passport

A stamp from every location in your cut.

For Pro Tools Film & TV Sound Editors

A sound editor's passport
to every scene, location, and cut.

Drag in the picture EDL and the continuity sheet. Drop the tracks into your session. Done.

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The roadmap

Know where every scene lives.

30 years as a sound editor for feature film and television has shown us that the right map of each scene, description and cut leads to better sound choices, inspires ideas and cuts down on editorial time.

Whether you're a sound FX editor spotting a reel, an assistant cutting backgrounds, or an editor pulling sounds from locations across different episodes in a supersession, Passport helps you find your place and follow the story seamlessly.

Passport does it in the time it takes to drag two files.

What it does

Two files in. Three tracks out.

  1. 1

    Drag in the picture EDL, then the continuity sheet.

    Passport reads the cut, finds every scene change, and matches each scene to its location from the continuity. Renumbered blocks, split scenes, and sub-slates included.

  2. 2

    Watch the strip fill.

    Every scene appears on a live strip with its number and location — with lanes for the scene descriptions and every picture cut. Unmatched scenes are flagged before you build, not discovered after.

  3. 3

    Import into Pro Tools.

    Passport writes media-less clip groups — a few hundred kilobytes for a whole episode, no dummy audio in your session. Import, drop at the session head, done. One named clip per scene, at the correct picture timecodes, at your session's frame rate, sample accurate, first import. Prefer an AAF? Build that instead with one click.

Two files in, three files out

  • EP101_PICTURE.edl
  • EP101_CONTINUITY.pdf
  • Passport_SCENE_CUT_LOCATION.cgrp 212 KB
  • Passport_SCENE_DESC.cgrp 198 KB
  • Passport_SHOTS.cgrp 96 KB

Already have a scene track?

Relabel renames its clips in place, live, inside an open Pro Tools session. No exports, no re-imports, no other tool does this.

How it works

From turnover to timeline.

From the field

“I’ve been on the lookout for a fix to a workaround I’d come up with to manually name and notate my scene tracks. For my use case, I just couldn’t justify the cost of some of the other solutions I’d found. Passport handily fills a gap in my toolset allowing me to automate a big part of the process. Saving me money and most importantly, time.”

C.J. Carpenter Supervising Sound Editor / Dialog Editor

Get Passport

Yours. Not rented.

$99 $49

Launch price for the first 100 buyers.

An hour back every episode. Do the math on a season.

  • One-time purchase. No subscription.
  • Instant download and license key by email.
  • Three tracks per episode: scenes, descriptions, every cut.
  • Build unlimited scene tracks on your Mac.
  • No iLok. No account. No internet required to run.
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System requirements

Operating system
macOS 14 Sonoma or laterBuilt and tested on macOS 15 Sequoia.
Processor
Apple silicon — M1 or laterIntel Macs are not supported.
Pro Tools
Any version that imports clip groups or AAFOnly needed to import. Passport builds the tracks on its own.
Disk space
About 100 MB29 MB download.
Internet
Only to download itNo iLok, no account, no connection needed to run.

macOS only Passport is a Mac application. A Windows release is planned, but there is no date yet.

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Questions

The practical stuff.

What do I need to run it?
An Apple silicon Mac — M1 or later — running macOS 14 Sonoma or later. Pro Tools is only needed to import the tracks, so any version that imports clip groups or AAF works. No iLok, no plugins, no internet connection. Full requirements.
Is there a Windows version?
Not yet. Passport is Mac only today. A Windows release is planned, but there is no date to promise — if you want to be told when it lands, join the newsletter above.
What files does it read?
A CMX3600 picture EDL, plus a location source: a continuity sheet PDF, a lined script, a one-liner, or a simple CSV scene list. Skip the location source and clips are named by scene number alone.
What frame rates?
24, 23.976, 25, and 29.97. You pick the rate at build time so the tracks land sample accurate against your session.
What lands in Pro Tools?
Media-less clip groups — a few hundred kilobytes for a whole episode, no dummy audio cluttering your session. Import, drop at the session head, done. Prefer AAF? Passport builds that instead with one click.
Don't I already get this from a conform toolkit?
If your crew owns one and it does what you need, keep it. On the suites, the scene track is a side feature — numbered clips, no locations, built for the one conform chair and its iLok. Passport's whole job is the finished track: named from the continuity, three tracks, cheap enough that every editor on the crew can own it.
Aren't there free ways to make a cut track?
There are — and they all hand you unnamed cuts. The hour was never the slicing; it was typing the names off the continuity sheet. That's the part Passport does.
My show's continuity sheet looks weird. Will it parse?
Continuity layouts vary by show and Passport ships with a supported-inputs guide plus a CSV template that always works. If your document stumps it, email it over and we'll make it parse.
What about renumbered scenes?
Handled. Letter sub-slates, decimal splits, and editorial block renumbering into the 100s are all matched automatically, and anything unmatched is flagged on the strip before you build.
Refunds?
Fourteen days, no questions. Email support and it's done.