A production timer for studio and broadcast crews
Time recording blocks, rehearsals, and talent calls on synced browser screens across the studio: a production clock in the green room, a countdown at the talent mark, and a console at the producer's seat. Nothing installed, nothing wired.
Blocks, resets, and rehearsals
Build the shoot day as segments: setup, block one, turnaround, block two, lunch locked in place. When a take runs long, one edit cascades the rest of the day, and every department reads the new plan on the nearest screen. Rehearsals run the same rundown, so show timing gets practiced, not estimated.
- Setup, blocks, turnaround: the whole day as timed segments
- Lunch locked in place; one edit cascades everything else
- Rehearsals run the same rundown as the show day
Green room and talent screens
Talent asks one question all day: how long? Put a display link in the green room and at the stage entrance showing the countdown to their call or the time of day. Unlimited screens means makeup, wardrobe, and the producer's phone all read the same clock.
- Display links at the green room door and the stage entrance
- Each screen shows the countdown to the call or the time of day
- Unlimited screens: makeup, wardrobe, and the producer's phone
What this page is not claiming
The scope, stated plainly.
NextTime is not an NDI source, does not genlock, and has no timecode, API, or tally integration. If your pipeline needs a timer inside the video signal chain, use a tool built for that. NextTime covers the human side of studio timing: the screens people look at between takes.
- Not an NDI source
- No genlock
- No timecode, API, or tally
Try it on the next shoot day
No hardware to rent, no seats to buy, no card to enter.
Free to start
Free covers a real shoot day: unlimited display links, segments up to 10 minutes. The $15 Event Pass covers the whole shoot.
Nothing to install
Every screen is a browser tab. Nothing installed, nothing wired.
Any screen on set
Laptops, phones, tablets, TVs. If it opens a browser, it can show the clock.
Talent asks how long. Every screen answers.
Free to start, nothing installed, nothing wired. The next shoot day can be on the clock in two minutes.
Production timer questions
Does NextTime output NDI or timecode?
No. It displays through browsers on regular screens and is not part of the video signal chain.
Can it run a count-up session clock?
Yes. Any screen can run count-up mode while another shows a countdown or the time of day.
Can the director and the green room see different things?
Yes. Each display link sets its own display mode, so one screen shows the segment countdown while another shows the clock.
What does it cost for a production day?
Free covers segments to 10 minutes; a $15 Event Pass covers the whole shoot for 30 days with no caps.