Australian music licensing company Melodie has announced the launch of its new Cue Sheet Tool, which automatically generates a Music Cue Sheet featuring timecodes, durations, and full track metadata for all Melodie tracks – compatible with major PRO formats. Users have to upload an XML or EDL file from your editing sequence to generate a CSV, XLS, XLSX or TXT file (plus other formats) for use in Google Sheets, Excel, Numbers and similar programs.
So what is a cue sheet? For every broadcast programme, there is a cue sheet containing a detailed list of all the musical cues used in that programme, including related copyright information for each track (e.g. production, episode, writer, publisher, duration of music used, identification codes etc). Cue sheets travel around the world with productions providing broadcasters with an accurate record of the musical works used in their programming. Cue sheets are used in conjunction with broadcast records allowing PROs to accurately distribute royalties to composers and rights holders whose works have been broadcast on television.
Moreover, the Cue Sheet History section contains a permanent record of all uploaded XML / EDL files, as well as output cue sheet files. It is possible to sort cue sheets by uploading users, or inside a date range. This is a permanent record, so you can come back at any point to download both source EDL/XML files, and final cue sheet files.
More information about the Melodie Cue Sheet Tool is available at the Melodie User Guide.
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