If you’ve ever exported an EDL from your NLE and opened it in a text editor to figure out what’s going on, you know the pain. Timecodes, reel names, and comments crammed into a format designed in the 1970s. From there it’s usually a manual process — copying data into a spreadsheet, hunting for the right source clips, and trying to keep everything organized.
We built Cutlist to fix that.
What Cutlist does
Cutlist is a native macOS app that reads your EDL and OTIO timeline files and turns them into a clean, organized shot list. Drop in your timeline, and Cutlist parses every cut — extracting timecodes, shot codes, scene and take info, camera metadata, and even ASC CDL color correction data.
Point it at your source media and it generates frame-accurate thumbnails for every shot. The table is fully customizable — show or hide any columns, drag to reorder, and resize thumbnails to fit your workflow.
When you’re done, export a CSV with exactly the columns you need, batch-export your thumbnails, or upload shots directly to Flow Production Tracking.
Why we built it
Post-production has incredible tools for editing, color, and VFX. But the “in-between” tasks — organizing shot data, building reports, handing off to production tracking — still rely heavily on manual spreadsheet work. Cutlist sits in that gap.
We’ll be sharing more about specific features and workflows in upcoming posts. In the meantime, download Cutlist and give it a try.