by FilmInk Staff
Since the dawn of time, Production Coordinators worldwide have been pulling their hair out, reluctantly adhering to a mundane but important legal requirement. A hellish spreadsheet used to log every single second of music used in every single episode / programme of broadcast television, manually created in Excel over many painstaking hours, until finally, with dry, sore eyes, it is logged with a Performing Rights Organisation (PRO). In Australia, that’s APRA.
So what is a cue sheet? For those of you who don’t know, for every broadcast programme, there is a cue sheet containing a detailed list of all the musical cues used in that programme, including related copyright information for each track (e.g. production, episode, writer, publisher, duration of music used, identification codes etc).
Cue sheets travel around the world with productions providing broadcasters with an accurate record of the musical works used in their programming. Cue sheets are used in conjunction with broadcast records allowing PROs to accurately distribute royalties to composers and rights holders whose works have been broadcast on television.
The problem? Let’s face it, after delivering your creative project, the last thing anyone wants to do is sit down for a week and manually complete music cue sheets.
The good news is, Australian-owned music licensing company, Melodie (www.melod.ie), has created a new Cue Sheet Tool that allows you to save your energy for the important stuff and simplify your workflow.
How It Works
Automatically generate a Music Cue Sheet featuring timecodes, durations, and full track metadata for all Melodie tracks – compatible with major PRO formats.
Simply upload an XML or EDL file from your editing sequence to generate a CSV, XLS, XLSX or TXT file (plus other formats) for use in Google Sheets, Excel, Numbers and similar programs
Cue Sheet History
The Cue Sheet History section contains a permanent record of all uploaded XML / EDL files, as well as output cue sheet files. You can sort cue sheets by uploading user, or inside a date range. This is a permanent record, so you can come back at any point to download both source EDL/XML files, and final cue sheet files.
With Melodie’s new Cue Sheet Tool, what was once a time intensive task is now quick, easy and free.
For more information about the Melodie Cue Sheet Tool, visit the Melodie User Guide.
About Melodie
Melodie Music is an Australian company that provides a simple solution for content creators seeking to find and license high-quality music for their projects. With Creator, Pro and Enterprise subscription options, their exclusive and meticulously curated catalogue of original music is accessible through an online search platform equipped with AI-powered search tools. Founded by composers, musicians and sound designers with first-hand experience of the crucial role music plays in storytelling, Melodie delivers an intuitive, user-friendly music licensing platform that caters to the needs of content creators, while supporting the growth of the music creators themselves. Learn more at www.melod.ie
