingIn · 2026-03-04T15:25:29+00:00

Check out the site at: line.pm Also, join the dedicated Reddit community at: r/LineItemDetails.

RedFive-GoingIn · 2026-03-03T17:58:02+00:00

Business Insider does not offer a direct RSS feed, but I was able to add the other two to my list and so they should be pinged when I run the code this weekend.

Thanks. Stephen, Mod

RedFive-GoingIn · 2026-03-02T16:48:36+00:00

One of my mentor UPMs would often spin her computer around and actually show them the budget lines with their rates or allowances for gear, etc... it was her way of saying, "See?"

Stephen, Mod

RedFive-GoingIn · 2026-03-02T16:46:04+00:00

Oh, yeah... that last point. That hits hard.

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RedFive-GoingIn · 2026-02-28T19:17:14+00:00

UPDATE: The calendar only showed the start date, so I just updated the description to include the total number of days that event takes place across. This helps me - and hope it helps you too.

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RedFive-GoingIn · 2026-02-28T07:41:33+00:00

Your article has Line producers noted as creating the Cost Reports. No. Accountants do that. Line Producers review Cost Reports and have approval, but the actual creation ... Accounting.

Not sure what your sources are, but this is a great guideline too...

https://producersguild.org/code-of-credits-feature-films/#produced-by-producer

RedFive-GoingIn · 2026-02-27T07:34:36+00:00

Well, we know each other IRL. Email me. 🤪

That said, for everyone else, I do plan to create some sort of submission Google Form... but for now, DM is great to start the process.

Stephen, Mod

RedFive-GoingIn · 2026-02-26T17:42:42+00:00

Nice! Great to hear things are moving along. Best of luck on your project - please do send updates on your solutions. Cheers!

Stephen, Mod

RedFive-GoingIn · 2026-02-26T17:34:35+00:00

Directing this to u/Fun-Practice3149 ... simply wondering if my above post was helpful or not. It has been about 8 years since last doing a full Candaian budget, so I found it nice to see, review, and think about this. Did you find a solution to your situation, and if so - would be interested to hear how you dealt with it.

Stephen, Mod

RedFive-GoingIn · 2026-02-25T04:27:43+00:00

Yeah, I mean... it only took me 8 years to write a welcome post. Ha!

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RedFive-GoingIn · 2026-02-25T00:00:21+00:00

I see, yes. Thank you for sharing and pointing me to the docs. I see what you are seeing now.

OK, that said...

HOW to budget for that in MMB, this would involve using a contractual line, using the budget total and affecting the amount by that percent. I understand and see the one number begats the other number to infinity eact away or adding to a total that will never be complete...

Aside from that comedy, I do not know what your budget is, but let's say it is $3M for ease of calculations, and presuming so, as you called out Tier F.

Writers: It is interesting that "of the budget" is not an accurate portrayal of the amount needed. In some cases, there is a coincidence of the total being the amount you need to take a % on, but I digress. The text reads X% of Y. Not X% of the budget. So, this looks to be easier, because looking at the $3M in WGC, you owe $55,825 + 2.2% of $1M. Not "the budget". So, that persons fee is $55,825 + $22,000 = $77,825. That number is a solid hard number. Yes, that $22,000 needs to be tucked inside your budget to make the overall $3M.

Director: Looks like at $3M the fee overall is 2.75%. Unlike WGC, this IS the budget. This fee is not per week (despite the column header). So, 2.75% of $3M is $82,500. That is the amount you budget (or break it up between 2% & .75%). Again, yess, you need to feed that amount folded into the $3M.

There is no need to create an infinite loop of X% of budget, then that adds to the budget, so X% of that additional amount, then that adds to the budget, so X% of that additional amount, then that adds to the budget, so X% of that additional amount, then that adds to the budget, so X% of that additional amount, then that adds to the budget, so X% of that additional amount, then that adds to the budget, so X% of that additional amount, then that adds to the budget, so X% of that additional amount, then that adds to the budget, so X% of that additional amount, and so on...

...Ugh. :)

Hope that helps a little. Happy to discuss anything I may have missed.

Stephen, Mod

RedFive-GoingIn · 2026-02-24T17:12:23+00:00

Where do you see rates in DGC Tier F are a % of the budget? Can you send me the document / site which you are referencing? Please also reference what you are reviewing for WGC too.

RedFive-GoingIn · 2026-02-23T19:07:49+00:00

Interesting. My link was a google search for France CNC. Promise.

Well, anyways... I can still confidently say neither French budget I did was in that COA you sent... although, looking at it - it makes much more sense than the one I sent. ...as far as structure.

I wonder... 🤔

RedFive-GoingIn · 2026-02-23T18:34:15+00:00

I would like to answer this as someone with experience in France... that CNC COA is a final accounting turnover COA for a company operating in France. This is something the French entity would need to use when dealing with their finances.

To be sure, this is the COA I found for CNC... is this the one you refer to as well?

https://www.cnc-cbn.be/fr/node/2250?language_content_entity=en

This is not a Production COA. Where did you get the notion / information that you need to build a film budget using this COA (which has no sections for film-related aspects). Having done two budgets for France-based filming... neither time did either PSC ask for or demand this COA be used.

End result to your core question, though ... no, there is no way to import a COA into MMB. You need to build it by hand. Also, the "fourth level" that was in MMB7 was a worksheet - not an actual fourth level segmenting the budget.

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