This manual is generated from the Help inside MediaFlowSwift (Help → MediaFlowSwift Help), so the two always say the same thing. It describes the current release.
MediaFlowSwift Manual
For video creators. This guide is generated from the app’s own Help (Help → MediaFlow Help), so the two always say the same thing. To change a sentence here, change it in Help and regenerate.
- Getting Started: What MediaFlow does for a video creator, the basic workflow from card to archive, and where to find help.
- Setup & Network: The welcome tour explains the app; the Setup Wizard then asks where your footage goes and only what follows from that, and you can skip any of it.
- Importing Media: Pick a card, drive or folder, choose the files and the camera that shot them, and copy them into your project.
- Managing Clips: Browse your media as a table with sortable columns or as a grid of thumbnail cards, and switch between them.
- Organizing Media: Copy clips into Category and Camera folders at the project destination, with every copy checksummed and verified.
- Organizing Media to Storage
- Change destination folder
- Re-check files
- Freeing Up Space
- Clear Card
- Proposals: What Import Analysis Suggests
- Using a Model to Suggest Categories
- Running a Model on This Mac
- How MediaFlow Verifies Copies
- Format Conformance Checker
- Workflow Templates
- GPS Scene Detection
- Sun Position & Shadow Continuity
- Interactive Shoot Map
- Historical Weather Lookup
- Vision (AI Scene Analysis)
- Speech Transcription
- Smart Selects
- Audio Waveform Sync
- Shot List
- Storyboard
- Import Field Notes
- Clip Classifier, Second Pass (Tier 1)
- Audio Levels
- Exposure
- Transcode
- Continuity
- Logging Scene, Shot and Take
- Video Preview & Playback: Play, pause, scrub and step frame by frame through the selected video in the preview panel.
- Batch Operations: Mark clips for thumbnail and proxy generation by adding them to the Proxy queue, and take them out again.
- Tags & Categories: Give each clip one category; the category groups your clips and names the folder Organize Media files them into.
- Shared Database: The optional shared database lets you search and track clips across projects; it is a database file or a database server.
- Shared Database Overview
- Who Else Has a Project Open
- Searching All Projects
- Finding Duplicate Files
- Migrating Projects to the Database
- Storage Dashboard
- Database File or Database Server?
- Connecting to a Database Server
- Copying Records Between the File and the Server
- Working Offline and Syncing Later
- One Mac at a Time on a Database File
- Storage Maintenance: Point missing clips at their files again, one at a time or by scanning a folder for matching names.
- Reports: Write a summary of the open project as a PDF, web page or spreadsheet, or as a hand-off file for an editor.
- Publishing: Choose your finished video, transcribe it, and get a title, description, chapters and tags. Upload the video in YouTube Studio, and MediaFlow applies…
- Project Management: Save the project file (.vpm), save it under a new name, or go back to the last saved version.
- Settings & Preferences: Two plans, Studio and Studio Pro, a 14-day trial of the full app, and what stays open when a plan ends.
- Keyboard Shortcuts: Every keyboard shortcut in MediaFlow, grouped by menu, plus the single keys used in Review and the video preview.
- Troubleshooting: A red X in the Where column means MediaFlow cannot find the file; usually a drive or share is not mounted, or the file moved.
- Clips Showing as Missing
- A Project Saved by a Newer Version
- Reporting a Problem
- Contacting Support
- Database Connection Issues
- Searching All Projects Finds Nothing
- Network Share ‘Resource Busy’ Errors
- Organize Errors on a Network Drive
- Import Not Detecting Files
- Footage in iCloud or Other Cloud Storage
- Understanding the Where Column