Maintenance and Optimisation for Avid and Premiere
Dolly
Dolly automates the everyday fixes for Avid Media Composer and Adobe Premiere Pro, clearing stale settings and caches and tuning performance, with a backup taken before anything changes.
Dolly automates the everyday fixes for Avid Media Composer and Adobe Premiere Pro, clearing stale settings and caches and tuning performance, with a backup taken before anything changes.
Every edit suite has the same checklist: delete MCState, refresh the media databases, clear the media cache, reset the preferences. These are the fixes support engineers talk editors through day after day, usually by hunting for hidden folders and deleting the right files by hand. Dolly puts them in one place, knows where every file lives on Windows and macOS, and backs up everything before it touches it.
Not sure what’s wrong? Run the pre-flight scan first. It is read-only: it checks the machine and lists what it finds, such as a misnamed Avid MediaFiles folder or fonts installed twice, so you can review everything before a single file changes.
Refresh the media databases on the volumes you choose, clear the stale Creating folders crashed transcodes leave behind, and prune old Attic autosaves. Clear MCState, rebuild site settings or a user profile, and export a profile before you do. Tune Avid’s memory cache to the RAM in the machine, clear the image cache and AMA management data, and remove duplicate fonts, a known cause of crashes.
Clear the media cache and its database together, so nothing is left pointing at files that are gone, and purge peak files for a clean redraw. Work through a checklist of the preferences that matter most on facility machines, save your choices as a preset for the next suite, and reset preferences without holding keys down at launch. On macOS, Dolly can also remove the preference .plist files that a standard reset leaves behind.
Dolly acts on this workstation by default, never on every drive at once. It shows which workstation holds each stale bin lock, so you can safely clear your own. Clearing every workstation’s locks is a separate choice, behind a confirmation and a countdown. Facilities can also restrict which resolutions editors see and switch off Script Sync+.
Anything Dolly deletes or changes is copied to a timestamped backup folder first; nothing is ever hard-deleted. Riskier fixes ask before they run, and Dolly won’t touch an application’s files while it is open, checking again just before every action.
Every action Dolly takes is timestamped and written to a plain-text change log, whether it succeeded, was skipped or failed. Filter it by date, action or result, and hand it to your support engineer. Dolly never clears the log, so the record of what changed on the machine stays complete.
Turn EDLs, FCP7 XML and FCPXML into Excel or CSV lists, cleaned CMX3600 EDLs, or marker files for Avid and Resolve, all on your machine with nothing uploaded. There’s also a crib sheet of the Avid Console commands people actually use, ready to copy and paste.
Dolly sits in the system tray, can start at login and keeps itself up to date. An optional PIN lock stops anyone else running fixes on the workstation.
Dolly is free for personal use. Using it commercially, for example in a facility, post house or broadcaster, needs a license from Fetch Media Tools Limited.
In broadcast and post-production, we know that we aren't just one operating system — so we designed all our software to work on Windows, Mac or Linux.
Why be constrained by your operating system determining what you can and cannot run? One product, three operating systems as standard.