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Import Movie Magic Schedule to Yamdu
Import Movie Magic Schedule to Yamdu

How to import your shooting schedule into Yamdu

Updated over a week ago

Yamdu makes it easy for you to manage scheduling and breakdown creation even if you have created a shooting schedule outside of our software.

That's why you can easily import a Movie Magic Schedule into Yamdu.

After the import you will be able to edit your schedule in Yamdu. The import will also generate all scenes, characters and sets automatically or merge and link this data if it already exists in Yamdu.

To Import your MMS schedule, just follow these steps:

  1. Download our Movie Magic strip layout: Yamdu_Layout_1_0.msl

  2. Open your Movie Magic Schedule in Movie Magic Scheduling 6 and select Design > Strip Layouts in the top menu.

  3. Click "Import Strip Layout(s)" and choose the file you just downloaded (it will probably be in your Download folder and will have the file extension .msl).

  4. Make sure all cast members have a Board ID and add IDs if any cast members are missing it.

  5. For the import to work there has to be at least one day break included. If you want to import a schedule for a single day, please select the last scene in the Stripboard and click "Insert Day Break"

  6. Select File > Print/View in the Movie Magic top menu and choose "Yamdu_Import_Layout_1.0" from the Strip Layouts list and uncheck all check-boxes EXCEPT "Stripboard", "Banners" and "Day Breaks" so that only those three are selected and click "Print" afterwards

  7. PC: In the print menu click on the drop-down menu for the printers and select "Microsoft print to PDF" and click "OK" afterwards


    MAC: In the print menu click the PDF dropdown and select "Save as PDF..."

  8. Choose a filename and save the file to a direction of your liking

  9. In the "Shooting Schedule" area of Yamdu, select "Import shooting schedule" > "Select file from your device" and then select the PDF you just created and click "Next"

Yamdu will then analyze the file and create the schedule for you. Yamdu will recognise if you have already created scenes, characters or sets in Yamdu that are part of your schedule and you will be able to link with these existing objects.

When you are done click "Save" and Yamdu will create the schedule and its scenes, characters and sets for you.

NOTE: In Movie Magic the "est. time" field is used to indicate how much time will be needed to shoot the scene in hours and minutes. In Yamdu this will be transferred into the field "scheduled time", which we use for this purpose since Yamdu already uses the field "estimated time" for the duration of the scene in the movie itself.

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