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CamPlotCreator
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The camera plot app for film, TV, live shows and sports

Overhead camera plots with real lens fields of view, lights, mics and camera moves — over a ground plan you imported, scanned or pulled from satellite — and a camera report that writes itself.

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The tour · 2:58

Every feature, in three minutes

The real app, start to finish: a project and its setups, a ground plan at true scale, cameras, lenses, lights, mics and cables, then the report and the live link your whole crew works from.

Scripted · Film & Series

Block the scene. Light it on the same page.

Draw a scaled overhead shot diagram of the location — the actors and their marks, the dolly move, the walk — and put the lighting diagram on it: the 18K on the sun line, the bounce, the eye light. Every cone is the lens’s real field of view, so the floor plan the director signs off is the one the DP and the gaffer build.

FeaturesTV dramaShortsCommercialsMusic videos
On this plot
Dust Line · Sc 42 — The Walk2 cameras · 1 actor · the sun and 5 lighting units
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A feature-film plot on the Mac: a desert road seen from above with the picture car, the actor’s walk, a Steadicam and a long-lens camera, and the lighting package — an 18K on a condor, an open face, a 12×12 bounce and a mirror board
Mac · the whole plot
The same scene on iPad with the 18K PAR selected and its light panel open — fixture type, colour and colour temperature
iPad · a panel open
The same scene on iPhone
iPhone
50+
Camera bodies
150+
Sensor windows
4
Ways to a ground plan
4
Platforms, one project
Camera report

The camera report writes itself

Every camera, light and mic on the plot, in the colour it wears on the plot. Body, lens, support, operator and shot for the cameras; fixture, colour temperature and modifiers for the lights; feed, input, link and what each mic covers. The gear totals are one tab over.

The Reports panel on the Cameras tab: cameras A to K, each tag in its plot colour, with body, operator, lens, support and shot
CamerasEp 104 · A to K, one colour each
The Lighting Report: the sun and five fixtures with type, name, colour temperature, spread, height, modifiers and support
LightsSc 42 · the sun and L1–L5
The Audio Report: eight mics with type, model, operator, feed, input channel, link, mount and what each one covers
AudioFestival set · 8 mics, in input order
The Totals tab: cameras, lenses, support, mics and audio links counted for the setup
TotalsGame · the gear, counted
Print · PDF

A page the crew can read without the plot

Each camera, light and mic gets a card in its own colour, with a position map beside it: the plot with only that one on it. The page tightens to fit up to fourteen on one sheet, and every page carries the project, who exported it and the version.

US Letter · the same pages on the web and in the app
The printed Camera Report for a fourteen-camera football broadcast — all fourteen on one page, each in its colour with a position map beside itThe printed Lighting Report for the film scene — the sun and five lights, each with a map of where it standsThe printed Audio Report for the festival — eight mics, each with a map of where it sits
The plot

A coverage diagram that knows what the lens does

Most plotting tools draw a triangle and call it a field of view. CamPlot starts from the sensor: pick the body, pick its scan window, pick the lens, and the cone on the page is the angle that body and that glass actually see.

Cameras & coverage

Every cone is the real angle of view

The same sensor database the Director’s Viewfinder runs on — ARRI, RED, Sony, Canon, Blackmagic, Panasonic, DJI, broadcast chains, film gauges from 8mm to 65mm. Type the body into the camera and its scan windows appear.

  • Coverage in feet and inches at any distance — “3′0″ × 1′8″” at the subject, not a guess
  • A shot-type figure drawn at true scale inside the frame, so a CU is a CU
  • Match Lens keeps the millimetres honest when you change the sensor window
  • Lock a camera to a subject and it stays pointed at them while either one moves
  • Tag, colour and label every camera with operator, body, lens, support and shot type
Camera A, a Sony Venice, over a poolside plot on the Mac with its camera panel open: the Venice’s own scan windows from 6K 3:2 down to 3.8K S35, Match Lens on, an 80mm lens reading 17 degrees, and at twelve feet six a coverage of three feet ten by two feet two, with a medium close-up figure drawn inside the frame
Mac · the Venice’s own scan windows, Match Lens on
The same camera on iPhone, its cone reaching the subject across the pool deck, with the panel below showing the 16:9 and 2.35 frame, FOV distance at twelve feet six, coverage of three feet ten by two feet two and the MCU figure
iPhone · aspect, coverage & shot type
Shot cards

The card next to the camera is the shot

Every camera carries a details box — letter, lens, support, operator and shot type — anchored where you put it and printed on every export. It is what the crew reads on the day, so it is what the plot shows.

  • Set the framing, get the distance — or set the distance and get the framing
  • Anchor a card so it stays put while the camera moves
  • Select many at once to align, distribute and resize them together
  • Fourteen camera types — sticks, wireless, ped, Steadicam, gimbal, PTZ, POV, jib, Chapman, rail, Agito, cable cam, drone and phone — each drawn as the rig it is
  • Roster the crew once and every tagged camera picks up its operator and body
A competition-show plot on the Mac with camera C selected: nine cameras and their cones across the judges’ table, a shot card beside each one, and the camera panel open on tag, model, operator, colour and the fourteen camera types, with the lens, support and shot type below
Mac · tag, model, operator & the camera type
The competition plot on iPhone, laid out for a phone held upright: nine cameras, eight contestants, two judges and the host, with a shot card beside each camera naming its lens, support and shot
iPhone · nine cameras, cones and cards
The ground

Four ways to get the room under your cameras

A plot is only as true as the space it sits on. Bring the production designer’s drawing in, walk the room with LiDAR, pull the location off satellite, or draw it yourself — then set the scale once by measuring something you know.

  • Import a PDF or an image — the production designer’s ground plan, straight in
  • Scan the room with LiDAR on a Pro iPhone or iPad: walls, doors, windows and furniture come back as a measured plan you can edit, in 2D or 3D
  • Pull it from the map — satellite, street or a drawn site plan, cropped, rotated and already to scale, with real shadow-casting geometry for exteriors
  • Draw it with shapes, textures and set pieces — more on that below
  • Every plan is scaled, so a measurement on the page is a measurement on the floor
  • Ground plans live in the project’s library and can be reused across setups
Pulling a ground plan from the map on the Mac: a ballpark seen from satellite, with hybrid, map, plan and site views, sharpen, rotate, crop and import, a fifty-foot scale bar reading 0.23 metres per pixel, and the ground plan library beside it
Mac · off satellite, already to scale
The same map on iPhone, framed over a plot, with the Ground Plans panel below offering draw, import, map and scan room
iPhone · the same map, in your hand
Draw it

No drawing? Build the floor yourself

Rough the space out with shapes, give each one a real surface, and drop the set on top. Once the plot has a scale, a texture is drawn at the size of the real thing — so a plank is a plank wide and a tile is a tile.

  • Floors, walls and ground — planks, herringbone, court, tile, checker, marble, carpet and stage deck; brick, block, stone, stucco and shiplap; concrete, asphalt, sand, grass, turf, dirt, gravel, cobble and water
  • Scale and turn it — true size is where it starts; stretch or rotate the texture until it matches the floor you are standing on
  • Set pieces that look like the set — the picture car, the sofa, the table, the trees — lit from one side with a soft shadow, in their own material or the colour you pick
  • Measure on it like any other plan: the scale is the same one the cameras use
Drawing a set on the Mac: a rectangle filled with plank flooring beside an asphalt drive, with a car, an armchair, a sofa, a round table, two stools and three trees placed on it, and the shape panel open on its texture picker — floors, walls and ground — with scale and rotation
Mac · planks, asphalt and the set, drawn
The light

Put the lights on the same page as the cameras

A camera plot that pretends the lighting does not exist is half a plan. Drop fixtures onto the plot, point them, and see the throw land on the floor you are shooting — so grip, gels and exposure get decided at the table instead of on the day.

  • Fourteen fixture types — Fresnel, Leko, PAR, panel, tube, COB, open face, lantern, practical, mover, follow spot, cyc, bounce and the sun — each with its own throw and spread
  • Colour temperature and tint per fixture — a 2500K tube reads warm on the page, not as a generic yellow wedge
  • Intensity as a percentage, on the label with the name, so the plot doubles as the lighting list
  • Beams overlap the way light does, so you can see where two sources meet and where nothing reaches
  • Lights are their own layer — hide them for the camera conversation, show them for the lighting one
  • They carry into the camera report on their own tab, and into every export
A lighting plot on the Mac: a Fresnel, a PAR, a Leko and a tube, all at 2500K, throwing their beams across four subjects with four cameras around them, and the Camera Report open beside it listing cameras A to D with the changed lenses and supports marked
Mac · four fixtures, four cameras, the report beside them
The plot on iPhone with two of its lights, the L4 tube and the L3 Leko at 2500K, throwing warm beams across two subjects while cameras C and D cover the same ground
iPhone · L3 Leko & L4 Tube · 2500K
Movement

Block it, then play it back

Give a camera a path and it walks it — carrying its lens and its framing with it. Give it a jib and it swings on a real arm. Give it a dolly and it stays on the track.

Paths, jib & dolly

The move is part of the plot, not a note in the margin

  • Per-position lens and facing — zoom and pan happen as the camera travels
  • Linger on a position for as many counts as the shot holds
  • Jib mode gives the camera an arm with a real reach, and the base can travel too
  • Dolly mode puts it on straight or curved track and keeps it there
  • Play the whole plot — every camera moves on one shared count, with a position counter you can step through
  • Subjects move too, and a locked camera follows them
The competition plot on the Mac at position 2 of its move: camera D on its dolly track, G on another, the Steadicam walking its path and contestant C1 crossing from the door, each with a ghost of where it started, and the position counter and transport at the right
Mac · position 2, transport at the right
The same move on iPhone, playing, with the counter on 2 and the transport at the right
iPhone · the same count, in your hand
Your crew

Share it once. It stays current.

Send a link and the people you send it to see the plot change as you change it — no re-export, no “v4 FINAL”. Viewing is free forever, so the whole crew can be on it.

Live updates

Everyone on the project is on a shared channel. Save a change and it is on their screen, on set, without them doing anything.

Collaborators

Give the people you trust edit access. Their session is logged as a change summary you can read — and undo whole, if it is not what you wanted.

Private markup

Anyone viewing can draw and take notes on their own copy. Their marks are theirs — they never touch your plot.

Notify the crew

When a setup changes, CamPlot writes the summary for you — what moved, what lens changed — and pushes it to everyone on the project.

Camera report

One tap turns the plot into the report the crew needs — cameras, lights and mics, each in its plot colour — with everything that changed since the last setup marked up. Print it or send the PDF.

Export & hand off

PDF and JPEG of any setup or the whole project, plus project files you can send to another CamPlot user.

A shooting day, not a drawing

Built the way a multicam show actually runs

One project holds every setup of the day. Cameras keep their letters, the roster keeps the crew, the inventory keeps the glass — and the report tells you what changed between one setup and the next.

Setups & groups

As many setups as the day has, grouped by episode or block, switchable with a swipe. Duplicate one and change the two things that moved.

Operator roster

Name the crew once. Tag a camera with a letter and it picks up the operator, the body and, if you want, their colour.

Equipment inventory

Your lens and support list, with what is in use against what you actually have — so a plot cannot quietly need eleven of a ten-lens package.

Layers

Cameras, subjects, lights, set, pictures, annotations and the ground plan, each hidable and lockable — plus your own custom layers.

Sets, props & notes

Furniture, shapes, tables, photographs, text and freehand pen, all on the same page as the cameras.

Works with no signal

Everything is on the device. Edit on a stage with no bars and it syncs when you come back — and merges with what changed while you were gone.

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Every feature
Everything you need to plot

Thirty-two things CamPlot Creator does, and the account level each one needs. Stop forcing PowerPoint and Keynote to do what they were never designed for.

CamPlot Max for the person building the plots CamPlot Plus crew upgrade — included with CamPlot Max Free in every account, CamPlot Crew included
Plotting

Build your overhead plot exactly the way directors think — cameras, subjects, fields of view, scaled measurements, and blocking.

CamPlot Max
Camera & Subject Plotting
Place cameras and subjects on your overhead plot with a single tap. Tag, color-code, and label each camera with type, operator, lens, support, and shot type.
CamPlot Max
Lens FOV Visualization
See exactly what each camera covers. Set focal length in mm, toggle between Full Frame and Super 35, and extend the FOV cone to visualize coverage at distance — with live readouts of your exact frame width while you drag.
CamPlot Max
Camera Lock on Subject
Lock any camera's angle onto a subject with one tap. Move the camera or the subject anywhere on your plot — the camera's facing angle automatically tracks the subject. Shot details auto-fill as "initials + single" and stay editable.
CamPlot Max
Ground Plans Library
Import the ground plan from your art director or production designer and scale it to real-life dimensions. Choose from your library of ground plans when building a plot, then work over an accurate background that reflects the actual set.
CamPlot Max
Scale & Measure
Set a scale reference and measure real distances on your plot in feet and inches. FOV distance readouts update automatically when a scale is set.
CamPlot Max
Movement Paths
Plot camera and subject movement with multi-point paths — one-way, loop, or bounce playback. Save a lens and facing per position so cameras zoom and rotate as they travel. Hit play and watch your blocking come alive.
CamPlot Max
Jib & Dolly Modes
Put a camera on an arm or on rails. Jib Mode draws the reach arc — standard or telescoping — and keeps the camera on the arm as it sweeps; Dolly Mode lays straight or curved track and keeps the camera riding it. Both animate base and track moves, so your plans reflect what the rig can physically do.
CamPlot Max
Lighting
Drop lights directly onto your plot — Fresnel, panel, tube, sun. Each light has its own throw, spread, color temperature, and tint. Visualize where the light lands so you can plan grip, gels, and exposure before you walk on set.
Director's Toolkit

Field tools for scouts and shoot days — see the shot through real glass, track the sun, and run the numbers every cinematographer needs, right from your phone. The calculators are free with any CamPlot account. CamPlot Plus and Max unlock every camera, lens and LUT in the Viewfinder.

CamPlot Plus
Director's Viewfinder
Hold up your iPhone and see the shot through the real camera. Pick the body — Alexa, FX6, Komodo, Ronin 4D — dial any focal length on a zoom wheel, add frame lines, and grade the image live with true 3D LUTs — a library of more than 230 cinema looks built in, plus as many of your own .cube files as the phone will hold. Save scout frames straight onto the camera on your plot; full-quality copies land in your Photos. See all five modes →
CamPlot Plus
Sun & Moon Path
Right inside the viewfinder: the sun's path and the moon's drawn over your framed shot — today's or any future date's — using your exact location and the compass. Both arcs at once out of the box, each with a pointer that rides it wherever you point and tilt the camera, telling you the exact time the real one will be in that spot. Golden hour planning while you're still scouting, and a night exterior you can see before you light it.
CamPlot Plus
LUT Library & Export
A massive LUT library ships with the viewfinder — more than 230 cinema looks in nine packs (Movie Inspired, Filmic, Vintage, Contemporary, Expedition, Avant-Garde, Vibrant, Single-Tone, Influencers), searchable, applied live on the GPU as you frame. Every look is on the LUT dial itself, shelf by shelf — touch and hold and a reel comes out under your finger: up and down through the looks, left and right through the shelves, with the picture regrading live at every stop. A favourites shelf holds up to ten for the ones you shoot with. Then export any look for the camera you're actually shooting — pick S-Log3, LogC4, C-Log3, V-Log, N-Log, Log3G10, Apple Log and 11 more, and CamPlot composes the manufacturer's own log→709 conversion underneath the look and hands you one .cube. Load it into the camera or the DIT cart and the image on the monitor is the image you saw on your phone.
Free
Media Calculator
How many hours fit on which card? Pick a camera, recording format, frame rate, and card size — CamPlot shows the media that camera actually shoots on and exactly how much record time you get, from manufacturers' published data rates for dozens of cameras.
Free
Depth of Field Calculator
Roll focal length, aperture, and subject distance and watch near limit, far limit, total depth, and hyperfocal update live — with a photographic preview where the subject and a real scene sharpen and melt exactly as the math says they would.
Free
Exposure Calculator
Four camera gears — ISO, aperture (f or T stops), shutter angle or speed, and ND (variable, hard, or stops). Lock all but one and roll any dial: the free gear visibly rolls to the value that holds your exposure, in exact 1/3-stop steps.
Free
Sensor Size Chart
Overlay up to three cameras' sensors to scale — see exactly how an Alexa 65 towers over a Super 35 chip, with widths, heights, and diagonals read out for every body in the list.
Composition

Build the world around your cameras — sets, props, photos, text, and freehand annotations — then organize everything into layers you can hide or lock.

CamPlot Max
Set Elements
A library of 30 set pieces — chairs, sofas, tables, beds, doors, windows, kitchen and bathroom fixtures, cars, trees — all sized to real-world inches and ready to drop, scale, and rotate to match the actual set.
CamPlot Max
Pictures & Cropping
Drop reference photos straight onto the plot — talent shots, location stills, mood references. Crop in-place with rule-of-thirds guides, lock proportions while you resize, and reset to original anytime.
CamPlot Max
Text, Shapes & Bubbles
Type labels, callouts, and notes directly on the plot. Choose from 8 text-box shapes — rectangle, ellipse, hexagon, diamond, star — and pick a typeface from the system or load custom fonts from your own folder.
CamPlot Max
Pen & Annotations
Draw freehand strokes with the pen tool to call out a path, mark a hot zone, or sketch in a quick note. Erase what you don't need with a tap. Annotations live on their own layer so you can hide them before exporting a clean version.
CamPlot Max
Layers
Seven built-in layers — Ground Plan, Set, Pictures, Subjects, Lights, Cameras, Annotations. Hide a layer to focus, lock it to keep it from getting bumped, or export with only the layers you want visible. Per-setup, per-device.
Projects Workflow

Built around how a multicam production actually runs — multiple setups per project, consistent rosters, and reports you can hand off.

CamPlot Max
Multi-Setup Projects
Organize your project with multiple setups — intros, eliminations, finales — all in one project. Drag to reorder. Hide setups that aren't ready to share.
CamPlot Max
Operator Roster
Assign operators and camera types to each camera letter once per project. Every camera you place auto-fills with the right operator and rig — across every setup.
CamPlot Max
Inventory
Track the cameras, lenses, and support gear you actually have. CamPlot counts what your setups use — simultaneous setups add together — and warns you the moment the plan calls for more gear than the truck carries.
Free
Camera Report
Generate a complete camera report from your plot — cameras, lights and mics, each tag in its plot colour, with lenses, support, operators, shot types and audio inputs — sorted and ready to print or share. Setup to setup, lens and support changes are highlighted automatically so operators see exactly what changed. The printed page puts a position map beside every entry and fits up to fourteen on a sheet. Every crew member you share the show with can open the live report themselves, free.
Collaboration & Sharing

CamPlot is built for the whole crew — live updates the moment you make a change, edit access for the people you trust, and private markup for everyone else.

CamPlot Max
Crew Sharing
Share a link and the entire crew sees the plot — live. Every change you make appears on their screens the moment you make it, over a real-time connection. No account setup, no downloads, free for viewers.
CamPlot Max
Live Collaboration
Give your AD or a fellow director full edit access. Collaborators work directly on the project while you see a change log of every editing session — and you can undo an entire session with one tap.
CamPlot Plus
Crew Markup & Notes
Operators and crew on CamPlot Plus can draw and keep notes right on any shared plot — positions, cable runs, reminders — without ever touching the actual plot. Their markup is private to them and follows them across devices.
CamPlot Max
Notify the Crew
Changed the plot an hour before rehearsal? Hit Notify — CamPlot writes a summary of exactly what changed in each setup and sends it to your whole crew as a push notification on their devices.
CamPlot Plus
Export & Print
Export any setup as PDF or JPEG — properly formatted for landscape or portrait. Export an entire project as a multi-page PDF. Cloud-saved and synced.
CamPlot Max
Cloud Save & Backup
Every change saves to the cloud automatically. Daily rolling backups keep 10 days of history — restore any version with a tap if anything goes wrong.
Install & Access

Install CamPlot on any device you work on — and keep plotting even when you lose signal.

Free
Install on Any Device
A true native Mac app, a native app for iPhone & iPad, plus installable apps on Android, Chrome, and Edge. Opens fullscreen, loads instantly, and keeps working offline — your changes sync the moment you're back online.
Free
Works on Any Device
Built for iPad, laptop, and desktop. Touch-friendly with pinch-to-zoom, drag-to-pan, and tap-to-place. Your crew views plots on their phones.
Questions

CamPlot Creator, in short

What is CamPlot Creator?

CamPlot Creator is an overhead camera plot app for directors, DPs, technical directors and camera crews. You place cameras, subjects, lights and mics on a to-scale ground plan; every camera shows the real field of view of its body, sensor window and lens; and the plot becomes a camera report and a live link the whole crew can open. It runs in any browser and as a native app on iPhone, iPad and Mac.

Who is it for?

Multicam shoots most of all — unscripted and reality TV, competition and talk shows, concerts, award shows, live events, sports broadcasts and newsrooms — and scripted film and series, where the same page is the lighting diagram too.

How much does CamPlot Creator cost?

Building and sharing plots takes CamPlot Max: $49.99 a year or $4.99 a month, with a free trial. Anyone you share a plot with opens it free with CamPlot Crew. CamPlot Max also includes the CamPlot Director’s Viewfinder and the CamPlot Calculators, and Enterprise seats are sold per seat for teams.

Does it work on Windows or Android?

Yes, in the browser: CamPlot Creator runs in Chrome or Edge on Windows, on Chromebooks and on Android, and installs as an app from the browser. Native apps for iPhone, iPad and Mac are on the App Store.

Does it work without internet?

Yes. Everything is on the device, so you can plot on a stage with no signal; it syncs when you are back online and merges what changed while you were away.

How is CamPlot different from Shot Designer or Cadrage?

Shot Designer is built around scripted blocking with animated actors, and Cadrage Studio is an Apple-only scripted pre-production suite. CamPlot is built for multicam: coverage from each real camera, ground plans from a PDF, a LiDAR scan or the satellite map, lights and mics with their own reports, and a live crew link. Side by side: CamPlot vs Shot Designer, CamPlot vs Cadrage, and the best camera plot apps of 2026.

Pricing

One account. Three apps. The crew views free.

CamPlot Max is the plot tool — and it carries the Director’s Viewfinder and the Calculators with it. Anyone you share a plot with can open it for nothing, forever.

CamPlot Crew — Free
$0 forever
No card, no trial clock
  • Open every plot shared with you
  • Live updates as the director changes them
  • Camera and inventory reports
  • All five Calculators, free
  • The Viewfinder in preview mode
For the whole crew
CamPlot Plus
$29.99/yr
or $3.99/month
  • Everything in CamPlot Crew — Free
  • The full Director’s Viewfinder
  • Private markup and notes on plots shared with you
  • PDF export of plots and camera reports
For the crew who scout
CamPlot Max
$49.99/yr
or $4.99/month · free trial included
  • Everything in CamPlot Plus
  • Create and share your own plots
  • Lens-accurate coverage, movement, jib and dolly
  • Ground plans: import, LiDAR scan, satellite and draw
  • Live crew sharing, collaborators and camera reports
The full CamPlot
CamPlot Enterprise
CamPlot Max for the whole team, sold per seat, billed yearly by card or invoice.
  • One portal to add and remove people — every seat is the full CamPlot Max
  • Download or share any member’s project; a shared library of logos and objects
  • Managers with the permissions you choose, and an activity log of every change
  • Capacity monitored around the clock and scaled ahead of demand, so the team never waits
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CamPlot Creator

Design overhead camera plots
in minutes, not hours.

Built by a working director and used on network television productions. Open it in a browser — there is nothing to install.

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