Your first clean-up
This walks one video file through the whole app. Five minutes, and nothing is written to disk until the last step.
Pick a file you would not mind losing a subtitle track from. Better still, take a copy and work on that.
1. Add the file
Section titled “1. Add the file”Drag it onto the window. Add files and Add folder in the top right do the same thing, and you can paste a path straight into the bar at the top — useful for a network share you would rather not go hunting for in a file picker.
Adding a folder picks up every video file in it. Start with one file.
2. Watch it scan
Section titled “2. Watch it scan”The file appears immediately with its tracks listed, then fills in as they are classified. Subtitle tracks are the slow part, because working out what a subtitle track is means reading it, and reading it means reading through the whole file.
For a local file this is quick. For a large file on a network share it is not — see Scanning speed, which also covers how to make it near-instant when you only care about filenames.
3. Read the verdicts
Section titled “3. Read the verdicts”Each track now has a row:
| Column | What it is |
|---|---|
| Track | The track’s own name, or (no name) if it never had one |
| Type | Audio or Subtitle |
| Lang | The language recorded in the file |
| Verdict | What FileVerdict thinks this track actually is |
| Conf. | How sure it is |
| Action | Keep or Remove |
A verdict of Suggested means the confidence came in under your threshold. That is not a failure — it is the app saying it would rather you looked. A Suggested track is left exactly as it is until you choose Keep or Remove.
The footer counts these: “3 tracks waiting on a decision”.
4. Check the reasoning
Section titled “4. Check the reasoning”Click any track. The panel on the right shows its name, its verdict, whether it is being kept, and — under Evidence — the actual reasons behind the call.
Evidence is plain statements like how many cues the track has, how dense its captions are relative to the runtime, and whether OCR was used. This is the part that matters: a verdict you disagree with can be inspected rather than argued with. If the evidence is wrong, the verdict is wrong, and you can see which.
Change the verdict or the action from the same panel. Your choice wins.
5. Check the filename
Section titled “5. Check the filename”The Rename suggestion row shows what the file would be called. If the title lookup found the wrong show, click through to pick a different match or type the name yourself. See Renaming files.
6. Apply
Section titled “6. Apply”Three buttons in the footer, and the difference between them matters:
- Apply without encoding — writes the track edits and the rename now. No re-encoding, so it takes seconds. This is what you want for a clean-up.
- Add to queue — sends the file to the Queue to be re-encoded with your Compress settings and have the track edits applied.
- Encode without organising — re-encodes and ignores every track decision and rename you just reviewed. An escape hatch, not a normal path.