FINDABYTE01 / CHECK
Add the project.
Drop in a Premiere Pro, After Effects or Final Cut Pro project, and the folder everything should live in. No folder? Findabyte works out the most likely one.
EDIT / ASSETS / MAC
Nothing left
behind.
See where every asset in a Premiere Pro, After Effects or Final Cut Pro project lives. Find media saved on the Desktop, in Downloads or on drives that won’t be there when the project moves. Then collect it.
No account. No analytics. No upload.
Explore the workflowFrom project to collected.
02 / SEE
Find the strays.
See the percentage of assets in the folder, by count and by size, every location they come from, and what needs attention.
03 / COLLECT
Bring it together.
Copy the strays into one place. Nothing is overwritten or deleted, every copy is verified, and a report records where each file went.
Every location, in plain sight.
Made for editors, motion designers and post-production teams moving jobs to a server, a shuttle drive or the cloud.
What it does.
THE STATUSES
In folder
Inside the main folder.
Elsewhere
On another drive, server or project folder, or in a cloud-synced folder. Probably deliberate, but it won’t travel with the project.
Risky
On the Desktop, in Downloads, loose in Documents, in the Trash, in iCloud Drive or in a temporary folder.
Missing
Not found. If it was on a drive that isn’t connected, Findabyte names the drive, for example “Drive not connected: SHOOT_SSD_B”.
No access
macOS hasn’t let Findabyte look there yet. Allow access and rescan.
SEE WHERE EVERYTHING IS
Folders view
Every location, with counts, sizes and a status bar. Double-click a folder to see its assets.
All Assets
Everything, most problematic first. Sort by largest, name or location. Search names and paths, and filter by status.
Asset details
Quick Look with the space bar, Reveal in Finder and Copy Path.
Main folder
Right-click any folder and choose “Use as Main Folder” or “Collect Everything Into This Folder”.
Image sequences
Counted and collected frame by frame.
Render and preview files
Render, preview and proxy files, such as Premiere’s Video Previews, are kept separate and hidden until you switch them on.
COLLECT THE STRAYS
What to copy
Only the assets outside the folder, or the whole project, to any destination.
Three layouts
All in one folder, keep each file’s enclosing folder, or keep the full folder structure.
Extras
Optionally include render files and a copy of the project file with its version number bumped, for example _v07 to _v08.
Safe by design
Collect never overwrites or deletes. Identical files already at the destination are skipped, free space is checked first and every copy is verified.
Collection report
Each collect writes COLLECTION_REPORT.csv, listing where every file went.
Relinked Premiere Pro copy
The project copy points at the collected files, so it opens already connected. The original project is never changed.
Sessions and CSV
Save a scan as a .findabyte session and reopen it later to review or collect. Export the full asset list as CSV.
Works with.
Premiere Pro
.prproj
Scan, collect and a relinked project copy.
After Effects
.aep .aepx
Scan and collect. Relink the copy in After Effects.
Final Cut Pro (exports)
.fcpxml .fcpxmld
Scan and collect only for now. Relink in Final Cut.
Final Cut Pro (libraries)
.fcpbundle
Best effort. Exporting an FCPXML (File › Export XML) gives the complete list.
“Assets” means everything the project has imported: video, audio, music, stills, graphics (PSD, AI, PDF, EPS), nested projects and 3D files. It includes items not used on a timeline, the same as Premiere’s Project Manager and After Effects’ Collect Files.
Local by design.
No account, no analytics, no advertising and no third-party SDKs. Findabyte has no network access at all. It reads your project file and the names, sizes and locations of its media on your Mac, only copies files when you choose Collect, and never edits your original project.
macOS lets Findabyte see that files exist and how big they are, so the colours and percentages are always right. To preview or copy a file it needs your permission: drop a folder in, choose a destination, or use “Allow Access…” to grant a whole drive.
Read the guide