Timeline
Which clips are music?
Drop the music files (or the whole music folder) anywhere on this page. Composer and publisher details embedded by the library are read locally, and only for tracks that are on your timeline.
Production
Printed at the top of the sheet. Blank fields print as lines.Name (PRO) 50%; Name (PRO) 50%
Use: BI background instrumental · BV background vocal · VI visual instrumental · VV visual vocal · MT main title · ET end title · OT/CT opening/closing theme. Edits are remembered in your library. Check every cue against your licenses before filing.
Export
Preview
The PDF itself, page by page, with your logo and watermark.Track library
Remembered on this computer. Fills repeat tracks in automatically.Getting the timeline out of your editor
- Premiere Pro: select the sequence › File › Export › Final Cut Pro XML.
- DaVinci Resolve: File › Export › Timeline › FCPXML, OTIO, or EDL. For an EDL, set the frame rate after loading it.
- Avid Media Composer / Pro Tools: export an AAF (linked, no media needed).
- Final Cut Pro: File › Export XML (FCPXML).
Only audio is read. Clips that look like dialogue, SFX or production audio are switched off. Check the Music step before you finish.
Where the credits come from
In order of priority: your edits › your library (tracks you've fixed before) › tags embedded in the music files (WAV/BWF, MP3, AIFF, M4A, FLAC; most production libraries write composer and publisher into them) › the file name.
Files are read on this computer, and only the tag chunks, never the audio.
What's a PRO?
A performing rights organization (PRO) collects royalties when music is broadcast or streamed and pays them to the writers and publishers. The cue sheet is how it knows who to pay, so every writer and every publisher needs their PRO beside their name.
- United States: ASCAP, BMI, SESAC, GMR.
- Elsewhere: PRS (UK), SOCAN (Canada), APRA AMCOS (Australia and New Zealand), GEMA (Germany), SACEM (France), STIM (Sweden), JASRAC (Japan).
- Where to find it: production libraries print it on the track's licence or its page on their site, and most write it into the file, which this app reads.
- No PRO: write NS (no society) for a writer who isn't a member of one, and PD for public domain.
Write it as Name (PRO) share%, for example Jane Doe (ASCAP) 50%.
Use codes
Before you file
- Writer shares total 100%, and publisher shares total 100%.
- Every writer and publisher has a PRO (ASCAP, BMI, SESAC, GMR, PRS, SOCAN, STIM…).
- Timings match the locked cut. Re-export if picture changed.
- Check every cue against your license. This app formats the sheet; it doesn't verify rights.
