passport

A stamp from every location in your cut.

For Pro Tools Film & TV Sound Editors

Every scene stamped:
Number, location, description.

Drag in the picture EDL and the continuity sheet. Drop the tracks into your session. Done.

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The roadmap

A roadmap for every show.

30 years as a sound editor for feature film and television has shown that the right map of your show significantly cuts down on editorial time.

Skilled editors depend on it. Whether it's the FX editor spotting a reel, or searching a scene location, or an assistant building backgrounds, it's a valuable tool to have, and when it's done right, it's priceless to an editor's workflow.

Passport does it in the time it takes to drag two files.

How it works

Two files in. Three tracks out.

  1. 1

    Drag in the picture EDL, then the continuity sheet.

    Passport reads the cut, finds every scene change, and matches each scene to its location from the continuity. Renumbered blocks, split scenes, and sub-slates included.

  2. 2

    Watch the strip fill.

    Every scene appears on a live strip with its number and location — with lanes for the scene descriptions and every picture cut. Unmatched scenes are flagged before you build, not discovered after.

  3. 3

    Import into Pro Tools.

    Passport writes media-less clip groups — a few hundred kilobytes for a whole episode, no dummy audio in your session. Import, drop at the session head, done. One named clip per scene, at the correct picture timecodes, at your session's frame rate, sample accurate, first import. Prefer an AAF? Build that instead with one click.

One turnover, three tracks

The scene track is just the start. Add a description track — what happens in each scene, straight off the continuity — and a shot track with a clip for every picture cut. Where you are, what's happening, and where every cut lands.

Passport_SCENE_CUT_LOCATION · Passport_SCENE_DESC · Passport_SHOTS

Already have a scene track?

Relabel renames its clips in place, live, inside an open Pro Tools session. No exports, no re-imports, no other tool does this.

See it run

EDL and continuity to named scene track. Two minutes.

Demo video coming with launch.

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Yours. Not rented.

$99 $49

Launch price for the first 100 buyers.

An hour back every episode. Do the math on a season.

  • One-time purchase. No subscription.
  • Instant download and license key by email.
  • Three tracks per episode: scenes, descriptions, every cut.
  • Build unlimited scene tracks on your Mac.
  • No iLok. No account. No internet required to run.
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Questions

The practical stuff.

What do I need to run it?
A Mac. Pro Tools is only needed to import the tracks, so any version that imports clip groups or AAF works. No iLok, no plugins, no internet connection.
What files does it read?
A CMX3600 picture EDL, plus a location source: a continuity sheet PDF, a lined script, a one-liner, or a simple CSV scene list. Skip the location source and clips are named by scene number alone.
What frame rates?
24, 23.976, 25, and 29.97. You pick the rate at build time so the tracks land sample accurate against your session.
What lands in Pro Tools?
Media-less clip groups — a few hundred kilobytes for a whole episode, no dummy audio cluttering your session. Import, drop at the session head, done. Prefer AAF? Passport builds that instead with one click.
Don't I already get this from a conform toolkit?
If your crew owns one and it does what you need, keep it. On the suites, the scene track is a side feature — numbered clips, no locations, built for the one conform chair and its iLok. Passport's whole job is the finished track: named from the continuity, three tracks, cheap enough that every editor on the crew can own it.
Aren't there free ways to make a cut track?
There are — and they all hand you unnamed cuts. The hour was never the slicing; it was typing the names off the continuity sheet. That's the part Passport does.
My show's continuity sheet looks weird. Will it parse?
Continuity layouts vary by show and Passport ships with a supported-inputs guide plus a CSV template that always works. If your document stumps it, email it over and we'll make it parse.
What about renumbered scenes?
Handled. Letter sub-slates, decimal splits, and editorial block renumbering into the 100s are all matched automatically, and anything unmatched is flagged on the strip before you build.
Refunds?
Fourteen days, no questions. Email support and it's done.

Know where every scene lives.

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