The Archive Production Manager is the perfect tool for keeping track of archive & stock footage in a film project. Designed for documentaries that use a lot of archival footage, it's full of useful features for archive producers, editors and assistant editors to exchange metadata in the right form. It can create lists, render thumbnails and video previews, and also gather information about files from connected archives. It tracks the cost of licensing clips in more than 100 currencies, provides an optional storage for exchanging footage among editors, and tracks each new version from the edit bay with detailed changelog information.

We are slowly starting to roll out the tool to select productions in an early access phase. If this tool could be useful for your project, apply for Early Access and our team will get in touch with you.

Some of the features of this tool include:

• Import EDLs/XMLs directly from the edit (with archive footage)
• Version Tracking & Version History
• Detailed automatic changelog for each new version, with all relevant changes from the edit explained in detail
• Version history per clip, with precise information on which versions the clip was used in and how it developed up to the master.
• Import of markers from Frame.io and other sources which can be automatically assigned to the clips
• Automatic render of previews for each archive shot (thumbnails and video previews) from an video playout
• Automatic creation of archive lists with images
• Automatic finding of license and copyright information from linked archives, e.g. Wikimedia Commons
• Automatic search for unknown archive sources with Google Lens (optional)
• Automatic recognition of source timecodes from the image (for ordering original material)
• Merge information from ALEs, Excel CSV files, Google Spreeadsheets (existing information can be imported and exported again)
• Create ALEs with metadata (e.g. to have more search options in Premiere Pro)
• Costs in different currencies calculated at the daily exchange rate
• Cost control per clip (also in foreign currencies) and in various modes such as cost per clip usage, cost per minute, cost per second, etc.
• Export of Overlays with archive metadata for Avid Media Composer as SubCap
• Archive Footage Exchange Server
• Ability to upload files and to extract exif metadata
• Automatic rendering of editorial proxies (e.g. ProRes Proxy)
• Guided review option
• Ability to share lists (that are always up-to-date)

Integrated archives and platforms

The tool provides an integrated metadata search for a variety of archives and stock image and video platforms, allowing it to automatically search for rights, credits, descriptions and details about an image or video in your project. This speeds up the process of clearing rights and finding out where a file came from in a disorganised project.

More archives coming soon.