Your footage lives on a shelf of drives. GetFerret finds it in one search.
Editors and DITs juggle a wall of shuttles, RAID sleds and camera cards. GetFerret catalogs every one, so you find the take and see exactly which drive it is on, without plugging each in to check.
"Which drive was the Anderson wedding on?" You eject one, plug in the next, spotlight it, eject, repeat. Spotlight only sees what is mounted right now, so the moment a drive is unplugged it goes blind. Your footage does not fit on the internal disk, so it never all is.
One Warren for every drive you own.
GetFerret keeps a local catalog of every drive it has ever seen. Search it like Spotlight, except it never goes blind when a drive is unplugged.
Search unplugged drives
Type a clip name and see it, even if it lives on a shuttle in a drawer. A disconnected hit shows which drive it is on so you grab the right one on the first try.
Verified card offloads
Copy a card to two drives at once, each file hashed and read back to confirm it matches. A checksum manifest travels with the footage. The DIT two-copy habit, one click.
Verified drive backups
Back up a full working drive to another, 1 to 1, every file confirmed byte for byte. Repeat backups only copy what changed, so a nightly run is fast.
Previews that actually play
Real thumbnails and native-aspect playback in the Den, plus clip metadata: codec, resolution, frame rate normalized to broadcast standards. Even offline drives keep their thumbnails.
Build a cut as a Nest, hand it off as a clean folder.
Nests are virtual collections that live above your folders. Gather selects, approvals and finals from across five drives into one Nest, no copying, no duplicates. When it is time to deliver, export the Nest as a tidy folder or zip. Folders stop being where files are trapped and become what you hand the client.
Tag by client or status, Stash your active projects, and save a search you run every week as a Smart Collection that keeps itself current.
Know your masters still match, frame for frame.
Ferret fingerprints every file it catalogs and verifies your copies against each other, so you know the archive on the shelf is still bit for bit identical to the original. It flags footage that has quietly rotted, and clips that live on only one drive, before a delivery goes sideways.
Photographers Archivists Students & creatives When a drive dies
Never lose a clip to a drawer again.
Download GetFerret and start finding files across every drive you own, even the ones sitting unplugged in a drawer. Free 14-day trial, then $49 once.