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Version: 2.0.7 (changelog)
Size: 37.5 MB

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"The single most useful toolkit you can have for Final Cut Studio. This is really the 'must have' set of tools if you want to ensure that you have a smooth working system."
-- Shane Ross,
Little Frog in High Def

System Requirements

  • 32- or 64-bit Intel processor
  • Mac OS X 10.6 or 10.7
  • Final Cut Pro 6.0.2 or higher, or Final Cut Express 4
  • Final Cut Pro X, Motion 5 or Compressor 4
  • Avid Media Composer 5.0 or higher for Mac
  • Adobe Premiere Pro 5.0 or higher for Mac

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Features

General

  • Growl support
  • Maintenance tasks such as trashing preferences or clearing cashes can be set to occur on a schedule
  • Hotkeys can be assigned to certain tasks
  • Maintenance and troubleshooting can be performed remotely over a network using Pro Admin

Autosave Manager

  • View all autosaves for Final Cut Pro 6 and 7, Avid Media Composer and Adobe Premiere Pro
  • Autosaves can be archived, sent to their relevant application or removed
  • Quick removal options make it easy to remove all except the last three autosaves or all autosaves older than 7 days, for example
  • Autosaves can be automatically removed or archived based on their age, file size or the total size of all autosaves for that project
  • Old autosaves that have been trashed by their parent application can be automatically removed from the trash to prevent them building up over a long project

Compressor Repair

  • Fixes common problems with Compressor
  • Can solve issues where batches won't submit

Corrupt Clip Finder

  • Searches folders and project files for corrupt and incompatible clips
  • Natively supports QuickTime movies, audio files and images
  • Support for Avid MXF files can be added with third-party add-ons such as MXF4Mac
  • Additional file formats can be supported in the preferences menu if you have installed the necessary QuickTime components to read them
  • Corrupt files can be moved to another folder (quarantined), sent to the Trash, color-coded in the Finder or sent to QT Repair or Media Salvage

Crash Analyzer

  • Analyzes crash logs for Final Cut Studio, Final Cut Pro X, Avid Media Composer and Adobe Premiere Pro
  • Each analysis is broken down into an explanation of the problem and suggested ways to resolve it
  • Crash logs can be color coded and annotated with notes
  • Growl alerts can be displayed whenever a crash occurs, showing you the cause of the problem
  • Logs can be consolidated from other users on the system
  • The error code database can be used to search for errors such as "General Error 34" and suggest ways to solve the problem
  • Logs or error messages unrecognized by Crash Analyzer can be submitted for inclusion in future versions

CS Repair

  • Fixes common problems with Adobe Premiere Pro
  • Can solve preference and permissions issues

FCS Remover

  • Removes Final Cut Studio, Final Cut Pro X, Final Cut Express and Final Cut Server
  • Each component can be removed individually
  • A list of files to be removed is shown before removal takes place, allowing you to uncheck any you want to keep
  • Files are placed in the trash within their original folder structure, allowing you to see where the file came from and where to restore it to if necessary

Housekeeper

  • Trashes various caches to keep your editing applications running smoothly
  • Supports Final Cut Studio, Final Cut Pro X, Avid Media Composer, Adobe Premiere and certain system caches

MC Repair

  • Fixes common problems with Avid Media Composer
  • Checks for permissions issues
  • Optimizes QuickTime settings to improve the display of PAL DV files
  • Can trash Avid Unity lock files which prevent access to bins when a system using the bin crashes

Media Salvage

  • Extracts video and audio data from corrupt QuickTime movies and places it into a new file
  • Supported video formats: DV, DVCPRO50, Motion JPEG A, DVCPRO HD, Apple Intermediate Codec (AIC), ProRes 422, ProRes 422 HQ, ProRes LT, ProRes Proxy, ProRes 4444
  • Supported audio formats: 16-bit linear PCM - 44.1 kHz and 48 kHz, Big and Little Endian, Mono and Stereo
  • Presets for common formats exist but resolution and frame rate can be specified manually
  • Settings can be imported from another file that is not corrupt
  • Droplets can be created to speed up workflows

Path Manager

  • Shows an overview of all scratch and content paths for Final Cut Studio and Adobe Premiere Pro
  • Paths can be easily moved to another drive and the content can optionally be moved with it
  • Paths can be easily reset to their defaults
  • The search function can automatically locate content directories (such as Motion's library folder)
  • Paths can be locked which prevents them being modified in Path Manager and causes them to be highlighted if another application changes them

Plugin Manager

  • Manage plugins for Final Cut Studio, Final Cut Pro X, Avid Media Composer and Adobe Premiere Pro
  • Simplifies plugin management by making the physical location of the files on disk invisible to users
  • Plugins can be grouped together, even if they are different types of plugins or belong to different applications
  • Plugins can be enabled, disabled or removed
  • Final Cut Studio plugins can be made available to all users on the system or just the current user
  • Easily install plugins by dragging them into the Plugin Manager window. Plugin Manager will detect the plugin type and automatically copy it to the correct location
  • Find incompatible plugins by highlighting non-Universal plugins that don't match your current system architecture
  • Plugins can be filtered by host application
  • Validate Audio Units to find problems
  • Crash Tester can find plugins that are preventing Final Cut Pro from launching

Preference Manager

  • Trash, backup, lock and restore user preferences for Final Cut Studio, Final Cut Pro X, Avid Media Composer and Adobe Premiere Pro
  • Locking prevents preferences from being modified and can be useful for preventing corruption or making sure users don't change settings
  • Backed-up files can be selectively restored
  • Preferences can be autosaved periodically
  • Projects can be linked to backups so that the backup automatically restores when the project is launched from the Finder
  • Avid settings can be backed up and restored on a per-user basis

Project Repair

  • Repairs corrupt metadata on Final Cut Pro projects that can prevent them from launching
  • Can fix corrupt Final Cut Pro X project and event databases
  • Can fix corrupt Adobe Premiere Pro projects

QT Repair

  • Repairs corrupt QuickTime movies
  • Fixes invalid CLUT IDs, which can cause movies to crash Final Cut Pro but not QuickTime Player
  • Can remove edits, allowing you to access media that you accidentally trimmed in QuickTime Player that still remains in the file
  • Can rebuild movies by injecting data from the corrupt movie into another movie with a similar structure

QuickFix

  • Performs common troubleshooting tasks with just one button press, allowing you to get back to work quicker than ever. This should be your first port of call when things go wrong.

System Toolkit

  • Tools for tweaking and optimizing your system
  • Clears caches and rebuilds databases
  • Perform disk scans
  • View and disable QuickTime components
  • Streamline applications by removing unused architectures and languages
  • Unlock hidden OS X functions

XML Repair

  • Repairs Final Cut Pro XML files
  • Repairs Final Cut Pro X XML files
  • Checks the structure of the files and removes or escapes illegal characters
  • Can convert from one Final Cut Pro XMEML version to another