Cue · Delegate · Drive
Spot the film. Drive Pro Tools. Update the crew.
The shared spotting sheet built for sound effects and post sound. Pick any note and Pro Tools jumps there. Every cue carries what's done and what's left, who's on it, what the crew thinks of it and what the supervisor wants used.
FreeMac app + Pro ToolsmacOS 14 or laterBrowser from anywhereMedia stays on your machine
01 · Spot
Spot once.
A supervisor or editor puts a note at timecode: category, what's needed, a flag if it's urgent. It's on everyone's sheet before they look up.
02 · Assign
Hand it to someone.
Assign the note and it turns lime on their sheet (lime means yours) and their bell knows.
03 · Discuss
Talk about it on the cue.
A thread on every note. @mention someone and they're in it. No emails about timecodes.
04 · New version
The picture changes. The notes keep up.
Load v5 with its change list and the notes follow the cut to their new timecode.
05 · Pro Tools
Pick the cue. Pro Tools is there.
The Mac app drives your session: locate to the cue, markers both ways. Your Pro Tools, your media.
Cue
Spotting shouldn't take longer than the scene.
Spot in the Mac app, or in any browser on any computer. No Pro Tools needed to spot. Give each cue a category, say what's needed and flag it if it's urgent. Notes save as you type, with undo and a full History.
Press C. Write the note.
A cue lands at the playhead, and picture pauses so you can write it.
Sorted as you spot.
FOL, DX, MX, FX, VFX, BG, ADR, MIX and Other, each with its own mark on the timeline.
Hand off the hunt.
In the Mac app, ⌘Return sends the note's words to your Soundminer search. Come back with the sound.
Delegate
Notes from anywhere. Answers from the desk.
One sheet the whole crew shares. The supervisor or director spots in a browser, from anywhere. The editor works in the Mac app with Pro Tools following. A new note lands on the editor's sheet live, and the editor's reply lands back in the browser. Invite people by email, each to the projects you choose.
Lime means yours.
Assign a note and it turns lime on that person's sheet, and their bell knows.
Every note has a thread.
Replies, @mentions and assignments land on everyone's bell, wherever they are.
Know what's handled.
Open, Resolved and Flag on every note. History shows who changed what.
Delegate · Version control
New cut. Same notes.
Every version has its reels (a longplay is one reel). Load the new version with its change list and the notes follow the picture to the new timecode. What moved is shown; what didn't is left alone. The whole crew stays in sync when the picture changes.
Drive
Pro Tools follows the sheet.
The Mac app is the professional tool, and the one that drives Pro Tools. Pick a cue and your session locates to it. Stop typing timecodes: cue with C at Pro Tools' own position and the note carries the exact timecode. When you want them, your notes go into the session as markers, and the markers you drop in Pro Tools come back as notes, with their timecode and name.
Pick a cue, Pro Tools is there.
It locates to the cue's frame, and Space rolls and stops.
Notes to markers. Markers to notes.
Send the sheet to Pro Tools as markers in one move. Drop markers in Pro Tools while you watch, and Spotsheet turns the new ones into notes at their timecode.
Drop-frame done right.
29.97 drop-frame labels match Pro Tools exactly.
Your media stays yours
Spotsheet hosts no media.
Picture and stems play from your machine and never leave it. The sheet (notes, comments, versions, who has what) is the only thing that syncs.
Start
Start a project and spot your first reel.
Spotsheet is free. Create an account, open your picture in the Mac app, and put the first note at timecode. Invite the room when you're ready.