Production's Best Friend
Stop building production reports by hand.
Production’s Best Friend turns your Projects
into a professional Excel spreadsheet — instantly.
Whether you’re the editor generating it, the coordinator submitting it, or the producer signing off on it — Production’s Best Friend speaks everyone’s language.
Generate clip lists, shot lists and track-accurate sequence reports instantly
- Deliver editorial metadata to VFX, audio, QC, grading, legal and archive teams
Capture effects, transitions and markers — perfect for editorial turnovers
Designed for Final Cut Pro
Exports clean Excel for producers, coordinators and post teams
We did a 2 hour documentary. The documentary aired on PBS stations across the country. I had 3 different music providers, over 5,000 pictures and 70 reels of film.We had archival & buyout footage & 3 sources of buy out music.
Producer’s BestFriend took seconds figure out where everything came from.
I promise you won’t be disappointed in this app.
Coach264, via the App Store
For Excel and Numbers
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Try it free — no license required. Reports your first 20 clips with no limitations.
Purchase Options:
Monthly for $19.99
One Year for $129.99
Three Years for $199.99
At $19.99 a month,
Production’s Best Friend costs less than an hour of a post coordinator’s time and saves many.
Or save 46% on an annual plan and reduce admin.
Reports
- Summary
- Clips
- Roles and Subroles
- Markers
- Keywords
- Video Effects
- Audio Effects and
- Transitions.
Production's Best Friend in 90 seconds
Indispensable tool: Responsive developers, simple and functional. I have used, tested and abused everything made by this company and everything they make shines.
Mike Matzdorff,
Assistant Editor and Trainer
In seconds you have a list of things to do, clips you’ve used, transition, with times, duration, everything – all in a spreadsheet
Esplosuin
via App Store
This app saved days of work for me!
I was able to report three XML files and generate three spreadsheets within minutes. Job done!
Robert Burgee
via App Store
For those of us who have to submit all kinds of reports to the network (stock footage used, music clips, VFX, narration ins and outs, images, graphics, etc.) this is truly a godsend.
Cirina Catania,
Filmmaker and Producer
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Production’s Best Friend is a complete rewrite of Producer’s Best Friend. Due to changes in macOS Producer’s Best Friend will cease to operate from macOS 27 onward.
Production’s Best Friend is a feature for feature replacement.
Case Study:
Electric Entertainment “Pushing Post” (TV Series)