The scene list spreadsheet strongly reminds me of how video editing was done in the 80s (in one Australian commercial editing company anyway): A pair of U-Matic machines under a pair of Sony Triniton monitors and a control 'console'.
Plugged into the back of the machines, presumably via an eye-wateringly expensive I/O card, was an original IBM XT computer running something called, from memory, "Shot Lister" but perhaps that was a generic term. Shot Lister was monitoring the timecode from the tapes and would generate an EDL, or Edit Decision List, for the editor's work. Various manually entered reference IDs plus U-matic tapes frame numbers lead back to the original 35mm negatives.
The EDL would be sent off, using a fancy new 3.5inch floppy via a courier, to another company to use the master negatives to "print" the final edit together.
I remember someone, often the 'new kid' in the suite, would be tasked with manually writing down timecodes to clapper board references when the tapes arrived containing the rushes for whatever was being edited. Overall, remarkably similar!
Plugged into the back of the machines, presumably via an eye-wateringly expensive I/O card, was an original IBM XT computer running something called, from memory, "Shot Lister" but perhaps that was a generic term. Shot Lister was monitoring the timecode from the tapes and would generate an EDL, or Edit Decision List, for the editor's work. Various manually entered reference IDs plus U-matic tapes frame numbers lead back to the original 35mm negatives.
The EDL would be sent off, using a fancy new 3.5inch floppy via a courier, to another company to use the master negatives to "print" the final edit together.
I remember someone, often the 'new kid' in the suite, would be tasked with manually writing down timecodes to clapper board references when the tapes arrived containing the rushes for whatever was being edited. Overall, remarkably similar!