With the new features in 3.0, the most popular open source suite, MS users have more reason to keep that $150 in their pockets, and existing OOo users have every reason to upgrade. Last month, I asked you why you were still wasting money on MS Office when there are so many free, open source office suites available. But do its new features justify a switch away from NeoOffice for Mac users? Great news for Mac users, since 3 is now a native Intel OS X application. Good news for anyone running Windows or Linux who wants a stable, high quality and free office suite. If you’d like more information about Casper, or to arrange an interview with the co-creators, please call Michael R. 3.0 was recently released with a host of new features like MS Office 2007 file format support, spreadsheet collaboration and an improved word processor comments system. He is a graduate of Loyola Marymount University and got his start as an intern at Paramount Pictures in 1990. I Love Your Work, Shackles, Vacancy 2, Next Day Air and Meet Monica Velour. Williams is a Line Producer and Unit Production Manager for feature films. He has been working in the film industry for twelve years. His credits include Fast & Furious, Soccer Mom, Honor and Me and You and Everyone We Know. He has over twenty years of experience.Įlion Olson is a Second Assistant Director for feature films and television. His credits include American Virgin, Kevin Smith’s Spoilers, Wuthering Heights and Dead Man’s Curve. Paul Silver is a Line Producer and First Assistant Director for feature films and television. also creates a host of business forms used by accounting, schedule strips used by assistant directors and worksheets for use in tracking actor work days. Among their programs are Poco, which is software that helps feature film production offices closely track information about their crew, vendors and travel. launched in 2010 and is dedicated to creating software for the film and television industries. If our work can help benefit someone else, then that’s our reward.” “We were all helped by someone else at some point in our careers. “It’s incumbent upon everyone in the industry to give back,” co-creator Michael R. is giving the software away for free on their website. It’s our hope that we’ll now be able to more quickly prepare our paperwork and get back to set, where our real job is done.” It requires a copy of Microsoft Excel to run it.Ĭo-creator Elion Olson noted, “As assistant directors, we have all felt trapped under the weight of these documents. Once imported, all of the documents communicate with each other, allowing data entered in one document to appear in another, without having to retype it. Its creators have devised a method for importing the schedule into Casper. Named Casper, the software allows users to create Call Sheets, Production Reports, Exhibit G’s and Hot Cost Reports. The more efficiently the AD department runs, the more efficiently the whole production runs.” “We knew there had to be a way to reuse that data. “Most of the data for a show is generated when you first break down the script, but that information is trapped in the software used to create schedules,” co-creator Paul Silver said. ![]() Working together, they solved the technical hurdles inherent in managing large amounts of information. Williams began collaborating in early 2012 with the goal of finding a solution to these issues. But the effort involved in their creation has meant that Assistant Directors routinely spend more time typing than performing their duties on set.ĭirectors Guild of America members Paul Silver, Elion Olson and Michael R. The requirements to create these documents dates back to the beginnings of the studio system. Their responsibilities include creating Call Sheets that delineate everything that is going to happen on the next shooting day, Production Reports which detail what happened on the previous shooting day and the creation of a Screen Actors Guild timesheet, called an Exhibit G. 14, 2013 - PRLog - introduced software today that automatically enters information from a film production schedule into the daily paperwork created by Assistant Directors.Īssistant Directors have long labored under an immense strain of paperwork.
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