Next — 14-day free trial
Build the rundown, set the hard out, and Next back-times the whole thing for you. Then run it live: a show clock, a segment countdown, and each crew member watching their own role — camera, audio, graphics, prompter — on their own phone. In a browser, on any device.
Free · no sign-up · no watermark · runs in your browser
Set the time the show has to end and Next works backwards. Run long on a segment and it shows you, live, exactly how far over you are and what it costs the rest of the show.
Eleven crew views — producer, director, A1, lighting, graphics, prompter, camera and the rest. Everyone sees the columns that are theirs and none of the ones that are not.
Mark a segment aired and the next one goes live now, not when the clock said it would. The whole crew follows on their own devices, in real time.
The rundown is an .xlsx in your own Google Drive, OneDrive or Dropbox. Starting Frame never stores the show — you can open it in Excel, hand it to a client, and keep it after you cancel.
A run of show — also called a rundown — is the minute-by-minute plan for a live event: every segment in order, how long it runs, who is on, and what each department does during it. It is the document the crew runs the show from.
Yes — free .xlsx rundown templates (award show, sales kickoff, all-hands and more) at startingframe.com/templates. Download them for Excel, Sheets or Numbers, or open one straight into Next to run it live. One email unlocks the downloads.
Next is part of the Starting Frame Membership — $24/month or $240/year, with a 14-day free trial and no card charged during the trial. That one membership also covers the teleprompter and the whole free creative set.
Yes. Invite a crew member by email and they get a role-aware view on their own phone that follows the live segment automatically — they see what is on now and what is next, in their own department language.
No. Next runs in a browser on any device — laptop, tablet or phone. There is nothing to download and no per-seat client to manage on a show floor.
You keep it. The show file lives in your own cloud drive as a standard .xlsx, not on our servers, so cancelling never takes your work with it.
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Free, in your browser — no sign-up. When you're ready for the production tools — a teleprompter and a live run-of-show — there's a membership for that.
The free tools are free forever. The Starting Frame membership ($24/mo, 14-day trial) adds Just Read It (teleprompter) and Next (live run-of-show). The free tools stay free either way.