InterviewLogger is an HTML-based app for logging video interviews with timecode. It can export those logs as markers for Premiere Pro, synced with your video file.
It saves you time by letting you quickly see where the best quotes are, so you don’t have to rewatch the entire interview.
- Set your camera’s timecode to free-run (time of day). If your camera doesn’t support timecode, just make sure its time and date are correct.
- Open InterviewLogger in your browser.
- Enter the interviewee’s name in the top text box.
- Use shortcuts to make marks:
+ → Good (green marker)
- → Bad (red marker)
* → Great (yellow marker)
Type a note → Custom (blue marker)
Double click notes to edit them - Export your log to a CSV file.
- Convert the CSV to a Premiere Pro XML using the Editing Tools Marker Converter with the following settings:
- Convert from: CSV
- Convert to: Premiere Pro XML
- Set the same frame rate you used in-camera
- Click Generate, then download the XML file
- (Optional) In “More Options,” set the start time to match your video file’s starting timecode
- Import the XML into Premiere Pro.
- Align your video footage to the timeline created by the XML (based on timecode).
- It may work with other editing software, but this hasn’t been tested, if you test this and it works, let me know
- The app is mobile-friendly — keyboard shortcuts automatically change into on-screen buttons.
- Since it’s a self-hosted HTML app, it works offline.