Sheets = Database
One Google Sheets workbook holds your shots, assets, tasks, users, and schedule. It stays a normal spreadsheet — you can always open it, audit it, export it, or walk away with it.
How It Works
MOTK has no servers of its own. It assembles three things your team's Google account already provides into a production tracker.
Drive = Media Storage
Originals and review proxies live in Drive folders owned by your team, organized per record. Backups work with the Google tools you already know.
Apps Script = Web App
The MOTK interface — tables, detail pages, schedule, dashboard — is an Apps Script web app deployed from your own Google account, with your own IDs. No third party in the loop.
What That Buys You
Ownership
The workbook, the media, the deployment — all of it belongs to your team's account. If MOTK development stopped tomorrow, your production data would still be sitting in your own spreadsheet and your own Drive, fully readable.
Zero Hosting Cost
Sheets, Drive, and Apps Script are part of a standard Google account. There is no server to rent and no per-seat license — the practical cost of running MOTK is your existing Google storage.
The Proxy Pipeline
Heavy camera originals are slow to review in a browser. MOTK's upload flow files originals into the record's folder and queues a proxy job; a worker transcodes lightweight review copies, and a scheduled audit scans for anything missing a proxy so gaps get caught, not discovered in review.
What You Need
- A Google account for the team (personal or Workspace).
- One person willing to run the setup — deploying the Apps Script web app into your own account.
- That's the honest cost of ownership: you operate your copy. Setup is scripted, and the Getting Started page tracks what's available today.