The WrapToScreen User Guide

Quick start

1. Sign in — Google, or email and password. One account serves the whole SlateScreen Suite.
2. New title creates your film. The Free plan covers 1 active title.
3. Register your current cut and its lock status.
4. Add festival and distributor targets with their deadlines — the dashboard's "What's due next" strip and the optional daily email digest both come from these.
5. As the run progresses: record submissions, publish the press kit, send screeners, and build the Delivery Binder as paperwork arrives.

Wrapped a production in SetDots? Start from the bridge instead — your title arrives pre-filled.

Titles & the free limit

A title is one film. The plan strip beside New title shows your allowance — the count is checked server-side, so the strip and the refusal can never disagree.

Archive is not delete

Archiving moves a finished film out of the working dashboard and makes it read-only. Nothing is deleted: every cut, target, submission and document stays, the film stays exportable forever, and it stops counting against your active-title limit — permanently. Un-archiving needs room under your current plan, because it consumes an allowance again. Your finished films are free forever; that is the point of the product.

Export

Export everything (JSON) on any title downloads the film's complete record. Screener tokens are deliberately left out — a token is a live credential, and exports get emailed.

Cuts & picture lock

Register each cut as it exists — assembly, rough cut, fine cut, locked, conformed — with runtime and notes. The first cut you register becomes the current cut automatically; owners and editors can re-point it as new cuts land. The current cut is what the rest of the app means by "the film".

Post schedule

The steps between lock and delivery — sound mix, color, titles, QC — each with an owner and a date. Add standard steps seeds the usual sequence so you edit a list rather than remember one.

Collaborators

Sharing works by member code, not email invitation: your collaborator signs in once, copies their code from My member code in the top bar, and sends it to you; you add it under Members on the title. WrapToScreen sends no email for this.

An editor on a Deliver customer's film is covered by that customer's plan — plans count films, not seats.

The SetDots bridge

If the film was shot on SetDots, Import from SetDots lists your wrapped productions and previews exactly what will arrive — credits from the roster, the production record, dates — before anything is written. The film's record travels; nothing is retyped.

Targets & deliverables

A target is anywhere the film is going: a festival, a distributor, a platform. Each carries its deadlines and a deliverables checklist (DCP, ProRes, captions, artwork — seeded from spec templates, editable per target).

Getting targets in

• Starter packs — common festival slates, one click.
• Import spreadsheet (CSV) — including a FilmFreeway submissions export, recognised automatically: statuses, fees, judging outcomes and screening dates come across, de-duplicated against the selected title.

Deadlines that reach you

Everything due feeds the dashboard strip, a per-title calendar (.ics) download, and — if the checkbox under "What's due next" is on — one email digest a day at most, only when something is actually due within two weeks. The unsubscribe link in the email lands on that same checkbox.

Campaign, budget & laurels Festival plan

The campaign view totals submissions, fees, outcomes and screenings across the run, with a budget vs. actuals table fed automatically by submission fees. Laurels renders selection and award laurels as SVG or PNG. The status page is a shareable "where are we?" snapshot generated from data the app already holds.

The press kit Festival plan

Publish press kit creates a public EPK page on an unguessable link — synopsis, stills, credits, contacts, laurels. Publishing is a Festival feature; editing and unpublishing a kit you already have never is — a plan change can never strand a live page you cannot take down.

Screeners Festival plan

A screener is a tokened link to the film for a programmer or buyer: optional expiry (enforced server-side, not just in the page), a view log per link, and one-click revoke — singly or all at once. Issuing links is Festival; revoking is always available. Per-recipient watermarking is part of the Deliver plan.

The Delivery Binder Deliver plan

The film's chain of title and delivery paperwork in one place — agreements, releases, E&O, music licenses — with a downloadable index. Reading the Binder is never paywalled: a lapsed plan can no longer add documents, but every document you already filed stays readable and exportable. A paywall over records you already made would poison exactly the trust the Binder is selling.

Cue sheet Deliver plan

Every music cue — title, composer, publisher, use, timing — exportable as CSV in the format performance-rights organisations expect. Adding cues is Deliver; reading and exporting what is already filed is not.

The verified package Deliver plan

Export package (JSON) assembles the distribution handoff: the locked cut's details, deliverables with their checksums (computed in your browser — files never leave your machine), credits, and the binder index. What travels is a verifiable manifest of the delivery, not a promise about it.

It is the same package whichever way the film goes out, and you do not have to sell the film to use it. Booking your own theatrical run through ReelVenue — which needs a DCP, and can generate one for you — onboards the title from this package with no re-entry, and you earn from the first screening. A distributor or sales agent uses the same package as the evidence pack behind a deal. Releasing it yourself first is not the opposite of selling it: the attendance and revenue you record become the proof of an audience that a later offer is negotiated against.

Watch-outs, follow-ups & printouts

Eight smaller tools that read the record you already keep. None of them need anything typed in; each says what it was computed from, so you can check it.

• Watch-outs (Campaign section) — the checks that do not need judgment: two pending festivals each offered an exclusive premiere, a premiere re-offered after another festival already took it, three deadlines inside one week, a festival closing within a month while the current cut is not locked, accepted screenings that overlap, and what is riding on the pending pile. "All clear" means none of those fired — not that the campaign is sound.
• Delivery schedule (on a target) — a printable page of that target's deliverables: status, where each file lives, and the full SHA-256 for whoever runs QC. Part of the verified package, so it follows the Deliver plan.
• Follow-ups (under Screeners) — who has not opened their link (a week without an open is a chase), what lapses this week, and Copy nudge, which puts a short note on your clipboard for your own email thread. A view is a page open, not proof the film was watched.
• Across the slate (dashboard) — submissions, acceptance rate over decided submissions (pending is not a no), fees recorded, cost per acceptance, and who said yes, across every film you can see.
• Copy from another film… (Targets) — scaffold this film's targets from one of your other films. You preview the plan first: deadlines copy only when still ahead, targets already here are skipped, and nothing from the other film's submissions or outcomes comes across.
• Expiry watch (Binder) — give a document an end date (insurance, E&O, options, licenses) and the Binder flags it 60 days out and after it lapses. Undated documents are never flagged.
• Version history (Cuts) — every cut oldest-first with the runtime change against the previous one, lock status, checksum, and what changed: the release notes a post house or distributor asks for.
• Since you were last here (top of a title) — the changes since your own last visit, from the activity log. Yours alone: each person has their own watermark.

Plans & billing

• Annual is two months free — a festival run is 12–18 months, not a monthly cadence.
• One free trial per account: 14 days of Festival. Your payment method is collected up front, PayPal bills $0 today, and the first $19 charge lands when the trial ends — cancel before then and you are not charged.
• Cancelling keeps what you paid for: your plan runs to the date you are paid through. After that the account returns to Free; your films stay, and anything over the Free limit becomes read-only until you archive or resubscribe.
• SetDots Producer includes 1 WrapToScreen title, Studio includes 5 — the festival toolkit, carried by your SetDots plan. Subscribe here only if you need more titles or the Deliver features.
• Archived films never count against any limit. Your finished films are free forever.

Manage all of this under Your plan at the bottom of the dashboard.

Your data

Under Your data at the bottom of the dashboard: Download my data exports every film you own plus your account records in one JSON file (screener tokens redacted — they are live credentials). Delete my WrapToScreen data permanently deletes the films you own, takes down every screener and press-kit link published from them, and releases your access to other people's films. Your SlateScreen sign-in is not deleted — one account serves the whole suite — and neither is anything held by SetDots or ReelVenue. Details: the privacy policy.