v2.x Digital Rebellion Pro Maintenance Tools

Pro Maintenance Tools Includes

Autosave Manager

• Flexible autosave management offering automatic archival or removal based on criteria including age and file size.
• Supports Final Cut Studio, Avid Media Composer, Avid Symphony and Adobe Premiere Pro

Compressor Repair

• Repairs the fragile link between Compressor and Qmaster.
• Supports Final Cut Studio and Final Cut Pro X

Corrupt Clip Finder

• Automatically locates corrupt clips in a project, saving hours of manual reconnecting. Supports Avid MXF with a third-party plugin such as MXF4Mac.

Crash Analyzer

• Analyzes your editing application crash logs, attempts to diagnose the cause of the crash and suggests ways to solve the problem.

CS Repair

• Fixes common problems with Adobe Premiere Pro.

FCS Remover

• Removes Final Cut Studio, Final Cut Pro X, Express and Server. Can remove the entire suite or individual applications.

Housekeeper

• Trashes various caches and temporary files to keep your editing application in peak operating condition. Housekeeper is even more useful when used in conjunction with Task Scheduler to run these tasks automatically.

MC Repair

• Fixes common problems with Avid Media Composer and Symphony.

Media Salvage

• Extracts video and audio data from corrupt movie clips and places it into a new file.

Path Manager

• Manages the locations of scratch and content directories on your system. It can inform you if the extra content that ships with Final Cut Studio is missing or invalid and allow you to easily move and synchronize content.

Plugin Manager

• Allows you to quickly and easily organize your editing system plugins. You can group them together, install new plugins and selectively enable and disable them – all without having to worry about where the plugins are physically located on disk.

Preference Manager

• Manages Final Cut Studio, Final Cut Pro X, Avid Media Composer and Adobe Premiere Pro preference files. Allows you to trash, backup, lock and restore preferences. Can also be configured to restore a particular set of preferences before a certain Final Cut Pro project is launched for per-project settings.

Project Repair

• Attempts to repair non-launching Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere and FCPX projects and events so that they can be opened again.

QT Repair

• Verifies, repairs and rebuilds the structure of QuickTime movies. Also repairs invalid CLUT IDs and restore trimmed media. For more heavily damaged files, it can insert frames from the damaged file into the structure of a working file.

QuickFix

• Performs common troubleshooting tasks with just one button press, allowing you to get back to work quicker than ever. This should be your first port of call when things go wrong.

System Toolkit

• Numerous tools for tweaking and optimizing your system.

XML Repair

• Repairs invalid Final Cut Pro XML files and can convert XML files to different XMEML versions for compatibility with earlier versions of Final Cut Pro.

• macOS 10.13 or higher
• Adobe Premiere Pro CC / CS5 or higher
• Avid Media Composer 5 or higher
• Final Cut Pro X 10.1 or higher
• Final Cut Studio 2 (FCP 6) or higher

Pro Maintenance Tools 2.4.4 – May 27 2024

• Plugin Manager – More user-friendly error messages if notarizing a plugin installer fails
• Updated Crash Analyzer definitions
• Minor bug fixes, tweaks and optimizations

Pro Maintenance Tools 2.4.1 – Apr 22 2022

• Compressor Repair – Improved permissions checking for Compressor 4.x
• Preference Manager – Improved compatibility with Adobe Creative Cloud 2022
• Plugin Manager – Improved support for creating installers for large plugin bundles
• Media Salvage – Fixed an issue where it was possible to select the wrong codec
• System Toolkit – Fixed an issue where non-movie types could be associated with QuickTime Player
• System Toolkit – Various code modernizations
• General bug fixes, tweaks, and optimizations

Changes in Pro Maintenance Tools 2.3.1 – March 2020

• Improved compatibility with macOS 10.15 Catalina
• Plugin Manager Installers – Improved compatibility with Apple’s new notarization requirements
• Plugin Manager Installers – Better handling of notarization errors, including the option to easily see the notarization log
• Stability improvements
• General bug fixes, tweaks, and optimizations

Pro Maintenance Tools 2.3 – Nov 6, 2019

• macOS 10.15 Catalina compatibility
• Dark Mode support
• Migrated away from QuickTime to AV Foundation – this means that older/third-party codecs are no longer supported by Corrupt Clip Finder and Media Salvage
• Plugin Manager – Support for notarizing installers for macOS 10.15 Catalina – please recreate your existing installers
• Various bug fixes and code modernizations

Pro Maintenance Tools 2.2.7 – Aug 8 2019

• Corrupt Clip Finder – Fixed an issue where some files might get erroneously flagged up
• Plugin Manager – Better support for running installer scripts that take a while or require user input
• Updated Crash Analyzer definitions
• Minor bug fixes, tweaks and optimizations

Pro Maintenance Tools 2.2.6 – September 18, 2018

Downgrade Adobe Premiere projects and run scripts inside plugin installers

We recently released Pro Maintenance Tools 2.2.6 with some great new features.

Downgrade Adobe Premiere projects

Project Repair can now downgrade Adobe Premiere projects so they can be opened in earlier versions of Premiere. After downgrading the project, Premiere will report that it was saved in an earlier version and asks you to save a copy. After doing this, the project will now be openable by Premiere.

If you use Premiere features not supported in earlier versions they will of course not work in the earlier version, so be aware of this as Adobe has recently made major changes to features like the titler.

Run scripts inside plugin installers

Plugin Manager can create installers for plugins. This is not just useful for plugin developers to distribute their plugins but can also be an easy way of backing up your plugins or moving them to another computer.

You can now run scripts both before and after installing the files in order to perform additional tasks like running a licensing step, copying or moving files or launching a web page. You can run Applescripts, Bash scripts or Swift scripts (note that some Swift scripts may not work on earlier versions of macOS). The scripts must return 0 otherwise Plugin Manager will abort the installation, which is useful in situations where you want to stop installation if a license or security check fails.

Pro Maintenance Tools 2.2.5 – May 15, 2018

• Housekeeper – Support for clearing the Avid App Manager cache
• Replaced Growl with native Notification Center alerts
• Corrupt Clip Finder – Ignore Large Images defaults to on in prefs
• Corrupt Clip Finder – Fixed an issue where aborting a scan may not work correctly
• Media Salvage – Fixed an issue where aborting a salvage may not work correctly
• Plugin Manager – Fixed an issue where Motion transitions may not be displayed in the list
• General bug fixes, tweaks, and optimizations

Changes in Pro Maintenance Tools 2.2.4

• Project Repair can now resolve issues caused by locked FCPX events
• Autosave Manager stability improvements
• Updated Crash Analyzer definitions
• General bug fixes, tweaks, and optimizations

Changes in Pro Maintenance Tools 2.2.1

• Salvage ProRes 4444 XQ – Media Salvage can now repair files encoded with the ProRes 4444 XQ codec.
• Manage VST2 and VST3 plugins – Plugin Manager can now install, remove, enable and disable VST2 and VST3 audio plug-ins used by popular DAWs.
• Crash Analyzer – Improved support for Avid
• QT Repair – Stability improvements
• Plugin Manager – Stability improvements when verifying Audio Units
• Updated Crash Analyzer definitions
• Various other bug fixes, tweaks, and optimizations

Changes in Pro Maintenance Tools 2.1.7

• OpenFX plugin management – Plugin Manager can now install, remove, enable, and disable OpenFX plugins used by tools like DaVinci Resolve and Nuke.
• Improved FCPX integration – We’ve also improved FCPX integration with all of our tools including Corrupt Clip Finder.
• Plugin Manager – Performance improvements
• Media Salvage – Batch set settings if multiple files are selected
• Updated Crash Analyzer definitions
• Various other bug fixes and tweaks

Changes in Pro Maintenance Tools 2.1.5

• OS X 10.11 El Capitan support
• Redesigned Housekeeper user interface
• Media Salvage – Fixed an issue where it may display an error if the source drive doesn’t have enough space, even if a custom destination is set
• System Toolkit – Removed Verify / Repair Permissions options from the Disk tab due to them being unavailable in OS X 10.11
• Various other bug fixes and tweaks

Changes in Pro Maintenance Tools 2.1.4

• Housekeeper – Improved Adobe Premiere support
• Housekeeper – Support for trashing FCPX font cache
• Housekeeper – Support for removing Avid App Manager unfinished downloads
• Preference Manager – Improved support for FCPX
• Preference Manager – Improved compatibility with OS X 10.10
• System Toolkit – Toggle Spotlight indexing of network drives
• Various bug fixes and improvements to the app launcher
• Updated Crash Analyzer definitions
• General bug fixes, tweaks, and improvements

Changes in Pro Maintenance Tools 2.1.3

• Adobe Creative Cloud 2015 compatibility
• Housekeeper – Support for clearing After Effects disk cache
• Housekeeper – Support for trashing Audition plugin caches
• Updated Crash Analyzer definitions
• Various other bug fixes, tweaks, and improvements

Version 2.1.1

Improved FCPX event repair

• Several customers have sent us events that can no longer be opened in FCPX due to corrupt stabilization data. Project Repair can now remove all stabilization information to fix such events.
• We’re planning to expand on this in future updates to strip out other commonly-corrupted parts including third-party effects.

Improved FCPXML repair

• Sometimes FCPX will generate corrupt XML that cannot be reimported. XML Repair can now fix the common “Element audio does not carry attribute ref” error.

Other changes

• Housekeeper – Support for trashing Avid image caches
• Preference Manager – Improved compatibility with OS X’s preference caching mechanism
• Updated Crash Analyzer definitions

Version 2.0.27

Pro Maintenance Tools 2.0.27 is a minor update to our suite of tools to maintain, optimize and troubleshoot your editing system.

Improved Premiere project repair

Project Repair now analyzes the structure of an Adobe Premiere project before repairing to try to predict the likelihood of success. If it knows the project is unsalvageable it will be able to provide a more helpful error message. It’s especially useful at letting you know when the project file was truncated in the middle of saving so only half of the data is there (yes, this can happen – we recommend Pro Versioner as a way of rescuing your data).

Other changes

• System Toolkit – Added the ability to reset Adobe plugin blacklists
• Plugin Manager – Improved Adobe CC 2014.1 compatibility
• Preference Manager – Improved Adobe CC 2014.1 compatibility
• Crash Analyzer – Fixed an issue that may cause it to erroneously say a newer update is available when submitting a log
• Updated Crash Analyzer definitions
• Various other bug fixes, tweaks, and improvements

Version 2.0.24

• QuickFix now integrates with System Toolkit, allowing you to perform all of System Toolkit’s cache cleaning and rebuilding functions with one button press. This makes QuickFix even more useful as a one-button press way of resolving problems.
• Housekeeper now uses Spotlight to locate additional FCPX libraries for rebuilding that exist outside of the usual locations.
• Media Salvage now supports 32 kHz audio, QT Repair’s memory usage was improved and we updated Crash Analyzer definitions based on user-submitted logs.

Version 2.0.23

• Supports Adobe cc 2014 and FCPX 10.1.2