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StudioBinder
StudioBinder is a Santa Monica video production management software company.
Founded
2014StudioBinder is a Santa Monica video production management software company.
StudioBinder's platform organizes video production planning around five connected stages: writing, breakdown, visualization, planning, and shoot logistics. Screenplays and two-column AV scripts feed automated breakdowns that propagate revisions through stripboard schedules, shot lists, and storyboards, while call sheets carry shoot-day information and record delivery, views, and confirmations.
Production contacts, tasks, calendars, and a shared media library live in the same browser-based workspace. The software is sold to small teams and to organizations alike, with an enterprise edition adding workgroup permissions, dedicated storage, white-label branding, and optional single sign-on.
StudioBinder positions its software as an all-in-one replacement for disconnected spreadsheets, PDFs, and email in pre-production, aiming at production companies, agencies, in-house brand teams, broadcasters, studios, film schools, and independent filmmakers. The company claims that more than a million-and-a-half production companies and brands use the product, and its education library around the tool is paired with a YouTube audience in the millions of subscribers.
Third-party roundups of film production planning tools list StudioBinder among the leading options, and vendors of adjacent planning software publish direct comparison pages against it, indicating active competition for the same buyer.
StudioBinder sells its planning software as a subscription web application priced per team member and billed monthly or annually, with a discount on annual plans. A perpetual free plan serves as the entry point with no credit card required, and the company does not offer a free trial of its paid tiers.
Paid plans are organized into small-team tiers and organization tiers with rising seat counts, and enterprise arrangements are priced individually through a sales conversation. Educational and student discounts are handled through the company's support address.