Methodology intelligence for indie filmmakers using Unreal Engine + hybrid virtual production. Paste a screenplay — get how to shoot every scene, what it costs, and how it earns back.
Every indie feature on virtual-production tooling faces the same three questions before day one: how do we shoot each scene?, what will it cost?, and how does the money come back? USG Studio answers all three from your script, deterministically, with a score trace you can defend to producers and investors.
Each scene is scored across Practical, LED Volume, Hybrid, and AI-Assist. See the trace — why each option won or lost — not a black-box label.
Traditional vs Optimized Hybrid, side by side. Override any scene's methodology and the budget reprices live from the same rate card (RC-2026.07).
Ranked stage matches from a curated corpus. Filters by ceiling height, floor width, wall curvature, and price band. Disqualified stages show why.
React Three Fiber scene graph — camera, LED wall, performance-space overlay. Compiled from the breakdown; no manual set dressing.
Festivals → distribution windows → equity multiple. Model break-even and best/worst-case returns before you close a raise.
All engines are pure TypeScript in src/core/. Same script + same rate card = same output, every time. No cloud call required.
Six steps, one command — runPipeline() — and every downstream view populates from the same result blob.
Paste Fountain, upload .fountain or .fdx, or load the demo screenplay.
Scenes, characters, locations, INT/EXT, day/night, flags (water, night ext, VFX-heavy).
Per-scene score across Practical / Volume / Hybrid / AI-Assist with the score trace visible.
Dual-scenario totals + department breakdown, repriced live on any per-scene override.
Ranked LED volume shortlist — fit score, day rate, disqualifiers.
Festival tier assignment, distribution mix, ROI waterfall, investor packet.
Evaluation is web-only. Request access at usgstudio.com, complete the NDA, and use the full product in the browser. There is no public desktop installer download on this site.
Desktop edition — for sale after evaluation
A commercial desktop edition will be available for sale once evaluation is completed. It is not offered as a free download today. Until then, use the gated web app only.
v0.2.0 is a hardening pass: correctness fixes to the deterministic engines, a top-level error boundary so the app doesn't white-screen on an unhandled throw, and a proper loading state on the previz canvas. Feature work (project save/load, autosave, PDF export, multi-platform builds) still lands in v0.3.
What changed in v0.2.0
pagesPerDay rate-card inputs. Specialty camera days (dolly / steadicam / crane / drone) are now proportionally rescaled so their total can't exceed the shoot length.Early-access software should be honest about its edges. Here's what still doesn't exist yet.
.usgstudio) is planned for v0.3.jsPDF is bundled, just not wired).Tauri v2 (Rust) — small binary, no Electron.
React 19, Vite 7, TypeScript, Tailwind v4, shadcn-style primitives.
Zustand + TanStack Router.
React Three Fiber + drei.
Pure TypeScript in src/core/, zero UI dependencies. Rate card RC-2026.07 in src/data/.
Local-first. No cloud, no accounts, no telemetry.
Load the demo screenplay, run the pipeline, and override one scene to see the budget reprice live.
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