It waits until the file is actually ready.

Keep the structure you already built.

You've spent years dialing in your folder system. DropHawk doesn't ask you to change a thing. It reads your structure on the way in and rebuilds it inside Final Cut as keyword collections or events, your choice. Like your setup? Pull it straight into DropHawk as a folder template for your next project. Flip the switches below and watch the library redraw.

Type one name and the whole project appears.

Honestly my favorite feature. Save the structure a job needs as a template, or import the one you already use. Then for every new project: pick the template, type the name, press create. Folders made, roles and keywords set, a Final Cut library created, linked, and already being watched. Try it: type a name and press create.

Mix and frame your clips before you ever see them.

Give any subfolder a video or audio role, a volume level, a channel layout, or a spatial conform setting, and every clip that lands there gets it the moment it imports. Music arrives at −20 dB already tagged with a Music role, interview audio splits to dual mono, and vertical phone clips come in set to Fill. Even Final Cut can't do that at import.

The actual Subfolder Settings window. Set it once on the folder, and every clip that lands there arrives mixed, framed, and tagged.

The details I obsessed over.

It hands media to Final Cut the way Final Cut likes it.

Clips arrive sorted into events and keyword collections, with video and audio roles assigned per subfolder, custom roles included. Leave files where they sit or copy them into the library. Either way, it's searchable the second the import finishes.

Questions I get a lot.