Gather - Overview
Gather reads your sequence and copies every referenced media file to a destination folder, preserving the original folder hierarchy. It’s designed for offline prep, delivery packages, archive workflows, and conform - situations where you need exactly the media your edit references, no more and no less.
How it works
Section titled “How it works”- Read - SequenceSuite reads your sequence and lists every clip it references.
- Check - each clip’s source path is looked for on disk. Files become Ready, Missing, R3D Siblings, or Duplicate.
- Plan - the table shows every file with its size, status, and a tick box. The totals update live.
- Copy - when you run Gather, files are copied to your destination with a resume record, optional checksum verification, and a timestamped log file.
Gather always copies real files. It does not create shortcuts or aliases at the destination.
Your Gather Plan
Section titled “Your Gather Plan”The Gather Plan is the source of truth. Whatever you tick is what SequenceSuite will try to gather when it can read the source file. Missing rows can stay in the plan as reminders, but they are skipped until the drive is mounted or the file is located.
Planned Files lists exactly the files you have ticked and nothing else. The switch above the table moves between two views:
- Planned Files - your Gather Plan, across every sequence you have ticked from.
- This Sequence - every file the sequence you are browsing uses, ticked or not. This is where you build the plan up.
Your plan is remembered between launches, so an afternoon’s ticking survives a restart.
The result bar reads “9 of 83 planned”: how many files are in your plan, out of everything Gather can see.
Gather just one sequence
Section titled “Gather just one sequence”Run Gather copies the Gather Plan. Gather This Sequence copies only the sequence in front of you and leaves your plan exactly as it is. Use it when you need one timeline’s media now but don’t want to dismantle a plan you built last week. It’s on the toolbar and in the sidebar’s right-click menu.
Coming into Gather from Sheet or Dupe works the same way: the media lands ready for you to review, your plan stays intact, and nothing copies until you say so.
Media that isn’t mounted
Section titled “Media that isn’t mounted”You can plan media that’s offline. Tick files while the drive is still on the shelf, mount it, then run the copy. Planned never means copyable: a run only copies files that are actually there, so a plan built ahead of time is safe to keep.
Sections
Section titled “Sections”- All Files - everything in view.
- Missing - files that couldn’t be found on disk.
- R3D Siblings - the RED
.RDCcompanions added automatically for each R3D source (details below).
Rescanning
Section titled “Rescanning”Moving between your plan and a sequence is instant - Gather reads what it already knows about your drives rather than walking them again. Mounting or unmounting a volume refreshes it automatically, and Rescan forces a fresh look whenever you want one.
Avid AAF
Section titled “Avid AAF”Gather can also read Avid .aaf files as media inventories. AAF media joins your Gather Plan like anything else, with an optional Include Avid render media files row for rendered effects and precomputes. See Avid AAF Gather.
The confirmation screen
Section titled “The confirmation screen”Before any copying starts, the confirmation screen summarises what’s about to happen - file count, total size, source sequences, missing and duplicate counts, destination, and copy mode. This is also where you set the options for the run itself, checksum verification included, so you can decide at the moment you press go rather than hunting through Settings.
SequenceSuite checks free space, that every source file can be read, and that the destination can be written to. If a file would land in two places at once, it’s called out here with the extra size it costs. Anything that fails stops the run with a list of what’s wrong.
RED Siblings
Section titled “RED Siblings”Gather has a dedicated finder for the companion files that travel with RED .R3D clips (.RTN, .WAV, .RMD, and so on inside the .RDC folder). When an R3D source is detected, the companions join the plan automatically. The separate Find Missing Siblings… scan compares a card against a destination to find every companion that should be there but isn’t. See RED Siblings.
Completion notifications
Section titled “Completion notifications”When a Gather finishes, SequenceSuite sends a macOS notification so you know it’s done without having to watch the screen. The notification shows how many files were copied, how many were skipped or had problems, and how long the copy took.
Tap the notification or its Show in Finder button to jump straight to the destination folder in Finder - useful when you’ve queued up a big overnight copy and want to check on it in the morning.
The first time you start a Gather, macOS will ask whether to allow notifications. Allow them once and SequenceSuite won’t ask again.