Premiere Pro time tracking that shows what each wedding earns

A time tracker on your Mac that starts itself

Hailo installs the time agent the first time the app runs, and from then on it starts whenever you log in to your Mac, whether Hailo is open or not. It has no window and no Dock icon, only the Hailo mark in the menu bar, with a dot and a running count while it is tracking. That is what automatic time tracking on a Mac should feel like: you edit, and the hours add up.

Click the icon for today's hours, this week's hours, and a line naming the editor and project it is counting. Pause tracking for 1 hour is there for when you leave a render running and walk away. You pick which editor it watches under Settings > Your editor, the same choice that sets your export format.

What counts as editing time

A second counts when your editor is the app in front and you are working in it, or it is playing back or rendering with your hands off the mouse. Reading email with Premiere Pro behind another window does not count. The agent needs no special permission to count time.

One permission is optional. On newer macOS, Screen Recording lets the agent read the name of the project that is open, so your hours attach to the right wedding on their own. Decline it and time still counts, just without a project name, and you link it to a wedding later.

What each film earns per hour

Open the Edit time widget on the dashboard, or All editing on a client's Financials tab, and the Editing time page puts it together. A pill reads Live while an editor is open and tracking, Idle when not. Across the top: your hours over the last 30 days, a blended rate across every film you edited, and what those hours are worth at that rate.

Below that, Billable by film lists each wedding with its booked amount, its hours and its rate: the booked amount divided by every hour ever tracked on it. Where you edit shows how your hours split across editors. The dashboard widget gives the same picture by day, week, month or year, with a row for hours on projects you have not linked yet.

Linking takes a moment per project. Click Link NLE project, find the project under Detected, and choose the couple; every client is listed, including ones you brought over from another CRM. Or drag the project file in. Every hour after that counts toward that film. To see costs as well as hours, tie expenses to the wedding in Finance.

Premiere Pro time tracking that knows what the wedding booked

Plenty of time tracking for creatives can tell you how long last Tuesday's edit ran. What it cannot know is that the wedding you were cutting booked for a certain amount, so it cannot tell you whether those hours paid. Hailo already holds the booking, so the rate it shows is the real one.

That changes pricing conversations with yourself. A Premiere Pro time tracker that sits beside your bookings shows which packages run long in the edit and which films paid less per hour than you thought, and that is worth knowing before you set next season's prices or revenue goals.