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Hours and turnaround

Crew Turnaround Calculator

One wrap, one answer — the earliest call without penalty. Optional travel, 10/11/12 hours, military time.

Calculation last checked

Military time, no date. Past midnight the day keeps counting, so a 1:30am wrap is 2530.

Turnaround

BCCFU A1.20(a)(i), and UBCP/ACTRA A1301 for a production that commenced principal photography before the 2025 changeover — the MOA kept the ten hour period for shows already shooting rather than replacing it.

Travel (optional)

Minutes. Travel out sits before the rest period, travel in after it — and they can differ if tomorrow is a different location.

Result

Enter the wrap time and the earliest call appears here.

Sources and method

Wrap time, an optional drive at each end, and which turnaround you are on. That is everything it needs, and the answer is the earliest call that carries no turnaround penalty.

Travel sits outside the rest. Travel out comes before it, because rest cannot start until the performer is home. Travel in comes after it. The two are separate numbers because tomorrow may be a different location. Leave both blank and the rest period simply runs from wrap.

One exception, and it is DGC’s: when working outside the limit of the Studio Zone, the daily and weekly turnaround is computed from the Studio Zone boundary (DGC BC 17.3). Tick the out-of-zone option and the travel fields become location-to-boundary each way — the drive between the boundary and home then sits inside the rest period. No other agreement held here states this rule.

Ten hours is the daily rest period for IATSE 891 and ICG 669 — BCCFU A1.20(a)(i) and C7.01(a)(i). It is not the only one on your crew: eight for Teamsters 155 (B3.01(a)(i)), nine for DGC BC (17.1), and ten or eleven for UBCP/ACTRA performers depending on whether principal photography commenced before or on/after 4 May 2025 (A1301).

Eleven also applies in defined BCCFU circumstances: after sixteen hours of work in the first year of a television series, and — on productions other than a first-year series — after turnaround is encroached by two or more hours on two consecutive days. Twelve is the rest period for minors under UBCP/ACTRA, measured from time of dismissal — and on a school night it runs to the school start time, not to the call.

Those are a shortcut, not a determination of what applies to you. The agreements attach conditions this tool cannot see. This tool answers the daily question only — weekend and weekly turnaround differ again per unit, and performers have no weekend provision at all. The full split is on the crew and performers reference.

No dates. Military time only, rolling forward on its own, and extended hours are accepted — a 1:30am wrap on a long night is 2530. The trade is that without a date the tool cannot know whether the rest period crosses a daylight saving change, so it does not claim to. Twice a year that is worth an hour; the rest of the year, not typing a date is worth more.

This is the quick single answer, and it is the one to use for crew. For a whole cast — per-performer agreements, minors, HMU wrap and set-ready times — use the Cast Turnaround Clock.

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