Scenario Management
Compare versions of the same job
Show the client two or three versions of the same job and see exactly what each one costs. A scenario is a full copy of the budget in its own column, so a four-day and a five-day shoot stay live side by side in one editor instead of in separate spreadsheets.
These articles are for producers who bid options. They answer what the extra shoot day costs in money and percent, how to test a different shooting plan with its own overtime, how to show the client only the two versions that matter, and how to carry on from the version the client approved.
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Yes. Add Scenario copies the whole budget into another column in the same editor, so a four-day and a five-day version stay live side by side.
Rename the approved scenario so everyone reads it as the plan, keep working in its column, and branch from it with Add Scenario.
Yes. Build the alternative plan as a scenario, change the days and the Overtime there only, and read the difference in that column's header.
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