Track vehicles across a production
Picture cars, background traffic and the hero motorbike, each with photos and the scenes it appears in — so transport knows which vehicle is needed on which day.
Vehicles are inventory with a logistics problem attached. Unlike a prop, a car has to be driven somewhere, parked, insured and sometimes doubled — and the question the schedule asks is always "which days do we need it".
One entry, many scenes
Vehicles live in the production's warehouse, alongside props, animals, set dress and wardrobe. Each has a name, photos and its own page.
Photograph them properly. "Blue saloon" describes a dozen cars; a photograph describes the one that turned up, which is what matters when a second unit has to match it three weeks later.
Which scenes, and therefore which days
Open a vehicle and use Edit Scenes to attach it to the scenes it appears in — pick from the list or type a scene number to filter.
This is what makes a vehicle list useful rather than decorative: once a vehicle is on scenes, and those scenes are on shooting days, the question "when do we need the taxi" has an answer that stays correct as the schedule moves.
Vehicles belonging to a character
A vehicle created from a character's own Vehicles page belongs to that character. It is then only offered the scenes that character plays in, and it attaches to the character within the scene rather than to the scene itself.
Use it for a vehicle that is bound to a person — the detective's car, the character who always arrives on the same motorbike. Use a production-level vehicle for background traffic and anything the scene needs regardless of who is in it.
Exports
- The whole vehicle list — for the supplier or the transport department.
- A single vehicle — its sheet, with photos.
- A character's vehicles — from the character page.
Finding one
Vehicles page previous/next through the warehouse list in name order.
The thing that is not obvious
Vehicles are governed by the props department for access. There is no separate vehicle department in SceneMatch: someone with edit rights on props can manage vehicles and animals too, and someone restricted out of props is restricted out of these as well.
That is worth knowing when a transport coordinator cannot edit the list — the fix is their props access, not a vehicle-specific setting. See roles and departments.