For video editors with a drawer full of drives

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The editor’s drive problem

You know the clip exists. You even remember roughly when you shot it. What you do not remember is which of the thirty drives it landed on — so you plug them in, one by one, waiting for each to spin up.

Search by clip name, across every drive

Camera clip names are unique and searchable: A001_C004 finds the R3D original, the proxy on the SSD and the XML on the backup drive in one search. Where’s My Drive indexes every file name on each drive, so the clip is one query away — with the drive unplugged.

A workflow that fits a real edit

1. Ingest day: offload cards to the RAW drive, scan it, stick its QR label.
2. Proxies: scan the proxy SSD too — search now finds both.
3. Delivery: add a note on the drive: “final grade in /Edits, v7 approved”.
4. Archive: set the drive to archive, move it to the shelf. Rescan only if it changes.

Working with assistants and freelancers

Your assistant needs to find drives, not manage your account. Give them the team PIN: they scan any sticker with their phone and browse read-only. Change the PIN when the job ends.

Subtitles without uploading client footage

Need captions in a language Premiere does not support, or footage that must stay offline? Our sister plugin CaptionLab runs Whisper inside Premiere Pro, in 99 languages, fully on your machine.

Labels that survive a location

For drives that travel, use a tough label — a small thermal label printer prints one in seconds, and the NIIMBOT B21 takes the 50×30 mm labels our stickers are built for.

Frequently asked questions