Changelog

When does the sun hit the facade, and when is the courtyard in shade? Location pages now show it before anyone drives out for a recce.

• A top-down shadow map shows where buildings, trees, and mountains cast shade at any time of day.
• Pick any shoot day or jump to March 21, June 21, or December 21, then drag the slider through the day.
• For listings and indexed locations: sun times per side, the sun's height at noon, and sunshine across the year.

Refer special places to SetScout. When a location that joined through your link is booked, you get a share of the booking value.

• 2 to 5% of every booking, even without a location of your own.
• A calculator on the page shows what a typical booking earns.
• We pay out monthly to your bank account and email you about each payout.

Your script analyses now save automatically, including the results for each scene.

• Open an earlier analysis and pick up where you left off.
• Your selections and filters are kept.

Share an Atlas chat together with its list through one link, for example with the director or the production team.

• The link shows the chat and the list as they were when you shared them. Your name and your other lists stay private.
• Anyone who opens the link can take over their own copy and keep searching with Atlas.

If your project's insurance is about to expire, just upload a new proof.

• The booking overview reminds you of the expiry date in time.
• Until the new proof is reviewed, the current one stays valid for your bookings.

When the search finds only a few matching places in your area, it suggests the next step.

• One click searches twice the radius, up to 100 km.
• Or hand the search over to Atlas, with your place and request carried along.

More organisations can now rent out their places on SetScout.

• Newly supported: charitable foundations, public-law bodies, cooperatives and public companies.
• Hosts from across Europe can sign up. They need a bank account that receives euros.

These weeks we mostly worked under the hood.

• Many improvements to security and privacy.
• Uploads, sign-in and search are more reliable, even when a service briefly fails.

If address search can't place your location exactly, you put the pin on the right building yourself.

• You see the address you typed and a suggestion side by side.
• In the listing editor, in settings, and when you set up your account.

For tech and catering vehicles, parking matters. Search now filters by it, and location pages show the nearest car parks.

• Filter for a public car park nearby, at a distance you choose.
• Location pages show the walk and whether a 7.5 t truck reaches the large car park.

Pick a spot on the map and see which office is responsible for a shoot there.

• With notes on the land, such as forest, water or a cemetery.
• With the responsible office's website for your first request.

Give Atlas your brief and it scouts for you. It searches listings, indexed locations, and aerial imagery and puts together a shortlist with its reasons.

• Atlas uses the same filters as search and checks drive time, flight traffic, and availability.
• The shortlist goes into a list in your account.
• You can steer Atlas while it searches, for example with new requirements.

We redesigned the search: fewer distractions, and you can see at a glance what your filters do.

• Every filter is its own chip, such as hotel, train station, or airport. It shows what it does and is removed with one click.
• Choose classic search, image search, or Atlas right above the search field.
• Example searches and your history sit right below the search.

Show on your own website that your location can be booked on SetScout.

• Copy the HTML code and paste it into your website.
• The badge links straight to your listing, in German or English, light or dark.

How German cities handle filming permits, compared in one place.

• Compare the rules of major cities and download the data.
• With templates and fillable application forms as PDFs.

The homepage now shows real locations and Atlas; the host page explains renting out step by step.

• A preview shows search, Atlas and lists right on the homepage.
• On the host page you estimate your day rate and check whether your place works as a location.

Send photos, floor plans or drawings right in a booking's chat.

• JPEG, PNG, WebP, HEIC and PDF. Image metadata is removed.
• If a message is blocked, you see exactly which part caused it.

Why SetScout exists and how we think about locations.

• The idea behind SetScout and what matters to us.
• Reachable from the menu and the footer.

SetScout logos and colours to download, for press and partners.

• Logos for light and dark backgrounds, including the rounded wordmark.
• Copy brand colours with one click.

Aircraft noise ruins sound. Search now shows how much flight traffic passes over a place and filters by it.

• Set the maximum flight traffic separately for day and night.
• Every location page shows flight traffic from low to very high.

Scouts bring the locations they represent into SetScout search.

• You set the price, decide on every request and receive the payout.
• A calculator on the page shows what your catalogue can earn.

On the host page, four short steps tell you whether your place works as a location.

• You get pointers on what productions look for, such as access and permits.
• For many locations at once there is bulk import, now in the same flow as the listing wizard.

Published listings can now be found through search engines.

• Productions find your location even when they search on Google.
• This applies to published, publicly visible listings.

Add floor plans to your listing, as a PDF or an image.

• Several floor plans per listing, for example one per floor.
• Productions see the floor plans right on the listing page.

You can now search and look at locations before signing up.

• You only need an account when you save a place or send a request.
• After signing up you continue right where you were.

Answers, guides and videos about SetScout in one place.

• For searchers and hosts, in German and English.
• Right there in the menu.

Filter locations by how close hotels, train stations and airports are.

• Pick the category and the distance in kilometres.
• If nothing matches fully, search tells you and shows the closest matches.

Price is now negotiated right inside the booking.

• Hosts can answer a request with a counteroffer.
• After the recce, the price can be adjusted to the actual scope of the shoot.

Productions can upload their own contract as a PDF. SetScout adds an addendum.

• Hosts review it, ask for changes, or choose the SetScout standard contract.
• Changes are highlighted before signing, and you sign with a swipe.

Just type a place, radius, day rate or “directly bookable” into the search.

• SetScout turns them into the matching filters.
• Filters you set yourself always take precedence.