Drive Automation

Drive Automation turns a shared Google Drive folder into the front door of your CleanCut pipeline. Every new video that lands in the watched folder is picked up automatically — cleaned, clipped, and named to a consistent convention — with no manual upload step.

It’s built for the way editors and agencies actually work: footage drops into a shared Drive folder, and the cleaned long-form video and short-form clips come back out the other side, ready to use and waiting in your Library.

Drive Automation is a managed connection, not a self-serve toggle. The CleanCut team links your workspace’s shared Drive and wires up the raw and processed folders for you, so there’s nothing to authorise inside the app.

When a new video appears in the watched folder, CleanCut runs it through the same processing it would if you uploaded it by hand — silence and dead-air cleanup on the long-form cut, plus short-form clip extraction where it applies, without you starting each job.

• New videos are detected shortly after they finish uploading to the folder.
• Cleaning removes silences and dead air from the long-form cut, which is saved back to your processed folder.
• Clip extraction produces short-form pieces where relevant, saved to your clips folder.
• Everything also appears in your Library, which auto-refreshes as jobs finish.

Automated outputs use a canonical naming scheme so the files for one project share a consistent basename. That keeps each project’s outputs grouped and easy to find, whether you’re scanning a Drive folder or the CleanCut Library.

Drive Automation is best for steady, repeatable workflows — a recurring podcast, a client who delivers footage weekly, or a team that always drops raw exports in the same place. For one-off edits where the file is already on your machine, a direct upload in the Hub is usually faster.