Scene design · Blocking · Prep

This is PrepVis, intuitive visual prep for pros.

PrepVis turns shot listing and scene design into a calm, visual practice — so DPs, directors, and crew walk on set with a clear plan for every location, scene, and setup. The 2D planner is free, forever.

PrepVis turns shot listing and scene design into a visual practice so DPs, directors, and crew walk on set with a clear plan for every location, scene, and setup. The 2D planner is free, forever.

PrepVis plan view: a location laid out top down with camera positions, coverage and movement paths

Scene 14 · INT. LOFT · Shot 3 · 32mm

POV · Free carries the card

A design system for the most chaotic part of production.

This is where you prep, not where you create.

A design system for the most chaotic part of production.

Blocking decisions get made in the corner of a busy room, then live in someone’s head until call time. PrepVis gives that thinking a home: shot intentions, staging, coverage, light adjustments, and lens notes, organized scene by scene.

This doesn't create your blueprints, you create them here.

PrepVis gives tools to easily create shot intentions, staging, coverage, light adjustments, lens notes, organized by location, scene, or setup by setup. It will not do the work for you, but it can make the, fun.

Ever wanted to look through the POV of a light and drive it with a game controller? Step into a characters perspective and record every step as you make it then adjust later? This plays like a game, with the power of tried and true design software. Welcome to PrepVis.

With Apple Maps Integration the 3D buildings and 2D Maps with street names are planted with ease, giving you true to life on location at exteriors.

You also can map the correct azimuth and elevation of the Sun based on the time and day of filming, so you know exactly what you need, when you need it.

A truly robust way of working, created as a blueprint for the creative, not a creative endgame. This is where you prep, not where you create.

Built from a working cinematographers perspective, used on real productions to sell the shot.

Import .objs, fbx, and more. Plant photos on the canvas on objects and walls. Play back your shots, cue cars, ride in cars. And coming soon there are special effects tools that will make your imagination run wild.

Save your most frequently used layouts to a playbook such as the office, bar, car scenese, bathrooms, then share them others.

Send people a link where they can fly around your scene on their phones in 3D with joysticks, or just look at them in 2D or 3D to get the lay of the land.

This is for the simplest shoots, made for ipad first, as well as the most complex setups.

Welcome to PrepVis.

It’s deliberately simple, with the option to build out even the most advanced blocking scenarios while only delivering the correct info to the correct teams.

A truly robust and new way of working, built on the foundations of trusted design software.


The method

Three passes, from intention to set.

01

Build the Scene

Capture the intent of each scene — mood, geography, and the story the camera should tell.

02

Block the Action

Place talent and camera. Map movement and coverage so every beat has a frame before the day begins.

03

Export (or don't)

Export PDF overheads, free. POV stills and MP4s come with PRO — or just send a link for people to pick and pull what they want.

In the kit

Everything the frame needs, nothing it doesn’t.

Top-down blocking — free

Lay out the location like a floor plan — cameras, cast, walls and lights. Every 2D tool is free, forever.

Through the lens

Step into any camera’s POV at your real aspect ratio. Free POVs carry my business card — PRO takes it off.

3D cast & lighting

See the room in 3D — talent, sets, and lights with real throw and falloff. The third dimension is PRO.

Shot sheets & exports

PDF shot sheets are free. Stills and MP4s of the move come with PRO in the Mac app.

The deal

Free in 2D

Every planning tool, flat out — blocking, cues, PDF shot sheets. $0, forever.

POV with my card

Look through any camera lens free — the frame carries my business card until you go PRO.

3D is PRO

Cast and lighting in three dimensions, clean POVs, stills and MP4s — from $4.99 — or $99.99 once, forever.

Start your prep

Walk on set with confidence in the prep.

Walk on set with confidence in the prep.

Walk on set with confidence in the prep.

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