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Introducing the Cinewright Ecosystem. The office and the set, finally linked.
Cinewright links the production office and the set in one production: script breakdown, scheduling and budgeting on the Mac, and the viewfinder, slate, script supervising and the shoot day on iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. No server, no subscription, no account.
Status and availability
Every Cinewright app is finished. They launch through a Kickstarter campaign in late 2026 or early 2027; nothing is on sale yet. Review copies of Budgeting and Scheduling are available on request: a named licence with every feature unlocked for the review period.
Prices, in US dollars: Budgeting and Scheduling for Mac $299 once ($199 on Kickstarter); Cinewright Continuity for Mac $149 once ($99 on Kickstarter); Cinewright for iPhone and iPad free, with Pro $59.99 once; CW Office and Cinewright Reader free. No subscription. Full price list.
The apps
| App | Runs on | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Budgeting and Scheduling | Mac · $299 once | The production office: script, breakdown, production stripboard, budget, cost reports, paperwork, wrap and delivery. |
| CW Office | iPad · free | The office on the move, for productions made on the Mac. |
| Cinewright Reader | Mac, and in the iPhone and iPad app · free | Signed, dated read-only copies for crew, cast, financiers and guarantors. |
| Cinewright | iPhone and iPad · free, Pro $59.99 once | The set: viewfinder, scouting, slate, script supervising, monitoring, and the day and paperwork back to the office. |
| Cinewright for Apple Watch | With the iPhone app | Slate remote: marker, cut and take from the wrist. |
| Cinewright Continuity | Mac · $149 once | Script supervising at the desk: the lined script, takes, stills, reports and editorial exports. |
Highlights
- Moving a scene on the film stripboard shows what it does to the budget and the shoot days before it is dropped.
- Funders’ own budget forms, tax-credit estimates and co-production treaty checks.
- Opens budgets and schedules exported from Movie Magic Budgeting, Movie Magic Scheduling, Gorilla and Showbiz Budgeting, and Final Draft scripts.
- Viewfinder with 107 cameras and sensor formats and 220 lens sets, 23 camera log signals, frame lines and the sun’s path in augmented reality.
- Script supervising with a lined script and take records, on the phone, iPad and Mac; Bluetooth timecode from Tentacle Sync devices and the Ambient Lockit.
- 16 languages. Linked over the local network or the production’s own cloud folder.
Founder
Damon Winters has worked in film and television since 1992, across nearly every department: actor (Fringe, Psych, Eureka), stunts, sound recordist and mixer, Steadicam, editor, producer, director and post-production supervisor. His editing on The Fork (2019) was nominated for Best Editing at the Unrestricted View Film Festival 2020. Current projects: The Adversaries (TV series), Light of Day and Kashmir. More about Damon.
Logos and photos
Free to use in coverage of Cinewright. The full press kit, with the fact sheet, feature lists, workflow chart, logos and screenshots, is available from the press contact.
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Cinewright™ is a trademark of Damon Winters. Movie Magic, Gorilla, Showbiz, ScriptE, Final Draft, Avid, DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro, Netflix, Ambient and Lockit are trademarks of their respective owners; Tentacle and Tentacle Sync are trademarks of Tentacle Sync GmbH. Cinewright is not affiliated with or endorsed by them.