Privacy Policy

This service reads your Avid project so it can rebuild it in Premiere Pro. That means being specific about what it reads, what it sends us, and what we keep. Everything below describes what the software actually does.

Effective [EFFECTIVE DATE]. [LEGAL ENTITY NAME — e.g. Studio Mo LLC] (“we”).

Your picture and sound never leave your machine

We do not upload your media. Not the MXF files, not the video, not the audio, not your image files. The conversion needs to know what your media is and where it lives — not what it contains.

What is actually sent to us

When you convert a project from your browser, exactly four things are transmitted:

1. The Avid bin you choose (.avb). The whole file. A bin describes your edit: sequence and clip names, timecodes, effects, markers and comments. If you have written something in a marker or a clip name, it is in there.
2. A file index of the drive you select. For every file inside that drive’s Avid MediaFiles/MXF folders: its path, its size in bytes and the date it was last modified. No file contents.
3. Avid’s own media database files (msmFMID.pmr), copied as-is. These are Avid’s index of its media folders.
4. An index of still images on that drive. To place imported stills at the right size, the conversion needs their pixel dimensions. Your browser reads the header of every image file on the drive you selected — not only the ones in your project— and sends a list of their paths, sizes, modification dates and pixel dimensions. The images themselves are never uploaded and never opened beyond their first few bytes.

Please read point 4 carefully. If the drive you select also holds unrelated pictures, the names and folder paths of those pictures are included in that index, though their contents are not. If that matters to you, point the scan at a drive that holds only production media.

What we store, and for how long

After a conversion we hold the bin you uploaded, the index described above, the Premiere project we produced, any caption files, and a technical log of the conversion. That log names clips, sequences and media paths, because that is what makes a failed conversion diagnosable.

All of it is deleted automatically 7 days after the conversion finishes— the files, and the log. This is done by a scheduled sweep, not by hand, and each deletion is recorded.

What we keep beyond that window is deliberately small:

• Your email address, and how many conversions you have used.
• A record that a job ran, its status, and counts (how many sequences, clips, cuts, markers). No names of any kind — the database is built so that clip names, sequence names and media paths cannot enter it.

Your email address and your IP

We ask for an email address so you can sign in — we send a one-time link rather than storing a password. We never had a password to lose.

Your IP address is recorded when you sign up or start a conversion, solely to stop one person from flooding the service. Those records are deleted after 7 days and are not used for anything else.

Who else can see any of this

We use a small number of service providers, and no advertisers or analytics trackers:

• Vercel — hosts the website and therefore sees requests to it.
• Supabase — hosts the database (email, counts, job status).
• Cloudflare R2 — stores the uploaded and produced files, encrypted at rest.
• Resend — sends the sign-in emails, and so receives your email address.
• Google Fonts — the site loads a typeface from Google, which means your browser contacts Google and reveals your IP address to them when you visit.

The conversion itself runs on our own hardware, not on a third party’s. Your bin is not sent to any outside company to be processed, and it is never used to train any machine-learning model — not ours, not anyone’s.

Deleting your account

Write to [CONTACT ADDRESS — e.g. privacy@themozartproject.org] and we will delete your account and everything associated with it. There is not yet a button for this in the interface; the request is handled by a person. Your conversion files, separately, are already deleted on the 7-day schedule above whether you ask or not.

Changes

If we change what the software collects, this page changes with it, and the effective date above changes too.

Questions: [CONTACT ADDRESS — e.g. privacy@themozartproject.org]. Governed by the laws of [STATE / COUNTRY]. See also the Terms of Service.