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A Suite of Live Logging Apps and a Text Driven NLE
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A Suite of Logging and Pre-Editing Tools for FCP X and Premiere Pro

Log Anywhere

Log anywhere in the world with the iOS Logger. Log time ranges with Keywords with a simple tap on/tap off. These become Markers or Keyword Ranges in the NLE.

Log Incoming Live Feeds

noteLogger is a macOS app for when more extensive notes are needed in the logging. Very useful for multi camera reality.

Log Previously Shot Footage

backLogger is the fastest way to log Library or already shot footage with the same tap on/tap off simplicity of live logging, but with more flexibility.

Text Driven Video Editing

Builder is a unique app that merges the functions of a word processor and a video editor, enabling editing of video using text transcripts, which can be ordered in the app.

Our Evolving Mission

At first we thought:

"Lumberjack will save time and get you more organized than you ever thought you could be."

And it certainly does that, but we dove deeper and learned we're really:

"Giving you more time to do what's important to you: More creative time, or more family time."

Because when you're more organized you have more time for the important things.

What we hadn't realized is how much money Lumberjack will save you! Check it out for yourself.

For example you can save around $10,000 on a typical documentary using Lumberjack's INTEGRATED SYSTEM.

One Month FREE Membership

No commitment. No credit card required. Try as much, or as little, of Lumberjack System as you want and start saving with a FREE membership.

Low Monthly Membership

Just $25 a month with no commitment, $9.99 a month with a 12 month commitment, or $110 a year. All the benefits of Lumberjack for the cost of one trip to Starbucks a month!

Final Cut Pro X and Premiere Pro

Lumberjack System works with XML from Final Cut Pro X or Premiere Pro CC.

macOS and iOS

The Lumberjack Desktop apps are macOS only. Real-time logging is iOS only (for iPad and iPhone).

Our News

10Feb
3:27 pm

New Features: Better handling of SRTs, Export SRT, Remove Transcript option

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9Feb
7:28 pm

Completely rewritten Play Through Engine

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The Lumberjack Advantage

Lumberjack System's suite of logging and pre-editing tools make it possible to be well organized, to have more time to be creative (or spend with your family), and save money along the way.


Whether you work in Documentary, Reality TV, Sports (Production or Analysis), Conference Video (you'll get some sleep), or even Depositions or Education, Lumberjack System will save you more than you expected.

Be Well Organized

By clicking Keywords on, and off, during the shoot you will have your entire shoot logged and organized within minutes of ingesting your footage. Get straight to work on the creative!

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Have More Time

Because you don't have to spend days logging shot footage, and have creative starting points, you have more time to spend on the creative aspect, or to spend time with your family, or do what is important to you!

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Save a Lot of Money

Lumberjack System: save around $180 for every hour of footage shot, by logging during the shoot instead of the edit bay! Or around $500 for every time you don't spend days conforming a text document!

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Lumberjack in Action

These are a few of the examples that we know of, where Lumberjack is saving people time and money in all types of production.

Faster Together Stage

Editor Chris Fenwick was challenged with cutting material shot just before the show started, for inclusion in live show.

I could not have pulled it off without Lumberjack System. Their Live Logging made the quick turn possible.
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Klassen - Semi Scripted Series

Lumberjack's Live Logging was crucial to the tight production cycle that STV's Klassen was subject to. Klassen is a semi-scripted series about the lives of high schoolers.

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All Together Now

Endemol Shine Metronome (Denmark) used Lumberjack noteLogger to log the live shoot for the Danish version of All Together Now.

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OJ Simpson Documentaries

Lumberjack made our lives 10x easier

said assistant editor J Patrick Southern who used Lumberjack's Transcript mode to add transcripts to their footage and save hundreds of hours searching for the footage.

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Big Knockout Boxing

Lumberjack saved two days in a seven day schedule!

said editor Marc Bach who edited this DirectTV original series. Lumberjack Live Logging made their footage easier to find, and saved 30% of a very tight schedule.

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High School Quiz Show

Editor Brian Cassin used Lumberjack to pre-edit a season of High School Quiz Show.

Just to say it again... That's 40:13 cut automatically via Lumberyard!!! That's bonkers.
I don't think this time/money savings would have been possible without the experience I had in the Lumberjack Workflow.
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One Born Every Minute

Endemol Shine Metronome used Lumberjack's noteLogger to log 20 incoming camera feeds for the reality series One Born Every Minute. Live Logging dramatically reduced editing time.

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BBC1's "Have I got news for you" adopts Lumberjack System

Lumberjack System became an essential part of the show's remote production workflows when forced out of the studio.


Live Logging the Zoom feed allowed editor James Branch to "quickly navigate around the recording," which could be three and a half hours long.

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How it Works

The Suite of macOS and iOS apps are co-ordinated through a web application. Every Event you want to log is first set up in the Web app, where it is easy to upload or bulk enter Keywords ahead of the shoot.


The iOS app downloads all your Events, and you can switch between them, log and even add new Keywords anywhere in the world. Back with an Internet connection and upload the logging, where it can be accessed by the Lumberyard app and merged with XML of media information from Premiere Pro CC or Final Cut Pro X.

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    Create Events in the Web App

    All Events start in the Web app so they can be assigned unique IDs. As well as entering Keywords with the convenience of a full keyboard, you can upload text files of Keywords, and manage Users.

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    Log Time Ranges During the Shoot

    Take your Events anywhere in the world with the iOS app. Log time ranges as simply as switching a light on, and off again. You can add Keywords at any time, and log notes to Keywords.

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    Upload When Convenient

    The iOS app is fully self contained securely storing all logging (and new Keywords) until the Internet is available. The app warns if there is logging that has not been uploaded.

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    Merge Logs with Media XML

    Once the logging is uploaded to the Web app, export XML of your media pool to the Lumberyard app. A Lumberyard is where logs are processed! Lumberyard merges the logged time ranges with the Clip metadata from the XML, and updates the Project or Event with fully logged ranges.

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    Edit in your NLE, or Builder NLE

    Depending on the project you may be able to go straight to editing your fully organized Project/Event.

    If it involves interviews then you'll want to start story building in Lumberjack Builder NLE: a unique way of editing audio and video with text.

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    Build Stories with Text

    Lumberjack Builder NLE gives you a way to work with transcripts to build the basic 'radio cut'. Work with text like a word processor, and in the background you're editing the audio and video for instant review and conform.


    Instant conform to your NLE!

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    Complete and Polish in the NLE

    Lumberjack is a Suite of logging and pre-editing tools, and now you're ready to continue the creative work and finish the project in your familiar NLE environment. All logging has been moved from Lumberjack to your local system.

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Testimonials

A future that includes editing *and* sleep

Every time I open @LumberjackSys Builder, I feel like I might have a future that includes editing *and* sleep. So amazing, and now it works with ky proxies!

Stuart Hooper

"The Vacation Rental Show"

Transcript Mode was a lifesaver

The film was mainly shot in a foreign language, and Lumberjack System Transcript Mode was a lifesaver, and meant that I was able to quickly search across five years of footage and find the exact line I was looking for within seconds, timecode accurate. (Good news: "Pariah Dog" has been accepted to the Kolkata International Film Festival!)

Jesse Alk

"Pariah Dog"

Cut the editing time in half!

For projects including interviews, using @LumbrerjackSys Builder with FCP X saves even more time. I've spent the last couple of weeks using that combo, and it easily cut the editing time in half on this project compared with using Premiere Pro and Avid on similar gigis in the past.

Jamie LeJeune

Cinematographer, Editor, Colorist

Could not have pulled it off without Lumberjack

I could NOT have pulled it off without Greg from @LumberjackSys - their logging system made the quick turn possible. I'm SO thankful they were able to assist.

Chris Fenwick

On Stage Editor "Faster Together 2019"

It's Brilliant

By the way - I used Lumberjack Builder quite a lot in my work; it is brilliant!

David Brown

Working in two languages!

We are doing this with Lumberjack Builder and FCP X. You drag and drop paragraphs around, having already Rated and Keyworded your transcript. I'm currently working on a Scottish Gaelic show, which is in Gaelic. We have used a Gaelic transcript in parallel with an English one. Send the whole lot over and you get the cut in FCP X with English Subtitles already added.

John Mathews

Editor, Blue Bicycle TV

Made me look like a champ

I've been using Lumberjack Builder on an extremely rush project recently, and it worked like a bloody dream. Literally saved me days of delay and made me look like a champ.

Duncan Shepherd

Editor, Freelance

Fantastic

Isn't it (Lumberjack Builder) fantastic?

Mark Spencer

Ripple Training

Totally changed the way I take on big projects

This (Builder) is quite an amazing program you guys have made, and has totally changed the way I look at taking on big projects as a director and editor. Thank you!

Jake Brown

Jake Brown TV

An essential part of our workflow

Live Logging allowed James to "quickly navigate around the recording," which was generally there and a half hour long!

James Branch

Editor, BBC "Have I got news for you"

Lumberjack is perfect for...



Reality and Documentary

Logging real-time with Lumberjack ensures that the logs are always available to the editor with 100% accuracy and minimal effort.

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Sports (Coaching & Match)


All the plays by a player

All instance of each play

All within seconds after the game or practice (or quarter) finishes.

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Conference and Event Production

If you're tasked with producing a daily summary of "what happened yesterday" Lumberjack will let you get a good night's sleep and deliver a better job.

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Education, Medical or Legal

Lumberjack is perfect for logging video of lectures, operations or depositions: all situations where the content of large amounts of video needs to be easily searched.

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Our Team

We're a small, but very responsive team, who want your Lumberjack experience to be perfect. We love hearing your questions and suggestions, and (heaven forbid) should there be a problem, we'll be here for you.

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Philip Hodgetts

Cofounder & President

Dr Gregory Clarke

Cofounder & VP Technology

Cirina Catania

Tech Evangelist & Lead Trainer

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