Filmustage Publishes Filming-Day Estimation Guide for Vertical Series Production

Filmustage has released a practical guide covering how to estimate and optimize filming days for vertical series projects — a format where lean, high-throughput pipelines make every day on set a budget-critical decision. The guide walks through a manual method built on pages-per-day (ppd) baselines (around 12 ppd for vertical), scene-hour bottom-up checks, and modifier adjustments for factors like stunts, company moves, and night exteriors.

Alongside the manual approach, the guide outlines AI-powered scheduling workflows inside Filmustage, including the Auto Day Breaks feature, which can generate day counts in minutes and optimize schedules by clustering locations, batching cast, and balancing shooting days to reduce production overhead.