FileVerdict documentation

FileVerdict opens your video files, works out what each audio and subtitle track actually is, and decides which to keep, which to remove, and what the file should be called — so your media server picks the right track without being told twice.

It reads the tracks themselves rather than trusting their labels, because labels lie. A track named “English” is routinely a forced subtitle for one alien conversation, and a media server will happily use it for the whole video.

Nothing is written until you approve it.

Start here

• What FileVerdict does — a plain introduction, if you are new to it
• Installation — requirements, what’s included
• Activating your licence — entering your key
• Your first clean-up — one file, start to finish

The three stages

• Organise — review track verdicts and the suggested filename
• Compress — re-encode video to reclaim disk space
• Queue — watch the work run

Guides

• Renaming files — templates, metadata sources, fixing a bad guess
• Subtitles — what each verdict means, image subtitles, adding your own
• Scanning speed — why a scan takes as long as it does, and how to make it quick
• Presets — saving, exporting and importing Compress settings

Reference

• Settings — every option, tab by tab
• Privacy and network access — what leaves your machine, and when

Help

• Troubleshooting — when something goes wrong