Light estimates ensure you always pick the right equipment.

• Released July 2, 2026

• Availability: all devices, all accounts

Light estimates

Knowing how much light your fixtures will produce is a critical part of planning a lighting setup. Now, Scenario does those calculations for you, all in the context of your diagram.

• For your diagram, choose to calculate in Lux, Foot-candles, or F-stop (and choose your camera settings)

• Any fixture that’s targeting another item will display its calculated illuminance, based on factors like spot/flood, distance, dimmer value, and gels

• Any frames that are placed between the fixture and its target will automatically affect the exposure, including diffusion frames that affect falloff

• Set a fixture to target a bounce frame, and calculate approximate bounced exposure

• Adjust item heights to calculate using real-world three-dimensional distances

• Built-in library fixtures use generic beam spread and output, while Pro users have access to model-specific values from manufacturers

• Select the fixture to see its isolated effect on its target; select the target to see the cumulative illuminance from all items targeting it

“Sun” item

To ensure that light behaves as close to real-world as possible, we’ve made the sun its own type of item.

• It still moves and targets like a fixture, interacts with frames and bounce the same way, but has no beam edges

• Sunlight has effectively no distance-based falloff; instead, just choose a preset brightness, or customize from a meter reading

Frame materials

• Added new bounce materials to choose from: bleached muslin, soft silver, soft & hard mirror

Visibility

• Don’t need to see light estimates? Go to Layers > Types and hide them, so they stay out of your way.

v3.8.1

Small fix: ambient values were not properly factoring into cumulative light levels

New image tools for faster work, cleaner diagrams, and more flexibility.

• Released May 29, 2026

• Availability: all devices, all accounts

Image tools

• Crop any image item to only use the part you need

• Quickly resize a floor plan image to correct scale by setting a known distance

• Image opacity button in the bottom actions, for quick adjustments

• Right-click to unlock a locked item on the diagram

• When importing multi-page PDFs, choose which pages to import

Other improvements

• Handles PDFs with masking components

v3.7.1

Small updates:

• Fixed a bug where DMX labels would render in a diagram image, even if it was hidden in the Layers > Types sidebar

• Added explainer text to Diagrams <> Lists linking views

• Updated the diagram editor to ensure each open tab zooms independently, and always opens zoomed-to-fit

Massive improvements to List-building functionality, plus other usability improvements.

• Released May 27, 2026

• Availability: all devices, all accounts

Lists updates

Lists have gotten a whole lot smarter! Now, they connect with your Diagrams and automatically update your equipment as you make changes.

• Use the auto-sync function to count all uses of your equipment

• Or, switch to manual mode and build Diagrams with the gear you have available

• Add List items directly from the equipment library (with Cloud Library access for Pro users)

• Make bulk changes to Diagram items by updating a manual List

• Export Lists as PDF

Diagram usability

• When adding multi-page PDFs, select individual pages you’d like to add (for Image items, or Camera frame images)

• Duplicate Markup items using ⌘ D, Option - drag, or the new bottom actions button

• Combined some common actions in the pop-up menus to nested menus, to keep the list smaller and easier to use

  • Hide / Lock / Opacity

  • Bring to front / Send to back

  • Cut/Copy/Duplicate/Delete

• For easier access to locked items on a Diagram, right-click over them and select Unlock item from the pop-up menu

• Visible action names for Targeting, Adding, Swapping, and more

• Added a Refresh Symbol button for Cloud Library Fixtures, to fetch the latest version of the Diagram symbol

  • Note: this does not reflect whether or not there is a newer version; that will come in the future

Bug fixes

• When swiping up to send the app to the background on a mobile device, returning could show a small selection marquee at the bottom of the Diagram editor

v3.6.1

Small bug fixes and improvements:

• When a new Project was created, its first List couldn't be deleted

• File size limit not applied to multi-page PDFs

• Activity spinner when updating List view

• Fully updates List when Auto-update is toggled on, without re-opening the List editor

• List PDF generator layout for portrait orientation

Added the new “Gels” feature for Fixtures and Frames!

• Released April 29, 2026

• Availability: all devices, all accounts

Gels

• Add Gels to Fixtures

  • Manage on the diagram or the Patch view

  • Colors and names visible with the item label

  • Set all Gels’ visibility in the Layers > Types sidebar

• Add Gels to Frames

  • Use Gels instead of a rag material

  • Color and opacity visible on the diagram

• Drag Gels to reorder; copy and paste Gels among items

• Choose from a set of built-in standard colors

  • CTO and CTB

  • Common diffusions

  • ND and clear (like Heat Shield)

• Pro accounts have access to over 2000 additional gels from the Cloud Library

  • Specific Gel numbers and colors from manufacturers like Lee, Rosco, and GamColor

Improvements & fixes

• Allow multiple subscriptions to be created at once, to help with switching between App Store and web-based

• Updated mobile UI for viewing shared Projects (it could be impossible to exit the Diagram editor)

• Allow uploads of larger images (Scenario will optimize them before syncing)

• Fixed a bug where the diagram editor would only appear on half the screen when app-switching on iPad

v3.5.1

• Updated to include Cloud Library Gels for Pro accounts

v3.5.2

• Fixed a bug where changes to item names would not be saved on touch devices, when finishing with the Enter key

Updates to Actor, Camera, and Fixture items on the diagram

• Released April 8, 2026

• Availability: all devices, all accounts

Actor “roles”

Just like the “cam” feature for cameras, “role” makes it easier to use recurring characters in a project or diagram.

• Create roles in a whole project’s scope, or specific to a diagram

• Style with item type, stroke/fill color, and name (changing these anywhere updates the whole scope)

• Add easily from quick items

Camera-specific lens package scope

In many cases, it makes more sense to associate lens packages with camera packages, than with projects or diagrams. This is useful when using camera bodies with different mounts or formats, or for multi-cam TV where each camera has its own lens.

• If a camera has a Cam assigned, you can add lenses to the “Cam” scope

• This lens package will use the scope of the Cam itself (project or diagram), so it’s available anywhere the Cam is

Fixture beams

For Pro accounts with Cloud Library access

Visualize a fixture’s beam spread on your diagram, the same way you can see a camera’s field of view.

• Available for most Cloud Library fixtures (and updating the rest of them)

• For variable beams, adjust spot/flood within the fixture’s limits

• Choose whether the beam is always visible, or only when the fixture is selected

• Choose whether the beam is blocked by Wall items

Other fixes

• When a shot is marked Done or Won’t Do, and that shot contains multiple cameras connected by arrows, the arrows are also made lighter (like the cameras)

The new Frame item, plus other fixes and improvements

• Released April 1, 2026

• Availability: all devices, all accounts

Frame items

Frames are a super-flexible item for light control planning. Now you can:

• Create a Frame at any size

• Choose that Frame’s pipe style, rag material, and control grid

• Adjust the Frame’s tilt between flat and upright

See Frames for more details!

Diagram editor improvements

• Added “Frames” and “Name Labels” to the Layers > Types sidebar, so you can hide or lock all of them with one click

• Hold spacebar and click-and-drag to move the diagram canvas

• Added a space between Frame Images and borders, to make colors more noticeable

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue that could display a half-white screen when app-switching on iPad

Shot List, Patch List, and more diagram export options

• Released March 12, 2026

• Availability: all devices, all accounts

Shot List

This tool provides maximum flexibility for how you want to work.

• Build the list from either "direction” (or some combination of the two)

  • Add cameras to the diagram and add details later

  • List all your shots and then drag them onto the diagram

• Label shots with their number, as well as other details (INT/EXT, DAY/NIGHT, etc)

• Keep track of shot status (To-Do, Done, Won’t Do)

• Add dividers for context (lighting turnaround, meals, etc)

• Export the shot list as a PDF

Multiple images per shot

Add up to 10 images to a shot’s “frame images”

• Include storyboards, viewfinder images, etc

• Open the frame images modal to view, add, remove, and re-order

• All images are included in the PDF export

Patch List

• Displays all fixtures on the diagram, sorted by whether or not they have a Channel and Address value

• Update DMX values and add notes in a list view

• Displays “patch conflicts” when two channels are assigned the same address

• Export the list as a PDF

Export options

• For a diagram, choose to export as a PDF, PNG, or JPG

• For Shot List and Patch List, choose portrait or landscape orientation for a PDF

Bug fixes

• Right-clicking an item and choosing “Edit Name” would not display the name label if it was hidden; now it displays temporarily

• Some items (such as cars) were still being added as Fixtures; now they’re generic Items

Sync projects to Google Calendar, and new diagram features.

• Released February 18, 2026

• Availability: all devices, all accounts

Google Calendar sync

We just added “Sign In with Google” to make account creation quicker; now, you can use that same Google account to sync Project dates.

• In Account > Connect, toggle on the option to “Sync Projects to calendar”

• Any Projects that have dates assigned will appear, but individual Projects can be toggled on/off at any time

• Shared Projects sync too (each user sets their own calendar preference)

Diagram features

• Curved walls - toggle Wall item control points between “corner” and “curve”

• Flip items - for multi-selected items and Groups, mirror their arrangement (horizontally or vertically) with a button in the Details sidebar

• Save to device Photos - when adding an Image item or Camera frame image, you can choose to take a photo directly in Scenario. Now, that photo is also added to your device’s camera roll.