Your camera originals stay on your own drives

Your rushes are the one thing on a job you cannot get back. With B/side, the camera originals stay on your own drives unless you choose otherwise. You still cut in the app or in Chrome, and your team still sees the footage.

What stays where

• Camera originals stay on your drives. Nothing moves them and nothing changes them.

• The free desktop helper ingests footage for everyone, grouped the way it was shot, so the whole team can cut it from any machine.

• You decide whether anything goes further than your own drives.

Why it matters

Productions have rules about where rushes can live, and those rules are usually there for good reasons. Unreleased footage and talent contracts are two of them.

Keeping originals on your own drives means you can say yes to a job without changing how you look after the media. It also means the shoot is in front of the edit sooner, because nobody has to wait for a whole card to travel before the cutting starts.

The free desktop helper

The free desktop helper is what ingests footage. On a Mac or PC it comes inside the B/side app and starts by itself, so there is nothing else to install. It is free on every plan.

Grouped the way you shot it

When the helper ingests a shoot, the clips arrive grouped the way they were shot, so the day’s footage is where you expect to find it. Nobody has to rebuild the shoot by hand before the editor can start, and the assistant can get on with the next card.

Collect Hi-Res

When it is time to finish, Collect Hi-Res gathers just the footage your cut uses from your drives, to the cloud or to a folder on one computer. Your cut then exports from anywhere, with the drives back on the shelf.