Adding footage

Drag the shoot folder onto the window. The app goes inside and finds every camera folder and every recorder take by itself.

The empty window with the Drop footage here area and the Import files or folders button — An empty project. You can drop onto any part of the window, not only into the frame.

Three ways

Drag the shoot folder. The simplest and the most correct way.
Drag separate folders or files. When you only need part of the shoot.
The Import files or folders button. A system dialog where you can pick both files and folders, several at once.

What happens right after

Loading footage… appears at the bottom, and a moment later the clips lie down on the timeline from the start, in a dimmed colour. This is not the sync yet, only a look at what came in. The status bar counts it:

The count before the sync: 209 clips · 5 cam · 1 rec, ready to sync — 209 clips · 5 cam · 1 rec. If you expected six cameras and it says five, a folder is missing.

The same line may say timecode on 3 devices (140 clips) if some devices have usable timecode, or no usable timecode, going by sound if they do not. Files with no audio track are counted separately: 15 with no audio track.

Footage loaded, the clips sit from the start of the timeline, the Sync button is active — The footage is in and the Sync button is active. The clips still sit from the start.

Adding more

You can drop folders one at a time, as many times as you like, even on top of a finished sync: Drop to add more footage appears above the timeline. What is already loaded is not read again, the new material queues up. After adding, press Sync again.

Messages during import

Message	What happened
No supported media in that drop	What you dropped has no video or audio file in a supported format.
Nothing new to import from that drop	Everything in that folder was already loaded.
Skipped 2 duplicate/nested paths	You dropped a folder together with its subfolder, or the same folder twice. Nothing was doubled.
Skipped 1 empty (0-byte) file	A file of zero size: a half-copied card or a recording still in progress.
Skipped 3 proxy files	An editor proxy next to the original. The original was taken.
A folder spans multiple days	More than ten hours in a camera folder: it looks like two shooting days. Better to split them by day and drop them separately.
2 file(s) couldn't be read	The files could not be read. Check whether they are damaged.