Hours and turnaround
Cast Turnaround Clock
Tomorrow's earliest call and set-ready time for a whole cast at once — or work backwards from a crew call to tonight's wrap. UBCP, minors, military time, no dates.
Calculation last checked
Agreement
UBCP/ACTRA BCMPA, Article A1301 as amended by the 2025-2028 Memorandum of Agreement, item 7. Eleven hours between the end of one work day and the beginning of the next Call. Encroachment is paid at 200% of the contracted hourly rate, in tenths of an hour. A minor is twelve hours — flag them in the table.
Scan a call sheet
Photograph or upload a call sheet and it will pull the times out for you to tap into the table. It reads the image on this device — your photo is never uploaded and never kept. The reader itself downloads once from a public code mirror; it sees no part of your sheet.
Cast — military time, no dates
| Cast | Cast wrap | HMU wrap | Trav out(min) | Trav in(min) | Prep(min) | Union | Minor | In | Set ready | Remove |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Result
Enter a cast wrap and the whole cast is calculated here.
Work backwards from a crew call
Enter tomorrow’s general crew call and this gives the latest you can dismiss each performer tonight and still make it. The whole-cast deadline is the tightest one — a minor on twelve hours has to be out before an adult on eleven.
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Result
Enter a target crew call to work backwards to tonight's wrap.
Sources and method
The chain. Dismissal, plus travel out, plus the rest period, plus travel in, gives the earliest a performer can be called. Add their prep time and you have the earliest they can be on set, ready.
Working backwards runs the same chain in reverse. Give it tomorrow’s crew call and it subtracts travel in, the rest period and travel out to reach the latest you can dismiss each performer tonight. The whole-cast deadline is the tightest one, not the average: a minor on twelve hours has to be out before an adult on eleven, and wrapping to the adult’s deadline would break the minor’s rest. In by means they arrive at that time; ready by puts their prep inside the deadline, so the wrap moves earlier.
Dismissal is HMU wrap, not cast wrap. De-rig is still work. The minors clause is explicit about this — it measures from the “time of dismissal” — and the same logic applies to adults. Leave HMU wrap blank and the tool falls back to cast wrap, and says so.
Travel in and travel out are separate numbers because tomorrow may be a different location. The tool flags any performer whose two figures differ.
Two toggles set the rule. Which agreement, and whether the performer is a minor. Both can be set for the whole cast and overridden on any row, because a cast is regularly mixed.
UBCP/ACTRA is eleven hours — Article A1301 as amended by the 2025–2028 Memorandum of Agreement, item 7. A minor is twelve, measured from time of dismissal, which is why HMU wrap is the right input. A minor in the cast will often be the performer who sets the crew call, and the table marks whoever that is.
SAG-AFTRA is twelve hours — Codified Basic Agreement of 2014, Schedule A §10.A, measured from final dismissal to the next first call including make-up, wardrobe and hairdress. SAG minors are also twelve under §50.F(9), and that clause runs the clock to the school bell: its own example dismisses a minor by 8:30 p.m. Wednesday for an 8:30 a.m. Thursday school start.
This figure was carried here for months as hearsay — “as given by a working AD” — because the agreement was thought to be unobtainable. It was not: AMPTP publishes the whole chain. The AD was right, and the number has not moved. It is cited from AMPTP rather than sagaftra.org, which refuses automated requests, and it was checked against all four memoranda since 2014 — none of them amends the rest provisions.
There is no weekend version of this answer for performers. The UBCP/ACTRA agreement sets a daily rest period and nothing else — no five-day-week rest, no six-day rest. A1702(c) refers to “the normal one-day or two-day weekly rest period” only to grant per diem during it, and never sets its length. What the sixth consecutive day carries is pay, not rest: 150% under A1202. So this tool’s answer is the whole of the constraint on a Friday wrap, which is not true for crew. Minors are different again — capped at five days in any seven, with a seventh consecutive day prohibited. Both are laid out on the crew and performers reference and the minors reference.
No dates. Times are military and roll forward on their own. A wrap before 0600 is read as the end of a night shoot rather than the morning before it, and the tool says when it has made that call.
Where travel sits relative to the rest period is an operational reading — the clause measures end of day to next call without spelling travel out. Putting travel outside the rest is the conservative interpretation. Confirm it with production.