Project Working hours stats

My request is a "Project Working hours" statistics.

The basic feature is a project metadata that counts the working hours spent on a project since it was created. Despite there are tons of "Work hours" tools, this can help with the next features:

- Working hours per timeline, as Timeline metadata.
- Working hours per page (Edit, Color, Fairlight...), so we know how much time we spent on Color, Edit, FL..
- A preference to stop the count when there is no edition for X seconds.

This would be an unvaluable tool not only for invoicing, but to plan strategies over our workflow by measuring past completed projects, so we avoid future workflow bottlenecks.

I think that's a fantastic idea. Microsoft Word has a "Properties" option in the File menu that will tell you exactly how many days/hours/minutes you've been working on a particular document. I'd love to have something like this available for Resolve.

One trick would be: I think Word doesn't count when you have the document open but it's just sitting there... it only counts when you're actually typing or changing text. I would assume that Resolve would only start counting minutes and hours when knobs are being adjusted or the video is playing back.

Regardless, it would be a great billing feature. For now, my cheap workaround is a Notes folder within each project, plus I manually save a backup session file every day and I usually work about the same number of hours. If I see (say) 4 separate saved session files when I finish a project, then I can say, "ah, that's somewhere between 32 and 36 hours," and bill accordingly.

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Agreed.

I requested this feature a couple years back. I thought it was a wacky request when I made it, so I’m glad I’m not the only one who thinks it’s a good idea!

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This should be a "DVR Studio" version feature.

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digging this, still find this would be great

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Yes! Please!

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If you’re an Adobe CC user, the wizards at Knights of the Editing Roundtable have a great extension called “Chronicler” that tracks your activity in sequences and whatnot. It will even export CSV files for Excel! I’ve found it super useful for billing purposes. Hopefully BMD will steal this idea.

https://knightsoftheeditingtable.com/chronicler