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Lumberjack - The Logging System

For all Recording Engineers, Tape Ops, Sound Recordists, Film and TV Music Editors - Lumberjack is your dreams come true!

Sure, you love your job. But don’t you just hate the grinding tedium of endlessly writing down timecodes and laboriously filling in labels for all your DATs, M-O discs, Multitrack tapes, Track Sheets etc?

Let Lumberjack take the hassle out of your life!

Complete Solution

Lumberjack, The Logging System, is your complete recording session management solution. Running on any Windows PC it handles all the tedious tasks of a recording session - controlling the recording machines, logging start and end times, and printing take lists and box labels. As an added bonus, it also has the most advanced timecode calculators on the market - handling all timecode formats, film rates, delay times, tempos, take durations, pitches, sample rates, varispeed percentages etc.

Easy To Use

Lumberjack is incredibly easy to use. After no more than a couple of hours training, you will be able to operate it in your sleep. But you won’t want to sleep, because Lumberjack frees you from all the boring chores of recording sessions, and lets you get back to the real reason you wanted to work in the industry in the first place - great music!

For example, logging a new take is as simple as hitting the space bar. In an instant, the timecodes of up to four recording machines will be captured, and the new take number stored as a Program ID on suitable DAT and Genex machines. If it was a false start, simply hit the F key when the musicians start playing again. Once the take is finished, press E and the end time will be logged and the take duration calculated automatically.

Impress The Producer

When it comes to playing back, it is just as easy. If you want to play back Take 26, just press T26P, which will locate the playback machine(s) to the final start of Take 26, after any false starts, preroll a few seconds (user adjustable) and go into play. If you are using a digital audio workstation or a disc-based system, such as a Genex GX8000 M-O disc recorder, this is all instantaneous. If you then want to move a minute and a half forward, simply press +130P. Commands can be joined together, so if you wanted to locate to a point 1 minute 25 seconds into take 42 and go into stop, you would press T42+125L.

No More Pens, No More Sore Fingers

When the session is over, Lumberjack can quickly print out all your take lists and box labels. A fast print preview helps to prevent unnecessary paper wastage. Lumberjack ships with a large set of label templates, which you can modify to suit your own company stationery, using the integrated report designer.

Integrates Into Your System

Lumberjack can export most common EDL formats, and can create Sonic Solutions Project files. It will import word processor files, enabling it to be used as a highly efficient spotting tool for film music editors.

High Reliability - No Worries

Lumberjack is the second generation product from Takelog Systems. The original product - Takelog - was developed at the world-famous Abbey Road Studios, and has been used on literally thousands of recording sessions with major recording artists, from Rock/Pop to Classical to Film Scores. In over eight years of use it has crashed only twice - a testimony to the quality of the software engineering. The same care and attention to detail that made Takelog such a success has been lavished on Lumberjack, resulting in a product that will work straight out of the box - first time, every time. You can rely on Lumberjack!

Available Soon

Lumberjack will available in 2004 for an unbelievable price. Upgrades from the older Takelog system will simply be the difference in cost, so you've nothing to lose.

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