Never chase down cues_final_v7_REAL.shw again. ShowFile Central snapshots every save of your show files — and lets you roll back the one that broke on opening night.
You arrive at the venue, open the show file from Friday, and nothing works the way it did at rehearsal. Nobody remembers who changed what. The USB stick says ok.show. The laptop says ok_final.show. The notes say “use the one from Thursday”. Thursday's is gone.
show_v3.shw, show_v3_FINAL.shw, show_v3_FINAL_alex.shw, show_USE_THIS.shw. The file manager is a guessing game, and the wrong guess loses the cue list.
The console crashed, the understudy went on, someone restored an older save, and the version you actually need is on a thumb drive in a production manager's bag in a hotel three cities ago.
Your FOH engineer retimed a scene. Your LD reprogrammed cue 47. Nobody documented the change. Tomorrow the MD asks what happened and the only answer is a shrug and a Slack message.
Upload your show file once. Every save after that is a new version — attributed to who uploaded it, timestamped, and one click away from being restored. Works with your existing consoles. No plugin, no patch, no integration.
Drop any show file and we snapshot it. Save again the next day and you have v2, automatically. Thirty versions deep, all downloadable, all diffable by metadata.
— Version history — v1 → v8, current badge on v8.
The show broke after the 6pm save? Click v7 — we promote it to current. The old v8 doesn't disappear; it becomes v9's parent. Nothing is ever lost; nothing is ever overwritten.
— Row hovered, Restore action inline.
Every upload carries the user who made it, when, on which device. Project-scoped roles mean the LA can upload drafts without touching the master, and the MD can read without the ability to break.
— Activity — criss uploaded v8 of mainstage.shw · 2 min ago.
Send a colourist a pinned version with a password and an expiry. They download it, the link dies on schedule, the rest of the project stays private.
— Share — open · pinned · expires 7 days.
ShowFile Central started when an LD opened the wrong show file in front of 2,000 people on a world tour in Singapore. We built the tool we wish we'd had that afternoon.
“The first time I clicked Restore and v7 came back, I almost hugged the screen. I'd been emailing myself ZIPs for ten years.”
— LD · touring rock“Our FOH engineer retimes scenes without telling anyone. Now the system tells us. Half our arguments have disappeared.”
— Production manager · musical theatre“I stopped keeping a USB keyring.”
— Video operator · festival circuitFor solo LDs backing up their own work.
For small crews collaborating on one or two shows.
For touring companies, venues, and production houses.
base · +$5 / seat · +$0.50 / extra GB
All tiers include: activity log, comments, per-file notes, download audit trail, encrypted storage, and the full API. Storage is EU-hosted by default; US region available on Team.
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