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Movie Magic Budgeting Manual/Documentation Links

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Goal: Links to Movie Magic Budgeting Manual

Prerequisites: Movie Magic Budgeting Access 

Audience: Production Contacts

 

1. Overview

Movie Magic Budgeting (MMB) is the entertainment industry standard for projecting the costs of your project. This guide provides an introduction to the software, its key features, and resources to help you get started effectively in our internal environment.

2. Key Features

Movie Magic Budgeting offers a comprehensive suite of tools designed to streamline production budgeting for film, television, and other entertainment projects. Here are some of its standout features:

  • Budget Creation and Customization: Build detailed budgets using customizable templates tailored to film and television projects. Users can create custom rule sets for fringes, cutoffs, and globals, with real-time budget updates for accurate estimations.
  • Real-Time Collaboration and Access: Collaborate with team members in real-time on shared budgets. The cloud-based system allows access from any computer or device, with real-time data updates and offline access capabilities.
  • Reporting and Export Options: Create detailed, customizable reports using a drag-and-drop interface with preview functionality. Export the entire budget, including all details like fringes and globals, to Microsoft Excel or other formats for further analysis and cashflow planning.
  • Integration with Other Tools: Connect seamlessly with accounting systems like SmartAccounting for tracking actuals, aligning charts of accounts, and quick uploads to eliminate errors.
  • Scenario Planning and Multi-Budget Management: Plan for different scenarios using sub-budget workflows to create filtered versions of budgets for comparison or sharing. Work on two budgets simultaneously in split-screen mode for efficient comparisons.
  • Library and Pre-Set Favorites: Save time by storing frequently used tools, such as fringes, globals, and sets, in the library for quick setup in new projects.
  • Customizable Cover Pages: Design tailored report cover pages that include assumptions, comments, and dynamic data from the budget, savable as templates.
  • Flexible User Interface: Enjoy a modern, responsive design with configurable windows and high-resolution support for an optimal user experience.
  • Data Security: Benefit from advanced encryption to protect data in transit and at rest, ensuring secure budget management.

3. Support Resources

For more detailed guidance, refer to the official Movie Magic Budgeting Manual. Below is a curated list of useful links from the documentation, each with a short summary to help you find the information you need:

  • Home Page: The home page welcomes users to the Movie Magic Budgeting manual, explaining navigation options like menu items, contents, previous/next buttons, search functionality, release notes, and additional help resources at the Movie Magic Help Center.
  • Contents: This page provides a table of contents for the Movie Magic Budgeting Manual, listing all sections and articles for easy navigation to specific topics.
  • Installing: Guides users on downloading and installing Movie Magic Budgeting 10 on Windows or Mac, including handling updates automatically and troubleshooting installation issues with admin permissions or manual downloads.
  • Projects: Explains how to organize and manage projects in Movie Magic Budgeting, including sections for current, shared, and archived projects, with steps for creating, renaming, archiving, or deleting them via the Open Budgets window.
  • Library: Describes saving reusable tools in a Library for use across budgets, with instructions on copying tools between the Library and budgets, noting that changes do not sync automatically and require manual updates.
  • Setup Tools: Details managing tools like Fringes, Globals, Groups, Locations, and Sets, including accessing setups, creating/editing categories, adding/modifying tools, sorting, and moving items between categories.
  • Details: Covers the Details Level for entering actual costs in budgets, including access methods, inserting rows, adding subtotals for running totals, and using subtotal adjustments for automatic calculations.
  • Versions: Outlines creating new budget versions from the current state or historical points, using buttons to duplicate budgets with appended names and save them in the same folder.

 

Additional help is available at the Movie Magic Help Center, including forums and live chat.