Getting started
Add your first wedding, set your role, and get the timeline running.
Adding a wedding
On the Projects tab, tap New wedding. The fastest route in is Paste a timeline and go — paste the schedule you were sent as plain text and BasePlate reads the times and moments out of it. You can also build a day by hand.
One word you’ll see: beat
Every moment on the timeline — prep, first look, ceremony, first dance — is a beat. It is just a row on the day, but it is a row you can do things to: assign it to someone, pin shots to it, hang gear off it, and move it. When the rest of these pages say “beat”, that is all it means.
Set the couple, the date, the venue and its coordinates. The coordinates matter: they’re what sunset and golden hour are computed from, entirely offline.
Choosing your role
The first time you open the app it asks which one are you?
- 1st Shooter — lead. The whole day is yours.
- 2nd Shooter — Super 8, monopod, and the jobs nobody else is covering.
- Everyone — following along; nothing gets highlighted.
Your role decides what gets pulled to the front as hero cards with a YOU badge. Everything else stays on the timeline as context.
You can override the role per wedding — useful when you’re second shooting one weekend and leading the next. Change it in Settings, or on the project.
Coverage and call times
A day has an overall coverage window for the crew, and your call time inside it. Anything outside your call time dims, so a 7am hair-and-makeup start doesn’t shout at you when you’re not called until 2pm.