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Guides
How to keep footage you can find again
Written for people who shoot more than they archive. Each one works whether or not you use Bredo.
How to organise video footage on a Mac
A filing system that survives ten years and four drives.
Cataloguing external drives
Know what is on a drive without plugging it in.
Before you erase a card
What a checksum copy proves, and what it does not.
An offload workflow for one person
Card to every drive to edit, without a DIT.
Finding footage you shot years ago
When you remember the shot but not the folder.
Going through footage and picking selects
Once through, one decision per clip, an hour rather than an afternoon.
Getting clips into Final Cut or Premiere
Selections, favourites and timecode that line up.
Handing footage to an editor
One folder that opens on their Mac without relinking.
What to use instead of Kyno
Its five jobs, and what covers each of them now.
Bredo does the filing part for you
Footage comes in from a card or a drive, gets checked and filed by date and shoot, and stays visible even when the drive is on a shelf.