Guides
Short, practical answers to the questions that come up when you move footage off a card on a Mac. Each one tells you what MediaFlowSwift does, and where it stops.
Before you erase a card
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Is It Safe to Erase Your Card After Importing on a Mac? Checksums, not playback, prove a copy is safe. What gets checked, and what never does.
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How to Keep Two Checked Copies of a Memory Card on a Mac Import and organize to your working drive, then archive to a second. Two checked copies, made one after the other.
When something looks wrong
- Footage Missing After Moving to an External Drive? Your clips aren’t lost. Library Moved repoints every project, and checks each file before it changes anything.
Keeping a shelf of drives straight
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How to Automate Video File Organization on Your Mac Category and Camera folders, sorted every time, with Workflow Templates to chain the routine into one command.
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How to Label and Catalog Your Archive Drives for Video Every archive drive gets a number, and the app keeps the record of what went where.
Reviewing, finding and handing off footage
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How to Review Footage and Pick Your Selects on a Mac Rapid Review plays, rates and rejects clips by keyboard. Smart Selects scores each one first.
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How to Find a Clip by What Was Said in It on a Mac Transcribe your footage on-device, then search every transcript at once for a word or phrase.
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How to Create a Dailies Report and a Hand-Off File A by-day report for a director to read, and a separate export for your editor’s software.
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How to Find Where Each Clip in Your Project Was Filmed The Shoot Map pins every clip with GPS data by location, clustered and clickable.
Publishing to YouTube
- How to Write Your YouTube Title, Chapters and Tags Transcribe your finished video and draft a title, description, chapters and tags from it, then edit and publish them yourself.
Looking for how a particular window works? That’s the manual. Stuck on something not covered here? Support.
Want to try it? Download MediaFlowSwift — the full app runs for 14 days with no card asked for, on macOS 14 or later with Apple silicon.