SC02_SH20 · bridge duel 2:1
CineCameraActor_Kaidan 04:12 3 tracks
Transform
Focal Length
Aperture
SQ_Kaidan_v04
KeyLight_Rect_01 04:12 2 tracks
Intensity
Colour Temp
SQ_Kaidan_v04
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SC02_SH20 · plan 3 / 7
⋮⋮ Block duel dolly-in
⋮⋮ Lens: 35mm or 50mm?
⋮⋮ Cool the key for the blizzard
⋮⋮ Drop volumetric haze in BG
⋮⋮ Time katana draw to beat 04
⋮⋮ DOF rack focus on the mask
⋮⋮ Send v02 to director
SK_Kaidan_Walk_Cycle 02:18 2 tracks
Anim Section
walk_loop_01
Spawn
SQ_Kaidan_v04
Music_KaidanTheme 04:12 audio
Audio
SQ_Kaidan_v04
ExpHeightFog_01 04:12 1 track
Density
SQ_Kaidan_v04
NS_Blizzard_Snow 02:08 2 tracks
Spawn
Spawn Rate
SQ_Kaidan_v04
SS_Duel_Beat02 01:18 nested
Sub Track
Duel_Beat02.useq
this project

Everything you've made in Sequencer.
In one place, for good.

TrackDeck saves your Sequencer setups as portable cards on a canvas. Capture a camera rig, a lighting pass, a rigged Blueprint, a whole shot. Reach for it in the next project without rebuilding it.

No plugin in Unreal. Free to start. Windows.

Sequencer is an amazing tool.
But it's not a great library.

Every camera rig, light pass, and animated shot lives inside the sequence you built it in. You can shuffle them between projects with migration or templates - but each route is clunky enough that rebuilding from scratch usually wins. So you keep rebuilding. The camera rig. The key light. The wide. Over and over. TrackDeck saves every one as a portable card. Faster to reach for than rebuild.

The setups you've already dialled in

The hero camera you've spent a week on. The light pass that finally works. The anim section you nailed first try. Save them as cards. Reach for them on the next shot. The next show. The next project.

Shots that survive past the project

Capture today. Paste into a fresh project next year. Exactly what you copied - wherever the setup is portable. The work you already did stays done, instead of dying inside the .uasset it came from.

Variants without the duplicate sequences

The wide, the close, the alt take, the director-note version. All as separate cards on the same canvas, ready to compare - while the sequence itself stays clean. No SHOT_010_v2_FINAL copies piling up in the Content Browser.

Copy. Paste. Card.

No plugin. No FBX. No setup.

All of it rides on one trick: TrackDeck reads UE's clipboard format directly - the same one Sequencer uses when you copy and paste between sequences. Nothing to install per project, nothing to rebuild when the engine updates, nothing for a pipeline lead to approve.

1

Select in Sequencer

Pick any track, binding, subsequence, or full selection inside Unreal's Sequencer. Hit Ctrl+C.

UE Sequencer clipboard
2

Paste onto the canvas

In TrackDeck, Ctrl+V on the canvas. Each parsed item lands as its own Scene Item card, full clipboard data kept intact. Portability tier sorted out for you.

canvas paste Scene Item cards
3

Save, share, reuse

Save the canvas as a .tdeck file. Open it in another project. Copy a card back to clipboard and paste it into Sequencer somewhere new. Rebuilds, same fidelity.

.tdeck any UE project
Live demo
SQ_Kaidan_v04 - Unreal Editor
FileEditAssetViewPlaybackHelp
Sequencer
+ AddSearch…30 fps
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CineCameraActor_Kaidan◂ ◇ ▸
CurrentFocalLength22.0◂ ◇ ▸
Transform◂ ◇ ▸
KeyLight_Rect_01◂ ◇ ▸
ExpHeightFog_01◂ ◇ ▸
CineCameraActor_Kaidan◂ ◇ ▸
TrackDeck BETA kaidan_shots
CineCameraActor_Kaidan 04:12 3 tracks
Transform
Focal Length
SQ_Kaidan_v04
Ctrl+C

The round trip on loop - Sequencer to card, card back to Sequencer.

Less rebuilding.
More shot-making.

TrackDeck isn't another editor to learn - it's three workflows Sequencer can't give you on its own. And the previews below aren't videos: they're the real interface, redrawn live on this page.

01 · Reuse

If it lives in Sequencer, it can land as a card.

A Blueprint rigged with its tracks and ready to go. A full lighting setup. A time-of-day pass. An MRQ render config. Captured once, kept on the canvas, pasted back in whenever the next shot - or the next project - needs it.

Live demo
CineCameraActor_Kaidan 04:12
Transform
from the library
Sequencer · NewShow_2026
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CineCameraActor_Kaidan◂ ◇ ▸
Transform◂ ◇ ▸
Ctrl+V
02 · Shot planning

Plan the shot where the shot lives.

Frame grabs, concept art, checklists per shot - and palettes pulled straight out of a reference with a right-click. It all sits on the same canvas as the captured scene data, so lighting and grade calls get made against the actual reference, and the plan stays attached to the work.

Live demo
KeyLight_Rect_01 04:12
Intensity
SQ_Kaidan_v04
Rename card
Extract palette 5 ▸
Send to back
090606
2A221E
494239
7E7867
03 · The library

A proper home for your Sequencer work.

Every deck is a single .tdeck file in a library folder you choose, and the built-in browser puts all of them one keystroke away - filed by show, by shot type, however you organise. They're plain files on your own disk: back them up, sync them with whatever you already use, open them years later. No cloud, no account.

Live demo
CineCameraActor_Kaidan 04:12
Transform
KeyLight_Rect_01 04:12
Intensity
Library
HeroShow
Kaidan_Shots.tdeck
Lighting_Passes.tdeck
Commercials
CarSpot_v2.tdeck
Idents_2025.tdeck

A proper moodboard. Even with Unreal closed.

The whole planning side is included, free, forever - and it keeps working with Unreal closed. If you never paste a single Sequencer track, TrackDeck is still a fast, offline moodboard that saves to one file.

Live demo · grab a card
SC01 · look 2.39:1
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colder key · more mist at the torii
SC01 · plan 0 / 3
⋮⋮ Grade against concept
⋮⋮ Lens: 35mm or 50mm?
⋮⋮ Haze blockout pass

Auto-assembles on a loop - grab any card and the board is yours.

Stills & boards

Drag in frame grabs, concept art, storyboards. Full quality, arranged the way you think.

Video that just plays

Drop in reference clips - mp4, mov, mkv, avi - and they play right on the canvas. Anything non-native gets converted on import, so a board full of motion stays smooth.

Palettes out of any image

Right-click a reference and pull 3, 5, or 8 dominant colours as a swatch card. It follows its source around the board, and every swatch copies out as hex, RGB, or HSL.

Checklists that keep score

Per-shot to-do lists with a live done-count in the header. Colour-code rows, drag to reorder, tick things off right next to the work they're about.

Notes & shapes

Glass-style text cards for quick thoughts, plus arrows, boxes, and callout shapes to mark the board up. Double-click, type, done.

Frames that hold a shot

Group a shot's references, palette, and notes in a coloured, labelled frame - with real aspect ratios like 2.39:1. Drag the frame and everything inside comes along.

All of it free, offline, in one .tdeck file. No account. No Unreal required.

Moodboard brain or timeline brain. Both welcome.

Every one of those workflows runs in whichever view suits how you think: a spatial canvas for spreading shots out moodboard-style, and a Sequencer-style timeline for lining work up in order. Every deck has both - keep a planning board in one and a shot lineup in the other.

Live demo · drag the cards
⋮⋮0SHOT_010 · 3 items
⋮⋮1CineCameraActor_Kaidanpossess5.0s18 kf
Transform18 kf
⋮⋮2KeyLight_Rect_01possess5.0s9 kf
⋮⋮3Music_KaidanTheme4.2saudio
⋮⋮4
CineCameraActor_Kaidan 04:12 2 tracks
Transform
Focal Length
SQ_Kaidan_v04
KeyLight_Rect_01 04:12 1 track
Intensity
SQ_Kaidan_v04
Music_KaidanTheme 04:12 audio
Audio
SQ_Kaidan_v04
2D343C
445460
596A74
8797A0

The spatial view - cards live wherever you drop them. Go on, drag them around.

One setup per project. Cards land anywhere.

If you've ever tried copying Sequencer data from one project and pasting it into another - you know how that goes. Broken bindings. And it almost works, which is what's most frustrating. The usual fix is installing a plugin in every project. TrackDeck doesn't need one. A small reference sequence sits in each project - dropped in as a .uasset, or built by a one-time Python script - and from then on every card you've saved pastes in cleanly. The badge on the card tells you which projects will accept it.

PORTABLE

Free to take with you

Cine cameras, lights, locator transforms, MRQ render configs. Anything native to Unreal drops into any project you've set up.

PROJECT-LOCKED

Stays in this project

Whole subsequences, VFX bound to scene actors, anything referencing project-specific instances. Useful inside the project for variants, takes, and shot libraries. Doesn't travel.

Where Free and Pro split. Every card lives on the canvas in the free app - capture, plan, arrange, and copy back into the project it came from. Pasting your library into other projects is the Pro side of TrackDeck, alongside unlimited cards and decks. See pricing →

Cameras and lights. Straight to comp. Experimental

Every Scene Item card has small AE and FUSE tags on it. Click one and TrackDeck hands you compositor-ready clipboard text. No FBX. No plugin pipeline. No rebuilding by eye. Coordinate-space math and AE projection are handled.

AE

UE → After Effects

Adobe After Effects 9.0 keyframe data, ready to paste onto a 3D camera, light, or null layer.

Cine cameras & lens data
Lights (rect, point, spot, directional)
Locators & engine primitives
FUSE

UE → Fusion

Fusion node clipboard text, ready to paste onto a Fusion comp as Camera3D, Light, or Locator nodes.

Cine cameras & lens data
Lights (rect, point, spot, directional)
Locators & engine primitives

What it isn't.

Not an editor.Sequencer stays your editor. TrackDeck captures, organises, and returns your work - it doesn't try to replace the place you make it.
A card is a moment in time.Pasting captures the setup exactly as it stood in that instant. The card doesn't stay linked to your project and doesn't update when the sequence changes - it's a snapshot, not a sync.
Your project moves on.Capture a shot, keep working, and the project drifts - actors get renamed, lights get deleted, levels get reorganised. The card still pastes back exactly what it captured; reconnecting it to a scene that's changed is your call.
Project-locked data stays put.Whole subsequences and VFX bound to scene actors reference things only their own project has. They live on the canvas fine - they just won't paste anywhere else. The badge on the card tells you upfront.

One app. Starts free.

Free to download, no account, no trial clock. When you need more, a one-time licence key lifts the caps.

Free

Free forever

Just you and your shots. Capture, plan, and build your first deck.

  • Canvas + timeline views
  • Capture Sequencer work as cards
  • Frames, references, palettes, checklists - unlimited
  • Bridge to After Effects & Fusion (experimental)
  • Copy cards back into your project
  • 20 scene cards per view · one .tdeck deck
Download for Windows

Pro licence

From £25 one-time · per person

For the library that outgrew one project. Caps off, cards travel.

  • Everything in Free
  • Unlimited scene cards & decks
  • Cross-project capture and reuse
  • Paste your library into any project
  • All future modes
Indiesolo artists & studios under $100k/yr£39 £25
Studiostudios at $100k+/yr£99 £70

Each purchase is one licence for one person, across all their machines - teams pick up a key per artist. Early bird prices while in beta. Same licence, two tiers - Studio is a self-selected option for teams whose revenue lets them help underwrite development. Prices may vary by region due to local taxes at checkout.

Windows 10+ · No account · No subscription

TrackDeck is Windows-only for now. A Mac build is on the list if enough people want one - add your email and it counts as a vote.

Quick answers.

What happens when I hit the free caps?

Limits clamp, they never delete. Hitting the cap stops new scene cards being added - it never touches the work already on your canvas. Everything you build in the free app opens unchanged the moment a licence key goes in.

Is the free app a trial?

No. It's free for good - no account, no time limit. Pro is the same app with the caps lifted and cross-project reuse switched on; a licence key unlocks it in place.

Do I need a plugin in Unreal?

No - nothing to install in Unreal. TrackDeck reads Sequencer's own clipboard format: copy in Unreal, paste onto the canvas. Even pasting into other projects needs no plugin - just a small reference sequence in each project, dropped in as a .uasset or built by a one-time Python script.

Does one licence cover my whole team?

A licence is per person. One purchase gives one artist a key that works across their own machines (up to three at once) - it isn't a site or team licence. Teams pick up a key per artist, on whichever tier fits.

More questions? Read the full FAQ →

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The footage in the demos above is from Kaidan - a brutal Japanese dark-fantasy co-op game from 5th Column Studio. Go check it out and wishlist it on Steam.