Most people I work with manually dump thousands of files at the end of their shoot day (myself included.) A stack of cards, hard drives, and waiting for one card to finish before starting the next. All of this is followed by checking each dump to make sure nothing was missed. A new software app from Red Giant is looking to help this process, without bogging users down with extra steps.
This new application is aptly named "Offload," and going the way of TV remotes made for senior citizens, provides big windows with bright colors and text to make it very easy and fast to see what the status of your media dump is at.
Here's a short how-to video that demostrates the process.
Offload brings some of the same verification technology to the table that Bulletproof does, but without all the extra bells and whistles that you get with BP.
If quick and dirty is your preferred method of footage offloading, Offload might be worth a look. It maintains the same basic approach, but in a much more elegant way, plus the added bonus of verification and easier backups.
If you want to give this a test drive, you can download a free trial of Offload from Red Giant.
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Hmm, I see this really get in the way of my lightroom workflow. Aside from that, it seems like quite a bit work to specify a folder each time. Any idea if you can make a preset for that?
If you have say, 150 photos from 1 editorial shoot, then Lightroom would probably be the way to go... I see this as more for crew/productions where multiple days of shooting (stills and/or video) require cards and drives to be offload and formatted for the following day.
As for a preset, I don't think so, but I could be wrong. You might need BulletProof for that. It appears that Offload simply launches a Finder window and you pick a folder from there.
So you could actually open just 2 different finder windows and copy past them to both, for the same result?
Basically the same result unless you are super paranoid like me about losing someone photos or videos. This or shotput makes the system more automated so you don't accidentally copy half a card. When offloading an entire wedding or a two day video shoot it is absolutely amazing.
I tested this out for a shoot I did on Sunday. My cards have Magic Lantern on them so Offload actually copied all of those files to my destination folder as well as my images. I hope they have a fix for it where it only copies media files.
After trying this program, I am very unhappy. It seems to crash or just get stuck halfway downloading cards.
No kidding! That's lame. Have you tried reaching out the Red Giant support? If there are some quirks they would definitely want to know about it http://www.redgiant.com/support/
I haven't yet but I probably will. I've been waiting for an alternative to Shotput for a while and to have it bug out on me is a huge disappointment.