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Chimpanzee Changelog

What's new in Chimpanzee 2.4.0

Nov 6, 2019
  • Support for The Gorilla Ratebook 2020 Edition.

New in Chimpanzee 2.3.3 (Aug 12, 2019)

  • Support for The Gorilla Ratebook 2019 Edition.
  • [Feature] Added feature: Remove Duplicate Elements in Scenes.
  • [Feature] New Report: Shooting Schedule by Element.
  • [Feature] Convert Element to Character (Elements module).
  • [Improvement] Added Shoot Day to Character/Scene Report.
  • [Improvement] Shoot Date for Scene now displays on Location Summary report.
  • [Bug] Final Draft 11 import fixes.
  • [Bug] sex screenplay import fixed.
  • [Bug] Crew Title issues fixed.

New in Chimpanzee 2.3.0 (Nov 17, 2018)

  • Compatibility:
  • High Sierra Compatible.
  • Feature:
  • New, updated design.
  • New toolbar for common functions.
  • Save schedules and budgets to specified cloud drive.
  • 6 New Reports.
  • Undo Last deleted budget item.
  • Improved find for elements.
  • Export scenes to Excel.
  • New List View for Actors and Crew.

New in Chimpanzee 2.1.0 (Nov 14, 2017)

  • High Sierra Compatible.
  • New, updated design.
  • New toolbar for common functions.
  • Save schedules and budgets to specified cloud drive.
  • 6 New Reports.
  • Undo Last deleted budget item.
  • Improved find for elements.
  • Export scenes to Excel.
  • New List View for Actors and Crew.

New in Chimpanzee 1.7.5 (May 19, 2016)

  • Support for The Gorilla Ratebook 2015/2106 version 1 Edition.
  • Import FDX screenplay has a few issues with some formatted screenplays. This has been fixed.
  • One Line Schedule sorting fixed.
  • One Line Schedule - added Print Scene Description option to report.

New in Chimpanzee 1.7.2 (Apr 8, 2015)

  • Added Features, Improvements & Fixes:
  • Sort Accounts in the Budget would revert back to original position. This has been fixed.
  • Go to captions/logos for budget in Select a Budget window only would not go to the correct budget. This has been fixed.
  • Remove City/State/Postal field on Prod. Co. and Logo screen.
  • Script Page did not save. This has been fixed.

New in Chimpanzee 1.7.1 (Jan 30, 2015)

  • Feature:
  • Support for 2012-2013 Ratebook reinstated.
  • Paste Text Only added to Budget.
  • Ability to enter negative numbers on Detail line items which will show up in Red and calculate properly for sum of bugdet.
  • Bug:
  • When selecting an Account in Select an Account, the screen size does not change.
  • Duplicate Account in budget did not work. This has been fixed.
  • Added Sort Detail Rows and Sort Account Rows in pull-down menus.

New in Chimpanzee 1.7.0 (Jan 30, 2015)

  • Bug:
  • Miscellaneous Detail line items with no Accounts would sometimes appear in the Detail report. This has been fixed.

New in Chimpanzee 1.6.1 (Jan 30, 2015)

  • Bug:
  • Texting call sheets fixed.
  • Sometimes windows would not close and the program would freeze. This has been fixed.
  • If you removed a duplicate shot in the storyboard, all similar shot types (the original one it was based on) would also delete. This has been fixed.

New in Chimpanzee 1.6.0 Build 0077 (Sep 9, 2014)

  • [Bug]: Crew Call Times fixed on Call Sheet.
  • [Improvement]: Add Scene to Shoot Day label corrected.
  • [Feature]: Export Crew and Export Actors feature added.
  • [Feature]: Ability to check authorization count from Authorization screen.
  • [Bug Fix]: Budget Header Fixed formatting is cleaner if certain fields are not entered.
  • [Bug Fix]: Detail button on Topsheet did not work. Now displays a message to select an account.
  • [Improvement]: Calendar and Color Picker files consolidated into Scheduling file.
  • [Feature]: Added two new crew titles: Production Supervisor an Asst. Production Supervisor.

New in Chimpanzee 1.5.7 Build 0068 (Jun 18, 2014)

  • [Feature] Added preference to print notes on Actor List report.
  • [Feature] Added preference to print notes on Crew List report.
  • [Feature] Added preference to print actor and crew rates on appropriate lists.
  • [Improvement] When running a Breakdown Sheet Summary report and no elements or characters were attached to scenes, it would show a blank page. Now an error message appears explaining that this report requires those elements attached to scenes.
  • [Improvement] List of Dates for selecting a Call Sheet now sorts by date.
  • [Bug Fix] If selecting the SAME day to move an Index Card TO, it deleted all attached scenes to shoot days, but Update Shoot Days fixed this. Now this should not happen in the first place.
  • [Bug Fix] Sometimes authorization would be requested again on Windows machines. This has been fixed.
  • [Bug Fix] Importing a .sex screenplay file had an issue where a character or element added afterwards would not be added correctly. This has been fixed.
  • [Bug Fix] When deleting a scene any storyboards attached to that scene were not deleted. This has been fixed.

New in Chimpanzee 1.5.6 (Jun 18, 2014)

  • [Improvement] Import Final Draft FDX files improved.
  • [Bug Fix] Update Shoot Days added in Scenes screen as an option to sync mismatched Shoot Days and Scenes.
  • [Bug Fix] If exporting to Koala Call Sheets and there was no elements attached to any scenes the export would not finish. This has been fixed.
  • [Bug Fix] Scene sort fixed in Shooting Schedule report.
  • [Bug Fix] When going to Scene Sorter, would not go to Default Sort Order. This has been fixed.

New in Chimpanzee 1.5.5 (Jun 18, 2014)

  • [New Feature] New Report: Location Summary.
  • [New Feature] Imports Script Page from Final Draft's FDX file.

New in Chimpanzee 1.5.4 (Jun 18, 2014)

  • [Bug Fix] The Gorilla Ratebook updated to 2014.1. Fixes find feature.
  • [Bug Fix] Added Script Page field to Scenes screen.

New in Chimpanzee 1.5.3 (Jun 18, 2014)

  • [Bug Fix] FDX import did not import the eighth of page correctly.
  • [Bug Fix] Display Time did not display properly on the Shooting Schedule report.

New in Chimpanzee 1.5.1 (Jun 18, 2014)

  • [Bug Fix] StoryO import fixed. Would duplicate the characters and cause other issues for other loaded schedules.
  • [Bug Fix] After registering The Gorilla Ratebook if tried to deauthorize, Chimpanzee would shut down. This has been fixed.
  • [Bug Fix] Storyboard Save As did not work.

New in Chimpanzee 1.5.0 (Jun 18, 2014)

  • [New Feature] Ability to load the 2014 Gorilla Ratebook.
  • [New Feature] Ability to import FDX files from Final Draft 9.
  • [Improvement] Added a warning when deleting shots for scene on the Storyboard.
  • [Bug Fix] Display shot details was not always working properly. This has been fixed.
  • [Bug Fix] If a shot was deleted from one ordering for a scene which has more than one ordering, a question mark would appear on that shot for all the other orderings. This has been fixed.
  • [Bug Fix] Add existing shot in the Storyboard did not always display all shots. This has been fixed.
  • [Bug Fix] Loading a Chimpanzee schedule to a project would load to the first project, not the one specified. This has been fixed.
  • [Bug Fix] Fixed some issues with manually creating a budget.
  • [Bug Fix] When printing an Actor List report (or any Contact report) Chimpanzee printed the project name first in the list. This has been fixed.

New in Chimpanzee 1.0.7 (Jun 18, 2014)

  • [Improvement] Command-W (Close Storyboard) added to the Storyboard main window as a shortcut to close the window.
  • [Bug Fix] Importing screenplays from the .sex file format that have not been properly formatted as: INT. HOUSE - DAY (for example) will be adjusted so that the SET and TIME OF DAY will be imported properly.
  • [Bug Fix] Page Setup button now available when printing any report.
  • [Bug Fix] When adding an element to a scene from the Elements screen, Chimpanzee would add the element to the Characters view on the Scenes screen. This has been fixed.
  • [Bug Fix] Budget Topsheet: Delete row command from the pull-down menu will now delete a production total line and all accounts associated with it.
  • [Bug Fix] Budget Topsheet: Fixed some issues with Insert Production Total.
  • [Bug Fix] Authorize command moved underneath the Extras pull-down menu.

New in Chimpanzee 1.0.6 (Jun 18, 2014)

  • [New Feature] Ability to set all detail line items to the unit entry: “Allow” in the Unit pull-down settings.
  • [Bug Fix] Units did not print properly on the Detail report in the budget. This has been fixed.
  • [Bug Fix] Deleting a shoot day that did not have any scenes attached to it would sometimes delete the wrong shoot day. This has been fixed.

New in Chimpanzee 1.0.5 (Jun 18, 2014)

  • [Improvement] Shooting Schedule report now offers option to print Location in preferences.
  • [Improvement] Shooting Schedule report now offers option to print Scene Notes in preferences.
  • [Improvement] More room given to print a description for a shot in the Shot List report.
  • [Bug Fix] In previous versions you could not edit a custom shot name. Now you can edit the shot type name.
  • [Bug Fix] When adding a scene to the Scene Sorter and then closing the Scene Sorter without saving, if running a Scheduling report (Shooting Schedule for example), the added scene would not appear in the report unless you went back to that Shoot Day and saved the sort order. Now if you add a scene to a shoot day a warning will appear if you close the Scene Sorter window without saving the new sort order.
  • [Bug Fix] Custom Shot Types would not save to an external file. This has been fixed.
  • [Bug Fix] When removing a shot from a scene in the Storyboard module, the shot would delete, but the shot would still appear in the sorter. This would cause a problem if you tried to delete it again, because it was already deleted. Now when you delete a shot the screen is refreshed to reflect the new found set of shots.
  • [Bug Fix] Estimated Time (Hour and Minute) did not save in the save file. This has been fixed.
  • [Bug Fix] When you edit a card in the Scene Sorter, the Scene Description did not display properly. This has been fixed.
  • [Bug Fix] Changing the Production Total name on the Topsheet did not change the name in the Manage Production Totals screen when selected. This has been fixed.
  • [Bug Fix] After moving a Production Total using the Manage Production Totals command, ithe Production Total was left inactive. Trying to move a production total back to the inactive total resulted in an error and possible data loss. This has been fixed and now the user must activate a production total first before moving a production total to it.

New in Chimpanzee 1.0.4 (Jun 18, 2014)

  • [Improvement] Breakdown Summary report now displays more than 2 lines of synopsis.
  • [Bug Fix] On certain reports and in the Card Sorter, scene names were getting cut off. This has been fixed.
  • [Bug Fix] When duplicating a scheduled scene, it appeared that the duplicated scene was scheduled for a shoot day as well, but it was not. We have changed this behavior so that a duplicated is NOT automatically scheduled for a shoot day.
  • [Bug Fix] When adding a Cast Member or Extra to a Scene from the Characters screen, the Cast Member was incorrectly being added to the “Elements” section on the Scenes window and not in the “Characters” section where it belonged. This has been fixed.
  • [Bug Fix] Various print menu behavior fixes.
  • [Bug Fix] Importing a screenplay file without any characters would result in an error and the import would halt. This has been fixed.

New in Chimpanzee 1.0.3 (Jun 18, 2014)

  • [Improvement] The report menu will automatically display the reports for the module you are currently in.
  • [Bug Fix] Default button on Storyboard did not always work properly. This has been fixed.
  • [Bug Fix] The budgeting module did not always import crew, actors, and elements from a linked schedule properly. This has been fixed.
  • [Bug Fix] One could not create an “Extra” in the Characters module. Also could not change a “Cast Member” to an “Extra”. Both have been fixed.

New in Chimpanzee 1.0.2 (Jun 18, 2014)

  • [Bug Fix] Save Schedule, Save Budget and Save Koala Call Sheets in Windows did not always work properly. This has been fixed.
  • [Bug Fix] Fixed an issue with entering locations.
  • [Bug Fix] When invoking a Save As for Storyboard if there were not any shots for the current scene, shots sometimes disappeared. This has been fixed.
  • [Bug Fix] Saving a Storyboard for a scene with Custom Images would sometimes detach the storyboards from the schedule so they would not print on reports. This has been fixed.
  • [Bug Fix] Call Time on the Call Time report displayed Makeup Time. This has been fixed.
  • [Bug Fix] Call Times were not always saved in the save schedule file. This has been fixed.

New in Chimpanzee 1.0.1 (Jun 18, 2014)

  • [Improvement] Added the ability to add Extras to Characters.
  • [Improvement] One Line Schedule report now sorts in shoot order.
  • [Bug Fix] Fixed One Line Scheduling Report.
  • [Bug Fix] Fixed Shooting Schedule Report. Was not always printing out all of the shoot days. Also now sorts in shoot order.
  • [Bug Fix] Importing a .sex screenplay file that is not numbered will now display an error.
  • [Bug Fix] Importing a .sex screenplay file sometimes did not attach proper elements to scenes. This has been fixed.
  • [Bug Fix] Clicking on Locations in Scenes would sometimes not show existing locations but would create a new location instead. This has been fixed.
  • [Bug Fix] Call Sheet report did not sort scenes in shooting order. This has been fixed.

New in Chimpanzee 1.5.7 Build 0068 (Jun 18, 2014)

  • [Feature] Added preference to print notes on Actor List report.
  • [Feature] Added preference to print notes on Crew List report.
  • [Feature] Added preference to print actor and crew rates on appropriate lists.
  • [Improvement] When running a Breakdown Sheet Summary report and no elements or characters were attached to scenes, it would show a blank page. Now an error message appears explaining that this report requires those elements attached to scenes.
  • [Improvement] List of Dates for selecting a Call Sheet now sorts by date.
  • [Bug Fix] If selecting the SAME day to move an Index Card TO, it deleted all attached scenes to shoot days, but Update Shoot Days fixed this. Now this should not happen in the first place.
  • [Bug Fix] Sometimes authorization would be requested again on Windows machines. This has been fixed.
  • [Bug Fix] Importing a .sex screenplay file had an issue where a character or element added afterwards would not be added correctly. This has been fixed.
  • [Bug Fix] When deleting a scene any storyboards attached to that scene were not deleted. This has been fixed.