Powerful features. Professional workflow.
DriveIndex lives quietly in your menu bar — indexing your drives, extracting metadata, and making your media searchable. Whether you're managing ARRI cinema cameras, RED R3D files, Sony footage, Blackmagic RAW, or photo RAW files, DriveIndex organizes everything.
Core Features
Everything you need to manage and search your media drives efficiently.
Fast Search
Instantly search across all indexed drives with powerful filtering and metadata-based queries. Find files by camera make and model, lens, resolution, codec, or any metadata field. Search works even when drives are disconnected.
Metadata Extraction
Advanced metadata extraction from ARRI ARI/ARX, RED R3D, Sony MXF, Blackmagic RAW (BRAW), Canon, Nikon, and 30+ professional camera formats. Extract camera settings, lens information, codec details, and technical specifications automatically.
Drive Management
Organize and track your drives with custom labels, tags, and indexing codes for easy identification. Monitor drive capacity and file counts.
Background Indexing
Index drives in the background without interrupting your workflow. Resume indexing automatically when drives are reconnected.
Professional Formats
Native support for ARRI .ari/.arx, RED .r3d, Sony .mxf, Blackmagic .braw, Canon C-series, and standard media files (MOV, MP4, AVI, MKV). Includes 30+ camera RAW formats (CR2, CR3, NEF, ARW, DNG). Comprehensive format coverage for professional video production and photography workflows.
Thumbnail Preview
Visual previews of your media files with intelligent thumbnail caching for quick browsing. See your content at a glance.
Built for creative professionals
Whether you're shooting ARRI, RED, Sony, or Blackmagic, managing photo libraries, or organizing video archives, DriveIndex adapts to your workflow.
Filmmakers & Cinematographers
Manage ARRI, RED R3D, Sony, and Blackmagic RAW footage across dozens of drives. Search by camera body, lens, resolution, and frame rate. Keep track of which drive contains specific takes or scenes without connecting each drive.
Video Editors & Post-Production
Index client drives before returning them. Search archived projects instantly by codec, resolution, or camera make/model. Find that specific clip across years of backup drives in seconds.
Photographers & Photo Studios
Catalog wedding shoots, commercial sessions, and portrait archives. Search Canon CR2/CR3, Nikon NEF, Sony ARW, and 30+ RAW formats. Filter by camera body, lens, ISO, aperture, or shoot date.
Production Companies & Studios
Manage hundreds of external drives across multiple projects. Print QR labels for physical organization. Let crew members search the entire library from their iPhones without digging through shelves of drives.
Archives & Libraries
Digitize and index legacy media collections. Maintain searchable catalogs of historical footage. Access comprehensive metadata without handling fragile physical media or mounting old drives repeatedly.
Freelancers & Content Creators
Track client deliverables across backup drives. Search YouTube video archives by title, description, or metadata. Find specific b-roll or stock footage from years of shoots without manual searching.
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