Web-based, Cross Platform

Shotgun runs right in a browser, so all content is available to everyone on any platform and in any location.

We can host on our servers or you can host in-house on yours. We'll migrate you from one to the other for free.

One Living Schedule, Many Views

Everyone has constant access to the latest project schedule, which can be filtered, sorted, and grouped and then saved off as live reports.

• Create tasks and milestones, view and edit with interactive Gantt charts
• Drill in to "Workrooms" for all the "Things" in your schedule, like Shots, Assets, Sequences, and more, to see how they are...
• "My Tasks" page for everyone with an account
• Track bid and logged time on each task, then see summaries
• View task "roll up" summaries on reports for Sequences, Shots, Assets, etc.
• Rapid task creation with customizable task templates
• API hooks enable task related automation

Integrated Messaging

Move all communication from email into Shotgun Notes, which support replies, email notifications, statuses, attachments, and custom fields.

• My Notes page for everyone that acts like an Inbox for project communication
• View notes in context on any shot, asset, or other Thing you are tracking
• Create project wide reports on notes, filtered by type, status, or other fields
• Take notes quickly in work review (daily) sessions
• Use the API to generate notifications from other parts of the pipeline via Shotgun notes addressed to people, groups, or linked to tasks.

Issue and Bug Tracking

We use Shotgun ourselves every day to manage our own software development process. Watch the video tour.

• Track Releases, Tools, Tickets, and Revisions (other things like "sprint" and "story" are available on request)
• Link tickets to your Assets and Shots to unite engineering with the rest of the pipeline
• Integrate with SVN, Perforce, Git, or other code repository systems
• Threaded ticket pages, with email notifications

Make it Your Own

The system is highly configurable, adapting to how you work and not the other way around.

• Design default layouts of pages and tabs per project
• Customizable home pages and project dashboards
• Modify the database schema right through the UI
• Custom reports of live data
• Rename anything to match studio nomenclature
• Permissions to control what people can see and do
• Tagging for fast and flexible organization

Track Your "Things" and How They Are Connected

• Decide what to track from a list of over 30 "Things", such as Shots, Sequences, Assets, Takes, Performers, Shoot Days, Elements, etc.
• Add your own fields to any Thing you're tracking to store the data you need. Field types include: Checkbox, Currency, Date, Duration, Entity (other Things), Floating point numbers, File, URL, List, Number, Percent, Status List, Text, and Timecode
• Make custom page and tab layouts for the things you track
• Link Things together to show dependencies and connections, such as an Asset breakdown on a shot, parent and sub assets, and parent and sub shots
• Dynamic views allow you to see and traverse the connections, or shift perspective on the fly

Integrate and Extend into your Pipeline

The system is completely open, with a flexible python API that lets you quickly integrate into your pipeline.

• Open Python API provides full CRUD access to all data
• Tap into the event stream for event driven triggers
• Special tools for integrating Asset Management and Code repository systems
• Extend the UI with URL page and tab widgets

Solid, Secure, and IT Friendly

• Secure - 256-bit SSL encryption (hosted license), full event logging, individual logins and passwords for everyone with access
• Account management with LDAP / AD Integration (installed license)
• Built on solid open-source tools, such as PostgreSQL, Javascript, Apache, Ruby, Rails, Memcached, and Mod_Rails
• Local and remote backups for hosted clients
• Monitoring by Monit and Munin
• Stress tested for over 3 years on more than 100 projects

Start Simple, Evolve, Automate, and Scale

Shotgun is designed to grow with you as your process evolves. You can start simple, with just projects, people, tasks and notes, and then evolve the system as needed while in production, or as your business scales.

We provide some simple templates to get you started.

And We're Just Getting Started!

We have a big vision for where we want to take Shotgun, and we feel we're only beginning to scratch the surface. We release new features every 8 weeks or so, and work very closely with our clients on our development roadmap. We'd love to have you along for the ride.