Track the hours you spend editing in Premiere Pro.

What automatic tracking should do

A useful editing timer needs to know which project is open, which sequence is active and whether you are actually using Premiere. App-open time alone can include lunch, meetings or a project left on a screen overnight.

The Edit Timer reads project and active-sequence context from Premiere and combines it with activity observed on the Mac. Confirmed intervals are saved locally and queued for upload to your company workspace. Editors can keep working when the internet drops out.

Projects are detected for you

Opening a project supplies the context for new time records. Switching projects changes where new intervals belong. You do not have to create a separate timer entry for every Premiere project.

A production job can still involve several project files, renamed files or different storage paths on office and home computers. The dashboard lets you link detected projects to a job. That link is an explicit decision, rather than a guess based on similar filenames.

Breaks and thinking time

Tracking pauses when Premiere moves into the background. If there is more than five minutes without observed input in Premiere, the idle gap is removed back to the last interaction. The timer resumes when you interact with Premiere again.

Short gaps can count as thinking time. This is a consistent activity-based rule, not a measurement of every creative decision. Watching a long passage without input can look idle, while planning an edit on paper happens outside Premiere. Review the report with that scope in mind.

Check the timer against your working day

A few simple checks help establish what a timer records and how it handles your workflow. Current version details are listed on our compatibility page.

• Open a project and confirm the detected name.
• Switch between sequences and check that time changes context once.
• Take a break longer than five minutes and check that it is excluded.
• Move Premiere into the background, then return to editing.
• Compare the saved report with a short session you have timed independently.

Get useful reports without uploading footage

Records contain editing intervals, project names and paths, sequence identifiers, and editor and device identifiers. They do not contain footage, project contents, screenshots, typed keys or mouse coordinates.

The aim is a better basis for production estimates: how much editing a job used, who worked on it and where revision time went. Joining the waitlist does not install software, start a trial or create a paid account.