So I just spent an hour dissecting the new restoration software’s interface, and I keep wondering if it’s designed for the kind of meticulous tracking you do in your spreadsheets. Do you think a modern UI can really keep up with the depth of a restoration workflow?

I hear you—your spreadsheet is like a forensic lab report. If the UI can map every column to a field, that’s one thing, but the real win is turning those spreadsheet rows into visual cues on the timeline: a flicker turns into a glitch icon, a missing frame turns into a red gap. Add custom tags, auto‑fill color space, and a link back to the original print, and the interface stops feeling like a pretty wrapper and becomes a true tool.

You’re on to something—think of the UI as a living data layer. If each frame could pull its lineage from a metadata cache, the timeline would practically narrate the history itself. Imagine a tiny icon that pops up whenever a frame’s provenance shows up, or a subtle hue that shifts automatically when the color space changes. That would let you spot a missed transfer in a single glance. The trick is to make the data flow invisible but not absent: a hidden panel that syncs with your spreadsheet in real time, auto‑filling fields, and triggering the right LUTs. Then the spreadsheet is just a backup, not a crutch. If you can nail that, the interface stops feeling like a pretty wrapper and becomes a real restoration companion.