$29.99
Time Tracker
Stop guessing what your time is worth.
A time tracker that lives inside DaVinci Resolve. It knows which project you have open, tracks your hours on its own, and shows you what every job is actually paying you.
You finish a project, go to send the invoice, and realize you have no idea how many hours you put in. So you guess. And you almost always guess low. Hourly or flat rate, that guess is costing you money on every job.
This fixes it. Hit start, do your work. It handles the rest.
WHAT IT DOES
Step away and it stops itself, crediting time only up to your last action. Come back and it starts again on its own. You can't pad a timesheet and you can't lose billable hours to a forgotten timer. On the Free Edition you stop sessions yourself.
A live bar graph breaks your hours down by page. Edit, Color, Fairlight, Deliver and the rest, so you know if grading is eating your margins before you quote the next job. Render time counts too, right where it belongs.
Type in what you quoted and your real effective rate updates live while you work. Fee divided by hours, every second. Set your target rate and a burn bar counts down the hours the fee actually buys, then prices the overrun in dollars when a job runs long. The "good deal" that pays $25 an hour has nowhere left to hide.
A wide, low window that tucks under your viewer. Timer and money on the left, page graph and session history on the right. One click collapses the whole thing into a tiny floating widget with just your project, the timer and Stop. On flat jobs, the widget shows your live rate too.
FREE RESOLVE OR STUDIO
Blackmagic limits script windows to Resolve Studio, so the tracker ships in two editions and you install the one that matches your Resolve. Tracking, billing and invoices work either way.
- Studio Edition gets the full experience: the live window, flat rate readouts, per page graph, idle auto stop and resume, and the compact widget. Built and tested on Resolve 21.
- Free Edition runs on free Resolve 19.1+: one click start and stop, per project time and billing, session notes, CSV invoices.
THE DETAILS
- Both editions included, each a single file install. Drag it into Resolve's scripts folder, restart, open it from Workspace, done in two minutes
- Illustrated manuals for Mac and Windows, plus a one page flat rate guide
- 20+ currencies, and new projects inherit your last rate
- No plugins, no Python, no accounts. Your data stays on your computer, no cloud, ever
- Free lifetime updates, built from customer feedback
macOS and Windows. Resolve Studio for the full experience, free Resolve 19.1+ for the Free Edition.
WHAT EDITORS ARE SAYING
Real comments from the launch video.
“Your Time Tracker is absolutely brilliant! Super easy to set up in DR Studio… we can track our post-production so precisely — edit, colour and audio work time. This gets our vote for DR Plugin of the Year.”
Work Cabin Films
“I’m honored to have been a beta tester and can confirm that I was WAYYYY undercharging my clients. Super freaking useful!”
Conner John
“Very cool concept — the moment you said it’s not a subscription I didn’t care the price.”
Odyssea Video
“FANTASTIC idea.”
Casey Faris
“This is actually a genius idea. It solves a real problem in the market for videographers.”
Ethan Robbins
“I have a client I’ve been working with for years but I’ve been nervous about raising the rates. Now I can honestly track it and determine accordingly.”
Dmitri Films
CHOOSE YOUR BUNDLE
The tracker shows you what every job really paid. The add-ons help you decide what to charge for the next one, and how to defend it.
1 · The Tracker
Both editions, hourly and flat rate billing, the illustrated manuals, free lifetime updates. The complete tool for knowing exactly what every project costs you in hours and pays you per hour.
2 · The Tracker + Price Like a Pro
Everything in option 1, plus an 18 page playbook that answers the harder question the tracker can't: what should those hours be worth, and how do you get paid that? The tracker shows you when a job drops below your target rate. The playbook is how you set that target with confidence, and raise it.
- The four ways editors get paid, and which one quietly underpays you
- The floor rate math that builds a rate that actually covers your life
- 2026 U.S. rate benchmarks by experience level and deliverable
- The hidden line items most editors give away free: usage rights, whitelisting, exclusivity, raw files, rush fees
- Word for word scripts for when a client says "that's more than we budgeted"
- A one page cheat sheet and rate setting worksheet
3 · The Complete Kit BEST VALUE
Everything in option 2, plus the Rate Calculator: a fill in the blanks spreadsheet that turns the playbook into your actual numbers. Enter what you need to earn and your real billable hours, get your Floor, Target and Reach rates, then build client quotes that check themselves against your floor.
Pair it with the tracker and the loop closes. The tracker shows what the last job really paid you per hour, the calculator prices the next one, and your rates only move in one direction.
One time purchase. Yours forever. No subscription, no nonsense. Just the tool, doing its job, every time you open Resolve.