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For video editors: Final Cut render files and proxies
Editing apps keep a second copy of your footage as render files, proxies and caches. They can be bigger than the footage. Most of them are made again when you open the project, so most are safe to clear.
What Levo looks for
- Final Cut: render files, analysis files, proxy and optimised media, and the app’s cache. Render files kept on an external drive are found too.
- Adobe: the Premiere and After Effects media cache and disk cache, Photoshop recovered and scratch files, Lightroom previews.
- DaVinci Resolve: its cache, and stills.
- Others: Blender cache, the Ableton decoding cache, and sound libraries from Logic Pro and GarageBand.
- Large old files: screen recordings and other big files you haven’t opened for a long time.
What comes back
- Render files are made again when you play or export. The first playback after the clean is slower.
- Proxy media is made again from the original. Making it takes time for a long project.
- Media cache is rebuilt as the app needs it.
What Levo never ticks
Your footage, your libraries and your finished projects are yours. Levo lists Final Cut libraries and large old files so you can see what’s taking space, and it ticks none of them. If a library lives in a folder you protect, Levo doesn’t look inside it at all. See Protected folders.
Photoshop scratch and recovered files are listed for you to tick.
Projects you’re editing
If Final Cut or Premiere is open, its files show as locked, so a render can’t vanish mid-edit. The lock lifts when you quit the app. See Locked items.
A good routine
- When a project is delivered, quit the editing app.
- Open Levo and look at Render and preview files.
- Tick that project’s render and proxy files and clean up. Keep the original media and the library.
On an external drive, make sure the drive is connected when you analyse. Levo only sees what is mounted.