Feature
Stop shipping drives
Offload on location with a decent connection and the footage goes up as the day goes. The edit room starts cutting before you wrap, and the originals follow at their own pace.
Instead of a drive in a courier envelope and an edit room waiting two days for it.
- For Editors, Post houses
- Needs the free B/side desktop helper on the computer with your drives
The old way: shoot all day, copy the cards at night, put a drive in an envelope, and wait. The edit room starts when the courier arrives.
With B/side, a laptop on location runs the free desktop helper. Offload a card and, with a decent connection on set, the footage starts going up straight away. The connection sets the pace, and the helper shows it rather than hiding it. By the time the next card comes off the camera, the edit room can already be cutting the last one.
What the edit room sees
- Clips arrive through the day, grouped the way they were shot, in the same project the editors are already in.
- Every clip shows its progress and roughly how long is left, so nobody has to ask the set how it is going.
- Notes can go back the same day. A producer can watch a scene from the morning before the crew has wrapped.
- A phone can send footage too. Send a shooter an Upload Link and the clips they film on their phone come straight into the project.
- Nothing that is still on its way passes unnoticed. While the cut plays, any shot that has not arrived yet, or is offline, flashes red.
Log footage that looks right in one click
Camera LUTs are built in. One click turns log footage into normal-looking Rec.709 picture, with fifteen log formats from ARRI, Sony, Panasonic, Canon, RED, Blackmagic, Fujifilm, Apple (iPhone Apple Log), DJI and Nikon. Nobody has to hunt for a LUT file before the edit room can judge a shot.
What stays where it was
Your camera originals stay on the drives you offloaded them to, and follow at their own pace for the online. B/side does not move them or ask you to give them up. What goes up is what the edit room needs to start cutting.
Why it matters
Days spent waiting for footage are days the edit cannot get back. On a show shooting in more than one place, they add up fast. Cutting while the shoot is still going also means problems are found while the crew is still there to fix them.
Questions
What do I need on location?
A laptop with the free desktop helper, and an internet connection. The footage goes up as cards are offloaded, so a faster connection means the edit room sees it sooner.
Do my camera originals still need to travel?
Your originals stay on the drives you offloaded them to, on location, until you decide where they live. The edit room can start cutting without waiting for them.
Can the edit room see how far along it is?
Yes. Every clip shows how far it has come and roughly how long is left, so nobody has to ask.