Clip Sweeper

Reclaim your editing drives. Clip Sweeper analyzes your Adobe Premiere Pro projects and shows you exactly which media files are unused so you can delete what you never cut with, and keep everything you did.

A refined look and two new ways to see your footage:
• Card view — scrub each clip right in the app and decide at a glance whether it's worth keeping.
• Map view — a storage map that sizes every clip by how much space it eats, so you can zero in on the projects that were your biggest space-sucking culprits.

TRANSCODE AND REPLACE
Not sure you're ready to sweep up? Trim down instead.
• Add files to your virtual bin and choose Transcode and Replace.
• Clip Sweeper turns heavy original camera files into lightweight HEVC, the same clip at a fraction of the size, using your Mac's hardware encoder.

DAVINCI RESOLVE SUPPORT
Cut in Resolve? Clip Sweeper cleans up after it too.
• In Resolve, make a Smart Bin where Usage = 0.
• Export that unused media list as a CSV and drop it into Clip Sweeper to review and sweep.

HOW IT WORKS
Drag in one or more .prproj files and Clip Sweeper parses every timeline, sequence, and nested sequence — including merged and synced clips — to work out what's actually in use and what's just taking up space. You get a sortable, filterable table of every media file in your projects, with thumbnails, file sizes, status, and storage locations.

We all have archived projects from six years ago we just can't bring ourselves to delete. So let's compromise and delete only what we didn't use.
Add unused files to a virtual recycle bin, review them, and choose how to handle them: move to Trash, permanently delete, or relocate to another folder. Nothing on your drives is touched until you confirm, every action is written to an audit log, and any folder you mark as Protected is never touched so there's no chance of a mistake.

MULTI-PROJECT AWARENESS
Working across multiple Premiere projects that share a media pool? Clip Sweeper aggregates usage across every imported project. A file that looks unused in one project but is on another's timeline is correctly flagged as used. It consolidates duplicate entries when the same physical file is referenced at different paths, and it errs on the side of caution, anything it isn't certain about is held back from one-click cleanup rather than offered for deletion.

SMART SEARCH FOR OFFLINE MEDIA
Move a finished project to your archive drive or NAS and the next project opens with its media offline. Clip Sweeper flags those files and uses a path-aware Smart Search to automatically reconnect them.

FEATURES
• Import and analyze multiple .prproj files at once
• Three views: a sortable table, scrubbable cards, and a storage map
• Sortable columns - thumbnail, file size, usage count, project names, storage type
• Filter by unused, online, audio-only, duplicates, or large files
• Hide the "assets" you import into every project, SFX, transitions, graphics, with one click
• Text search across filenames and folder paths
• Virtual recycle bin with review before you commit
• Move to Trash, permanently delete, or relocate to a folder
• Protected Folders that are never touched by any destructive action
• Transcode and Replace unused camera files into lightweight HEVC
• DaVinci Resolve CSV import
• Duplicate detection with partial content hashing
• Filmstrip preview with timeline scrubbing, plus image and audio previews
• Network and cloud storage detection
• RED R3D support with .RDC container handling
• CSV export of unused file lists
• All-time statistics with a shareable stats card
• Full audit log of every delete, move, and restore

Clip Sweeper handles the real-world mess of professional post: media spread across local drives, network storage, and the cloud. It reads both macOS and Windows paths embedded in project files, gracefully handles offline volumes and proxy workflows, and runs safely inside the Mac sandbox.