Chimpanzee Budgeting & Scheduling

Designed for student, low budget or beginner filmmakers, Chimpanzee offers traditional film scheduling & budgeting features at an affordable price. Made by the people who brought you Gorilla, Chimpanzee allows you to create breakdown sheets, budgets, manage cast & crew, generate call sheets, prop lists, shot lists, storyboards and more. Easily import a screenplay and immediately get started attaching scenes to shoot days and scheduling cast and crew. Choose from a variety of budget templates or create your own, and easily link your budget to schedule elements such as cast, crew and props. Chimpanzee comes with over a dozen reports, including breakdown summaries, call sheets, and a budget topsheet. Chimpanzee can also be integrated with the Gorilla Ratebook and Koala Call Sheets for even greater functionality and power.

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Features List

• Scheduling – Import screenplays directly from your favorite screenwriting software including Final Draft® and Movie Magic Screenwriter™ or import story outline and index cards from StoryO™.  Easily arrange scenes with drag and drop action. Log your props, costumes, set dressing and other elements and attach them to scenes.

• Budgeting – Industry-standard budgeting features with Topsheet, Account, and Detail levels. Easily link a budget to a schedule to share cast, crew, and other element information. Print a variety of professional budget reports.

• Storyboard & Shot list – Create a Storyboard and use the built-in shot library with the most common camera shot types to create a shot list for each scene.  

• Contacts – Store Contact information for cast, crew, agents, managers and companies and use it throughout Chimpanzee for scheduling, budgeting and accounting.  Auto-send emails to individuals or groups directly from Chimpanzee.

•Integrate with Koala Call Sheets* – Share Chimpanzee data with Koala Call Sheets and print, PDF, e-mail, or text the perfect call sheet to your cast and crew or anyone else.

•Integrate with The Gorilla Ratebook* – Get over 10,000 labor rates from over 85 unions and automatically insert the ones you need into your Chimpanzee Budget with just a few button clicks. 

* Koala Call Sheets and The Gorilla Ratebook each sold separately.

Minimum System Requirements:

Mac OSX 10.6 & above Minimum Requirements:

Intel-based Mac, 1GB Ram, 512MB available hard disk space, 1024x768 or higher resolution video adapter and display, Safari 5.1 installed, internet connection (for maps & other features)

Windows 8, Windows 7, or Vista:

1GHz or faster processor, 1GB RAM, 512MB available hard disk space, 1024x768 or higher resolution video adapter and display, Internet Explorer 8 installed, internet connection (for maps & other features)