The Problem Premiere Pro's built-in media management has two fundamental problems: it flattens everything into a single folder, throwing away the organizational structure of your original assets, and it leaves no record of what was archived. Months later, there's no answer to "was that clip archived?" — just a guess.

What I Built A desktop app built with Electron and an HTML/CSS UI. It parses the .prproj file format (gzipped XML) to extract media references, archives them while preserving their original folder structure, logs archive jobs to a SQLite database, and lets you search by project name or individual filename.

Tech Electron · HTML/CSS · XML parsing · .prproj format · SQLite

Outcome Full searchable history of every archive job. Any editor could look up whether a piece of media had been archived in seconds.