Media Organizer
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Add storage drives, folders and camera cards, and Media Organizer lists every recording on them in one library. Drives that are not connected stay listed and searchable, with the date they were last seen, so you know which drive to fetch before you fetch it.
A scan reads each file's name, folder, size, dates and what it reports about the camera and the recording. It never renames, moves, converts or deletes anything. Files appear as they are found, and a scan you pause, or that stops when you close the app, carries on where it left off.
Adding a drive, Media Organizer first shows what is on it, folder by folder, with your footage ticked and programs, games, caches and music left out, so you choose what comes in before anything does. Your footage and the files next to it come in; program files, system folders and software projects stay on the drive. The drive's right-click menu shows what was left out, where you can see those files and take any of them in with one click.
Search file names, folders and tags, on one drive or all of them. Filter by recording date, camera, file type, picture size or tag. Sort by any column, drag columns into your order and hide the ones you do not need. Tag selected files, and edit Shoot, Scene, Shot, Take and Roll as recording fields in the main browser or the review opened from a camera card. Corrections survive rescanning.
Each recording is listed once, with small icons for its preview, thumbnail, GPS log and how many other drives hold a copy, amber when a copy is missing some of its files; hover to see which, and where. A preview or log whose video is missing is marked, and one filter lists them all.
Give each of your cameras a name of its own, such as "Helmet X4" or "Sorin's ZS200", even two of the same model. A card asks once which camera body it was in, and its files are filed under that name in the library, your folders, edit packs and DaVinci Resolve. Change it for some files in the browser, or rename a body on all its footage in Settings › Camera bodies. Metadata shows the sources behind module-decided values.
Thumbnails are made in the background and kept, so they still show when the drive is disconnected. Insta360 recordings show the stitched panorama the camera stores inside the file.
Press Space or Play and the selected video plays in the Details pane, 360 recordings with look-around, using the TLW 360 viewer that comes with Two Left Wheels 360. When its drive is away, a copy on a connected drive plays.
Manufacturer rules keep a recording's original parts, proxy, thumbnail and sidecars together. Declared card relationships can cross folders, such as Sony clips and their proxies. Mixed cards retain valid file relationships without borrowing camera identity across the card.
When an Insta360 X4-family camera loses power or crashes while recording, the file cannot be opened. Media Organizer labels such files when it scans (once you turn it on) and repairs them into a new file next to the original, named with -repaired, with their proxy and other sidecars copied beside it. The original is never changed, and nothing is written to a camera card: files on a card are repaired after they are copied off it. A repaired recording stitches and plays with its sound in Insta360 Studio, but cannot be stabilised, because the motion data is written only when the camera stops.
Insert a card and one window shows what is on it, reads it, asks which of your camera bodies it was in, offering the ones you named, and lets you label its recordings and copy them. The card is listed in the Library while it is in the reader, with Ingest beside it until everything is copied. Several cards wait their turn in one window. A card you take out and put back unchanged is back at once, without being read again. Each copy off a card is kept under Card ingestions, with the day, the card's label and where every file went, long after the card is formatted, and can be opened as a read-only drive for the camera maker's program.
Insert a camera card, say which of your cameras it was in, and press Run: the window says what is only on the card and copies it to your storage drives, as many copies as you want, filling the drives with most free space or in your order. A card no drive can hold whole is split across drives by itself, and when room is short one copy of everything comes first. Only what needs you is shown: values your folder structure needs, damaged recordings. Change drives for one card, or choose what to copy, under Options, in place. The card's own files, such as its camera's index files, are kept with the copy unless you say otherwise. Files go straight into your folder structure, by default year, day, camera and card label, and a name already taken there is numbered, the whole recording alike.
Choose one base folder and folder structure in Settings › Folders on your drives using recording dates, camera, card label, media type, Shoot, Scene, Shot, Take and Roll. Every destination uses the same base, with Media for organized files and Ingestions for card preservation. Recordings missing a value your folders use open in the browser to fill in. Tags remain separate. Changes affect future copies; existing files and ingestion references keep their locations.
While a card is in, files that exist only on the card are shown in their own colour, a line above the file list says how many there are, and the card's line in the library gives the same count.
Media Organizer tells you when everything on a card is copied the way you asked. It never formats a card itself: you do that in the camera, when it says it is safe.
Choose how many copies of your videos, photos and audio there must be, each on a different drive, and the order your storage drives receive new copies in: most free space first, or an order you set. Existing copies count wherever you put them on your Media Organizer storage drives.
One window that shows how your library stands: your drives with their space and when each was last connected, the recordings that have fewer copies than your rule asks or more, the files outside your library's folders, the photos and videos with no camera, and what is only on a card in the reader. Every number opens those files, and every finding has a button to the tool that deals with it.
Media Organizer plans where the missing copies go across all your drives, connected or not, using their room, and reads from the drives that save you plugging in the most. Copies go into your library's folders, numbered when a name is already taken. It lists the copies drive to drive, says which drives each step needs and, when your drives are full, how big a drive to add. Nothing is copied until you press Run; copies for a drive that is not connected wait for it.
Finds recordings a drive holds more than once, by their contents, and keeps one copy per drive, choosing it by the names your other drives use, the recording time and the original name; what no rule settles is asked by folder, a step at a time. It also brings recordings your drives hold more often than your copy rule asks down to that number, freeing the fullest drives and leaving working copies alone. The extra copies move aside into one folder per drive, after a byte-for-byte check; you delete them when you are sure.
Taking a drive out of use, Media Organizer plans the copies that keep everything on it as safe as your copies rule asks, on your other drives. A failing drive is read only for what no other drive has, and the plan says when the drive can be removed.
Copying and moving keep each file's original created and modified times, and check them afterwards. An existing file is never overwritten, and a copy interrupted by a disconnected drive or a closed app continues safely later. A checked copy shows its original's recording time, camera, your corrections and thumbnail at once, without its metadata being read again.
Save the steps you repeat, such as copy the card to two drives, convert the Insta360 files, then move the originals on the card into a Copied folder. Preview what a workflow will write, then run it. Workflows never start by themselves.
Scans, copies, workflows and edit pack preparation show their progress in the Activity panel. Work can be paused and resumed, survives closing the app, and waits for a disconnected drive instead of failing. The bar at the bottom names the drives to connect, the ones to keep connected and the ones you can unplug, and ejects a drive that can come out with one click.
Eject a card or USB drive from its menu in the library. Media Organizer waits for a copy to finish rather than cutting it short, and says which program is holding the drive when Windows refuses.
Collect the recordings for one edit, from any drive or search, into an edit pack. Preparing the edit pack gives every file a permanent name with its date, time and camera, and copies into your library on a fast drive only the files on drives you have not marked as fast enough to edit from, where they count as copies like any other. Each edit pack has its own edit folder, in an Editing folder in your Videos folder unless you choose another, and that is the folder you open in your editor.
Every prepared edit pack’s files are served by one read-only drive from wherever they are, and appear in the Media folder of the edit pack’s edit folder. Its names never change, so an edit pack still opens months later, without relinking.
Media Organizer starts DaVinci Resolve, creates the project and imports the clips from the edit folder into bins by folder, date or camera, or adds them to a Resolve project you made yourself. It fills in each clip's camera, scene, take, recording date and start timecode where they are empty, also for clips you moved to another bin, and never deletes anything in Resolve.
Insta360 X-series recordings can be converted to stitched MP4 files while an edit pack is prepared, or by a workflow, using Two Left Wheels 360 installed separately. Each output is checked before it is used.
Everything you can do in the app, an AI agent or script on your computer can do too, through documented requests, with the same checks and the same care for your files. No cloud account or AI service is built in. An agent can preview camera-rule decisions from a scanned card, including their source files and trial customisations, without changing your library.
The first time you open Media Organizer, two steps set it up: how many copies of your footage you want, then which drives hold footage you already have and which can store new footage, each with a label you write on the drive. Nothing is added or read until you press Done, and you can leave and pick up where you stopped.
A tour lights up the parts of the main window one at a time, says what each is for in the words of its own help, and lets you try the part it lights. Open it again from the Help menu.
Sort a drive into new folders outside Media Organizer and every moved file keeps its tags, edit packs, fields and metadata, even if the scan was interrupted. Renamed files are recognised by their content fingerprint. Removing a missing file offers to move its tags to its copy on the same drive.
These capabilities are on the product roadmap.
A guided first run that looks at your drives, suggests how to organise them and says why, drive by drive, while leaving your own layout alone if you prefer it.
Import photos and videos from Android phones and iPhones connected over USB, with their original dates.
Review the recording times of new files once, and correct a camera whose clock was wrong, keeping the time read from the file beside your correction.
Let Media Organizer put your recordings into the folder layout you choose, on the drives where you want that, and leave the others as they are.
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