Tracking your latest act timings and rundowns has always been a challenge in the world of television. A lot of post supervisors, producers, and editors use Excel spreadsheets that provide some layout but the complicated timecode calculations have always been an issue within the software. You can do the calculations in the editing program but having a simple app that does it for you is so convienient on a laptop. This is exactly where TC_Planner comes in. I've mentioned TC_Planner on this blog before but with the latest release, it's worth mentioning again.
TC_Planner was developed by Netmedia after an email conversation between myself and the software developers at Netmedia. Full disclosure, I do NOT receive any compensation for the products sold by Netmedia, I had a real world need and they developed a great tool from which we can all benefit in the television world.
The product is awesome, fully-custom and allows users to enter/modify a TRT for your Program as well as track your act timings. It's simple, intuitive, and handles calculations on the fly. With a click of a button, you can save or print your latest timings. You can quickly tell if you're over or under and even project difference in the individual acts. Take a look at the main interface...
After Data has been entered, you can print a handy Report to share with others within a company...
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There are additional benefits, like multiple timecode formats for film reel calculations, new drag and drop functionality, and multiple documents can be open at the same time to compare and contrast the recent timing adjustments.
The current version as of this post is...
Version: 1.5
System Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5 and up
Platform: Universal (Intel, PPC)
License: Shareware ($12.00)
Download a trial version here and experience it for 30 days. If you like it, it's only $12.
