Shot out and wrapped characters in SceneMatch

On set these are two different things, and SceneMatch keeps them apart on purpose.

Shot out means every scene a character appears in has been filmed. It is a fact about the schedule, and SceneMatch works it out for you — there is nothing to set.

Wrapped means the production has released the performer. That is a decision someone makes, so you make it: that's a wrap on Anna.

The gap between the two is real. A performer is routinely shot out days before anyone is willing to release them, because pickups, reshoots or ADR are still possible. So SceneMatch tells you when someone is shot out and suggests wrapping them — it never wraps anyone on your behalf.

When a character counts as shot out

Every non-omitted scene the character appears in has to be marked fully filmed.

Three details decide the edge cases:

• Partly filmed scenes do not count. A scene marked as partly filmed is still outstanding work, so a character with one of those is not shot out.
• A character with no scenes is never shot out. Nothing has been shot, so there is nothing to finish. If a character you expect to see scenes on has none, that usually means the name in the script does not match — see the character profile.
• Scenes cut from the script are ignored. Omitting a scene takes it out of the count entirely, the same way it is left out of your filming progress.

The status updates itself as you mark scenes filmed. Un-filming a scene takes it away again.

Wrapping a character

Open a character card's action menu and choose Wrap. You can also do it from the character's own page, where a prompt appears once they are shot out.

Wrapping blocks nothing. Everything stays editable — looks, scenes, wardrobe, photos, the lot. It works exactly like wrapping a whole production: a marker, not a lock. If you wrap someone early, or the schedule changes, Unwrap puts it back.

You do not have to wait for shot out either. Wrap whenever the production is done with someone; the suggestion is a convenience, not a gate.

What wrapping changes

• The character gets a blue Wrapped badge on their card and in their profile header.
• Their chip picks up a blue right edge wherever it appears — including on scene cards and shooting days, so you can see at a glance that someone in a scene has already been released.

Nothing moves or disappears. Your character list stays in the order you know it in, and a wrapped character is still edited, exported and scheduled exactly like any other — the status is there to be read, not to get things out of your way.

The chip edge is the one that earns its keep on set: a wrapped performer turning up in a day's scenes is worth noticing.

Actors follow their characters

An actor's status is worked out from the characters they play. You never set it on the actor directly.

An actor is wrapped only when every character they play is wrapped. Someone doubling two roles — or playing a part plus their own stunt double — stays open until the last of those roles finishes. The same rule applies to shot out.

Wrapping from the actor's card menu goes the other way and wraps every character they play at once, which is usually what you want: on set you wrap the person, not each role separately. Unwrapping an actor releases all of their characters again.

An actor with no characters assigned is never shot out or wrapped — there is nothing to derive it from.

How this relates to wrapping a production

They are separate, and both exist:

• Wrapping a production marks the whole show as finished, from the production card on your home page. See managing your productions.
• Wrapping a character or actor marks one performer as finished.

Wrapping every character does not wrap the production, and wrapping the production does not wrap anyone in the cast. Use whichever matches what actually happened.

One more piece of vocabulary worth separating: the wrap time on a shooting day is when that day's work ends, and has nothing to do with either of these. It lives on the day itself — see managing a shooting day.