Reading Your Report
After importing, Sheet displays the parsed data in a table. You can scroll, sort, search, select, and inspect rows before exporting.
Sections
Section titled “Sections”The sidebar’s section navigator switches the main table between the 15 report views. The default section is All Reels. Clicking a different section - Reel Summary, Files Summary, Clip Markers, Transitions, etc. - repopulates the table.
Sorting
Section titled “Sorting”Click any column header to sort by that column. Click again to flip direction. Timecode columns sort numerically (frames), not as strings.
Only one sort column is active at a time.
Search
Section titled “Search”Press ⌘F or click the search field in the toolbar. Typing filters the visible rows in real time, matching against clip name, reel name, scene, and source file path. Clear the field or press Escape to reset.
Selecting rows and duration totals
Section titled “Selecting rows and duration totals”The table supports full multi-row selection: ⇧-click for a range, ⌘-click to add or remove individual rows, ⌘A for everything visible, and ⇧↑ / ⇧↓ from the keyboard. Arrow keys, Home / End, and Page Up / Page Down move through the list without touching the mouse.
Select two or more clips and the bar above the table shows a running total - “12 selected · 00:03:42:18 total” - added up at the sequence’s frame rate, so the figure matches your timeline even when the source clips run at different rates. Clips without a usable duration are flagged in the readout (“10 of 12 timed”) rather than silently skipped.
Copying rows
Section titled “Copying rows”Right-click a row (or a selection) to copy exactly what you need - timecodes, source TCs, clip names, or whole rows as tab-separated text that pastes straight into a spreadsheet. Multi-row selections also offer Copy Total Duration and Copy Total (frames). In the Reel Summary section, right-click offers Copy Reel and Show all uses of this reel. In the File Summary section, right-click offers Copy Source Path and Show clips from this source file.
The same menu’s Across the suite section jumps to the other modes: Find duplicates of this clip switches to Dupe with that clip’s matches showing, and Gather this sequence’s media queues the sequence in Gather. See Right-Click Menus for everything available.
Markers
Section titled “Markers”The Markers and Clip Markers sections read the same whichever system the sequence came from. Premiere, Resolve, Final Cut, EDL, and OTIO all use their own wording for marker kinds, so SequenceSuite settles them into four:
| Type | What it means |
|---|---|
| Standard | An ordinary marker with no task attached. |
| Incomplete to-do | A task marker still outstanding. |
| Completed to-do | A task marker ticked off. |
| Chapter | A chapter marker, and what YouTube Chapters reads. |
Markers that arrive without a recognisable kind - common from EDLs and OTIOs, which carry little marker detail - are reported as Standard.
Marker reports also carry a Visible column. Some systems let a marker be hidden in the timeline while it still exists in the file; the column tells you which is which, so a hidden note still reaches the person reading your report.
Effects and transitions
Section titled “Effects and transitions”The Transitions and Effects sections read across formats. Named transitions such as Sapphire show by name rather than as raw codes, and Avid and Sapphire segment effects list on the Effects page. Audio effects - EQ, reverb, compression, and the like - are grouped under Audio, so the sheet sorts the way you would expect. Audio crossfades and channel routing are left out, as they aren’t creative effects.
Colour coding and disabled clips
Section titled “Colour coding and disabled clips”Rows are tinted by track type - video, audio, music, graphics. Disabled clips are hidden by default - this covers both clips you’ve individually disabled and clips that sit on a track you’ve muted in your NLE. Enable Show disabled clips in Sheet in Settings → General to include them.
Avid EDL black/filler rows are also hidden by default. These are usually BL reel events or synthetic Edit n placeholders created by Avid to describe timeline gaps. They rarely belong in a producer-facing report, but you can include them for diagnostics with Settings → Sheet → Include EDL black/filler.
Density
Section titled “Density”The toolbar’s density button cycles row height - Compact, Comfortable, Spacious. ⌘D.
Multi-sequence and multi-file views
Section titled “Multi-sequence and multi-file views”When a file contains more than one timeline, the sidebar lists each sequence. Click a sequence name to view its report on its own.
All Open Files at the top of the Sheet sidebar shows every loaded sequence together. Multi-sequence views are grouped by logical sequence by default, so each timeline keeps its own band while searches and filters still run across the whole job. Use Exporting Reports for the current-view and Custom Export options.
Display Names and Episode Codes
Section titled “Display Names and Episode Codes”Each sequence in the sidebar has two editable labels, both accessible from the right-click context menu:
- Rename Display Name… - the full label shown in sidebar, headings, and exports. Use this when a filename is unclear or inconsistent.
- Edit Episode Code… - a short identifier (e.g.
EP101,S01E02) auto-derived from the Display Name. This code carries through to Dupe when you switch modes, appearing in table pips and PDF exports. Override it here if the auto-derived label is wrong.
Neither operation renames the source file on disk, and both settings persist if you reopen the file.