Feature
Never lose your raw
Point the free desktop helper at two drives and plug in a card. It copies every file to both and checks each copy against the card. Then it tells you whether the card is safe to format.
Instead of a copy you hope finished, onto a drive you hope was the right one.
- For Creators, Editors, Post houses
- Plans Every plan, including Free
- Needs the free B/side desktop helper on the computer with your drives
The card gets formatted on the strength of the copy. After that, the copies are the only footage in the world. So the copy is the one job in post that cannot be done again, and it should not depend on anyone remembering anything at the end of a twelve-hour day.
Point the free desktop helper at two drives and plug the card in. It copies every file to both and checks each copy against the card. Then it tells you whether the card is safe to format, and it will tell you it is not, if it is not. With only one drive, the card itself is the second copy, so it tells you not to format it yet.
It asks its questions before it starts
Running out of room two hours into a copy is how cards get half copied. The helper knows how big the card is and how much room the drive has, and it says so before a single file moves. It also tells you the things nobody is told to check:
- Two copies on one physical disk are one copy, even when they look like two drives.
- A folder that syncs to a consumer cloud service can quietly turn your footage into placeholders.
- The disk your computer runs from is a bad place to fill up.
- A drive that will be nearly full when the copy finishes is a drive that will stutter on the last shots.
Only the problems that would break the copy stop it. Everything else is said once, plainly. The call is yours.
You start cutting before it finishes
The copies land where B/side is already looking, so the footage starts coming in for editing while the card is still being copied. Nobody waits for the backup to finish before the edit can begin.
One button for the way you work
Save how you ingest a card as a preset, such as “copy to this drive and ingest proxies”, and next time it is one button. The helper can feed several projects at once, so one laptop on set can serve every show it is working on.
A deleted project comes back
Delete a project by mistake and it waits in Recently deleted for seven days. Restore it and it is back as it was.
On every plan
The one job in post that cannot be done again is not behind a paywall. Offloading is part of the free desktop helper, on every plan, including Free.
Why it matters
Every production has a story about the card that got formatted too soon. The fix is not a more careful person at the end of the day. It is a tool that knows what a safe copy looks like and says so.
Questions
Does it change anything on my card?
No. Nothing is deleted and nothing on the card is changed. The card is only ever read.
How do I know the card is safe to format?
The helper says so, in words, once both copies have been checked against the card. Until then it tells you not to format it yet.
What if I picked the wrong drive?
Before the copy starts, the helper tells you what is wrong with the drive you picked. A drive that cannot take the files, or one too small for the card, is refused. Everything else is said plainly and the decision is yours.