Clip Sweeper reads your Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve projects and finds unused media files across timelines. Review them, then mark clips for deletion, transcoding or moving.
Free to try. Scan, preview and stage without paying. Unlock cleanup for $19.99, once.
Perpetual licence · Premiere Pro CC 2017+ · macOS 14+
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Move across any card, or just keep scrolling.Tap and drag across any card. That is the real app behaviour, on real footage.
Every file is checked against every project you imported before it can be touched.
scanning Lobby_Establishing_4K.mov 1.8 GB Hartley_Wedding.prproj ......... no timeline reference Vantor_Rebrand.prproj ......... used ×3 (Main_v9, Titles) linked After Effects ......... none protected folders ......... no match verdict KEEP · not offered for deletion
A clip has to be dead in every project before it can go.
One scan feeds all three. Click any card to bring it forward.Tap Cards, Table or Map below. Tap the shot to enlarge it.
Dailies, stringouts and sync maps touch everything you shot, so your loosest footage looks the busiest. Name a rule and that timeline stops counting. Protect rules win.
Your SFX library, LUTs and graphics packs read as unused because no timeline points at them today. Lock the folder once and nothing inside it can be staged, moved or deleted. Proxies included.
Four of the five you can walk back.
Put it back. Nothing on disk was ever touched.
Send originals to the macOS Trash, fully recoverable.
Relocate originals elsewhere, directory structure preserved.
Re-encode to HEVC in place, verified before the original is swapped.
Bypasses the Trash. Gone for good, behind a type-to-confirm.
Files land in a bin inside the app. Scrub them, read the counts, change your mind.
Your drive still looks the way it did
Checked against every project you imported and every linked comp. A conflict stops you and names it.
Catches the clip you forgot you reused
Trash, archive, transcode in place, or delete for good behind a typed confirmation. Every run is logged.
Four endings, three of them reversible
Pick the one that looks like your shelf.
One drive that never stops filling.
A drawer of half-empty SSDs after delivery.
Many editors, nobody sure what is safe to delete.
30–50% of a typical archive is unused B-roll and alternate takes
Reads linked .aep files and keeps footage used only inside a comp.
Same name in three folders, or the same bytes under two names.
Moved a drive? Point it at a folder and it reconnects the links.
Import a Usage = 0 CSV and work those clips the same way.
R3D, ARRIRAW, BRAW, DNG and MXF stay whole camera packages.
Every run is written down. Sizes, paths, what happened.
Whatever you shoot, there's always something left over. That's what this is for.
Half never touches a timeline.
Seasons pile up fast.
Shared assets tracked across the season.
Months of field footage you'll never revisit.
Old versions linger forever.
R3D, ARRIRAW, BRAW handled natively.
Scanning, previewing and staging are free with no time limit. Unlocking the cleanup actions (move, archive, transcode, delete) is a one-time $19.99 purchase. It is a perpetual licence: clean the drive, keep the software forever. No subscription, no renewal.
Never. Files go to a virtual recycle bin first. You review everything before any disk operation. Permanent deletion requires typing "DELETE" to confirm.
No. Everything runs locally on your Mac. No internet connection required.
Premiere Pro CC 2017 and later. The .prproj format has been stable across all Creative Cloud releases.
Yes, with one extra step. Resolve doesn't record timeline usage in its project file, so instead you build a Smart Bin where Usage = 0 and export that bin's metadata to a CSV (File ▸ Export Metadata From ▸ Selected Media Pool Clips). Clip Sweeper imports the CSV, finds the real files on disk, and manages them in the same safe workflow. Those clips are labelled "DaVinci CSV" rather than "Unused," since Resolve flagged them and not Clip Sweeper, so the call stays yours. There's a full walkthrough on the blog.
Mark the folder as protected and nothing inside it is ever offered for deletion, proxies included. You can also sort by file size, where small assets like sound effects and transitions separate naturally from large camera media.
Yes. SMB, NFS, AFP, and WebDAV mounts are all supported. Trash failures on network volumes are handled automatically.
Yes. R3D, ARRIRAW, BRAW, DNG, and MXF are all recognized and managed as complete camera packages.
Yes, as a signed, Apple-notarized direct download or from the Mac App Store. Both need macOS 14 or later. Windows is not available yet.
Any sequence in any project you imported, plus any linked After Effects comp. From version 2.3 you can exclude sequences by name, so dailies and stringouts stop counting as proof.
No. Clip Sweeper reads .prproj files and never writes to them. It only acts on the media files on disk, and only when you tell it to.
Re-encodes the file to HEVC in place and verifies the result before the original is swapped out. You keep the clip and get the space back. It is the one cleanup action that is not a deletion.
Restore All and Move to Trash are reversible. Move to Folder is reversible if you know where it went, and the audit log records it. Delete Permanently is not, which is why it sits behind a typed confirmation.
See what you can reclaim in under a minute. Scanning is free. The unlock is $19.99, once.
Perpetual licence · macOS 14+