Hour Tracking

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FCP is a video editing program not a buisness managment program and douse not have any feature for keeping track of time spent on a project.

do a google search for time tracking software that you start when you start a working and stop when you end.

[Walter Biscardi]

[zrb123] “FCP is a video editing program not a buisness managment program and douse not have any feature for keeping track of time spent on a project.”

ditto, tracking is something completely different. I have a very simple timesheet that I use for every project where I simply enter the start and stop times for everything we do. very simple.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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[Bret Williams]

He may be referring to Avid’s ability to time track projects. But it’s pretty limited. If you leave the project open and go home, well it keeps on tracking. Not very useful. But it will tell you how long projects and seqs were open. It’s been around since version 7 I think, back in 1997 or 98.

[Michael Horton]

This is not a substitute for a time tracking program but a neat trick we had in the lafcpug newsletter a fews weeks back. It is from Rui Barros

With FCP open press at the same time SHIFT>CONTROL>OPTION>COMMAND and in the TOOLS menu choose INTERNAL TOOLS. Select APP/PERF INFO.
FCP will give you the full details of the system and your working session. The amount of time you have been working on FCP is located at the top of the report.

Rui Barros

Michael Horton
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[Debe]

If I forget to write it down, I can always go back and check the autosave vault to determine start time. Just subtract the autosave length from the time stamp on the first autosave file of the day.

For example, say your autosave is set for every 30 minutes. If the first autosave file of the day is at 9:32am, that means you started working on it at 9:02am.

Then go to your working project file, and see what the time stamp on it was when you closed the file. There you have the length the project was open.

Whether or not you were actually working on during that entire time, well….render file time stamps can help fill in those gaps sometimes.

Having a piece of paper handy and just joting the time you start and stop down is a lot less time consuming, though. You can create your own timesheet in a spreadsheet program if you really want to.

debe

[Tom Wolsky]

Try TimeSlice.

https://www.timeslice.us/mac/TS3/index.html

Very handy when you have to keep track of billing on multiply projects using a great many different tools.

All the best,

Tom

Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 2 Editing Workshop” Class on Demand “Complete Training for FCP5” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy” DVDs

[Stefani Natalia]

Thank you very much, Tom! This helps. I appreciate it.

[Stefani Natalia]

Thank you, Michael! I really appreciate it.

[Chris Poisson]

This seems to work whether you hold down all those keys or not.