Reveal amount of footage from particular bin in FCP sequence

Hi all,
I am trying to figure out a way to see how much (and which) material from a particular bin is in my sequence. The thing is, we're working with old 16mm material in our montage and for rights clearing we need to know which clip and for how long it is in the sequence. Does anybody had experience with these kind of functions? I can imagine there is a way to select a bin with al the 16mm material and reveal it in the front sequence. I however can't fin a way to do it,
any help would be wonderful,
thanks in advance Jan-David

Typically what you use to track the amount of footage used is an EDL. Look at all the clips with the certain REEL number you assigned the footage, or the clip name, and the EDL will show you the IN and OUTs of that footage.
That is free.
If you want to spend a little money and have a better way to do this, get Sequence Clip Reporter from Intelligent Assistance:
http://assistedediting.intelligentassistance.com/SequenceClipReporter/
And export an XML and import it into this app. It is much cleaner and easier to read.

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