Hi, I'm Chris from StudioBinder
and we've just released a major new update
to our contact management
and call sheet builder features.
So let's take a look at it, right now.
There are four major things that are very different in this release.
The first is that we've improved the user interface.
Right off the bat,
you see a much more space-efficient StudioBinder.
The fonts are smaller,
so you can fit more details on the screen.
The navigation bar has also been redesigned,
so you can collapse it
and free up space,
as you like.
We've also merge the contacts and favorites list pages
into one page.
So it's a lot easier to go back and forth between them.
Lastly, we've created a brand new project overview page
that shows you all the details you need
at a glance.
You can even add your own custom details to it.
So for example,
if you go up to here and click "Edit."
And let's say, I want to add due date.
And I'll type in "September the 1st."
And click "Done."
We wanted to make the interface much more streamlined,
so you can get more done
in less clicks.
The other thing
is that we wanted to make it a lot faster
to manage contacts.
Pop-ups are much snappier.
And you can assign unlimited roles to people.
So if you want someone to be a director
and also, say, a producer
and maybe also talent,
you can do that now.
As you can see,
there's a new "Save & Add Another" button.
So in very quick succession,
you can add a bunch of contacts
back-to-back.
If you look to the side here,
you can see a new side bar
that allows you to filter by crew, talent, extras or clients.
As I mentioned earlier,
we've also merged list functionality into contacts.
So now you can click on these plus icons
and organize them into your own custom lists.
In this release, we really wanted to make it super easy and fast
to add new contacts
and keep them all organized
in a way that still flexible
and fits your needs.
Speaking of keeping things organized.
The third major improvement
is all about departments.
In the past,
StudioBinder used to provide a single grid
of all of your talent
crew, extras, and clients,
all mixed together.
In the new StudioBinder,
we break our crew into departments for you, automatically.
Best of all, if you go to a call sheet page,
they'll also be grouped in exactly the same way.
So if I go to an existing call sheet,
and you can see I've added a bunch of contacts here,
and if I scroll down to crew,
they've all been bucketed correctly for me.
Now, again, I didn't have to do anything.
This was all laid automatically.
This makes it much more intuitive,
not just to create a call sheet,
but to be able to navigate and read the call sheet.
Let's say you want to modify the positions,
ordering or department names.
Like take, for example,
this one here that says "Agency."
Say, I want to replace agency
with the name of my company.
If you go to your manage page,
you'll see a new department section
where you can rename and reorder departments and positions,
in any way that you like.
I'm going to go ahead and rename agency
to the name of my production company.
We`ll call this "Gravity Productions."
And let it save.
And then when I go back to the same call sheet,
I'll scroll down to the crew section here.
Instead of seeing "Agency"
you can now see that it's "Gravity Productions."
If you don't like department names, positions, or ordering,
you can customize your default settings
and from there on out,
it's personalized for you.
The last few updates I like to share with you
are all about making it even faster to create a call sheet.
You can now assign new recipients to a call sheet
without needing to exit the call sheet builder.
So let's go to step 2.
And click "Select a New Recipient."
So click here.
And let's say you want to add a new contact.
Someone that you`ve not previously added to your database, yet.
You just click this link here
and you can add new contacts, one after another.
After you're done,
they'll appear right in the select recipients pop up,
so you just select them
and they'll be added to this call sheet.
Done.
The other major thing that speeds up your call sheet workflow
is the new locations manager.
So now, you can save locations prior to creating a call sheet
and then import them.
All you have to do is go to your new locations manager page right here,
and you can add all of your locations,
even before making a call sheet.
Here's some locations I already created.
And if I expand any of these,
you can see every location has all the key information
that I want to include in the call sheet, right?
So if I go back to and edit a call sheet
which puts me back in step 3 here.
And I scroll down to locations
and click on the import locations dropdown,
I can see all of the locations from the manager.
So all I need to do is click on one of them.
And look at that.
All the information:
the shooting, location the parking details, the nearest hospital,
they were all added for me.
This is really handy if you find yourself shooting in the same location,
and don't want to input the same information, day after day.
Just create a location once,
and add it to a call sheet with a click.
Lastly, we've updated the call sheet recipients page
to have even more value.
So when you go there,
you have a new status column
that's much more specific about what the status of a call sheet recipient is.
Whether the call sheet was sent, unsent,
or if the recipient opened or confirm receipt of their call sheet.
We've also made it really easy for you,
to be able to send and resend a cool sheet
and remove recipients.
Let's say you send a call sheet to someone
and want to remove them.
You just click the little trash can icon here
and you're done.
The other really nice thing
is that you can now adjust the call time
and the email of a recipient,
right from the recipient's page.
This is really useful.
So let's say you send out the call sheet,
and look at a status,
and notice someone has not you viewed your call sheet, yet.
You glance at their email
and notice a typo.
Just click on the email right there,
make your adjustments,
click the "Resend" button,
and you're done.
So these call sheet updates save a ton of time
when creating call sheets day after day.
With this update
what you're seeing is just a hint of big changes to come.
But until then ,
thank you for watching
and let us know what you think of the new changes
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